...units of the provisional Confederate army were described as "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the [US] Marshals by law." Once these rebellious combinations had been suppressed, the president stated,...

...insurrection. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any...by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, the same being notified to the President of the United States, by an associate justice or the district...