The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-03-14

Lne ErOpO8lGlOnS WnlCh Passed the
Peace Conference.
Tho following is the report, com
plete and correct, as submitted to Con-
gress by ox-President TYLER, Presi-
dent Of the Conference:
Sec. /. In all the present territory
of the United States not embraced by
the Cherokee treaty, north Of the par
allel Of thirty-six degrees and thirty
minutes Of North latitude, involuntary
servitude, except in punishment of
crime, is prohibited. In all the present
territory south Of that line, the status
of persons held to service or labor, as
it now exists, shall not be changed; nor
shall any law be passed TO hinder or
prevent the taking of such persons to
said territory, nor to impair the rights
arising from said relation; but the
same shall be subject to judicial cogni-
zance in the Federal Courts according
to the common law. When any Ter
ritory North or South of said line
within such boundary as Congress may
prescribe, shall contain a population
equal to that required for member of
Congress, itshall if its form of govern.
ment be republican, be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, with or without invol.
untary sorvitude, as the Constitution of
such State may provide.
Sec. 2. Territory shall not be ac-
quired by the United States, unless by
treaty, nor except for naval and com.
mercial stations and depots, unless such
treaty shall be ratified by four-ffths of
all the members Of the Senate.
Sec 3. Neither the Constitution
nor any amendment thereof, shall be
construed to give Congress power tC
regulate, abolish or control, within any
State or Territory of the United States
the relation established or recognized
| by the laws thereof touching persons
bound to labor or involuntary service
| therein, nor to interfere with or abolish
involuntary service in the District of
Columbia without the consent of Mary
land and without the consent Of the
owners, or making the owners who dc
not consent just oompensation nor tho
power to interfere with or prohibit rep
rcscntatives and others from bringing
with them to the City of Washington
retaining and taking away, persons Sc
bound to labor; nor the power to inter
fcre with or abolish involuntary service
in places under the exclusive jurisdic
ton of the United States within thos,
States and Territories where the same
is established or recognized; nor the
power to prohibit the removal or trans
portation, by land, sea or river, of per
sons held to labor or involuntary ser.
vice in any State or Territory Of the
United States to any other State OF
Territory thereof where it is established
or recognized by law or usage; and the
right during transportation Of touching
at ports, shores aud landings, and Of
landing in case of distress, shall exist
Nor shall Congress have power to au
thorize any higher rate of taxation on
persons bound TO labor than on land.
Sec. f. The third paragraph of the
second section of the fourth article Of
the Constitution shall not be construed
to prevent any Of the States, by appro-
pirate legislation and through the action
of their judicial and ministerial officers,
from enforcing the delivery of fugitives
from labor to the person to whom such
service or labor is due.
Sec g. The foreign slave trade and
tho importation Of slaves into the Uni
ted States and their Territories, from
places beyond the present limits there
off, are forever prohibited,
Sec 6. The first, third and ffth
sections, together with this section six
Of these amendments, and the third
paragraph Of the second section Of the
first article of the Constitution, and the
third paragraph of the second section
of the fourth article thereof, shall not
be amended or abolished without the
consent of all the States.
Sec z. Congress shall provide by
law that the United States shall pay to
the owner the full value Of his fugitive
from labor in all cases where the mar
shal or other officer whose duty it was
to arrest such fugitive, was prevented
from so doing by violence or intimida-
tion from mobs or riotous assembIages,
or when, after arrest, such fugitive
was rescued by force, and the owner
thereby prevented and obstructod in
the pursuit of his remedy for the reoov-
cry Of such fugitive,
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