Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-17

said rebellion, the President of the
United States has issued several proc
lamations with provisions in regard
to the liberation of the slaves. and
WHEREAS, tbs now desired by some
persons heretofore engaged in said re-
bellion to resume their allegiance to
the United States, and re-inaugurate
loyal State Governments within and
for their respective States,
Therefore /, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident of the United States, do proclaim,
declare and make known to all who
have indirectly or by implication parti-
cipated in the existing rebellion, ex-
cept as hereinafter excepted, that. q
full pardon is granted to them and
each of them, with restoration of all
rights, if third parties shall have in
tervened, and upon the condition that
such persons shall take and subscribe
an oath and thenceforward keep and
maintain said oath inviolate, and
which oath will be registered for per.
manent preservation and shall be OF
the tenor and effect following, to-wit !:
/ do solemnly swear in the pres
ence of Almighty God, that | will
hcnceforth faithfully support, protect
and defend the constitution Of the Uni
ted States and the Uaion of States
Hereunder and that ! will in like
manner abide by and faithfully support
all acts of Congress passed during the
existing rebellion with reference to
slaves so long and so far as not repeal
ed modified or held void by Con-
gress or by decision of the Supreme
Court and that will in like manner
abide by aud faithfully support all
proclamations of the President made
during the existing rebellion having
reference to slaves SO long and so
far as not modified or declared void
by decision of the Supreme Court, so
help me God. ". ra" .'.
The persons excepted from the bcne.
fit of the foregoing provisions are all
who are or shall have been civil or d.
plomatic officers or agents Of the So
called Confederate Government all
who have left judicial stations in the
United States Government to aid the
rebellion, all who are or shall have
been military or naval officers of said
so called Confederate Government
above the rank of Colonel in the army
or Lieutenant in the navy; all who left
seats in the United States Congress to
aid in the rebellion; all who resigned
their commissions in the army and
navy of the United States and after
wards aided the rebellion, and all who
have engaged in treating colored per-
sons or white persons in charge of such,
otherwise than lawfully as prisoners
of war and which prisoners have been
found in the United States Service as
soldiers, seamen, or in any other ca
pacity and / do further proclaim,
declare and make known that when
ever in any of the States of Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tonnes
see, Alabama. Georgia, Florida, South
Carolina and North Carolina, num-
Der of persons, not less than one-tenth
of the number Of votes cast in such
States at the Presidential election Of
the year Of our Lord, 1860, each hav-
ing taken the oath aforesaid, and not
having Violated it, and being a quail
fed voter by the aforesaid election
laws Of the State existing immediate
ly before the so-caIIed act Of secession,
and excluding all others, shall re-es.
tablish a State Government which
shall he Republican, and in no wise
contravcning said oath, such shall be
recognized as the true government
of the State, and the State shall re.
ceive, hereunder, the benefits of the
Constitutional provision, which de-
cIarcs that the United Stats shall
guarantee to every State in this I'm
ion Republican form of Government,
and shall protect each of them. against
invasion, on application of the Legis-
lature or the Executive, when the Leg
islature cannot be convened against
domestic violence.
And, | do further proclaim, de-
clare and make known, that any pro-
vision which may be adopted by such
State Government in relation to the
freed people of such State which shall
recognize and declare their perma-
nent freedom and provide for their edu-
cation, and which may be considered
as temporary arrangement, with
their present condition as a laboring,
landless and homeless class, will not
be objected to by the national execu-
tive and it is suggested as not i'm
proper that in constructing loyal
State Government in any State the
name of the State, the boundary, the
subdivisions, the Constitution, and the
general code Of laws, as before the re-
bellion, be maintained, subject only to
the notifications made necessary by
the conditions hercinbeforc stated,
and such others, if any, not contra
vening said conditions and which may
be deemed expedient by those franz
ing the new State Government. To
avoid misunderstanding, it may be
proper to say that this proclamation,
so far as it relates to State Govern
menis, has no reference to States
wherein loyal State governments have
all the while been maintained, and
for the same reason it may he prop
er to further say, whether members
sent to Congress from any State, shall
be admitted to seats, constitutionally
rests exclusively with the respective
Houses, and not to any extent with
the executive and still further that
this proclamation is intended to pre-
sent to the people Of the States where
in the national authority has been
suspended, and loyal State Govern
ments subverted. "a mode by which