The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-01-30
A New Propos .tiou b, MIR. Douglas.

A New PrOpOs .tiou by Mr.. Douglas.
We have been furnished with copy Of the
following amendments to the Constitution
which will be submitted by Mr.. Douglas in tie
Senate, as soon as the questions now before it
are disposed OF, as substitute for those offered
by Mr.. Crittenden, to the Constitution Of the
United States; and which were voted down by
The Republicans in the U. s. Senate.
It has become evident that there is little hope
Of applying remedy to the political disease un-
der which the Union is now laboring except it
is done by the people Of the United States
themselves. Will the Republicans in Congress
prevent an appeal to the people? viii it con-
tinue to interpose the authority ofparty be-
between the popular voice throughout the U
Mon and peaceful settlement OF the difficulties
which now convulse the nation? they do
take this great responsibility they must be an
swerable Tor the results,
ARTICLE THIRTEEN ~
SEC /. Congress shall make no laws in re-
spect to domestic servitude in any Territory OF
the United States; and all territorial govern
ments shall be formed on the model and in the
terms Of the organic acts, approved September
nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, called 1.-THE
COMPROMISE MEAsUREs;" and the validity OF all
territorial enaetments shall be finally deterini
ed by the Supreme Court of the United States,
on appeal or writ of error, from the Territorial
courts; but no new Territory shall be organized
. for
a representative in Congress, according to the
then federal ratio of representation.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have no power to a.
boHsh or interfere with the relation ofpersons
held to service or labor in any State, under the
laws thereof; nor in any place under the exclu-
siye iursd ction OF Congress- and situate within
the limits oi any State or Territory under whose
laws persons are held to service or labor; nor
shall Congress have power to abolish or impair
the relation of persons held to service or labor
in the District of Columbia, under the laws in
force therein, without the consent of Maryland
and Virginia. so long as such relation shall exist
in either Of those states under the laws thereof,
nor shall Congress have power to interfere with
or prevent the removal ofpersons held to SER
vice or labor from one State or Territory to an
other.
SEC. 3. The African slave trade nshall be
forever suppressed; and it shall be the duty of
Congress to make such laws as will effectually
prevent the immigration or importation into
the United States of persons held to service or
labor for life or for period of years, or of any
person intended to be so held in any State or
place within the United States, under any pre-
tense whatever. #a 's
Sec. d The second clause OF the second
section of the fourth article of the Constitution
shall be construed to include all crimes COM
mitted within and against the State or place
from which the fugitive fled, whether the acts
charged were criminal or not in the place where
the fugitive was found.
SEC S. The elective franchise and the right
to hold office, whether federal, State, territori
al, or municipal, shall not be exercised by per-
sons OF the African race, in whole or in part.
Sec. 6. The United States shall have pow
er to acquire districts of country in Africa or
South America, for the colonization, at the ex
pense OF the federal treasury ofsuch free ne
groes and mulatoes as the several States may
desire to have removed from within their limits
and from the District Of Columbia, and such 9TH
err places as may be under the jurisdiction of
Congress-.
SEC. :. Whenever any person held to SER
vice or labor, as provided in the third clause Of
the second section Of the fourth article Of the
Constitution, shall eecape and the marshall or
other officer, whose duty it may be to arrest
such fugitive shall be prevented from so doing
by violence or intimidation; or when, after ar
rest. such fugitive shall be rescued by force,
Congress- shall have power, and it Shall bo its
duty to provide by low for the payment OF the
full value of such fugitive to the party to whom
such service OF labor may be due, and in all
cases, when the United States shall pay for
such fugitive, they shall have the right, IN
their own name, TO sue the county in which
such violence, intimidation, or res ;ue was COM
mitted, and to recover the amount paid py
them, with interest and damages; and the Said
county for it's indemnity may sue and recover
from the wrong doers or rescuers the amount
paid to the United States, together with inter
est and damages. # va.
SEQ. 8. The first aud second clauses of the
first section of the second article Of the const-
tuition shall read as follows:
The executive power shall be vested in a
President OF the United States of America.
The Preident and Vice President shall hold
their offices for the term Of six years, and shall
be ineligible to the office of President for the
ensuing six years after having performed the
duties of President, and shall be elected as fol-
lows:
The legislature of each State, at its first
session alter federal census, shall diviie sad
State into as many congressional districts as I:
shall be entitled TO representatives in Congress,
which districts shall be as compact in form and
nearly equal in population as practicable In
each ofsaid districts one elector Of President
and Vice President shall be chosen by the peo-
pie thereof having the qualifications requisite
for electors Of representatives in Congress; and,
in addition, two electors for the State at large
shall be chosen by the members ofthe leglsa-
ture, assembled in joint convention for that
purpose, on the day appointed by Congress.