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Shepherdstown Register
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Congress passed the Reconstruction Committee's report by more than two-thirds vote, declaring Southern States disorganized and proposing constitutional amendments for their readmission, including deprivation of suffrage and office-holding for those who participated in the Rebellion, and granting franchise rights to negroes based on citizenship.
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The report of the "Reconstruction Committee" of Congress, declaring the Southern States "disorganized communities" and no longer "States" and proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States, prescribing the conditions upon which the Southern States may be admitted into the Union, has passed both houses of Congress by more than a two-thirds vote.
Whenever these amendments have been adopted by 27 States they will become part of the Constitution. No Southern representatives to be admitted until these conditions are complied with. They deprive all who participated in or sympathized with the "Rebellion," of suffrage and the right to hold Federal offices until 1870, and after that, forever, all above the rank of colonel in the Confederate Army; all who held offices under the Confederate or State government, members of the Confederate Congress and State Legislature. The negro to have the right of franchise or the right of representation to be based upon citizenship, and when suffrage is denied any class of persons, except as a punishment, they are to be excluded from the basis of representation.
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passed both houses of congress by more than two-thirds vote; amendments to become part of constitution upon adoption by 27 states; no southern representatives admitted until conditions complied with; deprivation of suffrage and federal offices for participants in or sympathizers with the rebellion until 1870, and forever for higher-ranking confederates and officials; negroes granted right of franchise; representation based on citizenship, excluding those denied suffrage except as punishment.
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The report of the Reconstruction Committee of Congress declared the Southern States disorganized communities no longer States and proposed amendments to the Constitution prescribing conditions for their admission into the Union.