The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-11-01

oeates, or aS mcmber of any State
Legislature, orSan oxcoutive or civil
officer Qf any State, to support the
ICoiistitution of the United States,
shall have engaged III. insurrection or
rcbSAion against the same, or given
aidsor comfort to the enemies thereof {;
but Congress may by vote of two
thirdsin each House, remove such dis
ability. -
Tho substance of this section is this:
No person shall gil certain Offices Gun
dor the United States, or aandor any
State, who having previously taken an
oath as az certain official, "to support
the'Constitution of the Uuited States,
shall have engaged, in insmrectton or
rebellion against the same, or given ati
or cohsforsto tho enemies thereof"
In the first 'placeswc have an emu
mcration Of what off .cs certain per-
sons shall not hold+-there are six of
these Thon we have definition of
who those "certain .pcrsonsD are
thoro arc five classes of these and
then we have the reason assigned why
persons of those classes enumerated
shall not hold those Offices. No wonder
VIC ofSouth Carolina spurn the pro-
vislo's OF the Constitutional amend
mcnt, contained in this section. 1t
requires us deliberately punish those
whom VIC delight to honor, for an act
which wo almost unanimously CAV,
them our cordial support and to pro.
nouncc that act insurrcction and re.
bcllion, and engraft our deliberate
Judgment upon the Muyna CHa,ta of
our Liberties, when We have no reason
at at.prescnt that we will have tho op-
portunity to reverse that decision and
strike 1t from the record, as is provid-
cd in the last clause of tho section.
But'who will be prescribed by the
adoption oftllis amcndmeat 2 for We
may put it down as d rule almost with
OUT exception, that. every !man in
South Carolina either 'engaged in tho
insurrcctionsor rcbollion," (amd we all
know what insurrcction and rebellion
re meant or tsgivc'aid or comfort to
the 'onomiesP' Of the United Statos--
1--WE all know also who are here meant
by the enemies of the United States).
Those designed to ,bc. prescribed,
arc J.. Former members of Congress.
2. Former Federal Judges and COM
missioned officers of tho regular army,
marshals, collectors, census-takcrs,
post-mastcrs, and perhaps others. 8.
Former members of tho Legislature.
I. All surviving Governors, and s.
Former Judges md Chancolrors of the
State, Solicitors, Magistrates, and
every civil officer who was inducted
into office in whole or in part by an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States The provisions of this
section were intended to be sweeping
IN their effect, and any one who care
fully considoes them must be forced to
the conclusion that they are admirably
adapted to their perposc.
Without Reproducing. the fourth
SETON, we may say that it demands
that the validity Of the war debt of the
United States isncvcr to be question
cd, while that of the Confederacy and
the States, individually, which COM
posed it shall bcforever ropudiated.
Finally, We understand how it is
Congress as at present organized
makes this demand of tho South, and
why tle'SoutR spurns it and VIC also
understand how tho provisions of this
amendment as it now stands, or as it
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