The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-03
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COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, June 3, 1856.


ment to the Constitution Of tl,,
United States.
This new scheme, it is said, will re
eeive the sanction Of the President,
IA statement, however, we can scarce
ly believe. That it will pass both
houses of Congress in nearly it's pre-
sent shape is highly probable. and,
therefore, as it will in that event be
submitted to the people of the South
ern States, we publish its provisions:
ReSolced, by tile Seaole and House Of
Representatives. Of The United .Tuke,S Of
america in Congress assembled, (i,co-
Mirolsef 6otA Houses coacm7i,,g, That
the following article be proposed by
the Legislatures of the several States
as an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, which, when
ratified by three-fourths Of said Lc-
gislatures, shall be valid as part of
the Constitution, namely:
SEC. l. All persons born in the
United States and subject to the ju-
risdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the States
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
process of law; nor deny to any per-
son within its jurisdiction the equal
protection Of the laws
Sec. 2. Representative shall be
apportioned among the several States
which may be included within the
Union, according to their respective
numbers, counting the whole number
of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed. But whenever in
any State the elective franchise shall
be denied to any portion of its male
inhabitants, being citizens of tho
United States, not less than twenty
one years of age, or in any way
abridged, except for participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis of
representation IN such State shall he
reduced in the proportion Which the
number of such male citizens shall
bear to the whole number of male
citizens not less than twenty-one
years of age in such State.
SEQ. 3. No person shall he Sc
nator or Representative in Congress,
or elector of President and Vice Pre-
sident, or hold any Office, civil or
military, under the United States, or
under any State, who, having previ-
ously taken an oath rs q member OF
Congress, Or as an officer Of the
United States, or as q member Of
any State Legislature, or as an exec
ntive or judicial officer of any State,
TO support the Constitution of the
United States, shall have engaged in
lnsurrection or rebellion against the
same, Or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may,
by vote of two-thirds of each House.
remove such disability.
Sec. 4. The obligations of the
United States incurred in suppressing Q
lnsurrection, or in defence of the
Union, or for payment Of bounties or
pensions incident thereto, shall re-
main inviolate.
Sec. 5. Neither the United States
nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in
aid of insurrection orrebellion against
the United States, or any claim for
compensation for the loss or emanci-
patton of any slave; bnt all s,,ch
debts, obligations and claims shall be
forever held illegal and void.
SEQ. 6. The Congress shall have
power to enforce by appropriate
legislation the provisions Of this az
ticle.
The first section, it will be per
ceived, unlike the civil rights bill
passed some time ago over the Pre-
sident's veto, would make the same
bill constitutional. In the second sec
ton, the radicals have abandoned
their former proposition that Con-
gress has the power to regulate the
question of suffrage in the States,
but they take care that if the negroes
do not vote, they shall not be repre-
sented, thus reducing the representa-
tion of every Southern State which
denies them the right.
The third section is the most hu-
initiating in the batch, notwithstand-
ing its concluding clause. 1t makes
ineligible to seat in Congress almost
every man in the Southern States.
There is only one way to render this