Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-12-15

est EMERGENCY 10 tneSe lDulspenSaDle hTInrS
we also honorably encourage the gallant
men, from commander to sentinel, who
compose them, and to whom. more than 20
all others, the world stands indebted for
the home of freedom, disenthrailed, regen-
Grated, enlarged, and perprtuated.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WASH NGToN, Dee. 9, 1868.
Tie following proclamation is appended
to the message.
PROCLAMATION,
WhereGS. In and by the constitution of
the United States it is provided that the
President shall have power to grant reps
reeves and pardons for offences against the
United States, except in cases Of I'm peach
meut; aud
Hhere0e, A rebellion now exists, where
by the legal government of several States
have for long time been subverted, and
many persons have committed and are now
guilty Of treason against the United
States; and
'WhercGs.. WithNnSerence to said rebell
ion and treason, laws have been enacted
by Congress calling for the frfeiture and
conf cation of property and liberation of
blacks, all upon the terms and conditions
therein stated: and also declaring that the
President was thereby authoriz /. NJ any
time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend
t. persons who may have participated in
the existing rebellion in any State or part
thereof, pardon ana amnesty, with such
| exceptions, and at such times, and on such
| conditions as he mSy deem tXpedilnt for
I public welfare; and
! Whereas. The Con ressiOnGl declaration
for limited or conditional pard1ns accords
with well established judicial expOsitions
| of the rardoning power; and
! WhereaS, With reference to said rebels
lion, the President of the Uuited States
has issued several rroclamations with pros
visions in regard to the liberation of slaves;
aud
IThereas 1t is nov desired BY some per-
sons heretofore engaged in said rebellion
tt resume their allegiance to the United
Safes, and rcinaugurate loyal govern
ments within aad for their respective
! Stares:
Therefore. /, Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent of the United States, do proclaim, de.
! clare, and make known to all persons who
have directly CT by Implication participa-
ted il the existing rebellion, except as he
reinafter excepted. that full pardon is
grantedto them and each of them, with
restoration of all their rights, if thiId par
! tics Shall have interviewed. aud upon the
conditions that they, such persons, shall
/ sake and subscribe an oath, and thence
/ forward keep and mdidtsin said oath in
violate, and which oath shall he registered
| fDr permanent preservation, and shall be
of the tenor and effect, following, to wit :
L do solernly swear. in the presence of
! Almighty God, that will hencegorth sup
port protect aud defend the constitution
! of the United States, and the like manner,
abide by aud faithfully support all acts of
Congress passed during theexisting rebel
lioE with reference to slaves, 80 long
! and 40 far as not repealed, moGifcd or
h.li void by Congress or by decision of
the Supreme Court; and ihat WILL in like
manner, abide by and faithfully support all
proClAmations of the President made du>
ring the existing rebellion, having reference
to slaves, so long and 50 far % not madiG-
ed or declared void by decision of the Su
prcme Court. So help me God"
The persons excepted from the benefits
OF the foregoing provisions are all who are,
o: shall have been, civil or diplomatic of
ficers or agents of the so-called Confeder-
ate government; all who have left judicial
stations under the United States to aid the
rebellion; all who are, or shall have been,
military or naval officers, of tho rank of
Colonel in the army or Lieutenant in the
navy; all who left seats in the United States
| Congress - aid in the rebellion; all who
resigned their commisious in the army and
navy Of the United States, and afterwards
aided the reb. llian; and all who have en-
gagged il any way il treating colored per-
sons, or white persons 10 charge of such
Z Of tbcD FILL ~
war, aud which persons may be found in
the United States service as soldiers, sea-
men, or in any other capacity.
And DO further proclaim, declare aud
make known that whenever. in any of the
States Of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, South Carolina, and North Caro-
lima, number Of persons not less than
one-tenth Of the number Of the votes cast
in such State at the Presidential election
in the year Of our Lord 1SG0,-each nav.
ing taken the oath aforesaid, and not hav
ing since violated it, ard being qualified
voter by the election laws of the State ex-
listing Immediately before the so-called act
81 secession, and excluding all others
shall have established State government
which shall be republican, and in nowise
eontrnveuiug said oath, such shall be re-
coGuizod as the true government of the
States, and the States shall receive there.
under the benefit OF the c5nstitufi1nal pro.
vision which declares that the United State.
shall guarantee to every State 10 this Unior
republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against invaslor
and, on application of the. Legislature, or o
the Executive when the Legislature can
not be convened, against domestic VIC
lence.
Second-l do further proclaim, declare,
and make known that any provision which
= may be UdOpted by such State government
IN relation to the freed people of such
State, which shall recognize and declare
their permanent freedom, and provide for
their education, and which may yet be
consistent, as temporary arrangement,
with their present condition as a laboring,
iandless, and homeless class, will not be
objected to by the National Executive.
And 1t is suggested as not improper that
IN constructing loyal State government
in any State, the name, the boundary, the
Subdivisions, the constitution, snd the Fed
eral code of laws, as before the rebellion.
be maintained, subject only to the moGi-
hcations made necessary by the conditions
hereinbefore stated, and such other, if any,
not cOutravening snch conditions, which
may 5a deemed expedient by those ,fram.
ng the new st tie government.
To avoid Misunderstanding, it may be
proper to say that this proclamation, so far
as it relates to State governments, has no
refence to States where loyal State governs
ments have all the while been maintain ed |;
add, for the same reason, it may by proper
further so say that whether members sent
to Congress from any State shall be admit
ted to seats conditionally rests exclusively
with the respective houses, and, still fur
Their, that this proclamation is intended to
present to the people of the States wherein
the national authority over every loyal
State government may be establi: he'd within
States or any of them. And, while the
| mode presented is the best tho Execntipa