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The Daily Phoenix
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
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The Washington Star reports President Johnson's plan to pardon all former Confederates except about 1,000 civil and military leaders, whose fates depend on Congress. A general amnesty excluding them is seen as inexpedient due to potential dissatisfaction and political embarrassment.
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"He designs pardoning all except about one thousand of the civil and military leaders, whose fate will depend on the action of Congress. A general amnesty, excepting these cases, is not deemed expedient, as the announcement of a prescribed list would not only create dissatisfaction throughout the country, but still further embarrass the President, by arraigning against his policy a powerful combination of the friends and the sympathizers of the excepted applicants."
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plans to pardon all except about one thousand civil and military leaders, whose fate depends on congress; general amnesty excluding them deemed inexpedient due to potential dissatisfaction and political embarrassment.
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The Washington Star reports on President Johnson's views: he intends to pardon all except about one thousand civil and military leaders, pending Congress's action. A general amnesty excepting these cases is not considered expedient, as announcing a proscribed list would create countrywide dissatisfaction and further embarrass the President by uniting opposition from friends and sympathizers of the excepted individuals.