Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-29
Mr.. Dony,,.., Plan or Adjustment.

ced Joint Resolution into the Senate proposing
amendments to the Constitution ofthe UntedStates
with view of restoring peace and preserving the
Union. His proposition was read a first and second
time, and referred to the Committee of Thirteen
1t is as follows:
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Resotced 6y the Senate and House of Representa-
tires Of the United States Of Anaerica IN Congress
assembled, (tco-thirds Of both Houses concurring0
That the following articles be and are hereby pro-
posed and submitted as amendments to the Const
tuition Of the United States, which shall be valid to
all intents and purposes part of said Constitution,
when ratified by Conventions of threeourths of the
several States.
ARTICLE XIII.
Congress shall make no laws in respect to slavery
servitude in any Territory of the United States;
and the status Of each Territory in respect to sery
tude as the same now exists by law, shall remain
unchanged until the Territory, with such bounda-
ries Congress may prescribe shall have popula-
ton of fifty thousand white inhabitants, when the
white male citizens thereof over the age Of twenty
one years may proceed to form constitution and
government for themselves, and exercise all the
rights of selfgovernment consistent with the Con-
sttution of the United States; and when such new
State shall contain the requisite population for
member of Congress, according to the then Federal
ratio Of representation it shall be admitted into the
Union on equal footing with the original States,
with without slavery, as the constitution OF SUCH
new State shall provide at the time of admission;
and in the mean time such State shall be enti-
tied to delegate in the Senate, to be chosen by
the Legislature and one delegate in the House OF
Representatives to be chosen by the people having
the qualifications requisite for electors of the most
numerous branch of the legislature and said dele
gates shall have all the rights and privileges of Sen
ators and Representatives, respectively except that
of voting
Sec 2. No more territory shall be acquired by
the United States except by treaty or by the con-
current vote Of two thirds of each House of Con-
gress, and when so acquired the status thereof in
respect to servitude it existed at the time OF &C
question: shall remain unchanged until 1t shall con-
tain the population aforesaid for the formation OF
new States when it shall be subjected to the terms,
conditions and privileges herein provided for the
existing Territories.
Sec 8. The area of all new States shall be as
nearly uniform IN size may be practicable having
due regard to convenient boundaries and natural ca
pacties; and shall not be less than sixty nor more
than eighty thousand square miles, except in case of
islands which may contain less than that amount
Sec t. The second and third clauses of the second
section OF the fourth article of the Constitution,
which provides for delivering up fngitves from jus
tice and fugitives from service or labor, shall have
force in the Territories and new States as in the
States Of the Unon and the said clause in respect
to fugtives from Justice shall be construed to include
all crimes committed within and against the laws of
the State from which the fugitive fed whether the
acts charged be criminal or not in the State where
the fugitive found.
Sec D. The second section Of the third article of
the Constitution in respect to the judicial power of
the United States shall be deemed applicable to the
Territories and States well to the States Of
the Union.
ARTICLE XIV.
Sec l. The elective franchise and the right to
hold Office, whether Federal, State Territorial, or
municipal shall not be exercised by persons Of the
African race in whole or in part
Sec 2. The United States shall have power to &C.
qure from time to time districts Of country in AT
RIGA and South America Tor the colonization, at the
expense of the Federal Treasury, of such free ne
grOcs and muattoes rs the several States may wish
to have removed from their limits, and from the
District of Columbia and such other places as may
be under the jurisdiction Of Congress
Sec. 3. Congress shall have no power to abolish
slavery in the places under its exclusive jurisdiction
and situate within the limits of States that permit
the holding Of slaves.
Sec 4. Congress shall have no power to abolish
slavery within the District Of Columbia so long as
it exists in the adjoining States Of Virginia and
Maryland or either nor without the consent of in
habitantS, nor without just compensation first made
to such owners of slaves do not consent to such
adjustment Nor shall Congress at any time pro-
hibt officers Of the Federal Government members
of Congress- whose duties require them to be in said
DlStIiCl, HOHl WIN thSH S'a'S' "N
holding them as such during the time their duties
may require them to remain there, and afterwards
taking them from the District
SEC g. Congress shall have no power to prohibit
or hinder the transportation of slaves from State
to another, to Territory in which slaves are per-
mttcd by law to be held, whether such transporta-
ton he by land navgabe rivers, oy sea; but the
African slave trade shall be forever suppressed and
it shall be the duty of Congress to make such laws
shall be necessary and effectual to prevent the
migration importation Of slaves or persons owing
service labor, into the United States from any
foreign country, place, jurisdiction whatsoever.
SEC 6. In addition to the provisions of the third
paragraph of the second section of the fourth article
Of the Constitution, Congress shall have power to
provide by law and it shall be its duty TO provide,
that the United States shall pay to the owner who
shall apply for it the full value of his fugitive slave
in all cases hen the marshal, other officer whose
duty it to arrest said fugitive, was prevented
from so doing by violence or intimidation, or when,
after arrest said fugitive rescued by force and
the owner thereby prevented and INSTRUCTED in the
pursuit Of his remedy for the recovery of his fug
tive slave under the said clause of the Constitution
and the laws made in pursuance thereof And in
all such when the United States shall pay for
such fugtves they shall have the right in their
name to the county in which said violence, in
timidatiOn, rescue was committed, and to recover
from it. with interest and damages the amount paid
by them for said fugitive slave And the said coun
ty, after 1t has paid said amounts to the United
States may, for its indemnity, and recover from
the wrong doors or rescuers by whom the owner
was prevented from the recovery of his fugitive slave
IN like manner the owner himself might have
sued and recovered
SEC Z. No future amendment Of the Constitution
shall affect this and the preceding article nor the
third paragraph of the second section of the first
article Of the Constitution, the third paragraph
of the second section of the fourth article of said
Constitution, and no amendment shall be made to
the Constitution which will authorize or give to
Congress any power to abolish interfere with
slavery in any of the States by whose laws it is or
may be allowed or sanctioned
The RI Rev. Bishop Atkinson, of this Diocese