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New York Times March 25 1864, PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION. THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION DEFINED, SIGNED IN TYPE ABRAHAM LINCOLN- THIS VERY HISTORIC PROCLAMATION IS PRINTED IN FULL AT THE BOTTOM, IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY- PADUCAH CAPTURED BY THE REBEL GENERAL FORREST -THE CITY SACKED THEN DESTROYED- SEVERE REPULSE OF THE ENEMIES ATTACK UPON THE FORT- THE REBELS LOSE 300 KILLED AND 1,000 WOUNDED- RETREAT OF THEIR FORCE IN A CRIPPLED CONDITION, FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC- THE RECENT ATTEMPTED RAID BY STUART- HOW HIS PLANS WERE FRUSTRATED, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON- RETURN OF GENERAL GRANT FROM THE ARMY- GENERAL FREMONT TO HAVE A COMMAND,Superb New York Times editorials, much more, newspaper in very good condition, normal wear, as with all my newspapers- please look at the photos and ask questions , March 26, 1864 By the President of the United States of AmericaA Proclamation Whereas it has become necessary to define the cases in which insurgent enemies are entitled to the benefits of the proclamation of the President of the United States which was made on the 8th day of December, 1863, and the manner in which they shall proceed to avail themselves of those benefits; and Whereas the objects of that proclamation were to suppress the insurrection and to restore the authority of the United States; and Whereas the amnesty therein proposed by the President was offered with reference to these objects alone: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said proclamation does not apply to the cases of persons who at the time when they seek to obtain the benefits thereof by taking the oath thereby prescribed are in military, naval, or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds or on parole of the civil, military, or naval authorities or agents of the United States as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offenses of any kind, either before or after conviction, and that, on the contrary, it does apply only to those persons who, being yet at large and free from any arrest, confinement, or duress, shall voluntarily come forward and take the said oath with the purpose of restoring peace and establishing the national authority. Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offered in the said proclamation may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders, and their applications will receive due consideration. I do further declare and proclaim that the oath prescribed in the aforesaid proclamation of the 8th of December, 1863, may be taken and subscribed before any commissioned officer, civil, military, or naval, in the service of the United States or any civil or military officer of a State or Territory not in insurrection who by the laws thereof may be qualified for administering oaths. All officers who receive such oaths are hereby authorized to give certificates thereon to the persons respectively by whom they are made, and such officers are hereby required to transmit the original records of such oaths at as early a day as may be convenient to the Department of State, where they will be deposited and remain in the archives of the Government. The Secretary of State will keep a register thereof, and will on application, in proper cases, issue certificates of such records in the customary form of official certificates. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 26th day of March, A.D. 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State .