Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-22

4 teenth Amendment to the Constitution of tn
United States, and other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United State
| of America in Congress assembled, Tha
any person who, under color of any law,
statue, ordinance, regulation, custom OF
usage of any State, shall subject, or cause
to be SUBJ tected any person within the ju
risdiction of the United States to the de-
privations of any rights, privileges OF
Immunities, secured by the Constitution
of the United States, shall, any such
law, statute, ordinance, regulation,
custom or usage of the State tC
the contrary Notwithstanding, be liable
to the party injured in action, lawsuit,
etc., in equity or other proper proceed,
ings for redress, such proceeding to be
| prosecuted in the several District or Cir
cult Courts of the United States, with,
and subject to, the same rights of appeal,
review upon error and other remedies
provided in like cases in such courts un-
der provision of the act of the 9th of
April, 1866, entitled San act to protect
all persons in the United States in civil
rights, and to furnish the means for their
vindication and other remedial laws of
the United States which are in their ma
ture applicable to such cases."
Sec. 2. That if two or more persons
within any State or Territory of the Uni
ted States shall conspire together to
overthrow, or to put down or destroy by
force, the Government of the United
States; or to levy war against the United
States, or to oppose by force the Govern
ment of the United States; or by force,
intimidation or threat, to prevent, hinder
or delay the execution of any law of the
United States; or by force to seize, take
or possess any property of the United
States contrary to the authority thereof;
or by force, intimidation or threat to pre-
vent any person from holding any office
of trust or place of confidence under the
United States, or from discharging the du-
ties thereof, or by force, intimidation or
threat to induce any officer of the
United States to leave any State, district
or place where his duties asian officer
might lawfully be performed; or to in
jure him in his person or property on &C
count of his lawful discharge of the du-
ties of his Office; or to injure his person
while engaged in the lawful discharge of
the duties of his office; or to injure his
property so as to modest, hinder, interfere
with, or impede him in the discharge of
his official duty; or by force, intimids-
ton, or threat TO deter any party or wit
ness in any cause of the United States
from attending such court, or from
tesufying in any matter pending in such
court, fully and truthfully; or to injure
any such party or witness in his peraOl
or property, on account of his hay
ing so attended or testified; or by
force, intimidation or threat, to
influence. the verdict, presentment or in
dictment'of any juror or grand jury of
any court of the United States, or to in
jure such juror in his person or property
on account of any verdict presentment
or indictment lawfully assented to by him,
on account of his being or having been
such juror; or shall cOnspire together or
go in disguise upon the public highways
or premises of another for the Purpose,
either directly or indirectly, of depriving
any person or any class of persons of the
equal protection of the Rlws or equal
privileges or immunities w.der the laws;
or for the purpose of preventing or him
dering the constituted authorities of any
State from giving or securing to all per-
sons in such State equal protec-
ton in the Laws; for the purpose
of in any manner impeding, him
dering, obstT dcting or defeating
the due course of justice in any State or
Territory with the intent to deny to any
oiti1an of IL, It,a oVI
equal protection of the laws; or to injure
any person in his person or his property
for lawfully enforcing the right of any
persOn or class of persons to the equal
protection of the laws; or by force, in
umidation or threat to prevent any citi-
zen of the United States, lawfully enti-
tied to vote, from giving his support or
advocacy in lawful manner toward or
in favor of the election of any qualified
person as an electer for President or Vice
President of the United States, or as a
member of Congress of the United
States; or to injure any such citizen In
his person or property on account OF
such support or advocacy-each and
every person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of high crime, and upon conviction
thereof in any District or Circuit Court
of the United States, or District or Su-
preme Court of any Territory of the
United States having jurisdiction OF siml-
lar offences, shall be punished by tlhe
of not less than five hundred nor more
than five thousand dollars, or by impris-
Onment, with or without hard labor as
the court may determine, for period OF
not less than six months nor more than
six years, as the court may determine; or
by both such fine and imprisonment as
the court shall determine; and if any one
or more persons engaged in such conspi-
Iacy shall do or cause TO be done any act
in furtherance of the object oi
such conspiracy, whereby any per-
son shall be injured in his person or
property, or deprived of having and
exercising any right or privilege of
citizen in the United States, the person so
injured or deprived of such rights and
privileges may have and maintain an &C
tion for recovery of damages occasloned
by such injury or deprivation of rights
and privileges against any one or more
of the persons engaged in such conspiracy;
such action to be prosecuted in the Dis
| triCt or Circuit Court of the United States
with and subject to the same rights of
appeal, review upon error and other
remedies provided in like cases in such
courts under the provisions of the act of
| April 8, 1866, entitled "An act to protect
all persons in the United States in their
civil rights and to furnish means for
their vindication.
| Sec. 8. That in all cases where insur-
| rection, domestic violence, unlawful
combinations, or cOnspirecies in any
State, shall so obstruct or hinder the ex-
ecution of the laws thereof and the
United States so as to deprive any por-
ton or class of people in such State of
any rights, privileges, or immmities, OF
protection named in the Constitution and
secured by this act, and the constituted
authorities of such State shall either be
unable to protect, or shall, from any
cause fail in or refuse protection to the
people in such rights, such facts shall
be deemed denial by such States OF
the equal protection of the laws to which
they are entitled under the Constitu-
ton of the United States and in al
such cases, or whenever any such insur.
rection, violence, unlawful combination
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