Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-23

der their authority; to all cases affecting am
bassadors, other public ministers and consuls;
to all cases of admiralty and maritime juris-
dicton to controversies to which the Confed-
crate States shall be a party; to controversies
between two more States; between State
and citizens Of another State where the State
is plaintiff: between citizens claiming lands
under grants of different States, aud between
Statc or the citizens thereof, and foreign
States, citizens or subjects but no State shall
be sued by citizen or subject of any foreign
State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other
public ministers and censuls and those in
which State shall be party, the Supreme
Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all
the other cases before mentioned, the Su-
prcme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction,
both as to law and fact, with such exceptions,
and under such regulations as the Congress
shall make.
g. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of
impeachment, shall be by jury and such trial
shall be held in the State whore the said
crimes shall have been committed but when
not committed within any State the trial shall
be at such place OF places as the Congress NAV
by law have directed.
SECTION 81. Treason against the Con
federate States shall consist only in levying
war against them, or in adhcrng to their enc
mics, giving them aid and comfort No per
son shall be convicted of treason unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to the same overt
act. or on confession in open court
9. The Congress shall have power TO de-
clare the punishment treason, but no attain
der of treason shall work corruption of blood,
or forfnitura voapt C,,rinr Il,o Gf,, e A.
person attuinted.
ARTICLE w
SECTION Ii. Full faith and credit shall
be given in each State to the public acts, re.
cords and judicial proceedings of every other
State. And the Congress. may, by general
laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records, and proceedings shall be pruNed
and the effect thereof
SECTION Il. The citizens of each State
s'.all be entitled to all The privileges and i'm
munitics of citizens in the several States. and
shall have the right of transit and soiourn in
any State of this Confedcracy, with their
slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be hereby
impaired
2. \ pcraon charged in any State with
treason, felony or other crimes against the
laws OF such State, who shall flee from Justice
and be found in another State shall, on de-
mand of the Executive auhorityof the State
from which he fed, be delivered up to be re-
moved to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime.
B. No slave or other person held to service
or labor in any State or Territory of the Con
fedcrate States, under the laws thereof. es
Gaping or lawfully carried into another, shall,
IN consequence OF any law or regulation there
IN, be discharged from such service or labor;
but shall be delivered up on claim of the par
-y 30 whom such slave belongs, or to whom
such service or labor may be due .
SECTION 5 81 Other States NAV be ad.
mitted into this Confcderacy BY vote of two
thirds of the whole House of Representatives,
and two.thrds of the Senate, the Senate vo-
ting by States but no new State shall be
formed or erected within the jurisdiction of
any other State nor any State be formed by
the junction of two or more States or parts
of States, wit> out the consent Of the Legis-
latures of the States concerned, as well as of
the Congress.
z. The Congress shall have power to dis.
pose of and make all needtul rules and reeu-
atlons concerning the property of the Con-
fedorate States, including the lands thereof
.. The Confederate States may acquire new
territory; and Congress shall have power to
cgslatc and provide governments for the in
habtants of all territory belonging to the
Confederate States, lying without the limits.
OF the several States; and may permit them,
at such times, and in such manner as it NAV
by law provide, to form States to be admitted
into the Confedoracy, In all such territory,
the institution ofncgro slavery as it now ex-
lists Ill the Confederate Stptes, shall be reco9-
nizcd and protected by Congress, and by tue
territorial government; and the Inhabitants.
of the several Confederate States and Terrific
rios, shall have the right to take to such Ter
ritory any slaves, lawfully held by thcm in
any of the States or Territories of the Con-
fedcrate States. ..,
4. The Confederate States Shall guaranty, to
every State that now is or hereafter may be-
come member of this Confedcracy, a rerub-
liam form of government, and shall protect
cachof them against invasion; and on appli- s
cation Of the Legislature Cor of the Execu-y
tive when the Legislature is not in scssion)
against domestic violencer -l.I,l
ARTICLE ".
SEGTToN LII. Upon the demand of any
three States, legally assembled in their seve.
raj Conventions, the Congress shall summone
convention Of allethe States, to take into con-
siderationsu such amendments to the Constitu-s
ton as the said States shall concur in sug-
costing at the time when the said demand is