Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-01

returns, and qualifications of every mem
Der of either House.
The Congress shall have power to dc
anything.
A tax or duty may be laid upon articles
exported from any Satrapy provided thai
preference shall be given by all CONNER
cial regulations, to the ports of the Satra
pies of Massachusetts,, Maine and Rhode
Island
The Congress shall have full authority
over the lives, liberty and property of the
people of t various Satrapies.
Old Satrapies may be excluded from this
Union, at the pleasure of the Congress
whatever their population or wealth may
be but no offence shall be considered suf
hclent to work perpetual exclusion, except
the offence of perpetual hostility to the
Radical party.
THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
The executive power of the United Sa
traples shall be vested in Congress. There
shall be an officer, to be known as the Pre-.
sident, who shall hold his office during the
pleasure of Congress.
The duties of the President shall be to
sign all bills and resolutions that NAV be
passed by Congress, and to appoint to the
various subordinate administrative offices
such persons as may be designated there.
| for by the Congress, OR by Congressman
individually, or by prominent members OF
the Union League.
THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS.
The judicial power of the United States
shall be vested in the Congress. The tri-
bunal hitherto known as the Suprem e
Court is hereby abolished, and the persons
hitherto acting as Justices of the Supreme
Court are hereby declared outlaws.
Trial by jury is hereby abolished.
Treason against the United States shall
consist in opposing the Radical party, and
adhering or giving aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof, ridiculing the Radical pol
icy, and in such other things as the Con-
gress or the Union League may declare
reasonable.
The religion of the residents of the Uni.
ted States shall be worship of the negro
There shall be, hereafter an anti-slavery
Bible and anti-slavery God.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Freedom of speech and of the press shall
be controlled exclusively by the Congress.
Any person who shall publish q newspaper
in opposition to the Radical party may be
jawhawked at sight.
No resident shall be secure in his person,
house, papers and effects, against seizures
and searches commanded by Congress.
Warrants may issue upon any case.
Persons arrested may be tried at the
convenience of the parties procuring their
arrest.
Nothing in this constitution contained
shall be held to affect the supreme power
of Congress over all persons and things
This constitution may be amended at the
suggestion OF the Caucus, and in accordance
VITA the desires of majority of the House
of Representatives.
The right of suffrage, commonly known
as the right to vote, being an inherent and
Unborn right in every person, and coming,
like reading and writing, by nature. shall
be enjoyed by every resident of the United
Satrapies, without regard to the age, sex,
race or color of the suffragan and this
right shall never be abridged except in the
cases of such persons as may wilfully and
unnaturally oppose the Radical party, who
shall only vote upon consent of the Con-
gress, and whose votes shall not, under any
circumstances, be counted for or against
anybody or anything.
Among the signatures to this ''Consti-
tuition" are Thaddeus Sumner, Butler 7.
Spoons, Robert G. Skunk, Edwin M. Nh
cilage, Wendell Wilson, Hunnicutt, Ann
Dickinson, Serene Howe and Elizabeth
Keekley.