Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-12
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The Amnesty Proclamation.


A correspondent of the " New York Her
AID writing from Washington city. says
Tho most noticeable class of persons nav
for the first tnc admitted to amnesty are tn,
members of the United States Congress who
resigned their seats and went South aud the
members of the Confederate Congress at Rich
anond and Montgomery But it deserves to be
noted that quito number OF lhcsn nre still
entnnglcd in the nlcshes of the present paper,
as Will arpear hercnittr. and good many 9TH
crs came nn here and mt one tiu.c or another
got their pardons Among these may in
stance Percy Maier United St"ss Snbsr bs
from Alabama j, j.. NJ. Curry, from Ala
ba,na; William Porchcr Miles. of South Car
oliua; William w. Buycc, Of Scutl, Carroll
ma; De Jarnettc and Gho!Son. of Virginia
and many Others A good many too, of the Sc
cossion members arc dead Sydrnham Moore,
of Alabama, died from wounds in battle !;
Burnett, of Kentucky; Barksdalc Of NJ isis
sipp, who fell at Gettysburg; Branch, Of
North Carolina, killed near Richmond; NJ.
T. II. Garnctt of Virginia, and others.
This proclamation, however, let's out Il few
prominent ncn--among them Bocock. of Vir
ginia Speaker Of the Confederate House of
Representatives, since the var practising law
quietly near Lynchburg; Henry \. Wise.
Brigadicr General, now practising law; Rnh
ert Barnwcll, OF South Carolina, leading
member of the Confederate Senatc, and about
1851 United Sites Senator for brief pc
Rod; E. Barksdnlc, of Mississippi, a Fonfcd
crate member OF Congress; Wm. y Graham,
Of North Carolina, member Of the Confcl
crate Senate once United States Secretary
Of the Navy: Edward Sparrow of Louisiana
member Of the Confederate States Senate J;
James Chestnut, Of South CaroInn tie frs,
United States Senator who resign, lis seat
to go into the rebellion, then member Of the
Confederate Senate, then member Of Davis
personal staff, and lastly brigadicr. general ;
Herschel Y. johnson, a Confederate Senator ;
and lastly, may mention David L. Yulec
United States Senator ut the tine the rebel
lion broke out. This person has had rather
hard time Of il. It w;s understood that j."
war very 10th to 20 in for sec ssion, but wa
carried IN by the ground swell. lie resigned
i,iss scat in the United States Senate and that
was the cud Of him. Mr. Davis gave him
nutirg; his own state Florida, gave him
not,iny; lie languishcd in chsculity, and
would probably have been utterly forgotten but
for the attentive zeal of his own brother.in
law, Mr. Joseph Holt, Of tho Bureau of Mil
itary Justice, between whom and himself there
was a little family feud. Holt had Yulec
hunted up and dragged to Fort Pu!aski--to
rcvcl on such dainties as pork and beans, aud
then, deaf to all trnternal considerations, Holt
contrivcd he should stay-being the very man
last to be released among number of con-
spicuous prisoners who had held high ofticc Mt
Richmond Somuch for having kind broth
cr in-lnw when you arc in trouble. Col.
George P. Kane, of Maryland, is purdoncd
by tho amnesty. His personal enemies have
hitherto kept him out from this favor Mos
by, the partzan, strangely enough, was en-
braccd by Mr.. johnson S amnesty Of the 2Gth
of May 1865, being only n Colonel and liablc
tonone Of the excepting clauses lie camo
IN promptly. took the oath, and then it was
too late to do anything with him. Had the
!; caso been, ,forcaoep would probably have been
provided for. 'A'F' r..'L
( Besides the names above given, the most
/ Of those ,pardoned are small fry, about whom
much noed not be said. There are still from
Z one to two hundred persons, excluded from
atgnestytby this Inst proclamation, embracing
'tR lhfB Be n,imbor Of the leading Confederate
.offSiais { Twill Iun ovc|, soine Of Tho mos,
y oo6hspfcG6ns Of these rs bi iefy as p6saihle,
II jAnlong executive, officials ws have, fret
tsytfisDabis, OK. Presidents. whose trialnt Rich:
nioad comes off Novcnber noxt; Alexander
III. Stephens, Vice. PRESIDENT; Robert Too,nbb
tbo Arst rebel 'Scorctaryof STATE, theme brig