Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-08
NUMBER 10
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial Dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.

agreed. lt nGb at lO n. VI. To-Day anu
proceeded to consider the various
amendments which have been proposed.
After considerable discussion, direct
vote was had on the Franklin PROPOSE
ton, when it was carried.
A maj jority of the Virginia and North
Carolina delegations voted with the
Radicals, against it, The Missouri dell.
egation was.divided, as also that of Kan
sas. Upon all other branches of settle1
ment, a majority Of the Indiana delega-
ton voted in the Affirmative; on the
first branch, relating. to Slavery in the
I Territories, they declined Voting; under
instructions from the Indiana Legisla-
ture. The Illinois delegates voted 1t,
and New York was equally divided.
On the first vote the Franklin plan Of
settlement was agreed to by vote of
sixteen to five.
The following is the Franklin propo-
sition as passed by the Conferences.
Sec. l. In all the present territory of
the United States north of the parallel
of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes
north latitude, involuntary servitude.
except as a punishment for crimes, shalt
be prohibited. In all the present terri
tory south of that line the status of per-
sons held to involuntary service or la
Dor as it exists, shall not. be changed,
nor shall any law be passed by Congress
or the territorial Legislature to hinder
or prevent the taking of such persons
from any of the States of this Union to
said territory, nor impair any rights
arising from said relation, but the same
shall be subject to tho Judicial cegni-
zance of the Federal Courts, according
to the course of common law.
When any Territory, north or south
of said line, within such boundary as
Congress may prescribe, shall contain a
population equal to that required for i.
member Of Congress, it shall, if its form
of government be Republican, be admit.
ted into the Union on equal footing:
with the original States, with or without
involuntary servitude, as the Constitg-
ton of such State may provide.
Sec. 2. No Territory shall be ac-
quired by the United States except by
discovery, and for naval and CONNER
cial stations, depots and transit routes.
without the concurrence Of majority
of all the Senators from the States
which allow involuntary servitude, and
majority of all the Senators from the
States which prohibit the relation. Nor
shall Territory be acquired by treaty,
unless the votes of a majority of the
Senators from each Of the States, here
inbefore mentioned, be cast as part of
the two thirds majority necessary for
the ratification of such treaty,
SEC. 3. Neither the Constitution, nor
any amendment thereof, shall be con-
strued to give Congress the power to
regulate, abolish, or control, within any
State or Territory of the United States.
the relation established aud recogni4ed.
by the laws thereof touching persons
held to labor OF involuntary service.
therein, nor interfere with4or abolish
involuntary service in the District of
| Columbia without the consent Of Mary
land, or without the consent of the own
ers, OF making the owners who do not
consent Just compensation; nor power to
interfere with or prohibit the Re preseH<
tatives Of the other States from bringing
with them to the District of Columbia
from retaining and taking away persqps.
so held to labor or service;s nor the
power to interfere with or abolish inyol-
untary service in places under the sFxS
ecutive Jurisdiction of the United
States, within those States aud Terrific
ries where the same is established sr
recognized, nor the power to prohibit,
the removal CT transportation Of persons
held to labor or involuntary service in
any State or Territory of the United
States, to any other State or Territory
thereof, whore it is established or recog-,
nized by law, usage and right.
During the transportation, by sea 81.
river the right Of touching at ports,
shores, landings, and landing is case eof
distress, shall exist, but not the right Of
transit through any State or Territory, if
said traffic be against laws thereof; nor
shall Congress have the power ta author
ize any higher rate of taxation on per-
sons held to labor or service than land.
The bringing into the Distries of Cos
Ilumbia persons held to labor OF service
for sale, or placing them in depots to be
afterwards transferred to other places
for sale as merchandise; shall be prohib
tied
SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the.
second section Of the fourth article of
the Constitution shall not be construed
to prevent any States, by appropriate fe
Legislation, and through the action OF
judicial and ministerial officers, from
enforcing the delivery of fugitiTes from
labor to persons to whom such service
or labor is due.
SEC. 5. The foreign slave trade is
hereby forever prohibited, and it shall
be the duty Of Congress to pass
laws to prevent the importation Of slaves,
Coolies, and persons held to service Or
labor, into the United. States and Terri
tories, from places beyond the limits
thereof.
SEC 6. The first, thirl and fifth sec
tons, together with this section and
these amendments, and the third para
graph Of the second section Of the first
article Of the Constitution, aud the third
para graph Ct the second section ~f the
fourth article thereof shall not lie
amended or abolished without the con
sent # I'll the States.
Sec. Z, Congress shall provide BY law
that the United States shall pay the
owner full value fof his fugitive from la
Dor in cases where the Marshal er other
officers, whose duty was to aercst such
fugitive, was prevented from doing SO by
violence, intimidation, mobs or riotous
assemblages, CT when, after arrest, sqch
fugitive Eas rescued ty like yioleqes or
intimidation, and the owner therahy da-
prived of the same; and CogsEaSs shall
provide a law for securing sn tile citizens
Of each sStaie the nriHilages and immu-