Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-07
o UB PLATFOR8L.

As it is:
1. No rebel State shall deprive any
individual on account of his loyalty
of fany of the civil rights guaranteed to him
by the Constitution.
2 Representation shall be equally ap-
portioned, and If any rebel State prohib-
its any class of its loyal citizens from vo-
ting. it's representation shall be proper
tiOnally reduced.
3, No person shall hold any Office IN
der the Federal or State Governments
who having once held such office and
sworn to support the Constitution, after
ward engaged in the rebellion.
4 The rebel debt shall be forever re-
pudiated.
5. When the revolted States shall
have proven the sincerity of their loyal
professions by ratifying the above guar
antics Of their future good conduct as
a part Of the Constitution Of the United
States, Congress may permit them re-
sumo their relations with the Federal
Government
AS it might have been
1. jeff Davis and all his Cabinet Of
fcers to be hung
2. Gen. Lee and every officer of the
rebel army who belonged to the Federal
army before the war, but deserted to the
enemy, to be shot.
3. G. NJ Clay, John c. Breckenridge,
and every other scoundrel implica
ted in the assassination of the President,
or in yellow fever plots, or in schemes for
burning Northern cities, and the steam
boats on our rivers, or for starving our
soldiers in prison-pens, or for blowing up
the capitol at Washington, or for resist
ing the draft, or for Instigating rebel RI
OTIS In Northern cities, or for releasing
rebel prisoners, or for making raids from
Canada, or for encouraging bounty jump
ing and desertion incur army, or for con
veying information to our enemies, and
for enacting thousand other reasonable
crimes which shame humanity and dis
grace civilized warfare-all these to be
shot or hung as they richly deserve.
4. Semmes, and every other pirate who
devastated our commerce upon the high
seas, to be hung to the highest yard arm
in the Federal navy.
3. Forrest, Moseby, Quantrell, Nc
Causland, and every other land pirate or
guerilla who drove loyal peoyle from their
homes, stole their property, burned h0us-
es, murdered little boys and gray hair
ed sires for their fidelity, to the old flag,
murdered defenseless prisoners, hunted
homes aud shot them down like wild
beasts-all these to be shot or hung as
the laws of all civilized nations direct.
8. Every, member of the Rebel Con-
gress and Legislatures, every officer in
the rebel armies above the rank of OolO-l
mel, every rebel judge who voluntarily
served as such-all these to suffer coBfs-
cation of property and be forever prOhib- /
tied from holding any civil or military
Office or voting at any public election.
z. Every individual who refuses to
take the oath of allegiance to the United /
or gives utterance to disloy- /
al sentiments to be prohibited from vot-
ing or holding office
s. The rebel States to be kept under I
martial law until the loyal citizens organ
Ize new Governments and adopt new
and until the Freedmen /
aud all other loyal citizens are allowed /
the elective franchise, after which they /
may resume their relations to the Fede- /
raj Government if Congress shall deem it I
safe.
g. A contribution to be laid upon the /
wealthy rebels of the South to indemni- +
y the loyal citizens of the revolted I
States for the losses occasioned to them
7y the rebellion.
The five paragraphs first given contain
summary Of the constitutional Amend
neut proposed by Congress. The nine
embody the spirit if not the
ubstance Of Andrew Johnson's speeches
Turing the frat three months after his in
uguration as President, and the senti-
lents Of three-fourths of all the loyal !