Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-05-04
The Kt.AIux Bill.
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The followingiis the Ku-Klux bill
as finally passed:
AN ACT to enforce the provisions Of
the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitutional the United States,
and for othef.purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the Uni
ted States Of america IN Congress
assembled,jf That any person who,
under color, ,ofany, law, statute, ordi-
nance, regulation, custom, or usage of
any State, shall subject, or cause to
be subjected, any person within the
jurisdiction Of the United States to
the deprivatioh.of any rights, priyi-
leges, or immunities secured by the
Constitution Of the United States,
shall, any such law, statue, ordinance,
regulation, custom, or usage Of the
State to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, be liable to the party injured in
anv action at law, suit in equity, or
other proper proceeding for redress !;
such proceeding to be prosecuted in
the several district or circuit courts
Of the United States, with and sub
iect to the. same rights of appeal,
review upon error. and other reme-
dies provided in like cases in such
courts, under the provisions of the
act of the ninth Of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled =" An
act to protect all persons in the
United States in their civil rights,
and to furnish the means of their
vindication, and the other remedial
laws of the United States which are
in their nature applicable in such
cases.
Sec. .. Thatif two or moro per-
sons within any State or Territory of
the United States shall conspire to-
sether to overthrow, or to put down,
or to destroy by force the Govern
ment of the United States, OF to levy
war against the United States, or to
oppose3b by f0rcssl,le authority of the
Government of the United States, or
bv force, intimidation, or threat, to
prevent, hinder or delay the eXecu-
ton of a"y 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
prevent any person from accepting
or holding any Office Of TRUST or place
of confidence under the United States,
or from diseharging the duties there
of, crby force. intimidation or threatto
induce any officer of the United States
to leave amy State, district, orplace
where his duticsassu such officer mightbe
lawfully performed, or to injure him
in his person or property on account
of his lawful discharge Of the duties
of his office, or to iniure his persc n
while engaged in thelawful discharge
Of the duties of his office, or:toinjure
his property so as to molest, hinder,
interfere with, or impede him in the
discharge of his official duty; or by
force, intimidation, or threat to deter
any party or witness in any court of
the United States from attending such
court, or from testifying in any. mat
ter pending in such courtfully, freely,
and truthtully, or to iniure any such
party or witness in his person or
property on account of his having so
attended or testified; or by force,
in imidation, or threat to influence
the verdict, presentment, or indict-
ment of any juror or grand juror in
any court of the United States; or
to injure such juror in his person or
property on account Of any verdict,
presentment, or indictment lawfully
assented to by him, or an account of
his being or having been such juror !;
or shall conspire together, or go in
disguise upon the public highway or
upon the 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 laws, Or of equal privileges or
immunities under the laws, or for the
purpose of preventing or hindering
the constituted authorities of any
State from giving or securing to all
persons within such State the equal
protection Of the laws; or shall con-
spiro together for the purpose of, in
any manner, impeding, hinderlng,
obstruoting, Or defeating the due
course Of justice in any State or Ter
ritory, with intent to deny to any
citizen Of The United States the due
and 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 to injure any person in his
person or his property for lawfully
enforcing theright of any person or
class OF persons to the equal protec-
tion of the laws, or by force, intimi-
dation or threat to prevent any citi-
zen Of the United States lawfully
entitledto vote from giving his sup
port or advocacy in a lawful manner
toward in favor of the election of
any lawfully qualified person as an
elector Of President or Vice-President
Of the United States, or as member
Of the 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 a high crime, and, upon
conviction thereof in any district Or
circuit court of the United States, OF
district or supreme court Of any
Territory ofatheo United Stateshaving
Jurisdiction of similar offenses,, shall
be punished BY fine not less than
ivexhunared nor more than five
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