Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
Douglas, Substitute for the Crit
tenden Propositions.


tenden Propositions.
Senator Douglas has prepared substi
tute for the Critteden propositions, which
will, in few DAYS, be offered in the Senate.
1t will be perceived that in effect it recog
nizes the existance of Slavery in the terri
tories, under the Dred Scott decision, and
under the operation of section four. no man
in the free States would be exempt from
liability to arrest under the peculiarly op
pressive laws of the slave States:
Section 1. Congress shall make the
laws in respect to domestic servitude
in any territory of the United States, and
all the territorial governments shall be
formed on the model and in the terms of
the organic acts approved September ninth
eighteen hundred and fifty, called the Com
promise Measures; and the validity of all
territorial enactments shall be finally deter
mined by the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, ON appeal writ of error from
the territorial courts. But no new terrific
ry shall be organized until it shall contain
twenty thousand white inhabitants; nor
shall any new State be admitted into the
Union until it shall contain the requisite
population for representative in Congress
according to the Federal ratio of represen-
talion. f.r
Sec. 2. Congress shall have no power
to abolish or interfere with the relation OF
persons held TO service or labor in any State
under the laws thereof, nor in any place
under the exclusive jurisdiction Of Con-
gress, aud situate within the limits of any
State terrisory under whose laws persons
are held 10 services or labor; nor shall Con-
gress have power to abolish or impair the
relation of persons held to service o, labor
in the District of Columbia, under the laws
in force therein, without the consent of
MARYLAND and Virginia, so long as such re-
lation shall exist in either of these States
under the laws thereof; nor shall Congress
have power to interfere with, or prevent
the removal of persons held 10 service or
labor from one State or territory 10 auo,h-
er. - ...-. e-. ...
Sec. 5. The African slave trade shall be
forever suppressed, and it shall be the duty
of Congress to make such laws as will Ell
fectually prevent the immigration or impor-
lation into the United States of persons
held to service or labor for life, for period
of any person intended to be sold in any
State place within the United States, un-
any prelence whatever.
Sec. 5. The second section or the fourth
article of the Convention, shall be con-
slrued to include all crimes committed
within and against the State or place from
which the fugitive fed. whether the acts
charged were criminal or not in the place
where the fugitive was found.
Sec. 5. The elective franchise and the
right 10 hold office, whether Federal, State,
Territorial or Municipal, shall not be exer-
csed by persons Of the African race, in
whole or in part.
Sec. 6. The United States shall have
power to acquire districts of country in
Africa or South America, for the coloniza
ton At the expense of the Federal Treasu-
nv of such free negroes or mulattos as the
several States may desire to have removed
from within their limits, and from the Dis
tricl of Columbia, and such other places as
may be under the jurisdiction of Congress.
Sec. 2. Whenever any person held to
service or labor, as provided in the third
clause of the second section of the fourth
article of the Constitution, shall escape,
and the Marshall or other officer whose du-
ty it may be to arrest such fugitive, shall be
prevented from so doing BY violence or in
limldation, or when after arrest such fugi-
tive, shall be rescued BY force, Congress
shall have power, and it shall be its duty,
to provide by law for the payment of the
full value of such fugitive to the party 10
whom such service or labor NAV be due; !;
and in all cases where the United Sta'es
shall pay for such fugitive, they shall have
a right 10 sue the county in which such Vi
olerce, intimidation, or rescue was commit
ted, and to recover this amount paid by
them with interests aad damages. The
said county for its indemnity, may sue and
recover from wrong doers or rescuers the
amount paid TO the United States together
with interests and damages.
Sec. s. The first and second clauses of
the first section of the I'd article of the Con-
slitution, shall read as follows: The Exec
utivc power shall he vested in President
of the United States of America, the
President and Vice President shall hold
their offices for the term OF six years, and
shall be ineligible to the office Of President
for the ensuing six years after having per-
formed the duties of President, and shall
be elected as follows: The Legislature of
each State at its first session after any fed.
era census, shall divide said State into As
many Congressional Districts as it shall be
entitled to Representatives in Congress,
which districts shall be in compact in form
and nearly equal in population as prac,i
cable; in each of said districts one elector
of President and Vice President shall be
chosen by the people thereof, having the
qualifications requisite for electors of Rep
resentalives in Congress; and in addition
two electors for the State at large shall be
chosen by the members of the Legislature
assembled in joint convention for that pur-
pose on the day appointed by Congress"
Mr.. Rely WON'T Sccede.
.s 49, RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 27.
Intelligence has reached here that pre-
vious to The passage Of the Georgia ordi-