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Armstrong v. United States U.S. 154 (1872)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0360 and id is 1 raw text is: . Statement of the case. ARMSTRONG V. UNITED STATES. 1. The President's proclamation of the 25th December, 1868, granting 'unconditionally and without reservation to all and every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, &c., with restora- tion of all rights, privileges, and immunities under the Constitution, and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof, granted pardon uncon- ditionally and without reserve; and enables persons otherwise entitled to recover from the United States, the proceeds of captured and aban- doned property, under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, to recover it though no proof be made, as was required by that act, that the claimant never gave any aid or comfort to the rebellion. 2. The proclamation referred to, is a public act, of which all courts of the United States are bound to take notice, and to which all courts are bound to give effect. APPEAL from the Court of Claims. Mrs. Armstrong filed a claim in the court below for the proceeds of certain cotton under the Abandoned and Cap- tured Property Act, the provisions of which are quoted in the preceding, case, page 151. The Court of Claims found that the cotton was raised by the claimant; that in the latter part of 1863, or early in 1864, there were on her plantation one hundred and twenty bales of cotton, which were taken possession of by the United States military forces and re- moved to Little Rock, Arkansas; that, prior to July, 1864, one hundred and two bales of this cotton were in the hands of the treasury agents, and were taken and used by the military forces in the works of defence around the city of Little Rock; that sixty bales, when taken out of the de- fences, were identified as belonging to the claimant; and with other cotton identified as belonging to other parties, and one hundred and seventeen sacks of loose cotton which came out of the fortifications and not identified, were shipped to the treasury agent at Cincinnati, sold, and the proceeds paid into the treasury. The claimant was proved to have given no active aid to the rebellion, except that on the ap- proach of the Union army she fled south with thirty or forty of her slaves to avoid emancipation. This was in Septem- A!RMSTRONG V). UNITED STATES. [Sup. Ct. 154

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