Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-18
ur. Etheridge,s Proposition.


a Joint Resolution proposing amendments TO
the Constitution Of The United STATES
b. II resolref &C. That the following
amendments to the Constitution of the
United States be and they hereby are prOpos-
ed to the several States for their adoption or
ratification:
Article l. Congress shall have no power TO
regulate abolish, or control within the
States the relations established or recognized
by the law of any State respecting persons
held to service or labor.
Art. g Congress STALL have no power to
interfere with or abolish in the navy yards,
arsenals, forts, or other places ceded to the
Unied States, the relations recognised by the
laws of any State within which such places
are situated respecting persons held to ser
vice or labor.
Art g. Congress shall have no power to
interfere with or abolish the relations recOg-
missed by the laws of the District of Column
bia respecting persons held to service or Ia
Dor, without the consent of the State of
Maryland and also the consent of the lnbabl-
tants of said District, and without making
just compensation in the premises.
Art. 4. Congress shall have no power to-
prohibit the removal or transportation o.
persons held to service or labor from any
State inwhich such service or labOris recog-
missed by Law to another State in which such
service OF labor is recognised by law.
Art. s. The immigration or importation
from abroad OF persons held TO service or la
Dor for lie or for term of years, or Of pei
sons intended to be so held and carried to
any of the States or Ter, itories belonging to
the United States. is perpetually prohibited:
and Congress shall pass all laws necessary to
make said prohibition effective.
Art. 6. No territory beyond the present
limits CT the United States aud he Territories
thereof shall hereafter be acquired by or an
nexed to the United States unless the same
be done by concurrent vote OF two-thirds
of both Houses Congress, or if the same be
acquired by treaty, then by vOte7d two
thirds Of the Senate.
Art. 7. Article of section of the Con-
stitution of the United States shall be so
amended as to read as follows: A person
charged in any State with treason, felony, or
other crime (agdisa The ialrs Of sud Stde) who
shall fee from justice and be found in auOth-
er State shall, on demand of the executive
authority of the Stale from which be fed, be
delivered up. to be removed to the State hav-
ing jurisdiction OF the crime.
Art. s. In all that part of the territory of
the United States, not included within the
limits OF any State, which lies north OF the
parallel of Ihirty-six degrees and thirty min
utes of north latitude, involuntary s-rvitude
except for crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall be prohibited
And in all that part of the territory Ut the
United States not included within the limits
of any State, which lies south of said paral-
lei of thirty six degrees and thirty minutes of
north latitude. neither Congress nor any Ter
ritoriai Legislature shall have power 10 pass
any law abolisbing. prohibiting. or 10 any
manner interfering with the right to hold
persons to service or labor. And whenever,
in any portion of the territory owned by the
United States south of the said parallel of
thirty-six degrees aud thirty minutes of north
latitude, there shall be within erea OF not
less than sixty thousand square miles pOpu-
latiOn equal 10 the ratio OF representation Tor
q member OF Congress, the same shall be adj
mitted by Congress into the Union as a State,
upon the same footing with the original States
In all respects whatever, with or without the
right 20 hold persons to service or labor, as
Ifa constitution NAV determine