New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
AMNESTY.
TIE PARTIAL DILL-wHo ARE RELIEVED AND
WHO ARE EXCEPTED-AN INVIDIoUS DISrINC-


providing THAT all political disabilities imposed by the
third section Of the XVIII Amendment to the consitu
ton OF the United States hereby removed from oil
persons whomsoeyer except Senators and Representa-
tiyes OF the XXXYIth and XXXVfIth Congresses 0ni-
GERS IN the judicial, military. and naval service OF tho
United States heads Of departments, and foreign Minis
tiers of United Staes on the 22d of May the Senate
passed this BILL and 1t In force In order that inc
provisions OF the section named may DO clearly under
stood. It is given entire:
SIC g. No person shall bo Senator or Representative
in Congress- E.ect0r OF President or flce Pfescn
hold any office, civil or military, under tne Unteu ,
States or under State. who, having previously taken
oath membCrof Congress, or as any 0ncer " 1no
United States or as member SI any Sa9 aU @ to s9
port the Constitution Of the Unlted otes sDa napo
engaged In nsurrecon rebellion against the same or
given aid comfort to the enonies thereof But Con-
gress may bv vote OF tw0tds OI each HOUSE, roo'o
such disabilities.
The number relieved by this act ia estimated by we'll
informed southerners not less than 10000 persons OF
capacity and experience who for SIX years
past havo been debarred from all partci-
patton in the Federal, State county or muncipai gov
ernments. The exceptions, however, embrace con-
siderable number Of the conspicuous politicians OF the
South. Among those still under disabilities are:
ALApAMA-Ex-senators Clement c. Clay IT,. and Ben
jann Fitzpatrick Ge latter was delegate TO tue Lhla
depha National Union Convention or lo66), anu eA-
iepresentatves Jabez L. NJ. Curry, and James L. Pugh
ARKASsAs.-Ex Senator Robert W. johnson and OK
9AtfToRsIA- Representative Charles L. Scott.
FLoRlDA-Ex senators Stephen r Mallory a. ana David
IL.
delegate 10 the Philadelphia NatiOnai Union Ooh'oh-
''3u oRGi1|Exsenators Alfred Iverson and Robert
Toolnbs and xIepresentatyes Martin j. Crawfordand
fInnIsIANA~Exsenator Judah p. Benjamin NOW
judicial officer and citizen OF the Kingdom OF Great
MississIPpr-Ex-senators Albert G. Brown and Jefer-
son Davis and Representatives L. O. c. Lamar, John
]. McRae and OHIO X Singleton. -
observation-disclosures Irusten Polk , ~ -
NORTH HCAR0LISA.-Ex- Representatives William n H.
Convention" Of 1900 and z,buOn b. Vance
SOUTH CARoLIYA-Ex, senator James Cbesnnt jr.,
and ex Representatives hihedge l.. Bonham. William
W. Boz ana Porcner Miles. 80
I nene Iinon
and Representatives William l. avery ana James
TExAs-Ex-senator Lewis T. wigfal tsetcd in Lon
don the war;, and xRepresentaIiye John H. kea
NViRGISIA-Ex-senstor Robert NJ T. Hunter. and ex
Representatives, Thomas s. Bocock Alexander X Bole-
er Daniel G. DE Jarnette, Roger A. PIyOr, ana william
''i Inc exception Of tho xXXvIIth Congress made
scat / senate to aid the Confederacy.
Tho list of judicial officers OF the United States still
disqualified comprises ex-Supreme Court Justice John
A. Campbell, now in largo practice In Eew-Orleans
Jud es Wayburton and BrockenbrouGh Of Virginia, aud
others 1t Is question whether exUned States Mar
sals or DisIietAtOrneys or are not embraced In
this exception and whether persons who had ceased to
hold judicial positions when Secession commenced, and
subsequently aided It, or are not relieved by tho Dill
There were about $50 officers OF the United States
army and navy who left their places to aid the Rebel
lon and OF probably not one-half are now alive
The law however, is ambiguous and the exceptions
may and probably do Include all those who had ever
been educated at West Point, or who had resigned long
anterior TO the Rebellion in which they participated or
the number thus under disabilities are Gen. Samuel
Cooper Confederate Acknowledgement at Richmond;
Geus Joseph Johnston, Beauregard, Bragg, Samuel
Jones' Hardee Pemberon, Gustavus W. Smith, Hood
stephen ID. Lee, Lowell Benjamin ii. Hill. b. s. Ewel
Jubal A. Early, g. W. Custis Lee tnow President OF
Washington and Leo University, Dabney ii. Maury.
