Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-06
The Amnesty Law.

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The Amnesty Law.
The Amnesty bill just passed does no
meet public expectation at the South, ant
for two reasons: First, because it is lin
tied, and, secondly, because parties who's
political privileges are 1sst@ = by. tn
bill are only those excluded by the l4tl
amendment, most Of whom are relieved
by special acts of Congress, excepting tn
classes mentioned5in the bill and still pro
scribed. A majority disabled by the l4tl
amendment had been relieved by specia
acts. The great relief needed is the aboli
ton of the test oath Of March, 1862
which would not allow the rank and fill
of the late Confederate army to hold Fed
eral Office if appointed. None butpromi'
nent leaders at the South are politically
restored, while the great mass are still
barred from holding the most Insignificant
clerkship in the gift of the Federal Gov
ernment. Let the test oath go. 1t is
time that it was among the things of the
past.
STILL DIsFRAEcH1sED BY THE AMNESTY
,AcT-Ex-sENAToRs AND MEMBERs OF
TIE HOUSE.
Clay and Fitzpatrick, Of Ala; Robt. W.
johnson, of Ark; Yulee and Mallory, of
Fla; Iyerson and Toombs, Of Ga Benja-
min, of La, now of Great Britain; Jeter-
son Davis and Albert G. Brown Of Miss. !;
Polk, of Mo-; Chestnut, Of S. c.; Mich
olson, of Tenn. Wigfall, of Texas Hun
tor, Of Va, and the following named ex-
members Of the House Pug n and Curry,
of Ala; Rust, Of Ark. Scott, of Califor-
MIA Hawkins, of Fla; n. ]. Crawford
and Jackson, of Ga; Lamar, Singleton
and McRae, of Miss; Smith and Vance,
OF N. c.; Miles, Mcqueen. Bonham and
Boyce, of S. c.; Avery and Thomas. of
Tenn; Reagan, of Texas; De Jarnett,
Pryor, Bocock Lenke, Smith and Boteler,
of va. and others. The exception of the
clnde Gen. "ss 1s1Sse sxPissoiy TO in
who left his seat as Senator from hen'
lucky to aid the Confederacy, aid served
first as General and next as Confederate
Secretary OF War at Richmond
JUDICIAL OFFICERS OF THE UsITED STATES
Ex-Supreme Court Justice John A,
Campbell, now in large practice at New
Orleans Judges Walyburton and Brock
eubrough, of Va, and Of ers. with ex-U;
S Marshals and District Attorneys, and
those who ceased to hold judicial positions
when secession commenced, and suose-
queutly aided it.
Ex-CABINET OFFICERS.
Jacob Thompson, of Miss; Gov. VIM.
A.. Graham, OF N. c., Secretary OF the
NAVY under Fillmore; @. n. Conrad, OF
Louisiana, ex-Secretary of War, and some
others Henry R. Jackson, Of Ga, and
Gen. VIM. Preston, of KY, foreign MIN
listers.
PERSONS NOT DIsFRAScHIsED.
The folly of retailing al these e1cep-
tons in an ambiguous statute, where BE-
we're penalties attach to an offender, Is ex-
hibited by the character Of persons re,
i;eved These embrace many Of the most
active advocates Of Secession, and some
who since the war have been persistent
Bourbons" If VIM. L. Yancey were
alive be would be relieved by this act.
Alexander H. Stephens, Of Georgia, VICE
President of the Southern Coptederacy, Is
relieved; Gov. Henry A. Wise, OF Va,
Who boasts that he never asked for an
executive pardon Gen. Forrest, of Tenn;
Gov Letcher, of Va, who ordered the
seizure of Harpers Ferry; Gen wade
Hampton, of S. c.; Benz. Hill, OF ia
Herscchel Y. johnson, who ran on the TICK
ct with Stephen A. Douglas in 1850; Rob
ert Barnweil Rhett, Of S. G., the Oldest
Secessionist of the South; James A. Sed-
don, Of Va, Confederate Secretary of War
L. T. Walker, of Ala. Robert W. barn
well, of S. c., Confederate Senator. C0I
&. 4. Henry, Of Tenn; Hon. Allan J.
Caperton. of West Va, Confederate Sena-
tor: LYON, Chiffon and Dargan, OF ala
A. w. Garland, of Ark; a. R. Wright
of Ca; ]. W. Moore, of KY; Duncan r.
! Kenner and John Perkins, Jr., Of La;
3. Barksdale, Of Miss. Brldgers, OF N. e.:
Henry S. Foote, NJ. F. Gentry, G. W
Jones and ]. v. Wright, Of Tenn; james
LYONS John .Gorde, Jr., ]. P. Holcombe
John B. Baldwin, Waller R. Staples, Fay
cite McMullin, Of Va.-the foregoing be,
ing mostly members Of the Confederate
Congress Among the other prominent
Confederates relieved are Chas. g. Mem
minger, ex-Secretary Confeder ate States
Treasury; G.. A. Trenholm, Of 8. c.; Hon
T. Fl. Watts, of Ala, Confederate States
Attorney General; George Davis, Of n
c.; ditto Ex-Governor P. II. Bell Of N. Q.
Lewis E. Harvie, Of Virginia Secession
! Convention .Messrs A. D, Dickinson
] Chas. Bruce, w. W. Crump, and othcre1
4 members 6f the Virginia Legislative.
4 All members Of the Secession Conven
tons at the South are relieved, except
few embraced under other heads, and thi
fact shows how the distinction is made
| While Robert BaruNen Rhett, ex-Goy
Wise and Alexander H. Stephens APE re
lieved of disabilities, why should other
be disqualified for the humblest local Of
fce? The extension of amnesty to l5o,
t00O persons is claimed as the result. iii
is true, the fact is to be credited to th
Cincinnati Convention.
TERRIBLE REByKE TO THE AD
MIN1sTRAT1oN.--The Savannah Re
publican is Of the opinion that th