The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-13
Effect of the Amnesty Proclamation.

Effect of the Amnesty Proclamation.
From the ~ Y. Times.
The assertions of the Presidents Washing
ton organ concerning the Amnesty Proclama-
tion and its effect on the country read more
like hyperbole than sober opinion. 1t is diff
cult to believe that the National Intelliqencer
intended to be serious when it published
statement so gross in its exaggerations and so
obviously untrue as that which folloWs:-
"The political effect of the Amnesty Procla
nation Is already known and felt TO be- highly
favorable to the speedy restoration OF the Union
on hrm and lasting basis. In the Southern
day is passed for the intlction upon their people
OF Vindictive penalties, in the form of conhsca-
uon, prescription, disfranchisement or Danish.
ment. Amnesty Will also give confidence 10
the great mass of the people of this country in
their business affairs. The time for hesitation
and dlstrust will have passed when the reha-
blntation OF the excluded States shall have been
effected.
"The proclamation certainly removes one
great impediment to the early and cordial
restoration OF the Union, by counteracting the
radical outcry against Rebels. All who accept
Jne amnesty bind themselves to the Union.
Ihe great majority of the people of the North
VIII sustain this proclamation. A large por-
Ilon or the more sensible and patriotic ReOub-
llcans nave been in favor OF such measure for
some time. Mr.. Greeley sustains 1t, as we no
lce, as he was obliged to do, for the sake of his
AT the first blush Wall street was agitated by
the fear that the proclamation would afford the
iaulcals another preteXJ for impeachment OF
the PRESIDENT, and tend to increase the agita-
Ilon which the radicals hope TO create at the
next session OF Congress. Gold rose one or two
recede"
Every point here presented is either untrue
as matter Of fact, or is so distorted in form
as to be essentially false in spirit.
nowhere is the proclamation ''felt to be
Mghly favorable" to the early restoration of
the Union on the only basis that can afford a
guarantee OF permanence. Many of the Demo-
cratlc Journals Of the North applaud it as an
indication OF the Presidents purpose to push
forward his anti Congressional policy, and in
the same spirit it will doubtless be regarded
py the malcontent press of the South. In
DOM quarters the expectation is that the pro-
olamatlon VIII serve to postpone the settle
mehI OF the questiOn-to prolong the contest
now going ON, with the hope that in the
interim some series of partisan accidents will
occur 10 deIeat the measures of the Republican
party The more candid of our Democratic
contemporaries rebuke this expectation as a
deluslon ana snare, oOnfessing, in the Ian
guage OF the World, that the proclamation
will afford no relief to persons deprived of
the elective franchise" and deprecating reli-
ance upon 1t as means of breaking down the
restraints imposed by the law. The checks
provided for the work of reconstruction will
remain in full force as completely as though
Binckley had not forged his mimic thunder
Admitting, then, that all will be well ewhen
the rehabilitation of the excluded States shall
have been effected, the fact remains that the
proclamation in no way hastens the process of
restoration. On the contrary, it promises to