The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-06-06
AMNESTY.
who II Excepted and who ne.
Ifeved---An Invidfous Dis
Gimcaf0m.

that all political disabilities imposed
by the third section of the fourteenth
article of the amendments to the Constr
tuition of the United States are hereby
removed from all persons whomsoever,
except Senators and Representatives of
the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con-
crosses, and officers in the judicial, mill
tary and naval service of the United
States, heads of Departments, and for
eign ministers of the United States, .
explains In detail the effect of the meas
ure. 1t will be seen that the correspond.
ent omits several prominent men in the
South, and includes others who have long
since passed beyond the reach of the
malice with which they were pursued fol-
their devotion to a cause which they be-
lieved tC be right-and among the rest,
Mississippi's beloved and lamented
McRae. Peace to his ashes.
The Tribune writer says
The number relieved by this act is esti-
mated by well-informed Senators at not less
than 10000 persons OF capacity and expe-
rience, who. fer six years past. have beer
debarred from all participation in the Fede.
raj, State. county, or municipal govern
mentS. A number of prominent person.
| disqualified by the fourteenth amendment
are now dead. but, nevertheless. a very
large IN ass of active talent in the South il
thus rendered available for Federal and
| local EN- pigments. The exceptions how
ever, embrace considerable plumber of the
conspicuous politicians of the South.
Among those still under disabilities are
| ex-Senators CLAY and Fitzpatrick. of Ala
bama; Robert w johnson. of Arkansas
Yulee and Mallory, of Florida Iverson and
| Toombs,of Georgia; Benjamin OF Louisiana
| now a citizen of Great Britain; jefferson
| Davis and Albert q. Brown, of Mississippi
| Polk. of Missouri; Chestnut. of Sonth Ca
rOlina; Nicholson. of Tennessee; Wigfall.
| of Texas; Hunter. OF Virginia and the fol-
| lowing named ex members of the House oil
Representatives: Pugh and Curry, of Ala
| bama; Rust, of Arkansas; Scott. of Califor-
mia: Hawkins, of Florida NJ. j. Crawford
and jackson, of Georgia; Lamar, Singleton
and McRae, OF Mississippi; Smith and Vance
| of North Carolina; Miles, Mcqueen, Bon
ham, and Boyce, OF South Carolina Avery
and Thomas, of Tennessee; Reagan, OF
Texas; De Jarnette, Pryor, BocOck, Leake,
Smith, and Boteler, of Virginia, and others.
The exception of the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress was made expressly to include Gen
eral j. G. Breckenridge, of Kentucky. who
left his seat as Senator from Kentucky to
aid the COnfederacy, and served first as
General, and next as Confederate Secretary
| of War at Richmond.
The list of judicial officers of the United
States still disqualified comprises eX-Su-
preme Court Justice John A. Campbell,
now in large practice at New Orleans /;
Judges Haly burton and Brockenbrougli. of
Virginia, and others. 1t is "A question
whether exhibited States marshals or dis
trlct attorneys are or are not embraced in
this exception, and whether persons who
had ceased to hold judicial positions when
secession commenced, and subsequently,
aided it, are or are not relieved by the bill.
There were about $50 officers of the Uni
ted States army and navy who left their
places to aid the rebellion, and of these
probably not one-half are now alive. The
law, however. is am biguous, and the excep-
tions may and probably do include all those
who had even been educated at West Point.
or who had resigned long anterior to the
rebellion in which they participated. OF
the number thus under disabilities are GEN
eral Samuel Cooper. Confederate Adiuuamt
General at Richmond; Generals Joseph f.
Johnston. Beauregard, Bragg Samuel
Jones, Haruee, Pemberton, GuStavus w
smith, Hood, Stephen ID. Lee. Lowell. d..
ii. Hill, b. ). Ewell, Jubal \. Early q. w.
