An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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H. R. 740 is introduced and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Whereas it is alleged that informal negotiations are now pending between the United States and the so-called confederate States with a view to a restoration of peace:
Therefore,
Be it resolved, That it is the deliberate and emphatic opinion of this House that no enduring peace can or should be made which shall ever recognize the traitorous leaders of this rebellion as citizens of the United States, entitled to equal rights, privileges, and immunities with the loyal people thereof under the Constitution of the United States.