The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-02-14
BENZ. G. HUMPHREYS.

persons high in authority, that proposition
] from the Southern States, having in vie,
/ the adjustment of our present politica
troubles, would be received and considered
&C., &c. Therefore,
Resolved by the Legislature of the Stat
of Mississippi, That the Congress of thu
United States be and are hereby requested t,
propose to the Legislature of the severa
/ States the following amendment to the Con
stitution of the.United States:
ARTICLE ID
Section l. No State under the Constitution
has right of its own will to renOunce it.
place in or to withdraw from the Union.-
Nor has the Federal Government any right
to eject State from the Union, or to de
prive it of its equal suffrage in the Senate
or of representation in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The Union, under the Constitution, shall
be perpetual.
Sec 2 The public debt of the United
States authorized by law shall ever be held
sacred and inviolate. But neither the
United States nor any State shall assume OIL
pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid
of insurrection or rebellion against the Gov.
ernment or authority of the United States.
Sec. 3. All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens OF
the United States, and of the States in
which they reside, and the citizens of each
State shalt be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several
States No State shall deprive auy person
of life, liberty or property, without due pro-
cess of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
SEC a. Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State eX-
Guiding Indians, not taxed. But when any
State shall, on account of race or color, or
previous condition of servitude, deny the ex-
ercise of the elective franchise at any cleo
ton for the choice of electors for President
and Vice President of the United States,
Representatives in Congress, members of the
Legislature, and other officers elective, by
the people to any of the male inhabitants
of such State, being twe1ty-one years of age,
and citizens of the United States, then the
entire class of persons so excluded froma the
exercise of the elective franchise shall not be
counted in the basis of representation.
And whereas, &c.
Be it further resolved, by the Legislature
of the S9ate of Mississippi, That the follow
ing article shall be adopted as an amend
ment to and become part of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Mississippi:
ARTICLE.
Every male citizen who has resided in the
State for one year and in the county in which
he offers to vote, six months Immediately
preceding the day of election, and who can
read the Declaration of Independence, and
the Constitution of the United States in the
English language, and write his name, or
who may be the owner of two hundred and
fifty dollars worth of taxable property, shall
be entitled to vote at all elections for Gov
ernor of the State, members of the Legisla-
ture, and all other officers, the election of
whom may be by the people of the States
Provided, That no person, by reason of this
article, shall be excluded from voting who
has heretofore exercised the elective fran
chise under the Constitution and laws of this
State, or who, at the time of the adoption
of this amendment, may be entitled to vote
under said Constitution and laws.