Gusts Lee, now President of Washington
and Lee University: Dabney ii. Maury,
Fitzhugh ee; Colonies X. b. Lee, Larkin
Smith, l.. b. Northrup, C.. >. Commissary
General); Myers (Quartermaster General,
and others. Captain Semmes, of the Ala
bama; Prof. NJ. F. Maury, formerly Chief
of the Washington Observatory; Captain
Brooke, inventor OF the Brooke gun, and of
the system of deep-Sea soundingS, are the
most noted exceptions among ex-navy
officers.
JACOB Thompson, of Mississippi. Seere
tary of the Interior, is the only Cabinet
officer OF Buchanan now alive. who aided
secession. But the exceptions include also,
Governor VIM. A. Graham. of North Caro-
lima, who was Secretary OF the Navy under
Mr.. Fillmore; e NJ. Conrad, of Louisiana,
eX-Secretary of War, and possibly some
others. Henry r. Jackson. of Georgia, and
Gen. VIM. Preston, of Kentucky, were
foreign ministers, and are, therefore, en-
Draced IN these exceptions. 1t is hard to
estimate precisely the number still under
disabilities, but it would not be wide of the
mark to put the number at from 300 to 500
persons.
The folly of retaining these exceptions,
IN addition to the almost criminal error of |
an ambiguous statute, upon subject where |
several penalties attach to an offender. is |
exhibited by a glance at the number and |
character OF persons who are relieved |
These embrace not only many of the most |
.ctiVe advocates of secession, but also some
Who since the war have been persistent |
'BourDons, and in one or more cases per-
ons who disdain pardon. If William L.
ancy we're alive, he would be relieved bv
his act. Alexander III. Stephens, of Geor-
ria, Vice President of the Southern Confed-
raey, Is relieved; also Gov Henry A. Wise,
Il virginia, who boasts that he never asked
or an Executive pardon General Forrest
4 Tennessee; Governor Letcher of Vir-
.lnla, who ordered the seizure of Harper's
'erry; Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Ca
DINA; the Hon. Benjamin Hill, of Georgia:
ierschel V. johnson, who ran on the ticket
nth Stephen a. Douglas in 1850; Robert
,arnWQn nf Il
st secessionist of the whole South James
!. Seldom. of Virginia. Confederate Secre-
Try of War; L. Z. Walker, of Alabama
ebert w. Barnwell, of South Carolina, ,
confederate Senator, and probably the most
lnexl0le opponent of reconstruction i'm the
inter of lS64-5; Col. q. A. Henry, Tenn: ,
on. Allan NJ. Caperton, of West Virginia. ,
onfederate Senator; Lyon. Chiffon and
s ar of Alabama; A; w. Garland, Of |
{. Moore of Kentucky; Duncan f. Ken
er and John Perkins, Jr., of Louisiana; E. I
of Mississippi; Bridgers, of !
orth Carolina; ii. S. FOote, NJ. p. Gentry. / {
w: Jones and j. v. Wright, of Tennes-
e; James Lyons, John Goode, Jr., J. p. {
olcombe. John B. Baldwin. Waller r. Il
aples. Fayette McMullin, of Virginia-all @
e foregoing being mostly members of the r
Congress. Among the other il
eminent Conferates relieved by the bill d
e Chas. q. Memminger, ex-Secretary G. h
Treasury; G. A. Trenholm, the Hon.
los. I'll. Watts, of Alabama, c. s. Attorney i,
'neral; Geo. Davis, of North Carolina. n
to- Ex-Governor p. III. Bell. of North G
rolina; Lewis 4. Harvie. of the Virginia o
ceSslon Convention: Messrs. A D. Dick y
ION, Chas. Bruce, w. w. Crump, and
ler ex-members of the Virginia Leg y
AZURE. :;
All the members of the secession conven-
ms at the South are relieved, save a very r.
v who may be embraced under other
ads, and this fact, added to the foregoing a,
OF persons relieved, shows plainly how n
'idlous is the distinction made by this q
' between different classes aud indiyidu-
of the late Confectionery N
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