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If the Socialist strike leaders are imprisoned, justly or not, Socialists do not fail to start nation-wide agitations for amnesty.
The two sovereigns renounced all pretensions to their respective states, and proclaimed a full amnesty for their partisans.
What they did effectually extinguish for more than a century, was the possibility of amnesty, conciliation, and mutual confidence.
Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason; his trial never took place, as President Johnson issued a general amnesty proclamation.
That act is a grand amnesty, and restoration of exiles and emigrants, embracing all as your children, forgetful of the past.
It provided for the immediate departure of Louis and his troops for France, an interchange of prisoners, and a general amnesty.
The proclamation of an amnesty will give confidence to villagers at a distance, who may now be tempted to bring in supplies.
A general amnesty was proclaimed, and the disarmament of the insurgents and newly raised militia was carried through without difficulty.
Provided these were sufficiently minute to exclude all persons whom it might be found desirable to chastise, the amnesty was possible.
The French government desired that the Statute should be maintained, and demanded judicial reforms and an amnesty for political offenders.
This amnesty between the rivals, heard and reported by several listeners, surely seemed to pave the way for tomorrow's proposals.
He caused a general amnesty to be proclaimed, presented gratuities to officials, and granted gifts to all children born on the same day.
The amnesty was then annulled, and severe decrees were published against all who should either write or speak on forbidden subjects.
An amnesty was granted to the Moors on condition that they came to solicit it, and many took advantage of the permission.
When the treaty of peace was signed, the question of amnesty and compensation for the Loyalists was long and bitterly discussed.
At a state trial all prisoners had been acquitted, and a general amnesty declared for those rebels who were still at large.
Accordingly, the Great Commander, heralded by rumors of amnesty, was commissioned to assume the government which Alva had been permitted to resign.
The Countess greeted him indeed with an appearance of cordiality, which seemed a complete amnesty for whatever she might have to complain of.
Then, in spite of the act of amnesty, I prohibited the restitution of the unsold forests, whenever they should exceed a certain value.
Reproved the father, who, having declared an amnesty as regarded the past, forgot that his daughter might not be equally forgiving.
"I hope you include me in that general amnesty order, young fellows," he now hastened to say, with a wishful look on his face.
In 1681 a fresh edict declared that all coureurs de bois who came back to the colony should receive the benefit of an amnesty.
He then issued a proclamation, which exhibited both firmness and tact, and offered an amnesty to all but the ringleaders and murderers.
The amnesty is an artifice that enables us to make exceptions, to tamper with weights and measures, to deal unequal justice to friends and enemies.
The only exceptions to this magnanimous amnesty were made in the cases of eleven men and six women whose conduct had been inexcusable.
A law of pretended amnesty was indeed afterwards passed, but all the relatives of Napoleon were excluded from residing in the French territory.
There will be amnesty, broad and liberal, but no abatement of our rights, no abandonment of our duty; there must be no scuttle policy.
A general amnesty was proclaimed, in defiance of which Murat caused seize upon and execute several large bands of Spaniards, made prisoners in the scuffle.
He issued an amnesty to the outlaws and created the Civil Guard, largely from among those who surrendered themselves in response to it.
After the coronation service, Charles X. signed the amnesty granted to men who had deserted from the navy and to political offenders.
The general amnesty which freed "those of the meaner sort" from all question on other scores was far from extending to the landowners.
Judges of probate and sheriffs who were in office on May 22 were directed to take the amnesty oath and serve until others were appointed.
The President shall, in accordance with law, exercise the power of granting amnesties, special pardons, remission of sentences and restoration of civil rights.
By assuming an attitude of contrition, and proving his sincerity by a promise of universal amnesty, he might yet be able to save his throne.
The ex-Confederate and the loyalist having been placed by the amnesty proclamation on an equal footing, some dissatisfaction was aroused among unconditional Union men.
There was inexplicable mismanagement of the insurgent forces, and on July 29 an ignominious surrender to the government with a proclamation of general amnesty.
The rebels had made a general amnesty, upon the condition that they would join the Confederate army and become loyal to the Confederate States.
