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,het ,wentv.six states have duly filed their rat
;;eGoo,ian Of the fourteenth amendment TO th'
! Constitution. 1t has also been ra'heu y
Louisiana, Alabama and south Carolina oa
the papers have not yet come to hand Inn
makes more than enough to constitute w
amendment part OF the Constitution as soon
The needrul forms can be carried out IL IL snai
he deemed necessary. Congress will pass de
clsrstory net 10 this effect. AS 1t has been
| long time since the amendment was Drought NC
| fore the people and its subject matter has pee'
partially overaid in the public mind by the sun
aeoueut reconstruction laws and THEFT WORKING
a, the South, we republish the amendment a
follows:
..JorSr RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AhENpNEN'
70 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
RESOLVED, By the senate and House Of Rep
re, entatives of the United States OF America II
| Congress assemb ed, two thirds Of both House
concur ing. that the 70 lowing article be p'opof
ed 20 the Legislature of the several States as al
amendment to the Consituton OF the uhile'
states. which, wher ratified by three-iourths o
said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of th'
Constitution, namely;
ARTICLE SECTION !. All persons born OF
naturalized in the United States. and subject t
fbe Jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the Uni
ted States apdof the tate wherein they reside
No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunitIes OF
citizens of the United States, nor shall any State
depiiye any person Of life, liberty or property
without due process Of law, nor deny to any
person within its Jurisdiction the equal protec.
ton of the laws.
SEC 9. Representatives shall be apportioneC
among the several States according to their res
nee i've Numbers counting the whole number
of persons in each State, excluding indians not
taxed. But whenever the right to vote at any
election for Electors Of President and Vice Pres
ident, or for United States Representatives in
Congress- Executive or Judicial officers, or The
members of the Legislature thereof, i denied to
any of the male inhabitants Of su CHI State, being
twenty .one years of age and citizens of the Uni
ted States, or,ln apy way abridged, except for
participation in rebellion or other crime, the
basis of representation therein shall be reduced
TO the DFODOItlOH Nu'Nu 'hV VI euSi
male citizens shall bear to the Whole number o.
male citizens twenty-one years of age in sucl
State.
SEC 8. No person shall be a Senator or Re
preventative in Congress, or elector of Presiden
or Vice President or hold any office, civil O.
military, under the United States, or under any
State, Who having previously taken an oath al
c member Of Congress, or as q member OF an,
State Legislature, or as an executive or judicia
officer Of any >'tate to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have engaged in in
surrection or rebellion against the same, or Civ
en- aid or comfort to the enemies the reof; bu
Congress may by two-thirds vote OF eaci
House remove such disability.
SEC 4. The validity of the public debt Of thu
United States, authorized by law including
debts incurred for the payment of pensions ant
boultes for services in suppressing the insur
rection or rebellion shall not be questioned bu
neither the United States nor any state shall
assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
in aid of instruction or rebellion against TIL
United States, or any claim for the loss or eman
cipation OF any slave but all such debts obliga
ii ems and claims shall be held illegal and void.
SEC. s. The Congress shall lave power Il
enforce by appropriate Legislation the provision
Of this hrticle."
1t will be seer that iris amendment harmoni
yes with all that has been done towards the re
construction of the seeded states and tends t,
permanently secure its fruits, It defines, owe
and above all attempts to interfere with or i'm
pair It,, the true nature oil American citizen
ship, its rights and immunities. 1t does no
in The second section clash with the establish
ment of impartial suffrage but merely provide
u penalty which may be eiIectual whenever sucl
"a Tage is withheld or violated 1t debars iron
| oiiCe--subjert to discreet action by Congress
the only dangerous classes" extant in tn
Unioa. II places the Obligations of the govern
ment IN perfect security, and lays hopeless
ban on all claims based upon the overthrow
rebellion These provisions are not thus SUI
ject to the changes and uncertainties OF ordins
| ry laws, bat are endowed with the life and in
mutability ofthe Constitution itself--that is. Q
the Government and the Union. They signal
lie great advance in the organic law and wi
always remain proof Of the good to mankin
which can be evoke even out of treason an
civil war.-BosToN JOURNAL.
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