The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-30


WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The President,
Attorney General and Secretary of State
are likely to be kept constantly occupied
for the next two or three months in the
disposition of applications for pardon and
amnesty. At the White House, in the
Office Of the Attorney General, and in the
State Department, we now find hourly in
waiting quite crowd of anxious petition
ers for Executive clemency, and among
them some Of the men who have filed the
most prominent pages in the history of the
defunct Southern Oonfederacy.
The demeanor and expressions of coun-
tenanoe of the applicants presenta curious
and interesting study. Whole histories
and little worlds walk by dozens before US
in contemplation profound. The fortune
bereft millionaire and lordly landholder
and narrower, the downfallen leader in
politics and the mighty lawgiver, and the
discounted military chieftain, all walk
here in agitation and in anxious waiting to
hear the fiat of the Executive, and seem
most painfully to realize the adage that
"matters of war are, of all others, most
subject to continual mutations"
The petition is made directly to the
President, who calls to his aid the Attor-
ney General, through whose hands all ap-
plications pass, and thence to the Secre-
tary of State, where, in case q pardon is
granted, a warrant is issued, substantially
as follows, and generally in the words of
this form:
WaEEEAs by taking part in the late
States, has made himself liable to heavy pains
and penalties, and whereas the circumstances
of his case render him proper object of ex-
ecutive clemency, Now, therefore, be it known
that I, Andrew johnson, President, do hereby
grant to the said -. full pardon and am
nesty for all offences by him committed, arts.
ing from participation, direct or implied, in the
This pardon to begin and take effect from the
day on which the said - shall take the
oath prescribed in the Proclamation of the
President, dated May 20, 1865, and to be void
and of no effect If the said - shall hereaf.
ter at any time acquire any property whatever
in slaves, or make use of slave labor.
UNION SENTIMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The developments of trre Union senti-
ment in North Carolina are more encour-
aging than in any other State. The Ra-
leigh papers are daily filed with the
proceedings of enthusiastic meetings. A
large meeting recently held in Randolph
county resolved thus strongly:
Resolred, That being once betrayed by our
public servants, we will support no man for
any Office in our gift who was o secessionist, or
who aided to wrest the guarantees of civil Ii
berries of the people, to crush them with OPP
pressive burdens, or who persistently advocat-
ed rebellion and the prosecution of the war to
the bitter end of utter poverty and the extinc-
ten of civil existence.
Resolved, That although under all circum.
stances we prefer the name of w. w. Holden
for Governor, yet we will cheerfully support
the name of any other man nominated BY a
proper body, provided his hands be cleaned
from the stain of the sin of secession and no
utilization with secessionists, either early or
late.
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
James johnson, who has been appointed
Provisional Governor of Georgia by the
President, is resident of Columbus in
that State, and was formerly Democratic
member of Congress from 1851 to 1853,
at the time that President johnson was in
the House. Gov. johnson is indorsed by
the most reliable Union men in Georgia as
one who never swerved from the faith, and
who has borne many prosecutions because
of his Union sentiments. The eight Union
men of the Georgia delegation here are
perfectly satisfied with the selection. Gov.
johnson is native of North Carolina, but
no relation to the President.