The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-01

tor Douglass
The following is the substitute which
Senator DOUGLAS proposes to present to
the Senate in lieu of the amendment offered
to the Constitution of the United States,
by Senator CR1rrENDEN. We see nothing
in these amendments to which reasonable
objection can be made by any northern
man. In regard to the Territories, it pro
poses they shall be organized on the princi-
pies laid down in the compromise measures
of 1850, which were approved at that day,
1.-THE Republican party not then existing) by
Wings and Democrats alike. The sugges-
ton that the President of the United States
should be elected for six instead of four
years, and that hereafter all District Presi-
Dental electors shall be elected as Repre-
sentatives in Congress are, will be received
with almost universal favor. The African
slave trade is to be forever suppressed; the
elective franchise is not to be exercised by
persons of the African race, in whole or in
part the colonization Of free negroes and
mulattoes is to be encouraged at the expense
of the Federal Treasury; fugitives from
service or labor rescued from the hands o.
the officers are to be compensated out Of
the Federal Treasury, or the State or county
in which they have so been rescued. The
following is the substitute of Senator DoUo.
LAS s.'' .t'-' ''ip
st ARTICLE THIRTEEN. ~ 4 -
SEC. l. Congress shall make no laws in re
spect to domesti, servitude in any Territory Of
the United States; and all Territorial Govern
terms OF the organic acts, approved September
nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, called 1.-THE
COMPROMISE MEASURES" and the validity of all
territorial enactments shall be finally deter
mined by the Supreme Court of the United
States, on appeal, or writ OF error, from the
territorial 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 it shall
contain the requisite population for Repre-
sentative in Congress, according to the then
Federal ratio of representation.
Sec 2. Congress shall have no power to abol-
ish or interfere with the relation of persons held
to service or labor in any State, under the laws
thereof; nor in any place under the exclusive
jurisdiction of Congress, and situate within the
limits of any State or Territory under whose
laws persons are held to service or labor; nor
shall Congress have power to abolish or impair
the relation of persons held to service or labor
in the District of Columbia, under the laws in
force therein, without the consent of Maryland
and Virginia, so long as such relation shall exist
in either of those States under the laws thereof ;
nor shall Congress have power to interfere with
or prevent the removal of persons held to SER
vice or labor from one State or Territory to
another.
Sec. 8. The African slave trade shall be for
ever suppressed; and it shall be the duty of
Congress to make such laws as will effectually
prevent the immigration or importation into
the United States of persons held to service or
labor for life or for period of years, or of any
person intended to be so held in any State or
place within the United States, under any pre-
tence whatever. -...'-..
SEC. A. The second clause of the second Sec
ton of the fourth article of the Constitution
shall be construed to include all crimes com.
mitted within and against the State or place
from which the fugitive fed, 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. Terrific.
rial, or municipal, shall not be exercised by
persons of the African race, in whole or in
part.
Sec. 6. The United States shall have power
to acquire districts of country in Africa or
South America, for the colonization, 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
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such other places as may be under the jurlsdic-
ton of Congress. .. ...,.,
Sec. 7. Whenever any person held to service
or labor, as provided in the third clause of the
second section of the fourth article of the Con-
stitution, shall escape, and the marshal or
other officer, whose duty it may be to arrest
such fugitive shall be prevented from SO doing
by violence or intimidation; or when, after
arrest, such fugitive shall be rescued by force,
Congress shall have power, and it shall be its
duty, to provide by law for the payment of the
full value of such fugitive to the party to whom
such service or labor may be due; and IN all
cases, when the United States shall pay for
such fugitive, they shall have the right in their
own name, to sue the county in which such
violence, intimidation or rescue was commit
ted, to recover the amount paid by them, with
interest and damages; and the said county, for
its indemnity, may sue and recover from the
wrong doors or rescucrs the amount paid to
the United States, together with interest and
damages -'.'-" 74'-H - - ''h.','l
SEQ. 8. The first and second clauses of the
first section of the second article of the Con-
stitutiOn shall read as follows: ,sI,o 81 ,.,.
The executive power shall be vested in q
President of the United States of America.
The President and Vice President shall hold
their Offices for the term of six years, and
shall be Ineligible to the Office of President for
the ensuing six years after having performed
the duties of President, and shall be elected as
follows: Is Aia $50 ~ f''0G @at sfe+
. The Legislature of each State, at its first
session after any Federal census. shall divide
said State into as many Congressional districts
it shall be entitled to Representatives in Con-
gress; which districts shall be as compact in
form and nearly equal in population, as prac-
ticable. In each of said districts one elector
of President and Vice President shall be chosen
by the people thereof having the qualifications
requisite for electors of Representatives in
Congress; and, in addition, two electors for the
State at large shall be chosen by the members
of the Legislature, assembled in joint conven-
ton for that purpose, on the day appointed by
Congress. +.f ,.'E''.l-- 81
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