Bacon's back was scarcely turned, before he violated the amnesty which he had just ratified, and tried to rouse public sentiment against the liberator.
Now we will proclaim a general amnesty, as did King Harry himself, and say that the field is open and unmolested to all comers.
The proclamation, it was reported, was received with joyous acclamation in Dublin, where a modified general amnesty was declared in honor of the happy event.
He had several planters executed as examples and granted amnesty to almost every plant cutter who would take the oath of loyalty to the king.
They gave him the lightest possible sentence, fortress confinement for five years, and later commuted by a general amnesty to less than a year.
I got all the clauses passed even to the disarming of the people, but the great tug was a general amnesty which they demanded.
A general amnesty to all connected with the Civil War was proclaimed, and the bitter feelings engendered by fraternal strife fast melted away.
An amnesty was granted to those who had taken sides with the usurper, except when they had shared the guilt of those infamous murders.
It did not follow from this, however, that he must be granted an amnesty for the wanton revenge he had taken into his own hands.
He is known to be favorable to general amnesty, and somewhat conservative upon many questions of public policy, but no one has ever assailed his private reputation.
This amnesty, he added, was to be "considered and construed as covering offenses of rebellion, sedition or conspiracy to commit the same, and other related offenses."
The President did not promise the amnesty, but he told them he had the pardoning power, and would save any repentant sinner from hanging.
At a moment like the present, fanatics and dreamers so abound that the number of such sinners will necessitate a general amnesty when order is restored.
All this you might in conversation explain in a much more comprehensive and conciliatory manner than I could do by letter, especially in a petition for amnesty.
The rest of the Articles secured a general amnesty, permission to the refugees to return, and to the imprisoned members of the diet to obtain their freedom.
Johnston, on his part, would be content with the conclusions informally reached on Monday, except that he wanted the principle inserted of amnesty without exceptions.
Amnesty for political offenses was vaguely spoken of, which soon merged into sanguinary denunciation, and concluded in the devotion of whole towns to fire and sword.
Moreover, it was now thought expedient to publish the amnesty which had been so long in preparation, and this time the trap was more liberally baited.
Holden, was appointed and directed to reorganize the civil government and to call a constitutional convention elected by those who had taken the amnesty oath.
A confiscation bill was passed, with a special provision for conditional pardon and amnesty, limiting the forfeiture of real estate to the lifetime of its rebel owners.
In short, viewed as a measure by which government, without disarming itself of its terrible powers, was to pacify the popular mind, the amnesty was a failure.
After which, desiring a parley, he sent messengers to them, begging them to consider their own danger, and offering them a general amnesty upon their submission.
The urban guards and armed peasants, who were supposed to be civilians covered by the amnesty article in the capitulation, are not counted in the total.
This proclamation, written in the name of the princes, stipulated a general amnesty, the retention of those in authority, a reduction of taxation, and the abolition of conscription.
The family of the tyrants was condemned to perpetual banishment, and appears to have been excepted from the most comprehensive decrees of amnesty passed in later times.
It was more like a victor making his entry into a conquered town than a rebel chief coming to beg for an amnesty for himself and his adherents.
It might have been expected that James, after thus denouncing vengeance against large classes of his subjects, would at least have offered a general amnesty to the rest.
The campaign began by his winning two important victories, and he followed them up by promises of amnesty which detached some of the most formidable rebel chiefs.
A general amnesty to political prisoners will shortly be proclaimed, and the soldiers remanded to their homes to await orders, and everything will be placed on a peace footing.
Towards the end of 1895 the President, true to his pacific policy, granted a general amnesty in favor of the insurgents, which went far to establish his popularity.
The capitulation was agreed to by Monteverde, and by the commissioners appointed by Miranda, on the basis of the complete submission of the Patriots and a general amnesty.
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.
Persons excluded from the amnesty offered in the said Proclamation may apply to the President for clemency, like all other offenders, and their application will receive due consideration.
The country thirsts for amnesty, to be extended to all those whose offenses were the result of either religious or political convictions; and all persons implicated in the agrarian movement.
