The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-06-02

By The President Of the United Suites Of
america
A PROCLAMATION.

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sxty-four, did, with the object to
suppress the existing rebellion, to
induce all persons to return to their /
loyalty, and to restore the authority of (
the United States, issue proclamahons ,
Offering amnesty and pardon to GER
tain persons who had, directly or by
implication, participated in the said
rebellion, and
JIhereas, Many persons who have
been justly deprived of all claim to
amnesty or 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
authority of the government of the
United States may be restored, and
that peace, order and freedom may be
established, |, Andrew Johnson, Pre- J.
dent of the United States, do proclaim
and declare that | hereby grant to all
persons who have, directly or Indirect
", participated in the existing rebel
lion, except as hereinafter excepted
amnesty and pardon, with restoration
Of all rights of property, except as to
slaves, and except in cases where legal
proceedings under the laws of the
United States, providing for the con-
fscation of property Of persons engag-
ed in rebellion, have been instituted,
but on the condition, nevertheless,
that every such person shall take and
subscribe to the following oath or
affirmation, and thenceforward keep
and maintain said oath inviolate, and
which oath shall be registered for
permanent preservation, and shall be
after the tenor and effect to wit:
/, -- --, do solemnly swear
or affirm, in presence of Almighty God,
that will henceforth faithfully support
and defend the Constitution of the
United and the Union of the States
Hereunder, and that / viii IN like
manner abide by and faithfully support
all laws and proclamations which have
been made during the existing rebol-
lion with reference to the emancipa.
ton of slaves: so help me God
The following classes of persons are
excepted from the benefits of this
Proclamation:
First, All who are, or shall have
been, pretended civil or diplomats
officers or otherwise, domestic o
foreign agents of the pretended Con
federate Government.
Second, All who left Judicial sta
tons under the United States to al
the rebellion.
Third, All who shall have bee
military or naval officers of said pre-
tended Confederate Government abov
the rank of Colonel in the army {
Lieutenant in the navy.
Fourth, All who left seats in tn
Congress of the United States
aid the rebellion.
Fifth, All who resigned or tendere
designations of their commissions
the army or navy of the United Stat,
to evade duty in resisting the reb
lion.
Sixth, All who have engaged in al
way in treating otherwise than lay
fully as prisoners of war persons four
in the United States as officers, sc
diers, seamen OF in other capacities.
Seventh, All persons who have be,
or are, absentees from the Unite
States for the purpose of aiding t
rebellion.
Eighth, All military and nay
officers in the rebel service who we
educated by the Government in t
military academy at West Point OF t
United States Naval Academy.
Ninth, All persons who held {
pretended offices of Governors
States in instruction against the I'm
ed States.
Tenth. All persons who left tn
homes within the jurisdiction and pr
lection of the United States and pa
ed beyond the Federal military lin
into the so-caled Confederate Stat
for the purpose Of aiding the rebelliC
Eleventh, All persons who la
been engaged III the destruction of t
commerce of the United States up
the high seas, and all persons W
have made raids into the Unit
States from Canada or been engaged
destroying the commerce OF the In
ed States upon the lakes and riv
that separate the British Provin
from the United States.
Twelfth, All persons who, Mt
time when they seek to obtain
benefits hereof by taking the O
herein prescribed, are in milit
naval or civil confinement or cute
or under bonds of the civil, miit
or naval authorities, agents Of
United States, as prisoners OF war
persons detained for offences o:
kind either before or after convict
Thirteenth, All persons who h
n voluntarily participated in said re
lion, and the estimated value of wi
taxable property is over twenty th'
and dollars.
Fourteenth, All Persons who j
taken the oath Of amnesty as desc