Year: 1863

Representatives may be necessary. except
on a question of adjournment. Il vote
shall be had by sections, and "A majority
of the Senators from each section voting.
shall be necessary 10 the passage of such
/ bill, order, or resolution, and 10 the va
lidity of every such vote.


SEC. ,. Two of the electors for Presi-
/ dent and Vice President shall be- appoint
ed by each State in such manner AS the
Legislature thereof may direct. for the
State al large. The two electors 10 which
each State may be entitled, shall be chO-
sen in the respective congressional dis
tricts into which the State may, at tie
regular decennial period, have been divi-
ded, by the electors of each district, hav-
ing the qualifications requisite for elect
ors of the most numerous branch of the
State Legislature. A majority of all the
electors in each of the four sections in
this article established, shall be necessary
to the choice of President and Vice Presi-
dent; and a concurrence of majority of
/ the States of each section shall be neceS-
sary to the choice of President by the
| House of Representatives, and of the Sen
ators of each section to the choice of
| Vice-President by the Senate, whenever
| the right of choice shall deYolve upon
them respectively.


Sec. 4. The President and Vice Presi-
dent shall hold tneir Office each during
the term of six years; and neither shall
be eligible to more than one term, except
by the votes of two-thirds of all the cleo
tors of each section, or of the States of
each section, whenever the right of choice
of President shall devolve upon the House
of Representatives, or of Senators from
each section whenever the right of choice
Of Vice President shall devolve upon the
Senate.


SEC. 5. The Congress shall, by law,
provide for the case of failure by the
House of Representatives TO choose a
President, and of the Senate to choose a
Vice President, whenever the right of
choice shall devolve them upon respec-
lively, declaring what officer shall then
act as President; and such officer shall
act accordingly until President shall be
elected. The Congress shall also provide
by law for special election for President
and Vice-President in such case to be held
and completed within six months from
the expiration of the term of office of the
last preceding President, and to be con-
Quoted in all respects as provided for in
the Constitution for regular elections OF
the same officer, except that if the House
of Representatives shall not choose a
President, should the right of choice de
volve upon them, within twenty days
from the opening of the certificates and
counting of the electoral votes, then the
Vice President shall act as President, as !
in the case of the death or other consti- |
tutional disability of the President. The
term of Office of the President chosen un-
der such special election shall continue
six years from the fourth day of March
preceding such election.


ARTICLE XIV.


No State shall secede without the con-
sent of the Legislatures of the States of
the section to which the State proposing |
to secede belongs. The President shall |
have power TO adjust with seeding States |
all questions arising by reason of their se
cession; but the terms of adjustment shall !
be submitted to the Congress for their APP
proyal before the same shall be valid.


ARTICLE XIV.


Neither the Congress nor a Territorial |
Legislature shall have power to interfere
with the right of the citizens of any the
States within either of the sections to mi
crate upon equal terms with the citizens
of the State within either of the other
sections TO the Territories of the United
States: nor shall either the Congress or
Territorial Legislature have power to de-
stroy or impair any rights of either per-
son or property in the Territories.


New States annexed for admission into
the Union, or formed or erected within
the Jurisdiction of other States, or by the
junction of two or more States, or parts
of States; and States formed, with the
consent of the Congress, out of any ter
ritory of the United States, shall be enti-
tied to admission upon equal footing with
the original States, under any constitU-
ton establishing government republican
in form which the people thereof may or
dain, whenever such States, if formed out
of any territory of the United States,
shall contain, within an area if not less
than sixty thousand square miles, pop
ulation equal to the then existing ratio of
for one member of the |
House of Representatives.


What are the main features of the
amendments proposed by Vallandigham?


First. the division of the Nation into
four sections.





stop all legislation and governmental ac-
ton on subjects not agreeable 10 it,


Third, to take from the people the
election of Presidential Electors, and yes
ting in it in an appointing ToO,oer.


Fourth, to increase the length of the
Presidential term of Office from four years
to six.


What would have been the result of
these amendments had ValIandigham
succeeded with them?


The first and second would have ena-
bled minority of one fourth or less to
defeat the will of a majority of three
fourths, which is undemocratic. The OBJ
ject of this was ably set forth at said con-
vention, by Aunt Betsy Gibson in her old
maidish way. He told his admiring au-
ditory that it would have enabled the
Southern aristocracy to hold their mig
gahs" in perpetual bondage forever, be-
get and sell sons and daughters from them
with no one to modest or make them
afraid"


Therefore, it appears from the efforts
of Vallandigham and the teachings of
Aunt Betsy, that it is right to alter and
amend the Constellation, if so be that it is
done to the advantage of niger raising
and breeding, and that there are depths
of depravity to which true copperheads
must abase themselves, and yet baser
dirt to be served up for their exquisitely
dainty palates. "On thy belly shalt thou ;
crawl all the days of thy life."


The third would have taken from the
people rights which they now possess, at