Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-27

NATIONAL UNION!
Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatires of the United States Of America,
in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, That the following ar
ticle be proposed to the Legislatures of the
several States as an amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States, which,
when ratified by threefourths of said Leg
islatures, shall be valid as part Of the
Constitution, namely
"ARrICLE-, ,Secti0n l. All persons born
or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi-
zens of the United States, and of the State
wherein they reside No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States Nor shall any State de-
prive any person of life, liberty, or prop
erty without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
" Section 2. Representatives shall be
apportioned among the several States &C
cording to their respective numbers, count
ing the whole number of persons in each
State, excluding Indians not taxed !: but
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for electors of President and Vice Presi-
dent, or for United States Representatives,
in Congress, executive and judicial officers
or the members of the Legislature thereof,
is denied to any of the male inhabitants of
such State, being twenty-onc years of age,
and citizens Of the United States, or ia any
way abridged except for participation in
| rebellion or other crime, the basis Of rep
resentation therein shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number Of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of
male citizens twenty-one years Of age in
! that State.
q" Section 3. No person shall be Sena-
tor or Representative in Congress, elector
of President and Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the [. S, or
under ary State who, having previously
taken an oath as a member of Congress or
as an officer of the United States, or as a
member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or jndicial officer of any State to
support the Constitution Of the United
States shall have engaged in insurrection
or rebellion against the same, or given aid
or comfort to the enemies thereof but
Congress may, by vote Of two-thirds of
each House, remove such disability.
! Section f. The validity of the public
| debt of the United States authorized by
law, including debts incurred for the pay
ment of pensions and bounties for service
in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned, but neither the
United States nor any State shall assume
or pay any debt or obligation incurred in
aid of insurrection or rebellion against the
1o,r E., ~,
emancipation of any slave, but all such
debts, obligations, and claims shall be
held illegal and void.
SOME OF Ny PomcY.-Wc find the follow
ing in the New Orleans Tribune in regard
to the condition of the loyalists in the
South.
When a teacher goes to some village and opens
school for colored children, he is turned out and
not seldom beaten, stabbed or killed. When a
man of liberal principles speaks of liberty and hu-
man rights III our country parishes, he is at once
threatened with assassination. There is no polit-
cal liberty in the South outside of few cities and
in these cities, under the protection" of our
flag, the incendiaries of Mobile and the asSassins
of New Orleans and Memphis tell the tales of the
liberties we enjoy
1t is not necessary, however, to look merely
to "RadicaP journals to prove that the old
hatred of all that is Northern is reviving
throughout Rebellion. Almost every South.
ern Copperhead sheet now spits out its de-
testation of everything pertaining to the
old Gree States" with virulence which
is we'll nigh venomous. One Lynchburg
(Va.) journal, under our hand, contains
sweeping slanders on our northern women,
while nearly all are manifestly in favor of
keeping Yankees from their sacred SOIL
Andyet these are the men who are now bla-
tant in protesting Unionism, and who, while
crying aloud that the coming battle shall
be, if anywhere, on Northern soil, still re-
pose all their hopes on the aid of those Nor
thern Copperheads who are, of all men, the
Uery ones acho acould suffer most If such
acar begun.