The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-07
The President's ProcIamaIIons.

The Presidents ProcIameIIOns.
On our FIRST page viii be found the Am
nesty and North Carolina PioclSmations Of
President johnson. We have examined
them carefully, aud fiom our point of view
We think they fall short Of that iberaity
and good policy which the full exigeney of
the times require. While saying this much,
says the Cincinnati ERqrier, We are cnm-
PEELED 10 admit that they, in no wise come
up to the ferOcious and blood-thirsty de-
niands, expectations aud hopes Of the exter-
minating radicals They look in vain forthe
establishment Of negro suffrage in the reor-
gsn:zation ofthe seeded States Instead ot
that, President johnson has confined the
suffrage to whites alone. They confidently
expected an almost universal eoEircaton Of
Southern farms and other property, and
tEeir division among themselves. So far
from this, with limited qualification, re-
Stricted TO a comparatively small number,
he expressly guarantees 10 the Southern
people all their lands, and every other spe
cies of property excepting slaves. The
leading radicals, Suune Cha; & CO., have
been opposed to the reorganization OF these
States, and have insisted upon their being
held as provinces, under military rule, for
a period OF ten or twenty years. unless the
slaves were Immediately enfranchiSed and
the mass Of Southern whites disfranchised.
From the howls of the pulpit, press and
rostrum, the radicals evidently believed
. general harvest of blood was in store for
hem-one that would fully glut their hate
and satiate their revenge. They are anna
zed that the prescribed list of victims is SC
few, in fact, although, at first sight, it pre-.
sents formidable appearance When an
alyzed, however, it is found that the number
OF the prescribed is but a small proportion
of those engaged in the late tremendou,
civil war Even this number may be seri
ouSly reduced BY personal application to the
Executive, who has, in his proclamation
promised liberal exercise Of the pardoninl
power in such cases.
From this resume, We have no doubt tina
the President considers his terms to the peo
pie OF the South humane and liberal. 1t j
apparent that, in these proclamations, h
has discarded the councils of the cruel ant
wicked men who have attempted to govern
his action, to subserve their own individual
ends and ambition.
| He has gone further than this in the righ
direction. He has thrown open the prise
doors to the captiyes sent there by militar
commissions to languish during the war, =
We trust and expect that this leniency wi
be made to include those prisoners who ar
confined for definite period, since it is los
ical that the greater should be made to il
cludc the less, those offenders being regarC
ed as the most fragrant who were to be III
prisoned for the full term of the war.
We hope, and have reason to believe, thu
these acts 20 calculated to restore harmon
and quiet, will Mt once he followed ly tf
abrogation Of the Unlawful and unconstitr
tional Military Commissions that ha,
usurpcd tie functions the civil courts (
the land Let the President at orce, no
that the war is ended, give to the people tt
:, great writ Of civil liberty, ha5eas corpus,
which they have been SO long deprived.
So long as the President pursues tn
course, and adheyes to the Constitution
the United States, asd seeks to heal II
bleeding wounds Of the country by ccncil
: tory measures, he is entitled to receive al
Justly deserves the appreciation Of all ju
minded and patriotic men.
We are assured that this proclamation
but the beginning Of the exercise by Pre-
dent johnson of his rardoning power.
time develops the propriety the Preside
will grant amnesty to the various classes e
r ccptcd now, and embrace within its teri
:, all who have been engaged in this civil va