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The Amnesty Bill

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

We do not BUppoee that any ono is in the loast surprised at the action of the liíwliciil Senatorial oauous, ín regard to the Amnesty bill. If there is anything the Radical inajority in that body eannot be, it is to be genereus, nnicli less just. When it becaine neoewory to pet the last supplemcntary reconstruction swindles through as a meana of compelling certain States to approve ot' the fifteenth Hnendment, ind thus Beonre its adoption, it was amiounocd that the act of approval would be iminediatvly followod by general amnesty ; that Grant had hifl message, reeonimendinp; sueh a eourse, already written, and that it would be signed anl sent in as soon as the States, yet held as military dependenoilM, approved of the suffrage ainendincnt. The States did as compelled, but wc havo seen nothinir t the promüed message ftom the President, though the promise Tras )iide two years ago. On the contiaiy, the Pi-esident as well as his most intimate party ft-iends, lias opposed overy proposition lor aiimesty. He is opposed to it, no matter how niiich may bo said to tlie reverse. He is oppoaed to amnesty because it would injure liis prospects tor i re-election. He opposed it in Missouri beoauso h knew it would placo the State bevond Radical control. He opposes it all over the South for the samo reason. The Amnesty bill would pass to-morrow did Morton, Chandler and Grant suppose it would add to the numerical strength of the Radical partj-. - Pree l'rc . New York htm strawberries from Charleston at !?2..')0 peí quart "with the sterns on."

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Michigan Argus