An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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Reuben Fenton leaves the House of Representatives; More members join the House; H. R. 602 is reported back from the Committee on the Rebellious States with amendments; President's Annual Message is considered in the Committee of the Whole.
A BILL
To guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Senators and Repthe States declared to be in rebellion against the United Statives shall not be received from any, and within which the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States heretofore declared in rebellion agaias been overthrown, shall not be permitted to resume their political relations with the ofUnited States untiloyal ion of cizensS l boy, an act or joint Coondd esal, repusblica4n in form foveritizenshis objections,thnt within such sState shall have4 been first declaredhthav$1,500ng5rea rs befolaespel ctively, a Statee constitution shall be organizdained a just lo,c5governmentnd esrr tablished, republican in form, ato entlled to represioln inrespec forever prohibitivHouses Congress.
Sec. –6. And be it further enacted, Than at portionly, a Stateretoforre declared tor be in the ted rebellshallordained and esagain7United the States, entame anrated blished, republicPresident's proclaJan in form, marever prohibiting the on of January 1, and involuntary serv89itude, otherwise than in such Sta of the te shl al, and the guar9herebGy shed and prohibited forevee1r, and the re-enslavement8, or holdy, or tcivil ing to all iLGn ary servit ipersonsaid States freedom and equalityy1 SR2 free by the proclamation ofé the President of the United States, SR2 of an the dthan é of rightsereof the beut is a shall fore the lawn either f said States to the contrarthsta.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the State of Louisiana is hereby permitted to resume its political relations with the government of the United States under the constitution adopted by the convention which assembled on the sixth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at New Orleans.