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Show THE AWINEST BILL. The amnesty biil, which b'eamea law Bonio two weeks ago, ah hough in a general sense very good, does not deal fairly and equally with the ehisof individuals lor whose bent:";, it. has been enacted. For inslauee, from thrco to fivo huudred men arc exempted from v its lenient provisions, some of whom are far loss culpable than many of thoso whoso disabilities have been removed by its operation, Mos-by, Forrest, Shelby and several others of the fiercest and most daring of the confederate officers of-ficers go scot free, while those who wero so unfortunate as to receive a West Point education, even though they only took a nominal part in actual hostilities against the government, aro still debarred of their political rights. Members of tho United States congress from the seceding States at tho time of the breaking out of tho war of ro-' bellion, who were recalled by their con-' stitucnts or voluntarily retired after the ordinances of secession had been passed by their respective States, having hav-ing no constituency de facto to represent, repre-sent, are still disqualified; while Alex. H. Stephens,tho second man in official position in the rebel government, has been pardoned. Foreign ministers from tho Southern States at the commencement com-mencement of tho rv-beliiou, who afterward after-ward went to the South, are inehidcd in tho exceptions, while tome of the most ultra lire-caters in the confederate confeder-ate congress have had their disabilities removed. Tho discrimination is to a certain degree unfair, if not usjust.and keeps some of the ie.uJini; mit:Js of the South in political sci iauJo while others more culpable are piuocd in the full enjoyment ut' tho rijhu- of elnen-ship. elnen-ship. Of the cx L'uited Stas - titers who yet labor under d;; il-i!i:i.'s, r.rc: Clay and Fiuatvk, ct' AI.;(: ::-a; Robert W.Johoson.o:" . u:-:;-; iLe nnd Mallory. of Florida; lverson r.nJ Toombs, of ljeorda;B.'ri!miV'f Tbilisi Tbil-isi ana, now a citu-'u "f Gieat LSrvtuirj: Jefferson Davis and Air-eri G.Bruwu.o! MiiN'ippi; IV.k, of -Mi;; o-.iri Che;:-nur. Che;:-nur. of Sju'.U Caiuiirn: :u, 01 Tennee; U'u-raii. ef IVxis lluu'.er, nf Virginia; John C lJ:'v.i ::.'-e, oi Kentucky. Tlic i:.cl.w ci uf il;.- li.'Use ol" ropre'iiutiw s a'c: uni Curry, of A'abaiuu; 11 it. !, id" Ai k-u-sa; iScoit. of C'alikirn;: li v.k.ij-. oj Fiorida; -d. J. Crivw-"i'i ;i.-l J j.--rj, of Oeoria; Lamar, .UilI-j'.o:) aid ic-Rae. ic-Rae. of Mi.i-v-ipi'i; ru:;h and Vaiic, of North Caroitua: M MJJucvn. ionham acd Bojcc, i'f c?vuiu Ca;i:;u; Avery and Ihoma, or 'fcnuccc; Ji-.a-gan, of T.xa; I'o Jamais, 1'iyor, tfocx't, Leuke, fc-iukh and Liutvkr, ut' Virginia; and hum othe:s. I I'romincntamoag the army hlj tuvv officers diualified are : Gen. Samuel Cop-t, confederate adjutant reneral a: Kiebruoci; gser-ais gser-ais Josepb JohoslOQ, Beurt-gard, Bragg, Samuel Jones, Hardeo, l'om-berion, l'om-berion, Gustavus W. Smith, Ifnl, Stephen D. Lee, Lovcil. D. IT. IJill, Ji. S. Lwel, Jubal A. Early, G. W. Curttsd Leo, now president of Washington Wash-ington and Leo university ; Dabney H. Maury, Fifzhuh Lee; colonels H. P. Lee, Larkin, Smith, L. B. Northrop, IU- S. commissary general), Myers, 'quartermaster general), and others. (Juptaiu S-'Uitnes, of tho Alabama, proffSi-or M. F. Maury, formerly chief ; of tho Washington observatory; captain cap-tain Brooke, inventor of tho Brooke gun. t Kx-judgea Halliburton, Campbell and Broekenbrough, of Virginia, and ex-foreign miuiitcrs Preston of Ken- tucky, and Jacksoa, of Georgia, are al;0 among those who are still "out in the cc!d." |