Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-10

e mr. cRiTTEXDES's PLAN.
WHEREAS, the Union is in danger .nd
It IS difficult, if not impossible for Conoress
70 concur by the requisite majority. So as
10 enaole II TO take sIch measures. and To
recommend 10 the States such amendments
50 the constitution, as are necessary TO
avert the danger
whereas, in so great an emergency the
opinion and Judgment of the people ought
10 be heard, therefore,
Hes0lUed, That provision be made by law
without delay for taking the sense of the
people and submitting TO them the follow
ResOkued, By the Senate and Hou.. n
Representatives Of the United States of
Amerien, in Congress assembled. two.
thirds OF both houses concurring, that the
following articles be, aud are hereby. nm
posed aud submitted as amendments 10 the
Constitution of the United States. which
Shall be valid to all intents and DurDoses
as part OF said constitution. when r,ttified
by conventions of thrce-fourths of the
several Staies:-
Art 1. In all of the territory of the United
States now held or hereafter acquired,
situated North Of latitude thirty-six de-
grGes and thirty Minutes, slavery or in
voluntary setvitude, except as punishment
for crime, is prohibited, while such terri
tory shall remain under Territorial gov
ernment. In all the territory south of
such line of latitude slavery of the African
race is recognized us existing, and shall
not be interfered with by Congress, but
Shall be protected as property by all the
departments of the Territorial government
during its continuance; and when any
Territory north or south of said line,
within such boundaries rs Congress may
prescribe, shall contain the population
requisite for q member of Congress, accord
ing to the then federal ratio of ratio of
representation of the people of the United
States, II shall, il its form of government
lie republican, he admitted into the Union
ON au equal footing with the original
States, with or without slavery, as the
constitution of the new State may provide.
Art. z. Congress shall have no power to
n0oltsh slavery in plarrs uudcr its cxclu-
sive jurisdiction, aud situated within the
limits OF States that permit the holding of
slaves.
Art. 3. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery within the District of Col
nmbia so long as it exists in the ndjoin-
ing States of Virginia ond Maryland or
either, nor without the consent of the in
liabitaHts, nor without Just compensation
first made to such owners of slaves as do
not consent to such nboIishmrut Nor
shall Congress Mt any time prohibit officers
OF the Federal Government or members of
Congress, whose duties require them to be
in said District, from bringing with them
their slaves aud holding them as such, du-
ring the time their duties may require
them to remain there, and afterwards TIA
king them from the District.
Art. 1. Congress shall have no power to
prohibit or hinder the transportation of
slaves from one State to anoihsr, or to IA
Territory in which slaves are by law per-
matted to be held, whether that transport
tttion be by land, nayigable rivers or by
sea.
Art .. That, in addition to the provis-
ions of tile third paragraph of the second
section of the fourth article of the const-
tuition of the United States, Congress shall
have power to provide by law, and it shall
bolts duty so to provide, that the United
States shall pay to the owner who shall
apply for it, the full value of his fugitive
slUve, in all cases, when the MarshIl or
other officer, whose duty it was to arrest
said fugitive, was prevented from so doing
by violence or intimidation, or when, after
arrest said fugitive WAS rescued by force,
and the owner thereby prevented and OBJ
structed in tho pursuit of his remedy for
the recovery of his fugitive slave, under
the said clause of the constitution and the
laws made in pursuance thereof. And in
all such 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 said violence, iutimida-
ton or rescue WAS committed, and to re-
cover from it, with interest aud damages,
tue amount paid by them for said fugitive
slave. Aud the said county, after it has
paid said amount to the United States,
may, for its indemnity, sue and recover
from Tho t1pnrs
whom the owner was prevented from the
recovery of his fugitive slave, in like man.
ncr as the owner himself might have sued
and recovered.
Art 6 No future amendment of the Con-
stitutiOn shall affect tla FIVE preceding
articles, nor the third paragraph of the
second section of the first article Of the
Constitution, nor the third paragraph OF
the second section of the fourth article of
said Constitution, aud no amendment shall
be made to the Constitution which will
authorize or give To Congress any power
TO abolish or interfere with slavery in any
of the States by whose laws it is or may
be allowed or permitted.
And whereas, also, besides those causes
OFdtssensiOn embraced in the foregoing
amendments proposed to the Constitution
of the United States. there are others which
come within the jurisdiction of Congress,
and may bO remedied by its legislative
power; and whereas, tits the desire of
Congress, rs far rs its power will extend,
to remove all just cause far the popular dis
content and agitation which now disturb
the pence of tho country, and threaten the
stability of It's institntlonsi therefore.
l. Realized 6y fhs Senate daR House o.
Representatives. Of the I'IHsed States; Of inner
lea IN Congress assembled, that the laws now
in force for the recovery OF fugitive slaves
are in strict pursuance OF the plain and
v,,,,t,NaRne,. ,,r A.,