The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-19
FROM RICHMOND.

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The $4,000 clause in the Amnesty
Proclaim nj iOn---r1'lIc COnGscAt tiOn FIX
cItement-.-The RichmOnd wing Not
AlIOWGd TO IIeRumc---CanCIIGlates for
Office as Plenty as Ever.
Correspondence Wheeling LteNigencer.
RICHMOND, July 10, 1865.
The eminently sensible, practical and
liberal policy adopted by Governor
Peirpoint, in his administration toward
the people of Virginia, has been amply
vindicated by the voluntary results
which have cnsued, in the thorough es-
tablishment of confidence among nil
classes, in the earnestness of his pur-
pose to seek the advancement Of their
interests and the restoration of pros
perity tothe desolated and Impoverished
Old Commonwealth. Our people con-
slider themselves under an additional
obligation to His EXcellencV for the
able and manly letter which he has re-
Gently addressed to President johnson,
Governor PeirpOiut urges, with great
zeal and considerable force, upon the
President the extension of full and
free pardon 90 the people of Virginia
upon the basis of the Original
amnesty proclamation of President
Lincoln, which ii will be remembered
was much more sweeping in its pro-
visions than that issued subsequently
by Mr.. Johnson, which is now in force,
and which contains material modifiZ
cations of the plan of amnesty proposed
by Mr.. Lincoln. The letter was de-
signed to accomplish the removal of.all
disabilities, which as long as the pre-
sent system ofparJlOn remainsin force,
interpoSe serious obstacles to the re-
sumption of their occupation by large
portion of the people. Chief among
these Disabilities 10 thnf ~ a..
18th section of President JOhnson'S am
ncsty proclamation, having reference
TO persons owning property to the value
of $50 900, who have partici pated in the
rebellion. Waving all considerations
of the ptopriety of the exception from
the general amnesty of this class, for
which Mr.. johnson has reason Suffi-
cient to satisfy his Judgment, there can
be no question as 10 the disastrous effect
which it has wrought in the brief space
of n few weeks upon the business pros
poets of the State, and of Richmond es-
pecially. 1t Is easytO perceive how the
constant doubt and mistrust which
necessarily impends over the fate of
the property of the wealthy, must
exercise n hurtful Influence upon
the interests of the mass of citizens who
are without the capital requisite to the
pursuit of their avOcatiOns. 1t is to be
hoped that this unhappy effect Will be
ner the remedy is to be applied, does
not very clearly appear at this time, as
the response of the President to the
delegation from Richmond, which
waited upon him n few dnYs since,
would indicate the Executive purpose
to adhere steadGastly to his exclusion
of the wealthy, unless they shall be so
! fort tunate as to obtain special pardon.
| This question of conIiScation is the
all-abSorbing and vital topic of discus
sion with our citizens, who are far more
concerned about the practical affairs OF
business than about the obsolete theo-
ries of state sovereignty, for which they
were but II few lnontIIs since fighting
with such spirit, or the resumption oi
their rights, which they had imagined
We're to go to the dogs when the author
| ity of the Federal Government was
established over them. The President
has with very rare exceptions received
tavorably the applications for special
pardon submitted by prominent Vir,
ginians, and his course towards the ex-
| Cepted clause has bnpn one of the most
liberal clemency. Within my kndwl.
edge he has refused the application oi
but one citizen of Richmond, Joseph
K. Anderson, well-known as the pro,
prietor of the. celebrated Tredeg;lr Iron
Works, and in this Instance, circum,
! stances well known in Richmond con.
trolled the decision of the President
which did not at all surprise the COM
lmunity. Where such IL generous
policy is manifested 1t cnn only bt
u question of time rs to the oven.
itunl relief of II very large majority of tht
excepted clause, but in the meantime
Il we realize forcibly, at least once i'll oul
i lives, the truth of the trite axiom, O.
the copy-book thnt t'time is mOney.n
Quite n breeze of excitement has blow1
! over the city during the past week in
consequence of the publication of thu
libelling of the property of some of ouI
most prominent citizens, as for instance
the Crenshaw's, the Haxall's the Wor
tham's, Davenport's, &c, &c. Great sur
lprise was expressed in view of the fac
that nearly all of these gentlemen hnC
been pardoned by the President.
General Terry it is understood, no
only refused all application to permit
the republication of the sEWhig'' SUP
pressed by his order few ClaVs since
but will not permit the publication O
any paper with whatever name from
that office.
:. Candidates are numerous for the VA
! rious municipal offices about to be fiIlet
e at the election ordered by Gov. Peir
I point, Just in proportion as othe
methods of earning n livelihood ar,
, scarce, in consequence of the condition
4 Oh the country CHATHAM.
a POWERFUL LARauAIENr.-Awe wester,
Pettifogger once broke forth in the fol
! lowing indignant strain: s'Sir, we'r
n enough for ye, the hull of We. Ne anS
my client can't never be intimated no
tyrannized over; mark that. And, Sir
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