The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-21
PROCLAMATION.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S AMNESTY
A Proclamation by the President

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the sth day of December, A. D., eighteen hun
bred and sixty-three, and on the 26th day of
March, A. D., eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
did, with the object to suppress the existing re-
bellion, to induce all persons to return to their
loyalty, and restore the authority of the United
States, issue proclamations offering amnesty and
pardon to certain persons, who had directly or
by implication participated in the said rebellion;
And whereas many persons who had
gagged in said rebellion have since the issuance of
said proclamations, failed or neglected to take
the benefits offered thereby; and
Whereas many persons, who have been Justly
deprived of all claim to amnesty and pardon there
under, 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 tolapply for and obtain amnesty and par
don; and ..--t
To the end, therefore, that the authority of
the Government of the United States may be re-.
stored, and that peace, order and freedom may
be re-estabished, |, Andrew johnson, President
of the United States, do proclaim and declare
that / hereby grant to all persons who have di-
rectly or indirectly participated in the existing
rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, amnesty
and pardon with restoration OF all rights of pro-
perty, except as to slaves, and except in cases
where legal proceedings under the laws OF the
United States providing for the conhscation of
property of persons engaged in rebellion have
been instituted but on the condition, neverthe-
less, that every such person saall take and sub
thenceforward keep and maintain said oath in
violate, and which oath shall be registered for
permanent preservation, and shall be Of the tenor
and effect following, to wit ~ tf.s II.
81 -, do soemnly swear, Tor affirm, J in pre-
sence 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 WILL in like manner, abide
by and faithfully support all laws and proclanlas
lions which have been made during the existing
rebellion, with reference to the emancipation of
slaves so help me God" ..i af-
The following classes of persons are excepted
from the benefits of this proclamation
First. All who or shall have been pretended
civil or diplomatic officers, otherwise domestic
or foreign agents of the pretended Confederate
Government. ,i-
Second. All who left judicial stations under the
United States to aid the rebellion.
Third All who shall have been military ma
val officers of said pretended Confederate Gov
eminent above the rank of Colonel in the army
or Lieutenant in the navy. a,
Fourth. All who left seats in the Congress Of
the United States to aidithe rebellion. !
Fifth. All who resigned rendered resigna-
tons of their commissions in the army:or navy
of the Uni1ed States to evade duty in resisting
the resisting the rebellion ta.3a &,
Sixth 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.
Seventh All persons who have been OF are abb /
sentees from the United States for the purpose OF
adsng the rebellion. Il ',t.
E;gItb All military and naval officers in the
rahai service who were educated Inv the Govern
,oant in tho Military A cademv at West Point or
the Tinted States Naval ACADEMY. II
- Ninth All persons who held the pretended of
Coos Of Go,raroors of States in insnr,action aoainsr
the limited states. -. III a i7.-i.,l1754
Tantb All nersons who left tbei, homes within
tba iurisdictidn and protection, of Che United
States and passed beyond the Federal military
1;aS ito the Socaed Consederate States for The
mrnose of aiding the rebellion. ot
FTeventb All nersons' who have been engaged
in the destruction of the commerce of the United
States mon the hiph seas, and all persons who
bsva mada raids into the Tinted States from Can
ado or been cnoaaed in destroying the commerce
Of The United States upon the lakes and rivers i
that senarate the British Provinces from the
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Twelfth Ali nersons ythb. at the time when
tba,, sol 70 ohta;n The benafts hereof by takino
the oath herein nrescribed are, in military naval
W. evil. confnament or custody or@1lnder bonds
e ~ I;tr,r -, o,,,ol ar, r;+i1s n, .,an+s
Of tho a;tad Sfa{es ~ nT;sonars os Of war or
narsons detained for offences of apy kind either
PPei e.. o,,Jr;at;o,, - - -
'' Thirtaonth Al norsons who have Voluntarily
nort;n;ma+ad in said rehaTlion and the estimated
lpaina IF bosa to,,abe ',roertv ia over twenty
tbousand daIIars i
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