Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-12-27
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of the United States, with view Of res,or-
ing peace and preserving the Union. His
proposition was read a first and second time,
and referred to the Committee of Thirteen.
1t is rs follows:
JOINT Resolutions Resolved by the Sen
alto and House of Representatives Of the
| United States Of America in Congress as
| scmbled (two-thrdS Of both Houses Concur
ring,) That the following articles be and are
| hereby proposed and submitted as amend
ments to the Constitution Of the United
! States, which shall be valid, to all intents
and purposes, as part OF said Constitution,
when ratified by Conventions Of three-fourths
of the several States. ...
ARTICLE xIIL--Sec. |. Congress shall make
no laws in respect to slavery or servitude IN
any Territory Of the United States; and the
stut,is of each Territory in respect 10 servltude,
as the same now exists by law. shall remain
unchanged until the Tertiary, with such
boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall
have population of fifty thousand white in
| habitants, when the white male citizens
| thereof over the Ire Of tHcnty-One years may
| proceed to FORM constitution and govern
ment for themselves, and exercise ali the
rights of selfgnvernment consistent with the
| Constitution Of the United States; and when
such new State shall contain the requisite pop
ulation for n nemherof Congress, according
| to the then Federal ratio Of representation, it
shall be admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, with or with
out slavery, as the constitution Of such new
State shall provide at the time Of admission;
and in the mean time such new State shall
be entitled to one delegate in the Senate, to
be chosen by the Legislature, and one dele
gate in the House Of Representatives, to be
chosen by the people having the qualltica-
tons requisite for electors OF the most nu-
lnerous branch of the Legislature; and said
delegates shall have all the rights and privi-
leges of Senator'S and Representatives, res
pectvely, except that OF voting.
Sec. 2. No more territory shall be acqu!r-
ed by the United States except by treaty or by
the current vote Of two-thirds OF each House
of Congress, aud when 81 acquired the status
thereof in respect to serVltude, as 1t existed
ut the time Of acquisition, shall remain un-
changed until it shall contain the population
aforesaid for the formation Of new States,
when it shall be subject to the terms cUndl-
tons, and privileges herein provided Tor the
existing Territories.
Sec. >. The area Of all new States snail be
as nearly uniform in size as may be practl-
cable. having due regard to convenient
boundaries and natural capacities; and shall
not be less than sixty nor more than eighty
thousand square miles, except in case OF is
lands which may contain less than that
amount.
Sec. 4. The second and third CLAUSES of the
second section of the fourth article ci the Con-
stitu,on, which provides for delivering up
fuyitives from Justice and lugltiycS from SER
vice or labor, shall: have the same force III the
Territories ana new States aS III the States
Of the Union; and the said clause in respect
to iugitiyes from Justice shall be construed
t. include i'll crimes committed within and
against the laws Of the States from which
the fugitive fed, whether the acts charged
be criminal or not in the State where tic
fugitive was found.
See. ). The second section Of the third ar
ticlc of the Constitution, in respect to the
judicial power Of the Uuited Statcs, shall b.
deemed applicable to the Territories and
new States as well as IL the States ri the
Union.
Article xry.-Sec. J.. The elective fran
chise and the right to hold office, whether
Federal, State, Territorial, or municipal,
shall not be exercised by persons Of the At
rican race, in whole or in part.
Sec. > The United States shall have pow
er to acquire, from time TO tune, districts vi
country in Africa and South Americas for the
colonization, at the expense Of the Federal
Treasury of such free negroes and mulattoes
as the several States may wish to have re-
moved from their limits, and from the D.s-
trict of Columbia and such other places as
may be under the jurisdiction Of Congress.
Sec s. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery il the places under its ex-
elusive jurisdiction and situate within the
| limits Of States that permit the holding OF
slaves.
Sec +. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery within the District Of Column
bia 81 long as it XiSts in the adjoining States
Of Virginia and Mary land, OF either, nor
without the consent OF the inhabitants, nor
without Just compensation first made to such
| owners Of slaves as do not consent 10 such
adjustment. Nor shall Congress ut any
time pr.,hbit officers of the Federal Gorern-
ment or members Of Congress, whose duties
require them to be in said District, from
bringing with them their slaves and holding
them as such during the time their dnties
may require them to remain there, and at
forwards taking them ircm the District.
| Sec S. Congress shall have no power to
prohibit or hinder the transportation OF slaves
| from one Stale to another, or IL II Territory
in which slaves are permitted by law TO be
held, whether such transportation be by
land, navigable rivers Or by sea; but the
| African slave trade shall be forever suppress
sed, and it shall he the duty 0: Congress 10
make such laws as shall be necessary and
ef'ectual to prevent the migration or lmpol-
tatiDn of slaves ~ persons owing service Or
labor, into the United States from any for
eign COUNTRY place. or jurisdiction wiIaISo-
| ever.
Sec 6. In addition to the provisions of
the third paragraph Of the second section OF
the fuurth article OF the Constitution, Con
gress shall have power to provide by law, and
it shall be its duty 50 to provide, that the
| United States shall pay to the owner who shall
apply for it the fall value Of his fugitive slave
in all cases when the marshal, or other Of
| fcer, whose Gaty it was to arrest said fugi-
tive, was prevented from so doing by yin-
lence or intimidation. or when, after arrest,
said fugitive was rescued by fierce and the
! owner thereby prevented aud INSTRUCTED in
| the pursuit of bis remedy for the recovery OF
| his fugitive slave under the said clause OF
| >ha Constitution ouI tho lou,c ,nn1t. in mr.