The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-06-28

of the Government of the United States
may be restored, and that peace, order and
freedom may be established, I, Andrew
johnson. President OF the United States,
do proclaim and declare that I hereby
grantao all persons who have directly or
irIir-cllv participated in the existing
rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted,
amnesty ard pardon, with restoration of
sll Arighfr of property, except as to slaves,
AID except in cases where legal proceed
ings, under the laws of the United States
providing for the confscation of property
Of persons engaged in rebellion, have been
in>titu' ed, but on the condition, peverthe-'
less, that every such person shall take and
subscribe the following oath or af6rma-
tion, and thenceforward keep and ma,n-
tain said oath inviolate, and which oath
shall be registered for permanent preser-
vation, and shall be of the tenor and effect
following, to wit:
I, -----, do solemnly swear or
affirm, in presence of Almighty God, that
| vii! hercefor'h faithfully support and
States and the Union of the States there
abide by and faithfully support all laws
during the existing rebellion with refer
ence to the emancipation of slaves. So
help me God.
The following class Of persons are ex-
empted from the benefits Of this proola-
nation:
1st. All who are, or shall have been,
pretended civil or diplomatic officers or
otherwise. domestic or foreign agents of
the prete nded Confederate Government.
. I'd. All who left judicial stations under
the United States to aid iu the rebellion.
Sd All who shall have been military OF
naval officers of said pretended Confe'le
rate Government above the rank OF colonel
IN the army or lieutenant IN the navy.
4th. All who left seats il the Congress
of the Unit ed States to aid the rebellion.
5th. All who resigned or rendered resig-
nations of their comu, MISSIONS in the army
or navy Of the United States to evade duty
in resisting the rebellion.
9Th. All who have engaged in any way
in treating otherwise than lawfully as pri-
| soners Of war persons found in the United
States service, as officers, soldiers, soamen
or in other capacities.
7th. All persons who have been or are
ahsentecs from the United States for the
purpose of aiding the rebellion.
9Th All military and naval officers in
the rebel service who were educated by
the Government in the Military Academy
at West Point or the United States Naval
Academy.
9th. All persons who held the pretended
offices Of Governor of States in insurreo-
tion against the United States
10th. 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. called
Confederate States for the purpose of aid
ing the rebellion.
Eagel in The destruction Of the commerce
Of the United States uion the high seas.
and who have made raids into the United
States from Canada, or been engaged in
destroying the commerce of the United
States upon the lakes and rivers that sepa-
rate the British provinces from the United
States
10Th All persons who at the time when
they seek to obtain the benefits hereof bv
taking the oath herein prescribed, are in
military naval or civil confinement or
custod ody, or under bonds of The civil, mill
tary or naval authorities of agents of the
United States. as prisoners Of war or per-
sohs detained for offences of any kind,
either before or after conviction.
18Th. All persons who have voluntarily
participated in said rebellion, and the esti-
mated value Of whose taxable property is
over twenty thousand dollars
l4th. All persons who have taken the
oath Of amnesty as prescribed in the Pre-
sidents proclamation of December s, A.
D. 1866, or an oath Of al egiance to the
Government of the United States nee the
date Of said proclamation. and who have
not thenceforward kept nd maintained
the same inviolate.
Provided, that special application may
be made to The Pres id+n, 70" pardon by
any person belonging to the sxceptel
classes, and snch clemer cy will be 'lbe
rally extended as may b. consi tent with
the f,eis of tn. ax.d The Il