The Howard union. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-03

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ore frequent. A good many Of our ex-
changes are publishing the oath in slips for
sale and distribution. Believing il would
be matter Of greater convenience and
interest to our readers, we have taken the
trouble to in sert the Second Article entire,
excepting some few sections of minor i'm
portance.
ARTICLE III.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
SEC. 1. All elections by the people shall be by
ballot No election shall continue longer than
one day, except as provided in the twenty-frst
section of this Article
SEC. 8. AT any election held by the people
under this Constitution, or in pursuance Of any
law of this State, or under any ordinance or by |
law of any municipal corporation, no person shall |
be deemed a qualified voter, who has ever been in |
armed hostility 10 the United States, or to the |
lawful authorities thereof, or to the Government |
of this State or has ever given aid, comfort, |
countenance, or support TO persons engaged in |
any such hostility /; or has ever, in any manner,
adhered to the enemies, foreign or domestic, of
the United States, either by contributing to them
or by unawfully sending within their lines, mon
ey, goods, letters, or information or has ever
disloyally held communication with such enemies;
or has ever advised or aide any person to enter
the service OF such enemies; or has ever by act
or word manifested his adherence to the cause of
such enemies, or his desire for their triumph over
the arms of the United States, or his sympathy
with those engaged IN exciting or carrying on
reb ellion against the United States; or has ever
except under overpowering compulsion, submitted
to the authority, or been in the service of the
| called Confederate States Of America y or has
ever left this State, and gone within the lines Of
the armies of the called "Confederate States of
America" with the purpose of adherng to said
States armies ; or has ever been member of,
or connected with, any order, society, or organ-
cation, nimical to the Government Of the United
States, or TO the Government Of this State; or
has ever been engaged in guerrilla warfare against
loyal inhabitants Of the United States, or in-that
description Of marauding commonly known as
"bushwhaosing 70 or has ever knowingly and
willingly harbored, aided or countenanced any per-
son so engaged has come into or left this
State for the purpose of avoiding enrolment for
or draft into the military service of the United
! States; or has ever, with view to avoid
rollment in the militia Of this State, to escape
the performance Of duty therein, Or for any
other purpose, enrolled himself, or authorized
himself TO be enrolled by or before any officer, as
disloyal, as a Southern sympathizer, or in
any other terms indicating his dsafection to the
) Government of the United States in its contest
with rebellion, or his sympathy with those en-
gagged in such rebellion (; or, having ever voted at
any election by the people in this State, in any
other of the United States, or in any Of their
Territories, or held office in this State, in any
other of the United States, in any of their Ter
!, rtories, or under the United States, shall there
after have sought or received, under claim OF
alIenage, the protection of any foreign gov
, eminent, through any consul or other officer
thereof, in order TO secure exemption from militia
nv duty in the militia of this State, in the army
e Of the United States nor shall any such person
~ be capable of holding in this State any office of
honor, tiust, or profit under its authority; oil
being an officer, councilman, director, trustee, OF
other manager of any corporation, public or pri-
4 vate now existing hereafter established by its
authority; or of acting as professor or teacher
I in any educational institution, or in any common
or other school or of holding any real estate OF
other property in trust for the use of any church.
religious society or congregation. But the fore
going provisions in relation 10 acts done against
t The United States shall not apply to any person
not citizen thereof, who shall have committed
, such acts while in the service of some foreign
. country at war with the United States, and who
has, since such acts, been naturalized, or may
hereafter be naturaiized, under the laws of the
{ United States; and the oath of Loyalty hereinafter
prescribed, when taken by any such person, shall
: be considered as taken in such sense.
Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall Immediate
ly provide by law for complete and uniform reg
iStration, by election districts, of the names OF
qualified voters in this State; which registration
shall be evidence of the qualification Of all regis
tered voters to vote at any election thereafter held
but person shall be excluded from voting at any
election, account of not being regis tered, unit
the General Assembly shall have passed an act oil
registration, and the same shall have been carried
into effect; after which, no person shall vote, un
e less his name shall have been registered at leas
ten days before the day of the election; and tn,
fact of such registration sh all be no other wis
. shown, than by the register, authentic copy
thereof, certified to the Judges of election by tn
registering officer or officers other constituted
a authority. Anew registration shall be made with
in sixty days next preceding the tenth day prio
TO every biennial general election; and after it shall
have been made, no person shall establish hi
right to vote, by the fact of his name appearin
q on any previous register.
Sec. b. Until such system Of registration sha
K have been established, every person shall, at tn
time Of offering to vote, and before his vote shall
received, take an oath in the terms prescribed
v the next succeeding section. After such a systel
:. shall have been established, the said oath shall
taken and subscribed by the voter at each time G
n his registration. Any person declining to tax
). said oath shall not be allowed to vote, or to
registered as qualified voter. The taking there
d Of shall not be deemed conclusive evidence of tn
right of the person to vote, to be registered as
CT voter; but such right may, notwithstanding, b
= disproped. And, after system of registratio
shall have been established, all evidence for an
r against the right OF any person as qualified We
al ter, shall be heard and passed upon by the reg
tering officer or officers, and not by the judges
election. The registering officer or officers sha
keep register OF the names of persons rejected
voters, and the same snail be certified 10 the ludg
of electon and they shall receive the ballot of ar
Of such rejected voter offering to vote, marking Il
a same and certifying the vote thereby given,
III jected; but no such vote shall be received une
" the party offering it take, at the time, the oath
!: loyalty heI einafter prescribed.
ia Sec. 6. The oath to be taken as aforesaid sha
ma be known as the Oath of Loyalty, and shall be
the following terms:
u 81, A. B., do solemnly swear that l am well a
nd quaned with the terms of the third section of Il
r. second Article of the Constitution of the State
vi Missouri, adopted in the year eighteen hundr
Ike and sixty-fve, and have carefully considered 4
- same; that have never, directly or Indirect
he done any Of the acts in said cton specified; III
val have always been truly and loyalty on the 81
of the United States against all enemies therec
foreign and domestic; that | will bear true fai
and allegiance 10 the United States, and will SUI
port the Constitution antl laws thereof, as the S
", preme law af the land, any law or ordinance
any State TO the contrary notwithstanding; that
>! will, TO the best of my ability, protect and defe
VI the Union Of the United States, and not allow Il
lr- same to be broken up and dissolved, or the Go
ice eminent thereof TO be destroyed or overthrow
: under any circumstances, If in nv power to pr