The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-14

Ind ,ohereas. During the AGITATION

ina aohere0s, During the agitation
of these times it was customary for the
supporters of rebellion and treason to
invoke the Constitution for their pro-
lection, seeking counsel and comfort
from such men as jeremiah Black, who
pusillanimously and treasonably advis.
ed Buchanan that he had no constitu-
tional right to coerce the States and
affiliating with Vallandigham and the
disreputable Woods of New York,
until the said A. J. was compelled in
his impatience to exclaim, Whe,a-
ecer you hear a man aorating about the
Constitution, spot han, he's q traitor r'
And aohereos, On the 14th April,
1865, certain ]. Wilkes Booth did,
under singular hallucination, put
period to the existence of the late
lamented Mr.. Lincoln, and thereby
elevate his friend A. J. to the chair Of
State, so suddenly vacated, for which
service, but-the least said upon that
point the better.
Ind aohereds, Subsequent to this
bloody accession to the Presidency, on
the 21st April, 1865, the said Andrew
johnson, as Chief Executive of this
nation, in addressing a Republican
Governor and delegates from Indiana,
did say:
The time has arrived when the Ameri-
can people should understand what
crime is, and that it should be punished,
and its penalties enforced and inflicted.
We say in our statutes and courts that
burglary is crime, that murder is a
crime, that arson is crime, and that
treason as a crime and the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and the laws
of the United States, say that treason
shall consist in levying war against
them, and giving their enemies aid and
comfort. have just remarked that
burglary is crime and has its penal
ties, that murder is crime and has its
penalties, and so on through the long
catalogue of crime.
And whereas, on the same occasion,
by way of Indicating the policy he in
tended to pursue as President of the
United States in the great work of re-
constructing the Union, he did further
declare that the social po,oer Of the
Southern rebels must be destroyed that
their estates must be eo,.t5scated aud
sold, otherwise they would again "be-
come numerous and powful, for, in the
words of a former Senator ofthe United
States, when traitors become numer-
Gus enough, treason becomes respecta-
ble' And l say that, after making
treason odious, every Union man and
the Government should be remunerated
out of the pockets of those who have
inflicted this great suffering upon the
country"
Now therefore, be it known that the
said Andrew Joenson, President of the
United States, does hereby proclaim
and declare that full pardon shall be and
the same hereby is extended to all per-
SONS who directly or Indirectly partici-
pated in the late rebellion, with the
restoration of all privileges, immunities,
and rights of property. But as he has
heretofore declared that "t)tese are times
aolaem mercy and elemency acithom jus
tice become q crin,e," those foaming Rad
icals-Thad. Stevens, Charles Sumner,
and Wendell hillips-whome he has
heretofore consigned to public execra-
ton, are hereby excepted from all ben
efits of the foregoing proclamation, and
may be hanged, drawn, and quartered
by whomsoever will undertake to per-
form that solemn duty for the country.
Done at the city of Washington the
seventh day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.