Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-06-20
Congressional ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Amen

proposed Constitutional amendment,
which the Radicals hope will enable
them to preserve the integrity of their
party, and succeed in carrying the fall
elections. The plans proposed by the
extreme men of that faction have been
abandoned. Negro suffrage for the
present is not insisted on as an abso
lutte condition of restoration, South
ern estates are not to be confiscated
and sold to pay the Northern war
debt as proposed by Stevens. The
great mass of the people are not to be
DISTINGUISHED, and many of the hostile
measures proposed for our degrade
ton, have been defeated to secure the
union of the party on this amendment.
The amendment as adopted by both
Houses is as follows:
JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMEND
MENT 20 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
Res0ired, By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiyes of the United States Of Ameri-
ca, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, that the following arti-
Gle be proposed to the Legislatures of the
several States, as an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, which, when
ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures,
shall be valid as part of the Constitution,
namely;
ARTICLE. SEC l. All persons born or nat
uralized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States, and of the State. wherein they
reside No State shah make or enforce any
laws which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States,
nor shall any State deprive any person OF
life, liberty, or property, without due pro-
| cess of law; nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws
SEC 9 Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according to
their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, ex
Guiding Indians not taxed but whenever
he right to vote at any election for electors
of President and Vice President, or for Rep
resentatives in Congress Executive and Ju
dicial officers, or the Members of the Legis
latures thereof is denied TO any of the male
inhabitants of such State, being tYenty-Ont
years of age and citizens of the United
| States, or i'll any way abridged, except fo
| participation in rebellion or other crime thu
basis of representation therein shall be re
duced in the proportion which the numbe
] of such male citizens shall bear to tn
whole number of male citizens twenty on
| years of age in such State.
| SEC 3. No person shall be n Senator o
| Representative in Congress, or elector o
President and Vice President, OF hold an,
office, civil or military, under the Unite,
| States, or under any State, who, having pre-
| viously taken an oath as member of Con
gress, or as an officer of the United States
or as a member of any State Legislature, o
as an executive or judicial officer of an
State, to support the Constitution of til
United States, shall have engaged i'll insul
rection or rebellion against the same, q
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
but Congress may, by vote of twO-thrd
of each House, remove such disability.
SEC A. The validity of the public debt {
the United States authorized by law, inclI
ding debts incurred for the payment of pei
sions and bOunties for services in suppress
ing instruction OF rebellion shall not /
questioned, but neither the United State
nor any State, shall assume or pay any del
or obligation incurred in aid of insure
| ton OF rebellion against the United State
or any claim for the loss or emancipation
any slave but all such debts, obligation
and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The Senate adjourned at $50, to meet O
Monday next.
Before the amendment becomes
part of the constitution, it must b
ratified by the Legislatures Of three
fourths of the States. No doubt BIT
it will be presented to the Legislature
of the Southern States for action, an
they will be considered States Of tn,
National Union, so far as its adoptio
or rejection is concerned. This bein
the case, we think as an amendment
will be defeated. There is no proba
bilitysth any Southern State, bu
Tennessee, ruled by Brownlow and hi
packed Legislature, will give it tn
slightest consideration.
The object of the amendment is e
deprive us of the equality in represen
tation, and proscibe from office larg
number of the most patriotic and wor
thy of our citizens. Whatever unjus
and unconstitutional legislation ma,
be forced on us by Radical Congress
we should not at least cooperate il
our own humiliation. A united SUP
port of the President, and a fir
and resolute opposition, to all tn
schemes ofthe Radicals may defeat tn
amendment, and triumphantly sustai
the policy of Johnson's ADMINISTERS
ton. If not, we will preserve sell
respect by rejecting proposition this
involves political inequality and deg
radiation.