ied to any portion of its male citizens not
less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for
participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation
in such State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of
male citizens shall bear to the whole number of such male citizens
not less than twenty-one years of age.

"SECT. 3. Until the fourth day of July in the year 1870, all persons
who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and
comfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for representatives
in Congress and for electors for President and Vice-President of the
United States.

"SECT. 4. Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafter be
incurred, in aid of insurrection or war against the United States, or
any claim for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor.

"SECT. 5. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article."]

[(2) Among the prominent Southern men who had received the pardon of the
President, and who, desiring to hold office under the National
Government, had their disabilities under the Fourteenth Amendment
subsequently removed by Congress, were: M. C. Butler, James L. Orr,
and William Aitken of South Carolina; Joseph E. Brown, Henry W.
Hilliard, and Lafayette McLaws of Georgia; F. M. Cockrell, George G.
Vest, and John B. Clarke of Missouri; J. D. C. Atkins and George Maney
of Tennessee; Randall Gibson of Louisiana; Otho R. Singleton of
Mississippi; Alexander R. Boteler of Virginia; Allen T. Caperton and
Charles J. Faulkner of West Virginia; M. W. Ransom, Thomas S. Ashe,
and A. M. Scales of North Carolina; W. B. Machen of Kentucky; John T.
Morgan and James L. Pugh of Alabama.

These gentlemen had all held high positions either in the civil or
military service of the Confederacy. A great number of additional
names might be cited of persons who, having been fully pardoned by the
President, were afterwards relieved of their disabilities by Congress.
The names quoted are but a few of the more conspicuous of those who
have, since the Rebellion, held high official positions under the
Government of the United States.]

[(3) The form of the Fourteenth Amendment, as finally agreed upon by
Congress and submitted to the States for ratification, is as follows:--

"ARTICLE XIV.

"SECT. 1. All p