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franchise were extended to the Negro and if
withheld from him it would be diminished in the
same
proportion that the male Negroes over twenty
one years of age
bear to the number of male citizens
twenty one years of age.
This is simply a
proposition to grant suffrage
to the Negro or yield the right
of equal representation
in congress.
The third section would disqualify a large
class of persons
from holding Public positions either
State or Federal, in
consiquence of participation in
the late war, and establish a
proscriptive test of
disibility to office which would deprive
the states of
of the services of their Ablests(sp) Finist(sp)
and most honored citizens
The fifth section would give Congress power
to enforce the
preceeding provisions by appropriate
legislation
Under that clause the sovergnty of the States
might be
completely subverted by devesting them of
of the right now
secured by the Constitution
The Amendment proposes changes to the
fundamental law in
direct antagonism with our
system of government and upon terms
dishonoring and
degrading to the people of the Southern
States.
Your Committee
therefor recommends
the adoption of the accompanying
resolution.
Resolvede(sp)
That the General Assembly of the State
Of
Arkansas declines to ratify the Amendment adding
Article
Fourteen to the Constitution of the the United
States as
proposed by joint resolution of Congress.
Brooks of Washington
Chairman Committee on
Federal Relations.
The
following message was received from the Senate
Senate Chambers
Monday Dec 17th 1866.
Mr Speaker
I am instructed by the Senate to
report to your honorable body
Senater Bill No 2, Entitled
an Act to define the rights of
Persons of color, which
has passed the Senate and request the
concurrence of
this House in the same.
Also to report to the House
Senate Joint Resolution No 17
Recommending a rejection
by the General Assembly of this State
of the Consti-
tutional Amendment proposed by the last
Congress
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