The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-09-28
From Washington.
TROOPS TO BE ENTIRELY WITHDRAWN FROM


stood here, that it is contemplated by the
President to entirely withdraw the troops
from the South, in short time, leaving
the States lately in rebellion to re-organi-
zation on the basis Of civil government,
precisely as they stood before the late war,
with the exception of slavery. This policy
is said to have arisen through the good
sense of the leading Southern men. them
selves, in accepting the present position of
affairs, as disclosed in the interview be-
tween President Johnson aud conside-
rable deputation of their leading men at,
the White House, the other day Thus,
the late slave, States will have hardly a
soldier left among them, save such as may
be required to garrison the several forts
and these, as in the Northern. States, will
be retained in active service only for the
purpose of meeting any emergency that
NAV arise from the action of foreign pow
ers.
APPLICATIONS FOR pARDoNs.
There is no perceptible abatement from
any quarter in the applications for pardon.
Thousands on thousands are filed away fl
the Attorney-General's office, and other
thousands at the White House. Shelving
is being erected in the room of the pardon
clerk, capable of holding hundreds of
thousands of applications, and unless some
more expeditions method be devised for
passing upon them, the shelf room will all
soon be needed 1t is estimated that not
less than one hundred thousand separate
amnesty oaths have already been received
at the State Department. Two clerks are
constantly engaged asserting and filing
these, but months would be necessary to
arrange those now on hand, if no more
were received. In the meantime, the
magnitude of the clerical work necessary
to pardon one hundred thousand persons
by the present method is but imperfectly
understood by the public at large. It's
present progress is transparent farce,
incompatible with the dignity of the gov
ernment, and should therefore be aban-
doncd.
Il NEW PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.
WAsn1NGToN, September l4.-It is as
serted that another amnesty proclamation
will soon be issued by President Johnson.
The manlincss with which the Southern
people have submitted to the conditions
imposed on them by the fortunes of war,
as we'll as the condition of that section:
has decided the President on issuing an
other amnesty proclamation, broad and
generous in it's provisions. He knows the
people of the South, and is satisfied that
they will act in good faith with the Fed
eral Government. This is also rendered
necessary by the vast number of petitions
for pardon, which have accumulated to
that extent, that it wosld require years to
examine them. 1t is'probable, too, that
it will have been hastened, to some ex-
tent, by threats of impeachment by the
radicals; for Andrew Johnson, when an
gered, is not only obstinate, but dogmatic.
He hates secession, but has contempt
for the Abo!itionists.
The change in the policy as to aban-
donod lands, out Of which the agents OF
the Frecdmen's Bureau, expected to make
fortunes, was bombshell into the radical
camp. 1t was scheme for gigantic plum
der, and so soon as the President was in
formed of its practical working, he caused
to be issued the order which restores pro:
pclty to its lawful owners. There can be
no confscation without duo process Of
law. The President stands by the Con
,stitution.
The radicals of the Butler Wilson school,
who thought they could mould Andrew
Johnson, to their bold, bad schemes, arc
bitter and rcvengeful over their discom-
future. They vii! wage war relentlessly
on the Executive, but the people-will sus.
tain in him in all the measures which will
produce complete restoration, and conso'
quently the earliest prosperity.
~ am not, and never have been in ia
vor of making voters orjurors of negroes
nor of qualifying them to hold Offices OF
to intermarry with the white people; and
I will say, in addition to this, that there
is physical difference between the white
and black races, which believe will for
ever forbid the two races living together
on terms of social and political equality