The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-02-14
The Border States Compromise.

The Border States Compromise.
The BORDER States Resolutions
were agreed upon some weeks ago
in q caucus Of Senators and Repre-
sentatives from the Border States.
The following is an accurate copy =:
Joint resolutions proposing certain
amendments to the Constitution Of
the United States.
WHEREAS, Serious and alarming
discussions have arisen between the
Northern and Southern States con-
corning the rights and security Of
the rights Of the slaveholding
States, and. especially their rights
in the common territory Of the
United States; and, whereas, it is
eminently desirable and proper that
those discussions, which threat
en- the very existence OF this Union,
should be permanently quieted and
settled by constitutional provisions,
which shall do equal justice to all
sections, and thereby rastore to the
people that peace and goodwill
which ought to prevail between all
the citizens Of the United States,
therefore,
Resolved, By the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States Of America in Con-
gross assembled, two-thirds Of both
Houses c%oncurring, that the follow
ing articles be, and are hereby,
proposed and submitted as amend
ments to the Constitution of the
United States, which shall be valid
to all intents and purposes as part
Of said Constitution, when ratified
by conventions Of three.fourths Of
the several States.
ARTICLE l. That Congress shall
have no power to legislate touch
ing persons held to service or labor
in places under its exclusive ,juris-
diction, within the limits of States
which have made cessions to the
United States without the consent
of the State or States making the
grant.
ART ., That is all the territory
Of the United States situated north
Of latitude 800 80, slavery or ihvol-
untary servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime, shall be prohib-
tied while such territory shall re-
main under Territorial Govern
mcnt. That is all territory south
of said line, neither Congress nor
any Territorial Legislature shall
hereafter pass any law abolishing
or prohibiting, or in any manner
interfering with African slavery,
and when any Territory, north or
south of said line, within such
boundaries as Congress shall pre-
scribe in any area Of sixty thousand
miles, shall contain a population
emitting it to one member Of Con-
gress, shall apply for admission as
a State, it shall come in on an
equality with the other States, with
or without slavery, as its Constitu-
ton may determine.
ART. 3. That the laws for the
suppression of the African slave
trade ought to be made cfectual,
and ought to be thoroughly cXecu-
ted. That the prohibition Of the
importation Of slaves into the
United States shall be made per-
petual,
ART. l.. Congress shall have no
power to prohibit the removal or
transportation Of persons held to
service or labor from any State in
which service or labori is recognized
by law, to another State in which
such service or labor is recognized
by law,
ART. 5. Congress shall have no
power to regulate, abolish or con-
troll within the States, the relations
established or recognized by the
laws Of any State, respecting per-
sons held to service or labor.
AND WHEREAS, also, besides those
causes of disscntion embraced in
the foregoing amendments propos-
ed to the Constitution of the United
States, there are others which come
within the jurisdiction of Congress,
and may be remedied by its legis-
power; and whereas, it is the
desire Of Congress, so far as its
power will extend, to remove all
Just cause for the popular dlseon-
tent and agitation which now dis
turb the peace and country and
threaten the stability of its institu-
tons; therefore,
l.. Rcsolred, By the Senate and
House Of Representatives. Of the Uni
ted States Of America IN Congress as
scmbLcd, That the laws now in force
for the recovery of fugitive slaves
are in strict pursuance of the plain
and mandatory provisions Of the
Constitution, and have been sane
toned as valid and constitutional
by the judgment of the Supreme
Court of the United States; and
the slavcholding States are entitled
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