Year: 1867

visSons pyorid6 That no sentence OF death under this
act ka be carried into execution Without the approVa
OF the President. o


SIC When the people Of any Of said Rebel States
shall have formed constitution and government ID con-
f0rmity with the Constitution Of the United states IN all
respects framed by convention OF delegates eecteu py
the male citizens of said State q years 9a ana
whatever color previous condition, who nave
been resident in said State for one year previous 10 inc
day Of such election except such as may pe
the Rebellion for Felony at common
law and when such constitution SHAH provide that tne
elective franchise shall be enjoyed by all such persons rs
have the qualifications herein stated for electors Of dele
gates when such constitution shall be ratified by ma
orty Of the persons voting on the question OF raticaO
who are qualified as electors for delegates, and when
such constitution shall have been submitted to Congress
for examination and approval and congress shal .ane
Legislature elected under said constitution shall have
adopted the amendment TO the Constitution OF the United
States proposed by the XXXIXh Congress, and known
Article IA, and when said article shall have become
shall be declared entitled to representation In Congress-
and Senators and Representatives shall be admitted
hercfrom on their taking the oath prescribed by law and


then and thereafter the preceding sections OF this act
shall be imperative IN said state Prordcd That no per
proposed amendment TO the Constitution Of the United
States shall be eligible to election as member OF ,he
convention 10 dIao me- h eron ota f3r menhers of


sEc Ind b, hirU,r enocted That until the people
OF the said Rebel states shall by law be admitted to rep
rovernments that NAV exist therein shall be deemed pro-
vlsonal only and shall be in all respects subject to the
paramount authority Of the United states at any time TO
abolish modify. control and supersedo mo same, ana IN
ments ali persons shall he entitled under the pro
visions of the 9th section of this act And no person
shall be eligible 10 any office provisional gov
crnmens who would be disqualified from holding Oce
under the of the third article Of said Consu
tOnal Amendment .........


The immediate responsibility now rests with
the President, and after him with the Southern
States. He may veto the bill, and they may
refuse its offers But should it become law,
the effects will be these:


/. The Rebel States will retain their present
governments, but merely as provisional govern
ments, under which no person who, as the
third section of the Constitutional Amend
ment enacts, "having taken an oath as
"a member of Congress- or as an 0ffl-
"cer of the United States, or as member
" of any State Legislature, or as executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support the
Constitution of the United States" shall have
aided the Rebellion. is eligible to office. And
also under such governments no discrimination
in regard to color shall be made in the elective
franchise.


II. While these provisional governments
exist, the Rebel States are to be divided into
military districts, governed by officers of the
army, with power to organize military courts
superior to State authority.


III The people of the Rebel States, when
ever they are tired of this government, may,
10y q vote of all their citizens, without respect
to color, except those disqualified from hold
ing office 10y the Constitutional Amendment,
elect delegates TO a Convention to form State
Constitutions. When these Constitutions are
established upon the basis of impartial Suf-
fagc, aud are ratified by the people,
and when the States thus organized
have adopted tho Constitutional Amend
met. they shall be admitted to representa-
tion in Congress, when military rule will
cease, and South Carolina and Texas will hold
the same places in the Union as New
York and Massachusetts. Nor is there
want of cause to hope that this result may soon
be reached for those provisions of the bill
which at once establish Impartial Suffrage
make the Freedmen equal participants in the