The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-06-08
ANNE S 7 Y!
WHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON OFFERS
TO THE SOUTH.
Pardon and The Restoration Of
Property Rights.
SLAVERY MADE AN EXCEPTION
Who Are Excepted.
FOURTEEN CLASSES ENUMERATED
The Leading Spirits of the Rebellion Ex-
cluded.
a rRocLAMAr1oN BY THE PRESIDENT.

a PROCLAMATION BY TIE PRESIDENT.
Washington, Monday, May 20 1865.
Whereas, The President of the United
States, on the Sth day OF December, A.
! D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
and on the 10th day of March, A D. eigh-
teen hundred and sixty four, did, with
the object to suppress the existing Re-
bellion, to induce all persons to return to
their loyalty and to restore the authority
of the United States, issue proclamations
offering amnesty and pardon to certain
persons, who had directly or by implica-
tion participated in the said rebellion /;
and
Whereas, Many persons who had SO
engaged in said Rebellion have, since the
issuance Of said proclamations, failed or
neglected to take the benefits offered
thcrby and
Whcreas, many persons, who have been
justly deprived of all claim to amnesty
and pardon hereunder, by reason of their
participation directly or by implication in
said Rebellion, and continued in hostility
to the Government Of the United States
since the date Of said proclamation, now
desire to apply for and obtain amnesty
and pardon.
TO the end, therefore, that the author
ity of the Government of the United
States may be restored, and that peace,
order and freedom may be re-cstablished,
/, Andrew johnson, President of the T.
nited States, do proclaim and declare
that [ hereby grant to all persons who
have directly or indirectly participated
in the existing Rebellion, as hereinafter
excepted, amnesty and pardon, with res
toration Of all rights of property, except
as to Slaves, and except in eases where
legal proceedings under the laws of the
United States providing fer the confsca
ton of property Of persons engaged in
Rebellion have been instituted but on
the condition, nevertheless, that every
such person shall take and subscribe the
oath or affirmation, and thence
forward keep and maintain said oath invi-
olate, and which oath shall be registered
for permanent preservation, and shall be
Of tie tenor aud effect following, to wit
81 (blank) do solemnly swear, CT affirm
in presence Of Almighty God, that will
henceforth faithfully support and defend
the Constitution Of the United States and
the Union Of the States hereunder, and
that / vill, in ike manner, abide by and
support all laws aud proclama-
nations which have been made during
the existing Rebellion with reference to
the emapcipation Of slaves, SO help me
God"
The following classes Of persons are ex-
cepted from the benefits Of this proclama-
ton:
First. llwho are or shall have been pre-
tended civil or diplomatic officers, or 9th
erwise domestic or foreign agents, of the
pre- tended Confederate Government.
Second. All who left judicial stations
under the United States to aid the Rebel
lion.
Third. All who shall have been mill
tsry or naval officers of said pretended
Confederate Government above the rank
of colonel in the army or lieutenantin the
navy.
Fourth. All who left seats in the
Congress of the United States to aid the
Rebellion.
FIFTH. All who resigned or rendered
designations of their commissions in the
Army or Navy of the United States to E.
wade duty in resisting the Rebellion,
sStrth. 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.
,SeUenth., All persons who have been or
are absentees from the United States for
the purpose of aiding the Rebellion.
Etgtth. All military and naval officers
in the Rebel service who were educated
by the Government in the Military Acad-
emy at West Point or the United States
Naval Academy.
Ninth. All persons who held the pre-
tended Offices of Governors of States in
insurrectioa against the United States.
Tenth. All persons who lett their
homes withia the jurisdiction and protec
ton of the United States, and passed be-
yond the Federal military lines into the
so called Confederate States, for the pur
pose of aiding the Rebellion.
Eyecesth, All persons who have been
engaged in the destruction of the com
commerce of the United States upon th'
high seas, and all persons who have made
raids into the United States from Canada
or been engaged in destroying the com
merce of the United States upon the lake
and rivers that separate the British Prov
inces from the United States.
Ticelfh. All persons who, at the t,mf
when they seek to obtain the dement's mel
self by taking the oath herein prescribed
are in military, naval or civil conhnemen