Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-07-22
PLAN FOR F'IsE RE-ApuVSslON or
SECEDED STATES.

The President has issued proclamation
approving the plan for the reconstruction Of
the seeded States adopted by Congress at
the close Of the session. The following 10
the substance of the plan referred 70:
The bill as passed provides for the appoint
ment of Provisional Governor for each rebel
State, with pay and emoluments Of Briga.
der General. Such Governor, SO soon as
the military resistance to the United States
shall have been suppressed in any such State,
and the people thereof shall have sufficiently
returned to their obedience to the Constitu-
ton and laws Of the United States, is to d.
rect the United States Marshal to enroll all
the male citizens Of the United States resi-
dent in the State, and to require of them the
oath Of allegiance. In case n majority Of the
persons enrolled shall have taken the oath,
the Provisional Governor shall, by proclama.
ton, invite the loyal people of the State to
elect delegates to Il Convention for the re-
establishment of the State Government, citi.
zeHs who are in the military service to be
allowed to vote at their headquarters for del.
egates. No person who has held Office, or
voluntarily borne arms under the rebel usur-
patton, is to be allowed to vote for delegate
or serve as delegate to the Convention
The Convention is required to declare the
submission Of the State to the Constitution
and laws Of the United Statas, and to incor.
porate in its Constitution provision dis.
franchsing all who have held offices, except
merely ministerial, or military below the
grade Of Colonel, under the usurped power.
A provision has been Incorporated prohibit.
ing involuntary servitude and guaranteeing
universal freedom, and provision forbidding
the recognition or payment Of any debt Gre
ated or sanctioned by the usurped power
The people Of the State are to vote for or
against the Constitution so framed, which, if
adopted, shall be certified to by the President,
who, after obtaining tho assent Of Congress,
shall recognize the Government so establish
ed. Senators, Representatives and Electors
may be chosen from the date of such recog,
milton, and not before. The Convention
shall be dissolved If il refuses to reestablish
the State Government upon the above con-
dtions, but another may subsequently be
called in the same manner. Until recogni.
ton by the United States, the Provisional
Government in each State ia TO see to the OK.
eeuton Of the United States laws and those
of the State before it went into rebellion, save
that those relative to slavery shall not be en-.
forced. Until recognition the Provisional
Government is to assess and levy taxes, as
they were required to be levied in the last
fiscal year before the rebellion. All persons
held to involuntary servitude in the rebel
States are declared forever free, and if re.
strained of their liberty hereafter, to be dis
charged on habeas corpus, the person con.
victed Of restraining them to be punished by
heavy fine and Imprisonment. Every per.
son hereafter holding Office, except those
merely ministerial or below the grade of Col.
onel, is declared not to be citizen of the
United States.