Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-13
JUptEs NIuE1oLsoN,s pssAnILI.

JUDGE NiUEEoLsON's DEsArsILI-
- T'EES. -
When the Senate bill for the removal
Of disabilities was before the Senate
few days since, Senator Fowler proposed
to amend the bill by inserting the name
of Judge Nicholson. At the urgent re-
quest of Senator Brownlow and Mr..
Maynard, objection was made to the pro-
posed amendment and it was withdrawn.
During the discussion the following docu-
menis were read:
NASHVILLE, TENN, Feb. 16, 1870
Dear Sir: am in receipt of letter
from Columbia, which informs me that
letter is gotten up for the signatures of a
number of your political friends, request
ing you to use your influence in procuring
the removal of the disabilities supposed
| to be imposed upon me by the fourteenth
amendment. The movement originates,
in part at least, in a desire that / may be
in a condition to accept Judicial posi-
| ton, which have expressed my willing
ness to do | write now to say that if
you can, in the discharge of your duties,
favor the removal of my disabilities l
should feel obliged to you for so doing.
You are fully aware of my past course,
and can determine intelligently whether
| the public interests would be subserved
or not by my restoration to the full rights
of citizenship, and by your judgment l
am willing to abide. 1t is, perhaps, pro-
| per for me to add that my own opinion is
| that am not obnoxious to the provisions
of the fourteenth amendment; but as
there may be doubt on the subject, L
would be gratified to have the doubt re-
moved. Assuring you that will pro-
perly appreciate your action on my ap-
| plication, am, very respectfully, your
| obedient servant, A. @. p. NICHOLSON.
Hon. s. NJ. ARIEL.
[Endorsnentl
| House OF REPRESENTATIVES, Forty
| First Congress, Second Session. am
clearly of opinion that the ''public interests
| would be subserved" by the removal of
| the legal and political disabilities of Mr..
| A. o. P. Nicholson. l ask attention to
an inclosed petition from some of the
best citizens of Maury county, where he
| lives. '- 5. nj. ARNELL
l To the Congress of the United States: q
| COLUMBIA, Tenn, Feb, 1870.-Your
petitioner respectfully and earnestly asks
relief from all legal and political disabili-
ties. He desires restoration to the full
rights of an American citizen under the
| Government of the United States, to
which he is sincerely attached.
| Your obedient servant,
a. o. p. NICHOLSON.
Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, all good
and loyal citizens and your personal
friends and political supporters, would
earnestly request of you to use your in
| fluence to have the political disabilities of
| A. o. p. Nicholson and w. p. Martin re-
moved by the Congress of the United
States. Truly, your friends,
Fielding Hurst, late colonel United
States Army; John F Jordan, Add L
Leftwich, d McClanahan, Daniel Nc
'Kennon, G w Ferguson, James OJordan,
Samuel Faust, w B Byrum, T w Patton,
c NJ Edwards, Henry Love, T J Pogue,
] III McKennon, r II Gates, w ] Shan
non, William Noles, T F Beard, ] A
Beard.
Hon. SAMUEL M. ARNEIL.
1t will be seen from Judge Nicholson's
letter TO Mr.. Arnell that he does not con-
slider himself obnoxious to the provisions
of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge
Nicholson was pardoned by President
Johnson before the ratification of tn e
Fourteenth Amendment. He holds that
the effect of the pardon was to blot out
of existence his guilt, and that in the eye
of the law he is innocent as if he never
had committed any Offense. The Su-
preme Court of the United States n the
case of Garland, e1 aoarte, decided in
reference to the effect of the Presidents
pardon:
A pardon reaches both the punishment
prescribed for the offense and the guilt of
the offender; and when the pardon is full,
it releases the punishment and blots out of
existence the guilt, so that in the eye of
the law the offender is as innocent as if
he had never committed the offense. If
granted before conviction, it prevents any
of the penalties and disabilities conse-
guent upon conviction from attaching.
HALF a dozen Jersey City doctors re-
fused to attend q little child that was
dying of cholera infantum, and the New
York papers rake up an old case against
them. They say:
''The only case of a similar disregard
of life that occurred for several years past
in that part of New Jersey took place in
Hoboken three years and half ago,