. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . proclamation ofthe same date guaranteeing a full pardon toall who had been implicated in the rebellion,with certain specified exceptions, on the con-dition of taking and maintaining an oath tosupport, protect, and defend the Constitutionof the United States and the Union of theStates thereunder ; to abide by and support allacts of Congress and proclamations of thePresident made during the rebellion with ref-erence to slaves, so long and so far as not re-pealed, modified, or held void by Congress orby decision of the Supreme Court. The ex-cep
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . proclamation ofthe same date guaranteeing a full pardon toall who had been implicated in the rebellion,with certain specified exceptions, on the con-dition of taking and maintaining an oath tosupport, protect, and defend the Constitutionof the United States and the Union of theStates thereunder ; to abide by and support allacts of Congress and proclamations of thePresident made during the rebellion with ref-erence to slaves, so long and so far as not re-pealed, modified, or held void by Congress orby decision of the Supreme Court. The ex-ceptions to this general amnesty were of thosewho, having held ];laces of honor and trustunder the Government of the United States,had betrayed this trust and entered the serviceof the Confederacy, and of those who had beenguilty of treatment of colored troops not justi-fied by the laws of war. Ihe ]>roclamationfurther promised that when in any of the Statesin rebellion a number of citizens cfjual to one-tenth of the voters in the year i860 should. (AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BV POLLOCK.) reestablish a State government republican inform, and not contravening the oath abovementioned, that such should be recognized asthe true government of the State, and shouldreceive the benefits of the constitutional pro-vision that The United States shall guaranteeto every State in this Union a republican formof government, and shall protect each of themagainst invasion; and, on application of thelegislature, or of the executive (when the leg-islature cannot be convened), against domesticviolence. The President also engaged by thisproclamation not to object to any provisionwhich might be adopted by such State gov-ernments in relation to the freed people of theStates which should recognize and declaretheir permanent freedom and provide for theireducation, and which may yet be consistent,as a temporary arrangement, with their presentcondition as a laboring, landless, and homelessclass. He suggested that
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