Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1868 — Christmas Gift. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Gift.

•4 f As«i«nv Jovnsiln-, W«mdehi o* on Jatt tfian\# «T|| isauclf.' ‘‘uucoaJUionally. ~ And iruhvnl r«m rv>< ion to all and f trrV pt-raon whft directly or indU t*ctfy jdk-tfelpHfcdin the late insur-« ration bi*‘ftbtTuoil. a fnil pardon and anjnesty for the offence of Ircaion nguiurt ike United States, or in nd hwing to their en**nle# during the ljrte-elvii war, with a restoration , <11" all rights, privileges and immunities under the const itutiod and the laws vrliith had tan n made in thPmof.” This itfcl tides ’PfSBMDUi tl 'Rtiv;/ KKNKinot, Maso*, j JAiou Tiioprsox and all other* not heretofore pardoned or . •©Juecuted. For this gracious gift, Ct.avs will ‘he superceded "In the t* At:h by thv v. pfsliip of St; , . JoUNsoX. Perhap* no Act of Mr. Joi:\son\s '--official life ha* been vtwee quietly j’ficwed in than thi« will be.— * Many who belli.ved lli-t thosen&n had been guilty of no crime, have long demanded a free and full pardon for the m. fathers who bclicv- '■ ed ts|em tv plridlv crifnTnjtl, were -of; ' thpppujion that we had an clejfliaut pj) our hands in die person of JferV Davis, - and Were afraid iWiinx. stBNRtm.E an«b tire otlicr p‘tmisp.ukicd brethren*’ who w ere abroad would return and prove as •<*tat]y aw did* their cheVAahi, rejpiev now that the t’tftiUinptablc u£ tire bit is trial ia ended. Could it have-been foreseen that the’Kstwifbf this mighty, just and inaghimim'ftts Government which Bjitfeld its honor everywhere and *» ilio darkest and. most trying ‘hours, would bavo‘HU\de a mockery 'of equity and precedent by executing .Mrs. SfSiiAfT and llknuv t \Vmrz and permitting their principals tv go free with a full pardon and withont trial, the American -people would hive tinifeJ in one voice against the iniquiton# proceeding ■ and demanded the imptacraent of the unjust judge*.— ißtrt Wiutj: was hung as he deserved, "while his principals and mashers are pardoned, and are 1 worshiped as among the honorable of (he earth. t Could the gallant soldiers of the Fourth Mich jgan Cavalry have j T6pgst*eu that D.nis would never be j brought to trial, that bright May loof-ping which feund -hint trying to escape in. his wife'*‘clothes would have taeii his last. ft is no wonder w e have such horrible tragedies as tho Kk.no lyuclrtng when courts (ail to punjab erim«s and the State and Na- ! tiocal Exocuih e» pardon the worst crlmUisds.