Ten Dissenters

The Senate passed the resolution unanimously in April. House approval came today on a vote of 407 to 10, over the objections of several Northerners Who argued that it should include amnesty for Vietnam war draft evaders.

The House should consider the living, said Representative. Elizabeth Holtzman, Democrat of Brooklyn. And Representative John Conyers Jr., a black Democrat from Michigan, scoffed that the resolution was nothing more than a bit of “Bicentennial fluff.”

The tale of Lee's effort to regain his citizenship is still clouded in mystery.

Scarcely months after surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va., on April 9,‐1865, Lee wrote a note to President Andrew Johnson, asking for a pardon ‘so that he could become a citizen again.

Grant recommended that th pardon be granted but note the absence of the necessary oath of allegiance. Lee was so notified.

That fall, the same day he became president of Washington College (now Washingtonand Lee University) in Lexington, Va.. Lee sought out a notary public and swore the following oath of allegiance:

I, Robert E. Lee, of Lexington, Virginia, do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the union of the states thereunder, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and falthfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves, so help me. God.”