The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-01-03

delegates shall have all the rights and priv
ilegss of Senators and Representatives, re-
spec;ivsly, except that of voting.
SIC. g. No more territory shall be acqui-
rcd by the United States except BY treaty
each House of Congress. and when so ac-
quirsd the stotus thereof in respect to SER
vituds. as 1t existed at the time Of aquisi-
tion. shall remain unchanged until it shall
contain the population aforesaid for the
formation ofusw states, when it shall be sub
ject to the terms, conditions and privileges
herein provided for the existing Territories.
SEC 3. The area Of all new states shall
be as nearly uniferm in size as may be prsc
ticable. having due regard to convenient
boundaries and natural capacities; and shall
no; be less than sixty nor more than eigh ty
thousand square miles. except in case Of
islands which may contain les. than that
amount.
Sec. 4. The secord anil third classes Of
the section Of the fourth article Of ME
Conititutien, which provides for delivering
up fngitives from justice and frgilives from
service or labor, shall have the same force
In the Territories and new states as in the
states Of the Union: and the said clause in
respect to fugitives fren justice shall be
construed 10 include all crimes committed
within and against the laws Of the state
from which the fugitive fed. whether the
acts charged be criminal or not in the state
where the fugitive was found
SEC. 5. The second section OF tie third
article Of the Constitution, in respect TO
the judicial power of the United States,
shall be dee,ned applicable to the Terrific
riss and new states as well as to the ststea
of the Union.
ARTICLE NV.
SEC /. The elective franchise and the
right to hold offios, whether Federal, state,
Territorial. or municipal. shall not be ex-
ercised BY persons of the African race, in
whole or part.
SEC. Q. The United States shall have
power TO acquire, from lime to tims, dis
tricts of country in Africa and South Amer
lea for the colonization, at the expense of
the Federal Treasury. efsuch free negroes
and and mulsttoes as the several states
may wish to have removed from their lin
Its, and from the District of Columbia
and such other places as may be under the
jurisdiction of Congress
SEC. g. Congress shall have no power
to abolish slavery in the places under its
exclusive jurisdiction and situate within
the limits of states tha, psrni: the holding
of slaves.
SEC. 4. Congress shall have no power
TO abolish slavery within the District Of
Columbia so long AS it exists in the ad
joining states of Virginia and Maryland,
or either, nor without the consent of the
inhabitants, nor without just compensation
first made TO such owners OF slaves rs do
not consent to such abolishmeat. Nor
shall Congress at any time prohibit officers
Of the Federal Government or members of
Congress. whose duties require them to
be in said District, from beginning with
them their slaves, and holding them as
such during tbs time their duties may re-
Quire them TO remain there, aud after
wards taking them from the District.
Sec 5. Congress shall have no power
to prohibit or hinder the transportation of
slaves from one state 10 another, or to a
Territory in which slaves are permitted sy
law to be held. whether such transporta
tion be by land navigsbe rivers, or bv
sea; but the African slave trade shall be
fer ever suppressed, and it shall be the du-
ty of Congress to make such laws as shall
be necessary and effectual 10 prevent the
migration or importation of slaves or per-
sons owing service or labor, iato United
States from any foreign country, place, OF
Jurisdiction whatsoever.
SEC. 6. In addition to the provisions of
the third paragraph of the second section
Of the fourth article of the Constitution,
Congress shall have power to provide by |
law. and it shall bs its duty So to provide,
that the United states shall pay to the
owner who shall apply for it, the full value
Of his fugitive slave, ia all cases when the
or ether officer, whose duty il was
t. arrest said fugitive, was prevented from
so doing by violence or Intimidation, or
when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescu-
ed by force and the owner thereby proven
ted and obstructed in the pursuit of his
remedy for tie recovery of his fugitive
slave. under the said clause of the Consti-
tuition and the laws made in pursuance
thereof. And in all such cases when the
United states shall pay for such fugitivos.
they shall have the right in their own
name to sue the county in which said vio-
len:e, intimidation or rescue was commit
ted, and TO receive from 1t, with interest
and damages. the amount paid them for
said fugitive slave. And the said county.
after it has paid said amounts to the United
states, may, for its indemnify, sue and re-
cover from the wrong doers or rescuers by
whom the owner was prevented from the
recovery of his fugitive slave in like man
ner as the owner himself might have sued
and recovered.
SEC. Z. No future amendment of the
Constitution shall affect this and the pre-
ceding article. nor the third paragraph of
the second section of The first article of the
Constitution, nor tho third paragraph of
the second section Of the fourth article of
said Constitution, and no amendment shall
be made 20 the Constitution, which will
authorize or give to Congress any power