Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-09-19

altleS. COnhScatlOnS ana OlSIfan-
cbisement, now, as always, could
only tend to hinder reconciliation
among the people and national
restoration, while it must serious
ly embarrass, obstruct and repress
popular energies and national in
dustry and enterprise; and
WHEREAS, For these reasons it
is now deemed essential to the
public welfare and to the more
perfect restoration of constitution
al law and order that the said
last mentioned proclamation, here
tofore issued on the 29th day of
May, A. d. 1865, should be mod
flied, that the full and benefcent
pardon, conceded thereby, should
be offered and further extended to
a large number of persons who,
by its aforesaid acts, have been
hitherto excluded from executive
clemency; now
Therefore, |, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
do hereby proclaim and declare
that the full pardon described in
the proclamation of the 29th day
of May, 1865, shall henceforth be
opened and extended to all persons
VINO directly or indirectly partici-
ipated in the late rebellion with
the restoration of all private i'm
munities and rights of property,
except as to property with regard
to slaves, and except in cases of
legal proceedings being entered
under the laws of the United
States, but upon the condition
that every such person shall take
and subscribe to the following
oath, and shall cause the same to
beregistered for permanent preser-
walton in the same manner and
with the same effect with the said
oath prescribed in the said procla-
nation of the goth day of May,
1865, namely:
81, --, do solemnly swear
or affirm in the presence of AL
mighty God that l will henceforth
faithfully support. protect and de-
fend the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and the Union of the
States Hereunder, and that 1 will
in like manner abide by and faith
fully support all laws and procla-
nations which have been made
Iduring the late rebellion with re-
ference to the emancipation of
slaves. So help me God"
The following persons, and no
others, are excluded from the ben
Iefits of this proclamation, and of
the said proclamation of the goth
day of May, A. D. 1865, viz:
First, the chief, or pretended
chief, executive officers, including
the President, Vice-President, and
all heads of departments of the
pretended Confederate or rebelled
Government, and all who were
agents thereof in foreign States
or countries, and all who had OF
pretended to hold in the service
of the said pretended Confederate
Government military rank and
title above the grade of Brigadier-
General, and a naval rank or title
above that of Captain, and all who
were or pretended to be Govern
ors of States while maintaining,
abetting or submitting to, and ac-
quiescing in the rebellion. Second,
all persons who in any way treat
ed, otherwise than as lawful pris-
oners of war, persons in any ca
pacity who were employed or en-
gagged in the military or naval SER
vice of the United States, and all
persons who at the time they may
seek to obtain the benefit of this
proclamation are actually in civil,
military or naval confinement or
custody, or legally held to bail
either before or after conviction,
and all persons who were engaged
directly or indirectly in the as
sassination of the late President
of the United States, or in any
plot or conspiracy in any manner
Herewith connected.
In testimony sohereof, l have
signed these presents with my
hand and have caused the seal of
the United States to be hereunto
affixed. Done at the city of Wash
ington, on the seventh day of
September, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seyen. (Sign-
ed,) ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President,
WV. H. SEWARD, Secretary of
State