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The Original Thirteenth Amendment The Founders held an intense disdain and
distrust of "Nobility"
as a result of a long history, during Colonial times, of abuses and excesses
against the Rights of Man and the established Common Law and Constitutions by
the "Nobility", and therefore placed in the new Constitution
two injunctions against acceptance of Titles of Nobility or Honor or emoluments
from external sources. The Revolutionary War for Independence was primarily waged to eliminate these abuses and
excesses of the "Nobility" and the "Monied Classes" from the life of the Nation,
recognizing the Equality of all men. As there was no penalty attached to a title
of nobility or honor in the Constitution as originally ratified, the Original Thirteenth Amendment
was proposed in December of 1809 to institute penalty for accepting or using a "Title
of Nobility or Honor" to set oneself apart from, or superior to, or
possessing of any special privileges or immunities not
available to any other citizen of the United States, and to eliminate the widespread use of "emoluments"
as bribery and of the legislatures and judiciary used to further the causes and positions of "Special
Interests". It was an attempt to keep politicians and civil servants "Honest"
in their service to the citizens. As noted in the discussion in
Article 1 of the Constitution, the original Thirteenth Amendment,
was ratified in 1819, adding a heavy penalty upon any person holding or
accepting a Title of Nobility or Honor, or emoluments from external powers by
making that person "cease to be a citizen of the United States"
and "incapable of holding any Office of Trust or Profit under the
United States". This Amendment was proposed, properly ratified, and
was a matter of record in the several States archives until 1876, by which time
it was quietly, and fraudulently deleted, never repealed, during the period of
Reconstruction after the Civil War and the presently acknowledged Thirteenth
Amendment was substituted. The original records of the original 13th amendment
were thought to be destroyed at the time of the burning of the capitol during
the War of 1812, but have since been found in the archives of the British Museum, the national archives and in the archives of several of the States and
territories. The fact of its existence had been lost to memory until, by
chance, researchers discovered in the public library at Belfast, Maine an 1825 copy of the U. S. Constitution.
Subsequent research shows that it was in the records of the ratifying states
and territories until 1876, the last to drop it from record was the Territory of Wyoming after 1876. The most intriguing discovery was the 1867 Colorado The 1876
Laws of Wyoming which similarly show the "missing" Thirteenth
Amendment, the current 13th Amendment (freeing the slaves), and the current
15th Amendment on the same page.
The current 13th Amendment is listed as the 14th, the current 14th amendment is
omitted, and the current 15th Amendment is in proper place. For further discussion and
the history of the Original Thirteenth Amendment see "Demon of
Discord, Ratification and Suppression of the Original Thirteenth Article of
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States." On December 3, 1860, the month after Lincoln was elected, President Buchanan asked Congress to
propose an "explanatory amendment". It was to be another 13th
Amendment, to eradicate and cover-up the deletion of the Original Thirteenth
Title of Nobility and Honour Amendment. This proposed
amendment, which would have forever legalized slavery, was signed by President
Buchanan the day before Lincoln
took office. This amendment to the Constitution relating
to slavery was sent to the states for ratification by the Second Session of the
Thirty-sixth Congress on March 2, 1861, when it passed the Senate, having previously passed
the House on The resolve to amend signed by President
Buchanan on Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 part of the said Constitution, viz: "ARTICLE THIRTEEN, No
amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to
Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic
institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the
laws of said State." In other words, President Buchanan had
signed a resolve that would have forever permitted slavery, and upheld states'
rights. Only one State, Illinois,
Lincoln's home state, had ratified this proposed amendment
before the Civil War broke out in 1861. It appears at 12 Stat. 251, 36th
Congress. Two more State legislatures ratified it, beginning with Ohio on May 13, 1861, followed by Maryland on January 10, 1862. But the onslaught of the Civil War taught
that the Nation may be in even greater peril from the States than they ever
were from the Nation. And so, after more than seventy years of national life,
the people, by the presently acknowledged 13th Amendment and the two following,
laid upon the States restrictions which a few years before would have been
impossible. The Constitution had gone forty-six years (1819 - 1865) without an
Amendment.
In the tumult of 1865, the original
Thirteenth Amendment was removed from our Constitution. In a Congressional Resolve to amend
dated December 5, 1864,
approved and signed by President Lincoln, On December 18, 1865, the "new"
13th Amendment loudly prohibiting and abolishing slavery (and quietly
surrendering states rights to the federal government) was proclaimed
adopted by Secretary of State Seward, replacing and effectively erasing the original Thirteenth Amendment
that had prohibited acceptance of "titles of nobility" and "honors"
and "emoluments", and dishonest politicians have been
bought and bribed and have treasonously accepted graft from external sources
ever since, with no thought of penalty. |