ANDREW JOHNSON GRANTS 'EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY' TO B.P. NOLAND, VOID IF HE OWNS SLAVES EVER AGAIN. Do...

ANDREW JOHNSON GRANTS 'EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY' TO B.P. NOLAND, VOID IF HE OWNS SLAVES EVER AGAIN. Document Signed ('Andrew Johnson') as President, pardoning B.P. Noland for participating in the rebellion against the United States, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 2 pp, folio (conjoining leaves), Washington, D.C., July 19, 1865, also signed by William Seward as Secretary of State, with red wax/white wafer seal to p 2, leaves creased with some separation at folds, some thumbing and age toning. In the waning years of the Civil War and just after, both Lincoln and Johnson signed a tremendous number of pardons for confederate soldiers and sympathizers. This document differs from the endorsement often written by Lincoln on the back of a request ('Let this officer take the oath of December 8, 1863 and be discharged') which allowed any confederate who swore an oath of allegiance to the United States to be pardoned. The present document is a more elaborate presidential pardon for Burr Powell Noland (1818-1889), a prominent lawyer and farmer of Loudoun County, VA who served as county magistrate during the Civil War. The text of the pardon acknowledges that Noland did take part in the rebellion, and that the penalties that may accrue to him are such that he deserves Executive clemency—but only if he never again owns or uses slaves. The President will 'grant him a full pardon and amnesty for all offences by him committed, arising from participation, director implied, in the said rebellion, conditioned as follows, viz: this pardon ... is to be void and of no effect if the said B.P. Noland shall hereafter, at any time, acquire any property whatever in slaves or make use of slave labor....' For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing