Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
SenatOrstewart's Restoration Amend
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senator Stewards Restoration Amend
meHt.
In the Senate, on Monday, Mr.. Stewart
submitted the following amendment in
tended to be proposed to the Senate bill,
to provide for restoring to the States late
ly in instruction their full political
rights, and also intended as a substitute
for the joint resolution to secure the rights
Of citizens of the United States. 1t reads
as follows:
WHEREAS 1t is expedient that the
States lately in Instruction should, at the
earliest day consistent with the future
peace and safety of the Unicn, be restored
to full participation in all political rights;
and,
WHEREAS, The Congress did, by joint
resolution, propose for ratification to the
Legislatures of the several States, as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, an article in the following
words, 70 wit:
SECTION l. All persons, Indians not
tcxed excepted, born within the limits or
within the jurisdiction of the United
States, and all persons naturalized under
its laws, are and shall be both citizens of
the United States and citizens of the
several States within which they reside,
and no State shall make or enforce any
law which shall sbridge the privileges
OF immunities of such citizens, nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, lib
erty or property without due process of
law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection Of the
laws.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be ap-
pointed among the several States which
may be included within this Union ac-
cordipg TO their respective numbers,
counting the whole number of persons in
each State, including Indians not taxed;
but whenever, in any State, the elective
franchise shall be denied to any portion of
its male citizens not less than twenty-one
years of age, or in any way abridged ex-
cept for participation in rebellion or
other crimes, the basis of representation in
such State shall be reduced in the proper
ton which the number of such male citi
zens shall bear to the whole number Of
male citizens not less than twenty-one
years o sge.
SEC. 3. Neither the UnitedStates nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or
obligation already incurred, or which may
hereafter be incurred, in aid of insurrec-
ton or of war against the United States,
or any claim for compensation for loss of
involuntary service or labor.
Sea-. The Congress shall have power
to enforce by appropriate legislation the
provisions Of this article; now, therefore,
Be It enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of The United States, IN
Congress assembled:
SIC. L. That until the fourth day of
July, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, all persons who
voluntarily adhered to the late insurrec-
ton, giving it aid and comfort shall be
excluded from the right to vote for rep
resentstives in Congress, and for elections
for President and Vice President of the
United States.
SEC. 2. That nopeTson shall be eligible to
any office under the Government Of the
United States who is included in any of
the following classes, namely first, the
President and Vice President of the
Confederate States Of America, so called,
and the heads Of departments thereof;
second, those who in other countries acted
as agents of the Confederate States of
America, s~o-oalled; third, heads of de-
partments of the United States, officers of
the army and navy ofthe United States, all
educated st the Military or Naval
Academy of the United States, Judges of
the Courts Of the United States, and
members Of either house Of the Thirty
Sixth Congress of the United States, who
aid or comfort to the late rebellion
those who acted as officers of the
Confederate States of America, so-called,
above the grade of Colonel in the army or
Master in-the navy, and any one who as
Governor Of either of the s~o-csIled Con-.