Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-06-19
Admission of the Southern stabs.
WASHINGTON, June12, BGs

The OMNIBUS Admission bill, though some
of its provisions were carried by bre ma
jority, has been finally passed by both Houses
by full Radical vote, against which tie veto
will be powerless. The admission OF these
States, including all the Southern Stacs but
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, vii take
place in eleven days or sooner. Tho I'LL is I
f,llows: 'i w.
TIE BILL FOR ADMITTING TIE SOUTHERN
- STATES.
Rcsoluct1, That each of the States 6 North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida, shall be ontithd and
admitted to representation in Congress as
State Of the Union when the Legislature of
such State shall have duty ratified theamcnd-
mont to the Constitution of the UnitedStates,
proposed by the Thirty y-nnth Congress, and
known as article fourteen, as follows.
Aticlc-Scction l. All person born or
naturalizcd in the United States, and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens of the
United States, and Of the State whcrtin they
reside. No State shall make or enforce any
munities of citizens of the United Statcs-
Nor shall any State deprive any person of
live, liberty or property, without due process
OF law, nor deny to any person within its ju-
risdicton the equal production of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according to
the respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed; but whenever the right
t, vote at any lection for the electors of Pres
ilcnt and Vice President of the United States
Representatives in Congress, executive and
judicial officers, or the members of the Leg
islaturc thereof, is denied to any of the male
inhabitants of such States, being twenty one
years of age, and citizens of the United States,
or in any way abridged, except for participa-
ton in rebellion, or other crime the basis Of
representation therein shall bo reduced ia the
proportion which tho number of such malc
citizens shall bear to tho whole number of
malc citizens twcnty.onc years Of age in that
| State.
! Section 8. No person shall be senator or
| representative in Congress, elector Of Prcsi.
dent, or hold any Office, civil or military, un-
der the United States, or any State, who,
having previously taken an oath rs a member
Of Congress, or an officer of the United States,
or as member Of any State Legislature, or
as an executive or judicial officer of any
State, to support the Constitution of tho Uni
ted States, shall havo engaged in insurrcc-
tion or rebellion against the same, or given
MD or comfort to the er2S.,,p,, er.S,p,vs ynorcor; but
Congress may by vote Of two thirds Of each
House remove such disability. = 's
Section 4. The validity of the public debt
Of the United States, authorized by law, in.
Guiding debts incurred for the payment of
pensions and bountcs for service in supprcs-
sing insurrccton or rebellion, shall not bo
questioned, but neither the United States nor
any State shall assume or pay any debt or Oh.
legation incurred in MD of insurreotion or re.
bcllion against tho United States, or claim for
the loss or emancipation Of any slave, but all
such debts, obligations or claims shall be held
| illegal and void.
&oeotioh D. Inc congress OF the United
States shall have powes to enforce, by appro
pirate legislation, the provisions Of this arti-
ole.
Also upon tho following fundamental con.
ditions That there never shall 20 In such
State any denial or abridgcment of the cleo.
tive franchise to any person by reason or on
account Of race or color, excepting indians
not taxed.
And tho State Of Georgia shall only bo on.
titled and admitted to representation upon
this further Fundamental condition, that the
first and third subdivisions of section soy.
ootcen Of tho fifth article Of tho Constitution
Of said State, cxcopt tho proyiso to tho first
sub bdivision, shall .bc null and yoid, and That
tho General Assembly Of said State BY sol.
onn public act shall DECLARE ia tho assent the