Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-09-18


by the President of the United States
Of fAmerica.-A Proclamation.
Whereas In the month of July Ammo
Domihi eighteen hundred and sixty-one the
two Houses of Congress, with extraordinary
unanimity, solemnly declared that the war
then existing was not waged on the palt OF
the Government in any spirit of oppression,
nor for any purpose Of conquest or subjuga-
ton, nor purpose of oyerthrowiug or inter
fering with the rights or established institu
tiops of the States, but to defend and main
tain the supremacy of the Constitution, and
to preserve the Union with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several States un-
impaired, and that as soon as these OBJ
jects should be accomplished the war ought
TO cease:
And Whereas, The President of the Uni.
ted States, on the eighth day Of December,
Ammo Domini eighteen hundred and sixty
three, and on the twenty-sixth day of March,
Ammo Domini eighteen hundred and sixty.
four, did, with the object of suppressing the
then existing rebellion, and of inducing all
persons to return to their loyalty, and of re-
storing the authority of the United States,
issue proclamation Offering amnesty and
pardon 10 all persons who had directly or In
directly participated in the then existing re-
belliou, except as in those proclamations as
was specified and reserved;
And 7Yhercas, The President of the Uni
ted States did, on the twenty-ninth day of
May, Ammo Domini eighteen hundred and
sixty-6ve. issue further proclamation with
the same objects before mentioned, and to
the end that the authority Of the Govern
ment of tie United States might be restored,
and that peace, order and freedom might be
established; aud the President did, by the
sa d aforementioned proclamation, proclaim
declare that he hereby granted to all persons
who had directly or indirectly participated in
the then existing rebellion, except as therein
excepted, amnesty and pardon, with restora-
ton OF all rights of property, except. as TO
slaves, and except in certain cases where le'
gal proceedings had been instituted, but upon
a condition that such persons should take
and subscribe an oath therein prescribed,
which oath should be registered for perIna
ment preservation;
And phe,eas, in and by the said lest mem
toned proclamation Of the twenty, ninth day
Of May, Ammo Domui eighteen hundred
and sixty FIVE, fourteen extensive classes OF
persons therein specially described were al
together excepted and excluded from the ben
cfits thereof:
And aohereas, the President Of the United
States did, on the second day of April, Ammo
Domri eighteen hundred and sixty six, issue
proclamation declaring that the insurrec-
ton was at an end, and was thenceiorth to
be so regarded;
-And srhercas, there now exists no organiZ'
ed armed res stance of misguided citizens or
others, to the authority of the United States,
in the States Of Georgia, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina Tennessee, Alabama,
louisiana Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and
Texas, and the laws Can be sustained and
enforced therein by the proper civil authorl.
ties. State or Federal,. and the people Of said
States are we'll and loyalty disposed, and have
CONFIRMED, or if permitted to do so, will con.
form, in their legislation to the condition OF
affairs growing out of the Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, prohibiting
slavery within the limits and Jurisdiction OF
tue United States
.And achcreas, there no longer exists any
reasonable ground to apprehend within the
States which were involved in the late re
brllipn any renewal thereof or any unlawful!
resistance By the people of said States to
the Constitution and laws OF the United
States; -.
And ,phereas, large standing armies, mill
tary occupation, martial Law, military tribu,
mails, and the suspension OF the privilege Of
lhe writ Of hnbeas corpus, and the right of
trial bv inry are, in time of peace, DANCE
us to public liberty, Incompatible With the
individual rights of the citizen. contrary to
the genius aud spirit of our free institutions,
and exhaustive OF the national resources, and
ought NOT, therefore, TO be sanctioned or a.
lowed except in cases OF actual necessity for
repelling invasion or supprcssing resurrection
or rebellion;
4M rAerenS, retaliating or vindlctive
policy attended by unnecessary disqualified
tons pains, penalties, coniiscation and dis
reimbursement, now as always, could only tend
to hinder reconciliation among the people
and national restoration, while it must So.
riously e,nbarfass, obstruct and repress pop
u!ar energies and national industry and EN-
terprise;
Ind ,caereas, for these reasocs, it is now
deemed essential to the public welfare, and
to the more perfect restoration Of Constitu-
tional law aad order, that the said last men
,:oned proclamation, so as aforesaid, issu.
on the 22J.h day Of May, A. D. 1863, should
be modified. aud that the full and bene6cent
pardon conceded thereby should be opened
and further extended to largo number OF
the persons who, by its aforesaid exceptions,
have ,,scn hitherto excluded from Executive
elcmency.
DREW JOHNSON, President of the United
States, 90 hereby proclaim and declare that
the fri pardou described in the said procla-
nation OF the 29lh day of May. Ammo Domi-
nj 1865, shall Lenceforth be opened and cX-
tended to all persons who directly Or indi-
reclly participated in the late rebellion, With
the restoration of all privileges, immun,ties
AID rights OF property-cxcept as to proper
ty with regard to slaves, and except IN cases
OF legal proceedings under the laws OF the
United Stales-but upon this condition, new
ertheless, that every such person who shall
seek to avail himself of this proclamation,
shall take and subscribe the following oath,
and shall cause the same to ne registered for
nermancpt preservation, in the same manner
and with the same effect as With the oath
prescribed in the said proclamation OF the
10Th day Of May, 1865, namely:
"I,---, do solemnly swear, or
affirm, in the presence of Almighty God, that
will henceforth faithfully support, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United
States and the Union Of the States thereun-
der, and that will, in like manner, abide by
and faithfully support ali laws and proelama-
lions which have been made during the late
rebellion with reference to the emancipation
of slaves. So help me God
The following persons, and no others, are
excluded from the benefits Of this proclama-
ton. and of the said proclamation Of the 10Th
day Of May, 1865, viz.
L;re, The chief or pretcnied chief execu.