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REPORT OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
THE FRANKLIN SUBSTITUTE ADOPTED


WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-The Peace Conference
has passed, by vote of 9 to 8. the substitute of
Mr. Franklin. The following is the document:
SEC. lst In all the present Territory of the Uni
ted States North Of the parallel of SO degrees 80
minutes of North latitude involuntary service, ex-
eept IN punishment for crime is prohibited. In all
the present Territory South of that line the status
of persons held to service or labor as it now exists
shall not be changed. Nor shall any law be passed
by Congress 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 subject to judicial cognizance in
the Federal Courts according to the course of the
common law. When any Territory North or South
of said line, with such boundary as Congress may
prescribe, shall contain a population equal to that
required for member of Congress, 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 servitude, as
the Constitution of such State may provide.
Sec. 2. Territory shall not be acquired by the
United States, unless by treaty nor, except for
naval and commercial stations and depots, unless
such treaty shall be ratified by fourfths of all the
members of the Senate.
Sec. 8. Neither the Constitution nor any amend
ment thereof shall be construed to give Congress
power to regulate, abolish or control within any
State Territory%of the United States the relation
established recognized by the laws thereof touch
ing persons bound to labor involuntary service
therein, 20 interfere with abolish involuntary
service in the District of Columbia without the con-
sent 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
prohibit representatives and others from bringing
with them to the city of Washington retaining and
taking away, persons bound to labor; the
power to interfere with or abolish involuntary
vice in places under the exclusive jurisdiction Of the
United States within those States and Territories
where the same is established recognized; nor
the power to prohibit the removal transportation,
by land sea, or river Of persons held to labor or in
voluntary servitude in any State Territory of the
United States to any other State Territory there
of where it is establish recognized by law
usage and the right during transportation of touch
ing at ports, shores, and landings, and of landing
in case of distress, shall exist Nor shall Congress
have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation
on persons bound to labor than on land.
Sec. 4. The third paragraph Of the second Sec
ton of tie fourth article of the Constitution shall
not be construed to prevent any of the States by
appropriate legislation and through the action of
their judicial and ministerial officers from enforcing
the delivery of fugtves from labor to the person to
whom such service or labor is due.
Sec 8. The foreign slave trade and the importation
of slaves into the United States and their Terrific
ries from places beyond the present limits thereof
are forever prohibited.
Sec G. The first third and fifth sections together
with section six Of these amendments, and the
third paragraph of the second section of the first
article of the Constitution, and the third paragraph
of the second section of the fourth article thereof
shall not be amended abolished without the con-
sent 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 in all cases where the
marshal or other officer whose duty it was arrest
such fugitive, was prevented from so doing by viol-
ence, or intimidation from mobs riotous assem-
blages, when, after arrested, such fugitive
rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented
and INSTRUCTED in the pursuit of his remedy for the
recovery of such fugitive.
1t is reported that the Virginia and North Caro-
lima delegations are divided, a majority in each be-
ing against the substitute This report is not
however, authentic.
The Conference has adjourned.
SECOND DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The propositions before
the Congress were voted on by sections.
The first section with reference to dividing the
territory, adopted by one majority. Indiana did
not vote: Kansas and New York divided North
Carolina, Virginia and Missouri voted in the negative
The delegations Virginia and North Carolina Stood
respectively, against and for the propositions
Virginia would have voted against the plan as a
whole, had it been submitted as such. ..
Ex-Presldent Tyler presented the proposition to
both houses of Congress- but the letter was not laid
before the House officially
Messrs. Tyler, Seldom and Rives return to Rich
mond tomorrow. The others remain.
From Washington.
WAsuINGroN Feb 27-All the EMPLOYEES of the