Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-08
objection was raised against the clause concern

State to the colOred free inhabitants OF other
States On the 25h of June, 1878, South Car
DINA accordingly moved to insert the word
lchitt in article fourth. clause first, between
the words free inhabitants"
Ga this proposition the Senate voted-ayes2 =
noes s, divided and the motion was rejected.
The two ayes were South Carolina ana Geor
gla.
South Carolina moved, after the words "sev.
eral States" to insert " according to the law OF
such States respectively, for the government OF
their own tree uhiie inhabitants" On which
motion the ayes were 2, the noes 3, divided
and 1t was rejected,
South Carolina was unable 10 repeal tut
clause of the old Confederation, or prevent It's
passing into Tue new Constitution. But size mas
found very convenient way OF escaping iVS
consequences since that time, ana calls upon
other States u fulfill their agreements IN these
articles Of compact, portion OF Whlch. "huer-
standing il perfectly well, as she showed by try--
ing to change it, she still goes on coo"y ana
deliberately, and habtnally and peIseVerlhgy
to violate it,
No other change seems to have been sugges-
ted in either of these clauses in the Continental
Congress during the whole period OF ten years
On the 2lst Of February 1884, grand CON,
mlttGp, OF NUICU tle nun, Nhlllul OubN1 VI
Beverly, Massachusetts, was chairman. recon-
mended meeting Of delegates from each Stale
to revise the Articles nf Confederation. On the
r,otion of the delegates from Massachusetts, 1t
was resolved to call a convention for that pur'
pose, to meet at Philadelphia on the second
Monday in May,
SundIy members met on that day, May 18th,
1887, but the convention did not elect their
President, George Washington, until the 25lh.
On Monday the 2Sth, they adopted their rules
and orders, and on TIE 20h, they proceeded to
business. On that day, Charles Pinckney, of
South Carono, submitted draft of consltu-
ton. which became the blsis Of the further &C
ton Of the convention.
In ih,s draft, the twelfth and thirteenth arti-
ces were as follows:
TART. XII The citizens of each State shall
be entitled to all the privileges and lmmunltes
of citizens in the several States. Any person
charged with crimes il any State fleeing from
Justice to another, shall on demand OF The Exec
utive the State from which he fled, be delivered
I'd, and removed to the State having jurisdiction
OF the offence.
"ARr. XIII. Full faith shall be given in each
State, to the acts of the Legislature, and to the
records and judicial proceedings of the courts
and magistrates of every State"
There is 10 reason to suspect, therefore, that
it had occurred to South Carolina at that time to
convert either OF these clauses into a grant of
power, or TO insert among them any provision
for the case of lugltives from service.-Nelther
of these changes had been thought of either by
South Crolina or, rs tara we know by any other
State. That these causes, as they stood in the
Articles of Confederation, were so far satisfac-
tory to all sections and to all parties as not to
be among those provisions Of the compact which
it was desired to revise and which the conven-
ton had come together expressly to reform,
seems to be quite evident, not only from the facts
already stated but also from the circumstance
that in the sir other plans submitted to the Cen
stitutional convention, in the form Of resolutions,
embodying the views Of leading statesmen, and
OF the different parties struggling TO mould the
Institutions upon principles in some respects
widely diverse from each other, neither the faith
due to public records, nor the imnunitles mutu-
ally pledged 10 citizens, nor the eXtraditon of
tugltiyeS from labor, is so much as once alluded
to. Yet the very object OF all these resolutions
was to bring forward and present for discussion
the views Of their authors upon all disputed
poiuts Involve IN the mission of the convention
The plans to which refer were Edmund Ran.
dolph's fifteen propositions, presented May 29th;
paIprsOp's plpVPO nrODnsltnOG spntp0 lime
1Sh. GIa,',I IIo;,+r,n,s nlan IN eIovan ,raao.
sltlon. presented June 18th; RandoIph's nian
MS amnrAsd. and apain submitted in COMMITTEE
nj the WboIe in nineteen resolutions June 1Ob
the ranort nj the committee of detail on the
tyort, thru, resolutions Jnlv Of tho ranort nf
,louon p,.5e SAoto,obnr An and Ia, sevaraI low,
nenr,,or1, Nc;bor oc tbsoo oyono cont,,,,,o ,,,,
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naar IN tho t;,I} 17,n1 shono - 1'U'' ''"P'
s. Ann iX-STc : The cit,zoos &c oooh
State ehaI bo oot;lad ,o tho rirIs ,,;,';, aS.
and I,,mnn;t;ns IF citizens in everv o,bar So.
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,ro Fe%nrol consolidation nonarcba ,enl eu
of .bo cnnven,ion norn tn,ia and fro l, ,In
mo o,hnr member. and was most des;r1n ''I 1o
,nD,,,nIy and eytcnd grants nj nnwpr IN tho iSoJ
orsi nyernmrnt Ec carried his notion 90 E,r
os IN Ies;rc that the Legislation nj eocb State
Should he controlled bv The I1nited sta,os onG
to effsc, Ib,s ob;pct in The tenth Of tho reso'
lions Alfred no MIN nm the IStb of limo bo
nrnnosed ,ba, me Governor of each S,a,a 81 nid
h. anno;ntad bv N, General Govern",on, nnJ
bo,s ',a,o ,,oon al loys oho,, 20 ha n,J ~
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