The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-02-21
Senator Douglas Substitute for the Citten
den Proposition.

The following is Senator Donglas' sub
st;tute for the Crittenden amendment and
resolutions complete.
SEC. ]. Congress shall make no laws
in respect to domestic ssrvitude in any
territory of the United States. and all the
territorial governments shall be formed on
the model and in the terms of the organic
acts approved September ninth, eighteen
hundred and fifty. called the Compromise
measures, and the validity Of all territorial
enactmsnts shall be finally determined by
the Supreme Court of the United States,
on appeal or writ of error from The terrific
rial courts. But no new territory shall be
organized until it shall contain twenty thou
sand white inhabitants, nor shall any new
State be admitted into the Union until 1t
shall contain the requisite population for a
Representative in Congress, according to
the Federal ratio Of representation.
SEC g. Congress shall have no power
to abolish or interfere with the relations of
persons bsld to service Or labor IN any
State, under the laws thereof, nor In any
place uuder the exclusive jurisdiction Of
Congress, and situate within the limits of
any State or territory under whose laws
persons are held to service OF labor nor IN
the district of Columbia, under the laws in
force therein, without the consen: of Mary
land and Virginia, so long as suoh relations
shall exist in either Of these States under
the laws thereof; nor shall Congress have
power to interfere with, or prevent the re-
of lalI lob
from one State or territory to another.
The African slave trade shall be forever
suppressed and it shall be the duty of Con
gress to make such laws as will effectually
prevent the immi grafton or importation III
10 the United States, under any pretence
whatever.
Sec a. The second section of the fourth
article of the Constitution, shall be con
strued to include all crimes committed
within and agalns! the state or place from
which the fugitive had fled, whether the acts
charged were criminal or not in the place
where the fugitive was found.
SEC S. The elective franchise and the
right to hold Office, whether Federal, state
Territorial or Municipal, shall not be exsr.
clsed by persons of tbs African race, 10
whole part.
Sec. 6. The United States shall have
power to acquire districts of country In
Africa or South America, .or the colonial
ton at the expense of the Federal Treasury
of such free negroes and mulattoes as the
several states may desire to have removed
from within Their limits, and from the dis
trict Of Columbia, and such other places
as may be under the jurisdiction of Con-
gress.
Sec. Z. Whenever any person held to
service or labor, as provided In the third
clause of the second section of the fourth
article of the Constitutions, shall escape.
and the Marshal or other officer whose du-
ty it may be to arrest such fugitive, shall
be prevented from Sc doing by violence or
intimidation, or when after arrest such fu-
gitive shall be rescued by force. Con-
gress shall have power and 1t shall be its
duty. to provide by law for the payment
of the full value of such fugitive, 10 the
party to whom such service or labor may
be due; and in all cases where the United
States shall pay for such fugitive, they
shall have the right In their own na'ne to
sue the county in which such violence, In
timidation or rescue was committed. and
10 recover the amount paid by them with
interest and damages. The said County
for it's indemnify. may sue and recover
from the wrong doers or rescuars the
amount paid the United Stats-. together
with interest and damages.
SEC. 8. The first and second clause Of
the first section of the I'd article Of the
Constitution, shall read as follows: The
Executive power shall be vested in Pres
ident of the United states of America
The President and Vice President shall
hold their office for the term Of six years,
and shall bs Ineligible to the Office of Pres
idsnt for the ensuing six years alter having
performed the duties of President. and
shall be elected as follows: The Legisla-
ture of each State at. its first session after
any federal census, shall divide said State
into as many Congressional Districts as it
shall be entitled to Representatives in Con-
gress, which districts shall be as compact
in form and nearly equal in population as
practicable. In each of said districts one
.elecrer of President and Vice President
shall be chosen by the people thereof hav-
ing the qualification requisite for electors
of Representatives in Congress. and in ad-
diton, two electors for the state at large
shall be chosen by the members of the
Legislature assembled in joint convention
fol. that purpose on tbs day appointed by
Congress.
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