“Whereas, By reasons of unlawful obstructions and assemblages of persons it has become impracticable, in my judgment, to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within the state and district of Wyoming, the United States marshal, after repeated efforts, being unable by his ordinary deputies, or by any civil posse which he is able to obtain, to execute the process of the United States courts; “Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Benjamin Harrison, president of the United States, do hereby command all persons engaged in such resistance to the laws and the process of the courts of the United States, to cease such opposition and resistance and to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before Wednesday, the 3rd day of August next. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 30th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. (Seal) “BENJAMIN HARRISON. “By the President: “JOHN W. FOSTER, Secretary of State.” No more infamous document ever issued from official pen. No greater outrage was ever perpetrated upon a long-suffering people than is here ruthlessly thrust upon all of Wyoming’s citizens. The statements made in the “whereas” were absolutely false in every line. They were lies, pure and simple. On the day that the text of this insult reached Cheyenne a prominent citizen approached Judge Riner, of the United States Court, and asked him what the proclamation meant. His reply was that he knew absolutely nothing about it. That he was as much surprised as any other citizen--that there were no processes issued from his court but what had been served in the regular way--no obstructions having been met with by the marshals that had come to his knowledge. Every person then living in the state knew that there was no resistance to law within our borders, and that there was no body of men collected anywhere to whom an order to “disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes” could possibly be addressed. How came it, then, that the president of this great country should descend to the level of a blackmailer, and by an official act proclaim to the world that the good people of an entire state were engaged in resisting the law?