The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-03-14
ARTICLE THIRTEEN.

| - ARTICLE THIRTEEN.
SEC. 1. In all the present territory OF
the United States North of the parallel
of SO deg. 80 minutes of North latitude
involuntary servitude, except as punish
ment of crime, is prohibited. In al
the present territory South of that line
the status Of persons held to service o,
labor, as it nom ecists, shall not b.
changed. Nor shall any lao be passed
by Congress or the Territorial Legisla
t,tre to hinder or ioreUe,at the taking OF
such persons from any Of the States OF
the Union to said Territory, nor to am.
pair the rights arising from said rela
ton. But the same shall be subject to
judicial eognizance 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 population equal to that
required for member of Congress, it
shall, if its form of government be re-
on an equal footing with the original
States, with. or without involuntary
servitude, as the Constitution of such
State shall provide. -5-
Sec. g. Territory shall not be ac-
CURED by the United States, unless by
treaty; nor, except for naval and com
mercial stations and depots, unless such
treaty shall be ratified by four-ifths of
all the members of the Senate.
Sec. 8. Neither the constitution, nor
any amendment thereof, shall be con-
strued to give Congress power to reg
ulate, abolish, or control, within any
State or Territory of the United States,
the relation established or recognized
by the laws thereof touching persons
bound to labor or involuntary service
therein, nor to interfere with or abolish
involuntary service in the District of
Columbia without the consent of Mary
land, 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 bring
ing with them to the city of Washing
ton, retaining and taking away persons
so bound to labor; nor the power to
interfere with or abolish involuntary
service in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States with
in those States and Territories where
the same is established or recognized;
nor the power to prohibit the removal
or transportation, by land, sea or river,
OF persons held to labor or involuntary
service in any State or Territory of the
United States, to any other State or
Territory thereof, whereit is established
or recognized by law or usage; and
the right, during transportation, of
touching at ports, shores, or landings,
and of landing in case of distress, hall
exist. Nor shall Congress have power
to authorize any higher rate of taxa
ton on persons bound to labor than on
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SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the
second section of the fourth article of
the Constitution shall not be construed
to prevent any of the States, by APP
propriate legislation, and through the
action Of their judicial and ministerial
officers, from enforcing the delivery of
fugitives from labor to the person to
whom service or labor is due. z.r
Sec. 5. The foreign slave trade and
the importation of slaves into the Uni
ted States and their Territories, from
places beyond the present limits there
of, are forever prohibited.
Sec. 6: The first, third and fifth Sec
tons, together with this section six of
these amendments, and the third para
graph 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 or 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 value of his fugitive from
labor in all eases where the Marshal,
or other officer, whose duty it was to
arrest such fugitives, was prevented
from so doing by violence or intimida-
ion from mobs or riotohs assemblages,
DR. when, after arrest, such fugitive was
by force, and the owner there
by prevented and obstructed in the pur-