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But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred
in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States,
or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave;
but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
originally posted by: ntech
The emancipation clause applies to any claim arising from the loss of any slave.
AND any claim arising from the emancipation of any slave.
This clause specifically covers any claim arising from slavery. From all sides of the issue.
originally posted by: ntech
So prove me wrong with facts and documents stating otherwise from the 1800s.
4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment dealt with the public debt, especially as related to the Civil War. The first part of the section declared that the public debt of the United States, including pensions made to Union veterans, could not be questioned. The second part prevented the federal and state governments from taking on and paying Confederate debt, including claims made by former slaveowners for the lost property value in slaves due to the abolition of slavery.
Sec. 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 of war against the United States, or any claim for compensation for loss of involuntary service or labor.
The financial danger, so far as it depends upon an assumption or payment of the rebel debt or compensation for emancipated slaves, is properly guarded against in the fourth section of the report. ...
The President... wishes the confederate debt and claims for emancipated slaves repudiated.
SPEECH OF HON. T. O. HOWE,of WISCONSIN,
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE,
June 5 and 6, 1866.
Mr. HOWE said:
Mr. PRESIDENT: At some time during this debate I purposed to state to the Senate my apology for the vote I am going to give. Perhaps the Senate would as lief listen to it this afternoon, or at least as lief allow me to state it this afternoon as at any time.
I am going to vote for the constitutional amendment now pending....
...
But again, we propose to declare that the obligations of the United States incurred in suppressing this rebellion shall be met as honest men meet all their obligations. I will not argue that proposition to the Senate. I do not know that it is likely to be opposed. We propose to say, furthermore, that the debt which has been incurred in the effort to overthrow the Government of the United States shall not be paid; nor shall the United States ever be taxed to pay the value of the slaves we have made free, and were compelled to make free, to save the life of the nation.