Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

The new Constitution framed and adopt. ed by the Louisiana Convention has been officially published It declares all persons, without regard to race or previous color or previous condition, born or naturaized in the United States and subjected to. theiu- risdiction thereof, and resident of Lousi- ana for one year, citizens of the State. The citizens of the State owe allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is declar- ed to beparamount to that which they owe to the State. They shall enjoy the same civil, political and public rights and priv ileges, and be subject to the same pains and penalties. It is provided that all per sons shall enjoy equal rights, and privileges upon public conveyances, and that all pla- ces of business, or of public resort, or for which icence is required, shall be deem ed places of a public character, and shall be opened to the accommodation and pat ronage ofaall persons, without distinction or discrimination on account of race or color. The articles relating to suffrage are as follows: f' <
 ART. 9s. Every male of the age of twen- ty-one years or upward born or natural ized in the United States, and subject ts- the jurisdiction thereof, and residsatt of this State one year next precedingan cleo tion, and the last ten yesatffss- within the par , lsh r la HilIch ne offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector, except those disfran chised by this Constitution, and persons under interdietion. s--
 ART. 99. The following persons shall be prohibited from voting and holding any office: All persons who shall have been convicted of treason, perjury, forgery, bri bery or other crime punishable in the Pen ltentiary, and persons under interdiction. All persons who are stopped from claiming the right of suffrage by abjuring their al- legiance to the United States Government, or by notorionsly levying war against it, or adherlng to it's enemies, giving them aid and comfort, but who have not expatriated themselves, nor having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, are hereby re- stored to the said right, except the follow ing: Those who held office, civil or mii- tary, for one year or more, under the or ganization styled The Confederate States of America;H those who registered them selves as enemies to the United States; those who acted as leaders of the guerrilla bands during the late rebellion; those who, ill the advocacy of rebellion, wrote or pub- lished newspaper articles, or preached ser- mons during the late rebellion, and those who voted for and signed an ordinance of secession Tn any State. No person inclu ded in these exceptions shall either vote or hold office until he shall have relieved him. self by voluntary writing and signing a certificate setting forth that he acknowl- edges the late rebellion to have been po- Htically wrong, and that he regrets any aid or comfort he<may have given 1t; and he shall file the certificate in the office of the Secretary of State, and 1t shall be publish ed ill the official journal
 Provided, That no person who, prior to the 1st of January, 1868, favored the exe- cntion of the laws of the United States, popularly known as the Reconstruction acts of Congress, and openly and actively as sisted the loyal, men of the State in their efforts to restore Louisiana to her position in the Union, shall be held to be included among those herein excepted. Registrars person as .f1rinad fttcie evidence of the fact that he is entitled to the benefit of this proviso.
 Members of the Legislature and all oth CT officers are required to take an oath that they accept the civil and political equality of all men, and agree not to attempt to de- prive any person or persons, on account of race, color, or previous condition, of any political or civil right, privilege or immu- nifty enjoyed by any other class of men. The State Is forbidden ever to assume or pay any debtnor obligation contracted in aid of therebellion, or to make any claim on the General Government for the slaves emancipated. The General Assembly is required to establish at least one free pub lie school in every parish, to which ad- mission shall be granted to all children, without distinction of race, color or pre- vious condition; and the State is expressly forbidden to establish separate schools or institutions of learning exclusively for one race.-N r. Times. e....