...gentleman to a seat on this floor." Mr. Mallory, of Kentucky, said : " Does the "Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known that, while I am (as I was In December hist, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration)...

...approving the bill are full of ominous significance. The President proceeds : " Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known that, while I am (as I was in December last, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration)...

...not approving the bill are full of ominous significance. The President proceeds: " Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known that, while I am (as I was in December last, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration)...

...which plan it is now thought fit to lay before the people for their consideration: "Now, THEREFORE, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known, that, while I am (as I was in December last, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration)...

...pardoning power," &c. It granta " a full pardon," on certain conditions and with certain exceptions, " to all persons who have directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion," — "with the restoration of all their rights of property except as to slaves, and in property cases...

...to resume their allegiance to the United States, "proclaimed and made known to all persona who had directly, or by implication, participated in the existing...except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is granted to them, and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves,...

...rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and to re-inaugurate loyal State governments within and for their respective States, Therefore,...except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves,...

...proclamation, of which I will ask tli« Clerk to reii'la paragraph. The Clerk read as follows: "I. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do...all persons who have, directly or by implication, manent preservation, and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to wit: •"I, , do solemnly swear,...

...incarcerated. But the language of the proclamation expresses no such limitation. A full pardon is granted "to all persons who have directly, or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion." , It, therefore, includes not only those who have joined the rebellion in arms, but those who have...

...rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and to reinaugurate loyal State governments within and for their respective States : Therefore,...rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a fall pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property,...