...call its attention to the proclamation itself, omitting the preamble, which is in these words: "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do...implication participated in the existing rebellion, except aa hereinafter excepted" — The exceptions are very large classes — "that a full pardon is hereby...

...no ground for a doubt, that the defendant is within the terms of the amnesty. The offer of grace is "to all persons who have directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion." Then follows an enumeration of " the persons excepted from " the benefits of the offer of amnesty....

...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 in any...

...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)...

...a sworn recantation of his former unsoundness." In his proclamation the President made known that " to all persons who have directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion except as herein after excepted, a full pardon is hereby granted with restoration of all rights of property except...

...final adjournment, and thereupon issued a proclamation which closed as follows: " 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)...

...liberation of slaves. The President then grants the amnesty and pardon in these words : " Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do...make known to all persons who have directly, or by imphcation, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon...

...agreeable to him, that he liked the plan well enough, but he goes on to say : " 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...

...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)...

...Congress, reciting the circumstances under which it was passed, and going on to say : 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 of restoration...