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The Historic Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution: Abolishing the Institution of Slavery.Signed by Speaker of the House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, and over 107 members of the 38th Congress, including future President James A. Garfield.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (Amendment xiii, Section 1)
Historic original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution signed by over 109 members of Congress - calling for the abolition of slavery throughout the land. 1 page (15.75 x 21.5 in.; 400 x 546 mm.), on parchment, [Washington, D.C., ca. February 1865], accomplished in manuscript within a ruled border; marked Duplicate at the heading. As with all known examples of this document some of the text and signatures are on the light side as the vellum used for these documents tended to absorb the ink. Four faint signatures of members of the Senate, including Charles Sumner and John P. Hale, are written on the left margin. Scattered spotting with usual toning.
The heading of the manuscript reads: Thirty-eighth Congress of the United States, at the Second Session begun and held at the City of Washington, on Monday, the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four. A Resolution submitting to the legislatures of the Several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States." The historic document's text follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of the members of both Houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the Several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution; namely: Article XIII. Section 1. Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by Appropriate Legislation.
Following the text are the signatures of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. Below, written in three ruled columns, are signatures of over (107) members of the 38th Congress who voted for the amendment. Among those signing are many important politicians who served in the Congress during the Civil War and on into the Reconstruction Era that followed.
Signatures are:
J.G. Blaine [ME], Sidney Perhaman [ME], John H. Rice [ME], F.A. Pike [ME], J.W. Patterson [NH], E.H. Rollins [NH], Fredck. E. Woodbridge [VT], Portus Baxter [VT], Justin S. Morrill [VT], Thomas D. Eliot of [MA], Oakes Ames [MA], S. Hooper [MA], Geo. S. Boutwell [MA], W.B. Washburn [MA], H.L. Dawes [MA], D.W. Gooch [MA], J.M. Ashley [OH], Ln. Anderson [KY], John D. Baldwin [MA], J.F. Farnsworth, [IL], James E. English [CT], John H. Hubbard [CT], Henry C. Deming [CT], T.B. Shannon [CA], Anson Herrick [NY], H.A. Nelson [NY], D.C. Littlejohn [NY], John A. Griswold [NY], Calvin T. Hulburd [NY], S.F. Miller [NY], Jas. M. Marvin [NY], Theodore M. Pomeroy [NY], D. Morris [NY], Thos. T. Davis [NY], Augustus Frank [NY], F. Clarke [NY], John B. Steele [NY], Orlando Kellogg [NY], A.W. Clark [NY], J.W. McClurg [MO], E.R. Eckey [OH], M. Russell Thayer [PA], H.W. Tracy [PA], Chas. Upson [MI], A.H. Coffroth [PA], Wm. D. Kelley [PA], J.K. Moorhead [PA], J.M. Broomall [PA], Chas. O'Neill [PA], A. Myers [PA], Thaddeus Stevens [PA], Thomas Williams [PA], Joseph Bailey [PA], W. Higby [CA], N.B. Smithers [DE], Giles W. Hotchkiss [NY], James T. Hale [PA], F.C. Beaman [MI], J.B. Grinnell [IA], Edwin H. Webster [MD], Francis Thomas [MD], H. Winter Davis [MD], Nathan F. Dixon [RI], R.P. Spalding [OH], J.A. Garfield [OH], W.A. Hutchins [OH], Robt. C. Schenck [OH], J.O. Norton [IL], T.A. Jenckes [RI], W.H. Randall [KY], Geo. H. Yeaman [KY], Alexn. H. Rice [MA], Henry G. Worthington [NV], Wm. Windom [MN], F.W. Kellogg [MI], I.C. Sloan [WI], Aug. C. Baldwin [MI], Leonard Myers [PA], Schuyler Colfax [IN], I.N. Arnold [IL], E.C. Ingersoll [IL], E.B. Washburne [IL], Godlove S. Orth [IN], G.W. Scofield [PA], Benjn. F. Loan [MO], Sempronius H. Boyd [MO], Henry T. Blow [MO], Samuel Knox [MO], Jno. R. McBride [OR], Jno. W. Longyear [MI], J.F. Driggs [MI], Augustus Brandegee [CT], Austin A. King [MO], Wm. B. Allison [IA], A.W. Hubbard [IA], John A. Kasson [IA], James F. Wilson [IA], H. Price [IA], James S. Rollins [MO], Amasa Cobb [WI], Ignatius Donnelly [MN], Ezra Wheeler [WI], Cornelius Cole [CA], Jacob B. Blair [WV], R.B. Van Valkenburgh [NY], K. Whaley [WV], G. Clay Smith [KY]
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