New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-30
ANN ESTYl !.
What President Johnson Offers to
the South.
Pardon and the Restoration Of
Property Rights.
SLAVERY MADE AN EXCEPTION.
WHO ARE EXCEPTED.
FOURTEEN CLASSES ENUMERATED
WHO ARE EXCEPTED.
FOURTEEN CLASSES ENUMERATED
The Leading Spirits Of the Rebellion Excluded
Proclamation by she PRECEDENT.
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 90, lSt

object to suppress the existing Rebellion, to induce
all persons to return to their loyalty and to restore
the authority of the United States, issue procla-
nations offering amnesty and pardon to certain
persons, who had directly or by implication par
toipated in the said Rebellion; and
Whereas, Many persons who had so engaged in
said Rebellion have, since the issuance OF said
proclamations, failed neglected to take the bene-
Ste offered thereby; and
Whereas many persons, who have been justly
deprived Of all claim to amnesty and pardon there
nnder, by reason of their participation directly or
by implication in said Rebellion, and continued in
hostility to the Government of the United States
fince the date of said proclamation, now desire TO
apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.
To the end, therefore, that the authority of the
Government of the United States may be restored
and that peace, order and freedom may he roestab-
iished j, Andrew johnson, President of the United
States do proclaim aud declare that hereby grant
TO all persons who have directly or indirectly par
ticipated in the existing Rebellion, except as here
matter excepted amnesty and pardon, with restora
tion Of all rights of property except as TO slaves,
and except in cases where legal proceedings under
the laws of the United States providing for the
confscation Of property of persons engaged in Re-
belhon have been instituted; but on the condition,
nevertheless that every such person shall take and
snbscribe the following oath or affirmation, and
thenceforward keep and maintain said oath in
violate, and which oath shall be registered for per-
manent preservation and shall be of the tenor and
effect following TO wit:
81 blank do soemnly swear or affirm in presence
cf Almighty God that will heDcefoith faithfully snp
yort and defend the Constitution Of the United States
and the Union of the States Hereunder and that Will
in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws
and procamations which have been made during the
existing Rebellion with reference TO the emancipation
81 slaves, 80 help me Cod
The following classes of persons are excepted
from the benefits Of this proclamation
First An who are shall have been pretended
civil or diplomatic officers, otherwise domestic
or foreign agents. of the pretended Confederate
Government.
Second. All who left Judicial stations under the
United States to aid the Rebellion.
Third. All whe shall have been military or naval
officers of said pretended Confederate Government
above the rank of colonel in the army or lieutenant
in the navy.
Fourth All who left seats in the Congress of
the United States 10 aid the Rebellion.
Fifth. All who ersigned or rendered resigna-
tions Of their commissions in the Army or Navy OF
the United States to eyade duty in resisting the
Rebellion.
Sirth. All who have engaged in any way in
treating otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of
war persons found in the United States service as
officers soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities.
Secenh. All persons who have been or are alb
rentees from the United States for the purpose of
siding the Rebellion.
Al and off in tha
Rebel service who were educated by the Govern
ment i'll the Military Academy at West Point or
the United States Naval Academy.
Ninth. AL persons who held the pretended Off
ces of Governors of States in instruction against
the United States.
Tenth. All persons who left their homes within
the jurisdiction and protection Of the United
States, and passed beyond the Federal military
lines into the so-caed Confederate States for the
purpose Of aiding the Rebellion.
Eleyeah. All persons who have been engaged in
the destruction of the commerce of the United
States upon the high seas, and all persons who
have made raids into the United States from Can
ada, or been engaged in destroying the commerce
Of the United States upon the lakes and rivers that
separate the British Provinces from the United
States.
Trelfh. All persons who at the time when they
seek TO obtain the benefits hereof by taking the
oath herein prescribed are in military, naval or
civil confinement OF custody, under bonds of the
civil, military naval authorities or agents of the
United States as prisoners Of war, or persons de-
tanned for ofenses of any Kind either before after
conviction.
Thirteenth. All persons who have voluntarily
participated in said Rebellion, and the estimated
valne Of whose taxable property is over twenty
thousand dollars.
Fourteenth. All persons who have taken the oath
Of amnesty as prescribed in the Presidents Procla
NATION of December 8, A. ID. 1863, or an oath of
allegiance to the Government of the United States
since the date Of said Proclamation and who have
not thenceiorward kept and maintained the same
invioate provided, that special application may
be made 10 the President for pardon by any person
belonging TO the excepted classes, and such elem
ency will be literally extended asmaybe consistent
with the facts OF the and the peace and djgnty
Of the United States.
The Secretary of State will establish rules and
regulations for administering and recording the
SAID amnesty oath 10 insure its benefit 10 the
people, and guard the Government against fraud
In testimony whereof, ] have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United States ~
be affixed.
Lone at the City Of Washington the twenty ninth day
- ,d May, IN the year OF our Lord one thousand
<Lh eight hundred and sixty-fye and of the in
dependence OF the United States the eighty
By tle President, wx H. sswAnp seerstsry ofState