Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-26
The Amendment TO the COusti-
tuition.

| Although the amendment of the Con
stitution passed at the last session of Con
gress and already ratified by three or four
States has been before the country for
some months, there is reason to believe
that no small part of the community fail to
realize how easy and just its terms are. 1t
is Systematically represented by the demo-
cratic papers and speeches, as series of
"degrading conditions" designed to keep
out the States indefinitely. Here tits as
it was passed:
Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States.
of America in Congress assembled two
thirds Of both houses concuring), that the
following article be proposed to the legis-
latures of the several States as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by thre-
fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid
as part of the Constitution, namely:
ARTIcLE l4-Sec. ALI persons born
or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the Jurisdiction thereof, are citi-
zens of the United States and Of the State
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 de-
prive any person of life, liberty or prop
erty, without due process of law, nor de-
ny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws. 49,
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State,
excluding Indians not taxed. But when
the right to vote at any election for the
choice of electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, represen-
tatiyes in Congress, the executive and ju-
dical officers of the State, or the members
of the legislature thereof, is deniedto any
of the, male inhabitants of such State,
being twenty7ope years of age and citi-
zens of the United States, or in. any way
abridged except for participation in rebel
hon or other crime, the basis, of represe6-
tation therein shall be reduced in the pro-
portion which the number of such male |
citizens shall bear to the whole number of
male citizens twenty-cne years of age in
such State. --, .t
Sec. ). No person shall be a senator or
representative in Congress, or elector of
President and yice-President, or hold any |
office, civil or military, under the United
States, or under any State, who, having |
previously taken an oath, as. member Of
Congress, or as an officer of the United |
States, or as member of any State legis-
lature, or as an executive or Judicial Off
Ger of any State, to support the Constitu- |
tion Of the United States, shall have en-
gagged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, OF given aid or comfort 10 the |
enemies thereof But Congress may, by |
a vote of two-thirds of each House, re-
move such disability. --.......
!; Sec. 4. The validity of the public |
debt of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment
Of pensions and bounties for services in
insurrection and rebellion,
shall not be questioned. But neither the
United States nor any State shall assume
or pay any debt or obligation incurred in
aid of insurreetion or rebellion against the
United States, or any claim for the loss
pr emancipation of any slave; but all such
debts, obligations and claims shall be held
Illegal and void.
Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power
o enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions of this article.
Tennessee, it viii be remembered, rati-
led it, and was at once recognized and
ler senators and representatives admitted
It the last session. ' Il