THE WEEKLY HERALD, New York, June 3, 1865

• President Andrew Johnson proclamation
• Amnesty - pardons for Confederate soldiers

A wealth of fine reporting on the finishing-up of the Civil War and more. Front page column heads include: "AMNESTY" "The Terms of Pardon for the Rebels" "President Johnson's Treatment of Traitors" "No Pardon for Rebel Governors, Ex-United States Congressmen & Judges, Renegade West Pointers...." "How a Pardon May be Obtained" "General Lee To Be Arrested" "THE LEADERS" "Justice After The Taitors" "Jeff Davis & Breckinridge Indicted for High Treason" " 'IT IS FINISHED' " "Surrender of Kirby Smith & the Last Army of the Rebels" "The Rebellion Entirely Over" "The Last Battle of the War" & even more, with fine column heads on page 2 as well.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed so it folds out to a single sheet, small hole bear the top, a bit of very light dirtiness to the front page, nice condition.

Background: President Andrew Johnson’s May 29, 1865 Amnesty Proclamation was a pivotal decree offering full pardons and property restoration—excluding enslaved people—to rank-and-file Confederates taking an oath of allegiance, yet it stands out historically for its rare, highly selective exclusion list. Most notably, the proclamation taking the unprecedented step of barring 14 specific categories of former Confederates from automatic amnesty—including high-ranking military commanders, civil officials, military academy graduates who abandoned the Union, and individuals with taxable property exceeding $20,000 (roughly $400,000 today)—targeted the Southern planter aristocracy specifically to force them to personally petition the President for clemency. By leveraging this economic threshold, Johnson engineered an extraordinary political dynamic that ultimately yielded over 13,000 individual pardons by 1867, a rapid and controversial executive exercise of power that returned former Confederate leaders to authority in state governments and directly sparked the bitter battle with Congressional Radical Republicans over the future of Reconstruction.