Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-02-16

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to treat you accordingly"
Felioo. Citizens Of kentucky Friends ant
Brethren-Msy l coll you such 2 10 my nev
position see no occasion, and feel no inclina
ton, to retrsct word Of this. Ii it shall no
be made good be assured that the fault shal
not be mine.
These remarks we're received with grea
enthusiasm.
ln passing to bis room, those that could
rushed at Mr.. Lincoln, throwing their ARM
around him and pattug him on the back, anC
almost wripging his arms of.
THE RESOLUTIONS OFFERED IN THE
PEACE CONGRESs
WARRINGTON, Eeb. 10, 1861.
The following are the resolutions offered in
the Peace Congress by Hon. james Guthrie
ARTICLE /. That oil territory Of the
United States shall be divided by line from
east to west, on tie parallel Of &c degrees &c
minutes north latitude and in all territory
north of that line, Involuntary servtude, ex.
cept in punishment Of crime, is prohibited
whilst it shall belong to the United States,
or be under u Territorial Government and
in all territory south of said line involuntary
servltude is recognized as it exists in the
Southern States Of the Union, whilst such
territory shall belong to the United States
or be under q territorial Government and
neither Congress uor the Territorial Govern
ment shall bave power to hinder or prevent
emigrants to said territory from taking With
them persons held TO labor or ipvountry ser.
vice, according to the laws and ussges Of the
State from which such persons may be taken,
nor 20 impair the right arising out OF said
relations, aud be subject to Judicial cogni-
zance the United States court of such Ter.
rtory shall have jurisdiction thereof, aud
those rights shall be protected by the courts
aud all the departments Of the Territorial
Government, under or according to the laws
OF the State from which the person bound to
such service may have been taken and when
any territory north cr south OF said line,
within such boundary as Congress may pre-
scribe, shall contain population required Tor
meulber of Congress, according to the then
Federal ratio Of representation Of the people
Of the United States, it may, if its form OF
Government be republican,, be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the orig,
nal States. with or without involuntary servl.
tude or labor as the Constitution OF such new
State may provide.
ART .. That no Territory shall hereafter
be acquired by the United States without the
concurrence OF majority Of the Senators oil
the States north OF Mason and Dlxon's line,
and also a majority Of the Senators south OF
said line; but no treaty by which territory
shall be acquired shall be ratified without The
wo.thirds' vote Of the Senators, as required
by the Constitution.
ART. 3. That the Constitution, and no
amendment thereof, shall be constructed TO
give Congress power to regulate, abolish, or
control, within any State or Territory OF the
United States, the relation established or
recognized by tue laws thereof touching per.
sons bound TO labor or involuntary service
therein, not to interfere with or abolish ~
voluntary service in the District of Columbia
without the consent Of Maryland and Virginia
and The owners, or without making the owners
who 90 not consent, previously, iuil compen.
saton nor the power to interfere with or
abolish Involuntary service IN places under
the exclusive Jurisdiction OF the United states
within those States aud Territories where the
same is established or recognized; nor the
power TO prohibit the removal ol trausporta-
tion OF persons held to labor or involuntary
service IN any State or Territory OF the
United states, to any other State or Ierrlto-
ry thereof, where it is established or recogni-
zed : nor to authorize Il specific tax or any
higher rate of taxes on persons bound TO
nor to authorize any OF the African race or
their ceudants to become citizens, or TO
exercise the right Of suffrage in the choice Of
Federal officers.
ART. 4. That hereafter the paragraph of
the fourth article OF the Constitution shall
not be construed 20 prevent any OF the states,
by appropriate legislation, aud through the
action of their judicial and ministerial officers
from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from
labor from any other State or Territory of the
United States to the person TO whom such
service or labor is due.
ART. 3. The emigration or importation OF
the African race into any State or Territory
of the United States, whether for residence
or involuntary service, is forever prohibited
and Congress shall have the power by appro
pirate legislation to enforce the provisions o.
this article.
ART. 6. That the first, second, third, anC
fifth articles Of these amendments, and The
third paragraph of the second section Of the
first article Of the Constitution, and the thirC
paragraph Of the fourth article thereof, shal
not be amended or abolished without th,
consent Of oil the States.
The following resolutions were offered b.
Hon. Reveroy Johnson:
Congress shall have no power to legislat,
upon the subject Of servitude anywhere ex
cspt to perform it's duties under the Constltu
tlon 10 respect to iugl.ives from service o
labor, aud to suppress the foreign slave trade
nor shall any local or Territorial Governmen
have power to sanction or protect involuDtar
servitude n any territory north of the south
ern boundary of Kansas and the northern
boundary of New Mexico, nor to prohibit
hinder or impair the right to hold persons t
service or labor in any territory south of sal
line, in the same manner as such persons wer
20 held and protected under the laws of tn
State or Territory from which they wer
removed"s