Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10

any claim for compensation for loss of in.
voluntary service or labor.
Sec. 5. That Congress shall have power
to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions of This article.
4 Bill to provide for the restoration Of
the States lately IN rebellion to their full
Political Rights
Whereas, 1t is expedient that the States
lately iu iusurrection should at the earliest
day consistent with the future peace and
safety of the Uniou, be restored to full par
ticipatiou in all political rights; aud
whereas the Congress did, by joint resolu.
ton, propose for ratification to the Legis'
latures of the several States, as an amend,
meut to the Constitution Of the United
States, an article in the following words, to
wit (the constitutional article here insert
&c, } now therefore,
Be i. enacted, &c., That whenever the
above recited amendment shall have become
part Of the Constitution, and any State
lately in iusurrecton shall have ratified the
same, aud shall have modified its constitu-
tiou and laws in conformity Herewith, the
Senators and Representatives from such
States, if found duly elected and qualified,
may, after having taken the required oaths
of Office, be admitted into Congress.
Second. And be it further enacted.
That when any State lately in insurrection
shall have ratified the foregoing proposed
amendment to the Constitution, any part of
the direct tax, under the act of August 5,
1861, which may remain due and unpaid
in such State, may be assumed aud paid by
such State, and the payment thereof, upon
proper assurances from such State, to be
given to the Secretary of the Treasury of
the United States, may be postponed for
period not exceeding ten years from and
after the passage of this act.
4 Bill declaring certain persons Ineligible
to office under the Government ofthe
United States
Be it enacted, &C., That no person shall
be eligible to any Office under the govern.
meut of the United States, who is included
in any Of the following cases. namely:
Fi,st. The President and Vice President
of the Confederate States Of America, 80
called, and the heads of departments there
of.
Second. Those who in other countries &C.
ted as agents of the Confederate States of
America, so-oalled.
Third. Heads of Departments of the
United States, officers of the Army and
Navy of the United States, and all persons
educated in the Military or Naval Acade-
mics of the United States, judges of the
Courts of the United States, and members
of either House of the Thirty Sixth Con
gress of the United States, who gave aid or
comfort to the late rebellion.
Fourth. Those who acted as officers of
the Confederate States of America, so-cal
led, above the grade of colonel in the army,
or master 10 the navy, or any one who, as
Governor of either of the so called Confed
erstet States, gave aid and comfort to the
late rebellion
Fifth. Those who have treated officers or
soldiers or sailors Of the Army or Navy Of
the United States, captured during the late
wsr, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of
war.
"Druid," the Washington correspondent
Of the New York Nescs, says of the above
report:
The diabolical animus which inspires this
"plan" cannot be concealed under its honey
ed professions. There is not member of
the committee who does not know that the
South will never accept these degrading,
insulting terms and that is the very reason
that they aOere proposed. The Radicals do
not desire them to be accepted. The sight
of the vacant chairs in the Capital filled by
truly Southern men is spectacle too horri-
bic for them to contemplate. Those chairs,
they are determined, shall remaiu perma-
uently vacant, unless they can be filled by
some contemplate Northern adventurers,
elected by the votes of renegade Southern,
ers and negroes. :.
"The wickedness of this "plan" is only
equalled by its absurdity. The Southern
States are recognized as "States'e' and ar
allowed to vote on the proposed Cuustitu
tional amendment as States; they are in the
Union for that. But they are not allowed
to vote for members of Congress, nor to
send them to Washington. They are not
in the Union; they are not States, when it
is question of their representation iu Coo
gress. But they are States, in the Union,
when their votes are required to ratify
Constitutional amendment Are the mem.
bers of the committee mad, that they can
think for an instant that such an adsurdity
as this can be swallowed? The Southern
States are to be allowed to vote, on equal