Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-06-23

The FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
As the reconstruction of the Southern
States is made dependent on the
adoption by their legislatures of what
is termed the 14th amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States,
and as many of our readers may
not remember the substance of the
amendment, we give it below:
SECTION l. All persons born and natu-
rallied in the United States and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or en-
force any law which shall abrdge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor 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 protection Of It's laws.
SEQ. 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, Repre-
sentatives in Congress, executive and Judi
cial officers Of State, or the mem bers of
the legislature thereof, is denied to any of
the male inhabitants of such State, being
twenty years of age and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged,
except for participation in rebellion or
other crimes, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the mum Der of such male citizens
shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens twenty one years of age in such
State
SEQ. 8. No person shall be Senator or
Representative in Congress, or elector for
President and Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military. under the United
States or under any State, who, having
previously taken an oath of a member of
Congress, or As Il member Of any State
Legislature, or as an executive or judicial
officer Of any State, to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, shall have en-
gagged in rebellion or instruction against
the United States, or given aid or comfort
to the enemies thereof But Congress
may, by vote of two-t thirds of this House,
remove such disability.
$50 4. The validity Of the public debt
of the United States authorized by law,
including debts incurred for the payment
Of pensions and bounties for services in |
suppressing instruction or rebellion, shall |
not be questioned. But neither the Uni
ted States nor any State shall assume to
pay any debt or obligations incurred in
aid Of instruction or rebellion against the
United States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation Of any slave; but all such
debts, obligations and claims shall be held |
illegal and void.
SEQ. 5. The Congress shall have power
to enforce by any appropriate legislation
The provisions of this Article.
CLINTON MARKETs.-Cotton, none
in sight; Dry Goods, crispy; Old
Iron, brisk and in demand Whisky
-rifed, hangs fire; Provisions,
lakes your bottom dollar; Ice, cool
Eggs, hardly done; Butter, fresh,
goes fast on hot cakes; Milk, wa
cry; Vegetables, consumptive;
Beef, bully; Mutton, goaty APP
pies, beyond reach.-East Feliciana