Ftzhugh Lee Coils. K. B. Lee, Larkin. Smith, L. b.
Norhrop &C.. 8. Commissary- -GeneraD Myers Quar-
termaster eneraD and others. Admiral Semmes OF the
Alabama, Prof. NJ i. Maury formery Chief OF the
Washn gton Observatory and Capt Brooke inventor or
the Brooke gun and OF the system OF deep soundng
are tho most noted exceptions among the e1-nayy
Ofcers
Jacob Thompson OF Mississippi, Secretary of the In
terror under President Buchanan Is the only Cabinet
officer OF that Administration now alive who aided Sc
cession. But the exceptions include also Gov William
A. Graham OF North Carolina, who was Secretary of the
Navy under President Fillmore; c. ii. Conrad OF
louisiana Secretary OF War under Taylor and possibly
some others Henry r. Jackson Of Georgia, Minister to
tustria and Gen. william Preston OF Kentucky Minis
ter to Spain, also embraced in the exceptions IL Is
hard 10 estimate precisely the number still under dis
abilities but would not be wide of the mark to put 1t
| at from 500 to 600 persons.
Tho folly of retaining these exceptions exhibited by
who are relieved These include not only many of the
most active OF Secession. but also who
since the have been persistent Bourbons and in
one or more persons who disdain pardon. III
william l.. Yancey Of Georgia, aRepresentatiye In Con-
gress from to lsl and Presidential Elector in 1856,
were alive would be relieved by this act. He took
conspicuous part the Charleston Convention in 1ScO
and visited Europe the agent Of the Southern States
during the Rebellion and also held several other post
tions under tho Confederate Government dying near
Montgomery, Ala, jan 49, 1SGs Alexander H. Stephens
OF Georgia. President of the Southern Conederacy
| IA relieved; also Gov. Henry A. Wise Of Virginia. who
boasts that he asked for an Executive pardoni
Gen Forest OF Tennessee; Gov. John Letcher Of Vlr
enia who ordered the seizure OF Harpers Ferry Gen.
waae Hampton OF eourh Carolina; the Hon. Ben
! tss.in Hill OF Georgia; Herschel v. johnson,
who ran tho Democratic Pre- 1lental ticket with
etephen A. Douglas IN 1860; Robert Barnwe khett OF
South Carolina, the oldest seccsscn-t OF the whole
South James A. seddons Of Virginia, COufed ge Secre-
tsry OF War; L. p Walker o. Alabama Robert W. Barn
we'll OF Carolina memb.T OF thc Confederate Ben
ate and probably the nneribe opponent of Recon-
strucon in the Winter Of lss+6, Col. g. A. Henry Of
Ten the Hon. Allen Caperton Of West Virginia,
Confederate Senator; r. g. Lyon. W. p. Chiffon and
| T. J.. Dargan OF Alabama; A.. W. Garland OF
| Arkansas; A r. Wright Of Geoi.a; j. Whore OF
| kentucky; Duncan Il. 6enpor aui John Perkins,
IT, OF Louisiana; +. Barksdaie of Mississippi; X. II.
Bridgers Of North Carolina HsAryS. Focte, III. y.
Gentry G. W. Jones, and j. " wight Of Tennessee
| James Lyons, John Goode, Jr, J. y. Holcombe,
John b Baldwin. Waller r. Staples. and Fayette Nc
Mulln Of giYylna-he foregoing being mostly members
of the ConfedcIate Congress- Anon. the thertpromi
nept Coufederaes relieved by the bill Charles O.
liemn,er eHsecretary Confederate States Treasury;
o. A. Trenholm, the Hon. Thomas III. Watts Of AlabamI,
North Carolina afso Confederate states Aiorney-Geu
ersl; ex Gov. Y. II. Bell OF North Carolina Lewis L.
Uarve OF the Virginia Secession Convention; MeSrs A.
ID. Dickinson, Charles Bruce W. "; trump ani othor