Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-01-08
ARTICLE XIV.

SEC. l. The elective franchise ard the
right t. hold office, whether Federal. State.
Territorial, or municipal. sha.l no; he exer
cised by persons of the African race, in
whole or ~ part
SCI ,. The United States shall have
power 10 acquire, from time to time. dis
tricts of country in Africa and South
America for the colonization, at the expen-e
OF the Federal Treasury, of such free ne
grues and mulatoes "a the several States
may have wish 10 have removed from their
limits, and from the District Of Columbia
and such other places as may be under the
jurisdiction Vi Congress.
SEC. 3. Congress shall have no rover 10
abolish slavery in the places under its ex-
elusive jurisdiction, and situate within the
Limits Of States that permit the holding Of
slaves.
SEc Congress shall haze no power to
abolish slavery within the District Of Co
lumbia so log as its exist in the aiioin-
ing States o Virginia and MARYLAND. or
either. nor without the cGiseutoi the irbab
i;ants, nor without just compensation first
made to such owners of slaves as DO u0t
consent to such adjustment. Nor shall
Congress ut any time prohibit off ,ers of
the Federal Government or mentors Of
Congress, whose duties requires then. a. be
in said District, from bringing with th,m
their slaves, and holding them as such duc
ing the time their duties may require them
to remain there, and afterwards taxing
them frCm the District
SEC. 3. Congress shall have no power 70
prohibit Or hinder the transportation Of
slaves from one State t. another. az 10 a
Territory in which slaves are permitted Nv
law TO be held, whether such TRANSFORMATION
be by land, nayigable rivers, or by sea Tut
the African slave trade shall be for ever
suppressed, and it shall be the duty of
Congress 10 make such laws as shall be
necessary ard efecfuai Il prevent the
migration or importation Of slaves or per-
sons owl z service or labor, into the United
States from any foreign country, place, or
jurisdiction whatsoever.
SEC. /. In addition to the provisions Of
the third paragraph Of the second section
OF the fourth article of the Constitution.
Congress shall have power 10 provide by
law, and It shall be It's duty 50 to provide.
that the United States shall pay to the own
er who shall apply for it the full valUe 81
bis fugitive slave, In ali cases when the
marshal, or other officer, whose du,y II
was to arrest said fugitive, was provence:
from so doing by violence OF intimidation.
or When, after arrest, said fugitive WAS
rescued by force aud the owner thereby
prevented aud ubstrucied IL the pursuit 81
hi remedy for the recovery of his fugitive
slave, under tie said clause o! the CJnsti-
tgt.un and The laws made n pursuaEce
/ thereof Aud in all such cases when iht
1 United States shah pay for such fusi;ives,
/ they saaH have the right In their own name
To sue the county in Which said violence
! intimid itiOB or rescue was committed. and
/ TO receive from i, with Interests and dam
/ ages. the amount paid by them f0r said
I fugitive slave. Aud the said county. after
] i has paId said amounts 10 the Uuited
7 State, may, for it, indemnity, sue and re-
ever from the wrong doors or rescue-s bl
I whom the uwuer was reverted from IN.
recovery Of his fugitive siaEe in Ike man
ner as the owner himself might have sue,
Z and recovered
SIC. :. M future amendment Of thl
Constitution shall affect this and the pre-
! ceding article, nor the ihird paragraph a
the second section of the first article # Ga
Constitution, nor the third paragraph Q