The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-25
Ths cous,llu1loaaI Amendment.

ana 10 condemnation Qf the polio
adopted by the President for the resto
, ration Of the Southern States tn
! next Congress, whose term will oxten'
( two years after the expiration Of h
present Congress, and 10 the close o
z President Johnsons administration
beyond all question, will be Radical -
An Influential part Of the Radicals arr
wild aud mad IN their hatred Of the
South They are for confiscaton
bloodsbcd, the intolerable oppression
and determination Of our people o.
this class ARE Brownlow, Stephens
Sumner, Butler, and many Of the lead
ing Republicans in and out Of Con
gress. Others arc more moderate, and
while they oppose these extreme inca
snres unite with the Jacobins IN con
dcmning the President, but are willing
10 see the Southern States represented
in Congress, provided they will adopt
the amendment and elect 90 Congress
members that can take the test oath, -
The amendment was opposed by Thad,
Stevens, Sumner, and other extremists
in Congress, and its passage was re-
gardcd as triumph'of the Conserya-
tive Republicans over the Radicals ---
Flushed with victory, sustained by
large popular majorities in all the
Northern States, the leading Radical
prints and actors declare 1t Is not likely
that any terms NO favorable will ever
again be offered by Congress to the
Southern States as basis of restora.
ton. The New York Herald, new
ally of Congress, in late number
says
In the results of these October
elections we thus read the verdict of
all the Northern States on the case of
the President versus Congress. We
demand the policy Of Congress. We
must have our securities for the future
in the Constitution as the conditions
of Southern rcstoration--security
the equality before the law
of all citizens In their civil rights--se-
curity in regard to suffrage and repre-
security for the payment of
the national debt and against any fu.
turc recognition of the debt of the re
belion or of any claims for enamel
pated slaves; and we approve the Sc
curity proposed in the constitutional
against the return 10 poll
teal power of any of the traitorous
and revolutionary political contrivcrs
and managers of the late rebellion. -
These securities are the ultimatum of
the North, and IL is the only policy of
wisdom and safety on the part Of the
President and tho South TO adopt
them
Aud in another article;
"The vcrdicts of the recent cleo
lions are one and all in favor Of the
amendment as u iinality,
and the immediate rcadmission Of the
south on the basis of that amendment,
{ IL shall be adopted by the requisite
lumber OF States
We are advised by other papers,
Tho profess friendship TO the South,
D accept the amendment, not because
is right in itself but for the reason
we refuse to adopt it, other and
arsher means must be endured.-
he amendment, so far Rs regards
presentation, is tiagrantly unjust,
nd intended for the purpose of de-
irving the South of political power
le are required to give up that to
hich, under the Constitution, we have
lear aud undoubted right, or submit
, snch persecution and humiliation
3 Congress may choose TO inhict I'm
lst as this is, there is another clause
/ the amendment still more shocking
, the sensibilities of every true South
IN man. It's that which prosoribes
i men above n certain rank who were !
J any way connected with the Con
'derate Government
1t reads as - lows; I
SEc, 3. No person shall be senator I
r representative in Congress, or cleo A
" OF President or Vice President. or ;.
old any office, civil or military. under :
lc United States. or under any State. c
no having previously taken an oath. i
; member Of Congress, or as an OIL S
n of the United States, or as mem n
pr of any State Legislature, or as an
,ecutive OF Judicial officer of any y
ate, TO support the Constitution of Z
e United States, shall have engaged n
Instruction or rebellion against the
me, or given aid or comfort to the
emics thereof But Congress may,
: vote of two thirds of each house, al
move such disability. W
This is an Infamous proposition that IN
honorable people would voluntarily ST
notion. If forced upon us VIC can W
hnit, but TO adopt il ourselves would IN
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