Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-06-15

says all expcdients to preserve peace will fail
and that France herself is quietly arming''
for her part in the fray.
We publish below the new Constitutions
Amendment, as it passed the Senate. 1t
will doubtless pass the lower House in the
same form There are some doubts as to its
ever receiving the ratification Of the requi-
site number Of States to ingraft it into the
Constitution The Southern States surely
will never ratify it. None Of them are SO
DESTROYS Of representation where radicalism
has dominance, as to aid in forging the
chains which are to ever after manacle them.
| Therefore, as a matter of news, we publish
T it, believing that the radicals will be hurled
from power ere three-fourths Of the States
can be brought to ratify such an abominable
amendment, and that it is the mere fulmina-
ton Of reckless men and will result in moth
ing.
Resolved, Blythe Senate and House Of Rep
e:ccseutatiues of the United States of america
in Congress assembled, tuo-thirds Of both
Houses concurriing That the following ar
ticlc 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-SEcTIoN /. All persons born
naturalized 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 shall make or enforce any
law 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.
SECTION g Representatives shall be APP
portioned among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons, excluding Indians
not taxed. But whenever the right to vote
at any election for the choice of electors for
President and Vice-P President, Representa-
tives in Congress, executive and judicial Off
GERS, or members Of the Legislature thereof,
is denied to any of the male inhabitants of
such State being twenty-one years of
age, and citizens of the United States, or in
any way abridged, except for participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis Of repre-
sentation therein shall be reduced in the pro-
portion which the number Of such male citi.
zens shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens twenty-one years Of age in such
State.
SECTION 3. That no person shall be a
Senator or Representatives in Congress, or
elector of President and Vice President, or
hold any Office, civil or military, under the
United States or under any State, who, hav-
ing taken an oath as amember of Congress,
or as an officer of the United Strtes, or as a
member Of any State Legislature, or as ju-
dicial officer of any State. to support the
Constitution Of the United States, shall have
engaged in instruction Or rebellion against
the same, or given aid or comfort to the enc
mics thereof. But Congress may, BY vote
Of two-thirds Of each House, remove such
disability.
SECTION 4. The validity of the public
deet of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment
Of pensions and bounties for services in
suppressing instruction 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
Instruction or rebellion against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or enamel
patton Of any slave, but all such debts, obi
cations and claims shall be held illegal and
void.
SECTION S. The Congress shall have
power TO enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the provisions of this section.