The general declaration of amnesty was somewhat narrowed in its scope by the enumeration, at the end of the proclamation, of certain classes which were excepted from its benefit.
From his pulpit he insisted on moral reformation as the necessary basis of true liberty, and pressed for a general amnesty which might allay the dangers of party strife.
The other was a message to the people of Archangel assuring them that when the Bolsheviki should take their city there would be no reprisals but full political amnesty.
He did not, however, condescend to submit to them the general amnesty in favor of all the emigrants whose names had not yet been erased from the fatal list.
He held out by turns coaxes and threats; in short, everything but an amnesty, to which I considered myself entitled, having been driven to rebellion by the most cruel persecution.
This rising ended with a surrender, accompanied by an amnesty which included the absence of any decree of confiscation of property, so no blood was shed except in the field.
The Liberal Republicans asked for several things which they felt they were not getting under Grant: general amnesty, revenue reforms, resumption of specie payment, and civil service reform.
May 29 issued a general amnesty proclamation, after which the fundamental and irreconcilable differences between President Johnson and the party that had elevated him to power became more apparent.
Not another noble stirred, though they felt, perhaps, disposed to join in the general feeling of amnesty, and appeared, by signs and whispers, to applaud the speech of Adrian.
The same emperor ordered the senate to convene and affected to grant its members amnesty, saying that there were only a very few against whom he still retained his anger.
Following the conciliatory policy they had everywhere pursued, they confirmed the mandarins in their offices and granted a general amnesty to all who would lay down their arms.
At various times during this period great acts of amnesty have been passed, and on national festivals hundreds of prisoners have been liberated, but this one woman was never recommended to mercy.
The French in overpowering force at once pushed into the country, and, an amnesty having been stipulated in the treaty, Hofer and his companions, after some hesitation, gave in their submission.
The King will also sign a decree of amnesty to all the authors and accomplices of the late acts and attempts at rebellion who were not the organizing and directing minds.
They who had counted on reprisals were to have only amnesties; but who could have disputed the claims of the Queen that such a magnanimous conqueror had placed upon the throne?
Having received the benefit of the amnesty, he soon joined a gang, of which one Whitehead was the leader; among whom was a deserter of the 73rd regiment, and two aboriginal women.
We, on the contrary, according to the amnesty, stipulated in the treaty of peace, were led from our dungeons as state prisoners, without inquiry concerning the verity or falsehood of our crimes.
He added, that to those who had been deluded and deceived by designing men, to those who had been only technically guilty of treason, he would accord amnesty, leniency and mercy.
If Fanny had made a fool of herself they would feel that they deserved to participate in her scolding; but success is easily pardoned, and so they rightly counted upon a general amnesty.
To all persons who shall be so released and who shall keep their parole the President grants an amnesty for any past offenses of treason or disloyalty which they may have committed.
The king had judiciously availed himself of this, and had begun his reign with a general amnesty, with the recall of fugitive bankrupts, and with the remission of arrears of taxes.
None of these points was accepted except the last, and that only nominally, as the amnesty of the 18th of September did not put a stop to proscriptions and vindictive measures.
A complete amnesty was granted, and a royal command issued that the Protestants were to be exposed to neither insults nor recriminations, and were to be at liberty to profess their faith openly.
Determined, therefore, not to confide in his proffered amnesty, they replied to the messengers, that they had no wish to return to the ships, but preferred living at large about the island.
When such conditions shall be offered to you as you may accept without dishonor, even although I may not be included in the amnesty, I shall be the first to advise you to accept them.
A great many stalwart young fellows were going back to join the army; for the emperor had declared amnesty to all who had left their country before serving their term in arms.
And we must have a rational, humane guest worker program that rejects amnesty ... allows temporary jobs for people who seek them legally ... and reduces smuggling and crime at the border.
That a general amnesty shall be proclaimed, and that no person or persons shall suffer in any manner whatever for the part that he or they may have taken in this thoughtless resistance.
During the nine days following, I had reason to applaud the humanity and good policy of the Pasha, in offering amnesty and peace to all the brigands who should come in and surrender themselves.