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The Daily Dispatch: February 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], An Established religion. (search)
the extract which we publish below. The circular seems designed as an authoritative interpretation of Father Abraham's proclamation of the 8th of December Many persons against whom criminal indictments, or against whose property proceedings under the confiscation laws, are pending in the Courts of the United States, growing out of the participation of such persons in the existing rebellion have in good faith taken the oath prescribed by the proclamation of the President of the 8th of December, 1863, and have therefore entitled themselves to the full pardon and restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and where the rights of third parties have intervened, which that proclamation officers and secures. The President's pardon of a person guilty of acts of rebellion will of course relieve that person from the penalties incurred by his crime, and where an indictment is pending against him therefore the production of the pardon, signed by the President, or of satis