Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-14
A NEW PLAN OF ADJUSTMENT.

We give below, says the Richmond Enquirer a
copy of plan of settlement, in eshape of amend
ments to the Federal and State Constitutions, which
we understand is proposed by certain gentlemen
from the South who have but recently visited Wash
ington. This scheme has been shown, we hear, to
various members of the Legislature of Virginia,
and the intention is to present it to the Legislature
of North Carolina for formal adoption. The
patrons of the measure have indicated solicitude
to keep it out of the newspapers, and thus pre-,
vent, for while, at least, any public discussion OF
its merits We have received this document, how,
ever, with full liberty of publication, from one who
himself received it in like manner; and we DO not
feel justified in withholding it from our readers
The people of the South, at large are proposed to
be affected by its provisions in their grayest and
most important interests and it is their clear and
and character of measures devised by those who,
whether with or without adequate authority, have
undertaken the Office of pointing OUT basis OF set
tement. Any attempt to veil such measures from
the public scrutiny until sufficient numbers OF per-
sons in the legislative bodies can be committed to
secure their adoption, is alike opposed to the gen
ius of our institutions and to the just rights OF our
people The following is the scheme:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES.
ARTICLE XIV.
SECTION l. The Union under the Constitution
is and shall be perpetual No State shall pass any
law or ordinance to secede or withdraw from the
Union, and any such law or ordinance shall be null
and void.
SEcuoN2. 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 or pay any debt or obligation In
CURED in aid of insurrection or rebellion against
the Government or authority OF the United States.
SECTION 8. Anpersons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the jurisdiction there
Of are citizens of the United States and Of the State
in which they reside. No State shall make or en-,
force any law which shall abridge the privileges OF
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the equal pro-
lection of the laws.
SECTION 4. Representatives shall beapportioned
among the several States according to their respec-
tive numbers, counting the whole number of per-
SONS in each State, excluding Indians not taxed
But when any State shall, on account of race OF
color, or previous condition of servitude, exclude
from voting at any election for the choice OF elec-
tors for President and VceP President Of the United
States representatives of Congress, members OF
the Legislature, or other officers elective by thepeo
pic, ANY VI VI QUILL OHtoS,
ing twenty-one years of age and citizens of the u
nited States then the entire class of persons so ex
cluded from the elective franchise, shall not be
counted in the basis of representation. No State
shall require as property qualification for voters
more than two hundred and fifty dollars worth of
taxable property, nor as an educational qualifca-
ton more education than enough to enable the vo-
ter to read the Constitution of the United States in
the English language and write his own name.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO STATE CONSTITUTION.
article. Every male citizen who has. resided in
this State for one year and in the county in which
he offers to vote six months, Immediately preced-
ing the day of election and who can read the Con-
sttution of the United States in the English Ian
guage, and can write his own 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 Governor of the State, members of the
Legislature and all other officers elective by the
people of the State: P,orided, That no person by
reason of this article, shall be excluded from voting
who has heretofore exercised the elective franchise
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.