Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-06
VOTES IN THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Ine IoloWlng Is the vote, Dy States, In the feace
Conference by which the several propositions were
adopted: t 81
On the First Proposition. Delaware, Hi
nois Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee Nays
Connecticut, Iowa, Maine Massachusetts,, North
Carolina, New Hampshire, Vermont and Virginia
s. Dvided-New York and Kansas. Not vot-
ing-Ind!ana. .r. ...-.-
Second NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Indiana,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Tennessee and Vir-
ginia-11. Nays-Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa.
Maine Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont-8 Divided-New York and
Kansas.
Third Proposition. -Yeas-Delaware Illinois,
Kentucky Maryland, Missouri, New jersey, North
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ten
nessee and Virginia-l2. Nays-Connecticut In
diana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and Vermont-7 Dvided-New York and Kansas
..
Fourth Proposition. Connecticut, Della
ware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, MIS-
souri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Vir-
ginia-16. Nays-Iowa, Maine Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire. Divided-New York and Kan.
sas-2.
Fifth PropositiOn-Yeas Connecticut, Della
ware, Illinois, Indiana Kentucky, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York, New Hamsphlre, Ohio, Pennsyl-
sas-15. Nays, Iowa, Massachusetts,, Maine North
Carolina and Virginia.
Sixth Proposition. Delaware, Illinois,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee-1O.
Nays.-Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, MaSsa-
chusetts North Carolina, New Hampshire, Vermont
and ViYgnia-9. Divided-New York
Serenth on.-Yeas-Delaware, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New
Hampshire Ohio Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Ten
nessee and Virginia-12. Nays-Connecticut Iowa,
Maine, North Carolina, Missouri and Vermont g.
Divided-New York. Not voting -Massachusetts
TIE propositions adopted are as follows:
SEC. LIST. In all the present Territory OF the Uni
ted States North Of the parallel of SO degrees, 80
minutes of North latitude, involuntary service, ex-
cept in punishment for crime, is prohibited. In all
the present Territory, South of THAT ne the status
of persons held to service labor it now exists
shall not be changed. Nor shall any law be passed
by Congress the Territorial Legislature to hinder
prevent the taking of such persons from any of
the States of this Union to said Territory nor to
impair the rights arising from said relation but the
shall be subject to judicial congnizance in the
Federal Courts according to the course of the COM
mon law When any Territory North or South Of
said line with such boundary as Congress may pre-
scribe, shall contain population equal to that re-
quired for a member of Congress, it shall, if its
form of government be republican, be admitted into
the Union equal footing with the original
States, with or without involuntary servitude, as
the Constitution of such State may provide.
Sec. 2. Territory shall not be acquired by the
United States, unless by treaty; nor except for
naval and commercial stations and depots, unless
such treaty shall be ratified by four-ths of all the
members of the Senate.
Sec. g. Neither the Constitution, nor any amend
ment thereof, shall be construed to give Congress
power to regulate abolish or control within any
State or Territory of the United States the relation
established recognized by the laws thereof touch
ing persons bound to labor involuntary service
therein to interfere with abolish involuntary
service the District of Columbia without the con-
sent of Maryland and without the consent of the
owners, or making the owners who do not consent
just compensation; nor the power to Interfere with
| or prohibit representatives and others from bring
ing with them to the city of Washington, retaining
and taking away persons so bound labor; nor the
| power to interfere with or abolish involuntary ser
vice in places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States within those States and Territories
where the same is established or recognized; mol
the power to prohibit the removal or transportation
by land, sea, or river, Of persons held to labor Of
involuntary servitude in any State or Territory o
the United States to any other State or Territory
thereof where it is established or recognized by Law
| or usage; and the right during transportation o
touching at ports, shore, and landings and Of land
ding in of distress, shall exist Nor shall Con
! gress have power to authorize any higher rate o
| taXatlOn on persons OOunu 10 laOOr tnan on Ianu
Sec. 4. The third paragraph of the second section
of the fourth article of the Constitution shall not b
construed to prevent any of the States, by appro
pirate legislation and through the action of thei
judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing tn
delivery of fugitves from labor to the person t
whom such service or labor is due.
Sec. s. The foreign slave trade and the importa
ton of slaves into the United States and their Ter
r:tories, from places beyond the present limits there
of, are forever prohibited.
SEC. g. The first third and fifth sections togethc
with section six of these amendments and the thir
paragraph Of the second section of the first articl
of the Constitution, and the third paragraph Of tn
second section Of the fourth article thereof shall
be amended or abolished without the consent of al
the States.
Sec. Z. Congress shall provide by law that tn
United States shall pay to the owner the full valu
of his fugitive from labor in all cases where tn
marshal other officer, whose duty it was arres
such fugitive prevented from doing by VIC
ence, or intimidation from mobs or riotous assem-
blages or when, after arrested; such fugitive wa
rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevente
and INSTRUCTED in the pursuit of his remedy for tn
recovery of such fugitive.