Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-03
lie following is an authentic copy Of
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
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SECTION l. In all the present territory of
the United States, north of the parallel Of
thirtJ-siX degrees and thirty minutes of north
latitude, involuntary servitude, except in
punishment of crime, is prohibited In all
the present territory south of that line, the
status of persons held to Involuntary sell
vice or labor, as it now 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 to impair the rights arising
from said relation; but the same shall be sub
ject to judicial cogniZance in the Federal
courts, according to the course Of the common
law. When ANY territory north or south of
said line, within such boundary as Congress
may prescribe, shall contain population
equal to that required for a member of Con-
gress, it shall, if its form OF government be
Republican, be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States,
with or without involuntary serytude. as
the constitution of such State may provide.
SEC. 2. No territory shall be acquired by
the United States, except by discovery and
for naval and commercial stations, depOts
and transit routes, without the concurrence
of a majority of all the Senators from States
which allow involuntary servitude, and
majority of all the Senators from Sts.ses prkioh
prohibit that relation; nor shall territory De
acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a me-
jority of the Senators from each class of
States herein before mentioned be cast as a
part of the two thirds majority necessary to
the ratification of such treaty.
SEC 3. Neither the Constitution, nor any
amendment thereof, shall be construed to
give Congress power to regulate, abolish, or
control, within any State, the relation estab-
lished or recognized by the laws thereof
touching persons held to labor or invOlnnta-
~ service therein, nor to interfere with or
abolish involuntary service in the District of
Columbia without the consen. of Maryland
and without the consent of the owners, or
making the owners who do not consent Just |
compensation; nor the power to interfere
with or prohibit representatives and others
from bringing with them to the District of
Columbia. retaining and taking away, per-
sons so held to labor or service; nor the pow
er to interfere with or abolish involuntary
service in places under the exclusive juris-
dictiOn of the United States within those
States and Territories where the same is es-
tablished or recognized; nor the power to
prohibit the removal or transportation of
persons held to labor, or invOluntry service
in any State or Territory OF the United
States to any other State or Territory there
of where il is established OF recognized by
law or usage; and the right during transpor-
tatiOn, by sea Or river, of touching at ports
shores, and landings, and of landing in case
of distress, shall exist; but not the right of
transit in or through any State or Territory,
or, of sale or traffic. against the laws thereof
Nor shall Congress have power to authorize
any higher rate of taxation on persons held
TO labor or service than on land.
The bringing into the District of Columbia
of persons held to labor or service for sale,
or placing them in depots to be afterwards
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chandise, is prohibited.
SEC. 4.--The third paragraph of the second
section of the fourth article OF the Constitu
ton shall not be construed to prevent any Of
the States, by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of their judicial and min
isterial officers, from enforcing the delivery
of fugitives from labor to the person to whom
such service or labor is due.
SEC. s. The foreign slave trade is hereby
forever prohibited; and it shall be the duty /
of Congress to pass laws to prevent the i'm
portatiOn of slaves, coolies. or persons held
TO service or labor, into the United States and
the Territories from places beyond the limits
thereof.
SEC. 6. The first. third and fifth sections,
together with this section of these amend
ments, and the third paragraph of the sec
ond section of the first article of the Consti-
tuition, and the third paragraph of the second
section of the fourth article thereof, shall not
be amended or abolished without the consent
of all the States.
SEC. z. Congress shall provide by law that
the United States shall pay to the owner the
full value of his fugitive from labor, III all
cases where the marshal, or other officer whose
duty 1t was to arrest such fugitive, was pre-
vented from so doing by violence or intimid
atloa from mobs or riotous assembIages, or
when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued
by like violence or intimidation, and the
owner thereby deprived of the same; and the
acceptance of such payment shall preclude
the owner from further claim to such fugi-
tive. Congress shall provide by law for Sc
curing to the citizens of each State the priv
ileges and immunitIes of citizens in the sew
eral States.
The Washington correspondent of the Bal
fimore American says
after the whole plan of compromise, as
above given, had been passed, u statement
was drawn up to accompany its presentation
20 Congress This statement sets forth that
the Conference having adopted '-the follow
ing proposed amendments to the Constitu-
tiOn," recommends them to the immediate
action OF Congress as calculated to restore
peace and harmony to Che country. A vote
being taken on this recommendation TO Com
gress, it was adopted unanimously. and thus
it goes to Congress with the sanction of the
entire Convention. A Committee was then
appointed to convey it direct to Congress.
when the Convention adjourned sine de. .