The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Domestic Intelligence
Harper's Weekly, June 10, 1865, page 355

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President Johnson’s Amnesty Proclamation

On the 29th of May President Johnson issued a proclamation granting amnesty to all persons who have directly or indirectly taken part in the rebellion, with the restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves, and except in cases where legal proceedings have been instituted for the confiscation of property, on condition of their taking an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States, and to obey all laws and proclamations which have been made during the rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. There are excluded from pardon, except on special application to the President, the following classes of persons: Those who have, in order to aid the rebellion, left judicial positions or seats in Congress, or who have resigned commissions in the army or navy, or absented themselves from the country; those who were educated at West Point or in the United States Naval Academy; those who have engaged in any way in torturing our prisoners; those who have been engaged in the destruction of our commerce, or who have made raids from Canada into the United States; all persons in military, naval, or civil confinement as prisoners of war; all persons who have voluntarily participated in the rebellion, and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over twenty thousand dollars; all who have taken and violated the previous amnesty oath; and all officers of the Confederate service above the rank of colonel in the army or lieutenant in the navy.

Articles related to Johnson's Early Presidency:
President Johnson’s Amnesty Proclamation
June 10, 1865, page 355


Pardon-Seekers at the White House
October 14, 1865, page 641


General Logan upon Reorganization
September 20, 1865, page 611


The President’s Experiment
September 30, 1865, page 610


Moses and John Tyler
October 7, 1865, page 627


The President’s Fidelity
December 9, 1865, page 771


The President’s "Friends"
November 4, 1865, page 691

 

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