Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-10-20

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
p O l. I II I Q a L.
Gen. Lees Application for Pardon Inter
esting Correspondence.
The following letters have just been made
public:
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES L.. STATES,
Washington, ID. g., June 20, 1866
Gcn. R. E. Ice, Richmond, Ia:
GENERAL: Your communication of date
the 18th instant, stating the steps you had
taken, after rcnding the Presidents procama
tion of the 10Th ultimo, with the view of com
plying with it's provisions when you learned
that, with others, you were to be indicted for
treason by the grand jury at Norfolk that
yon had supposed that tho officers aud men
OF the nr"y OF Northern Virginia were, by the
terms of their surrender, protected by the
United States Government from nolcsta.tion
so long as they conformcd to it's conditions !:
that you were roaly 10 meet any charges that
might be preferred against you, and did not
wish to avoid trial, but that if you were cor
rect as to the protection granted by your pa
role, and were not to be prosecuted, you de-
sired to avail yourself Of the Presidents am.
ncsty aud proclamation, and enclosing an ap.
plicntion therefor, with tho request that in the
event it be acted on, has been received and
forwarded to the Secretary of War, with the
following opinion endorsed thereon
q" In my opinion the officers and men pa
rolled ut Appanattox Court House, and since
upon the same terms given to Lee, cannot be
tried for treason so long as they observe the
tarms of their parole. This is my understand
ing. Good faith, as we'll rs true policy, die
%.tn Of obc ~, oF
that convention. Bad faith on the part of the
Government, or construction of that conven
tion subjecting the officers to trial for treason.
would produce fecling Of insecurity in the
minds of all the officers and men If so dis
posed they might even regard such an infrac
tion Of terms by the Go ernncnt az an entire
release from all obligations on their part
will state further that the terms granted by
me met with the hearty approval OF the Pres
idcnt at the tine and of the country general
ly. The action Of Judge Underwood in Nor.
folk has already had nm injurious effect and
would ask that he be ordered to qnash all in.
dictments found against paroled prisoners of
war, and to dcsst from the further prosccu
tiOn of them.
"U. S. GRANT, Lieut.. Gen.
"Headq'rs Armies U. s., June l6, 1906"
This opinion, I am informed is substantial
~ IuC "diiio dS Gi1Ht ny tnc 0DS-
ernment. have forwarded your application
for amnesty and pardon to the President, with
the following endorsement thereon:
Respectfully forwarded through the Sec
rotary Of War to the President, with the earn
est recommendation that this application OF
Gen. II. L. Lee for amnesty and pardon may
be granted him. The oath of allegiance re-
quired by recent order Of tho President, does
not accompany this, for the reason, am in
formed by General Ord, tho order requiring
it had not reached Richmond when this was
forwarded. U. S. GRANT,
" Lieutcnant-G General"
Very respectfully,
U. S. GRANT, Tt. Gen.
"IIeadq'rs Armies u. S., June 16, 1866. .
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tho President to be traitor, and in the Same
breath quadruples his powers; whioh declares
he con!emplates usurpation, and insists on a