The persons exempted from the benefits of the foregoing
provisions are all who are, or shall have been, civil or
diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate
Government: all who have left judicial stations under the United
States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been
military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate
Government above the rank of Colonel in the army or Lieutenant in
the Navy; all who have left seats in the United States Congress
to aid the rebellion; all who resigned commissions in the army or
navy of the United States and afterward aided the rebellion; and
all who have engaged in any way in treating colored persons, or
white persons in charge of such, otherwise than lawfully as
prisoners of war, and which persons may have been found in the
United States service as soldiers, seamen, or in any capacity.

And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever,
in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North
Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth in number
of the votes cast in such State at the Presidential election of
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each
having taken the oath aforesaid and not having since violated it,
and being a qualified voter by the election laws of the State
existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and
excluding all others, shall reestablish a State government which
shall be republican, and in no wise contravening said oath, such
shall be recognized as the true government of the State, and the
State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional
provision which declares that "the United States shall guarantee