Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-05

respect to servitude, as it existed at the time of
acquisition, shall remain unchanged until IL shall
contain the population aforesaid for the formation
OF new States, when it shall be subject 10 the
'erms, conditions, and privileges herein provided
Tor the existing Territories.
Sec. 3. The area of all new States shall be as
nearly uniform in size as may be practicable, hav-
ing due regard to convenient boundaries and natu-
raj capacities and shall not he less than sixty
nor moro than eighty thousand square miles, ex-
cept in case Of islands which may contain less than
that amount.
Sec. 4, The second and third clauses Of the
second section of the fourth article of the Consti-
tuition, which provides for delivering up ~fogit;ves
from justice and f~ugitives from service or labor,
shall have the same force in the Territories and
new States as in the States of the Union; and the
said clause in respect to lugitiVes from justice shall
be construed to include all crimes committed with
in and against the laws Of the State from which
the fugitive fed, whether the acts charged be Grim.
inal or not in the State where the fugitive was
found.
Sec. 5. The second section Of the third article
Of the Constitution, in respect to the judicial pow
er OF the United States, shall be deemed applicable
to the Territories and new States as well as to the
States of the Union.
ARTICLE XIV.
Sec. l. The elective franchise and the right to
hold Office, whether Federal, State, Territorial, or
Municipal, shall not be exercised by persons of the
African race, in whole or in part.
Sec. 2 The United States shall have power to
acquire, from time to time, districts o: country in
Africa and South America for the colonization, at
the expense of the Federal Treasury, Of such free
negroes and mulattoes as the several States may
wish to have removed from their limits, and from
the District Of Columbia and such other places as
may be under the Jurisdiction of Congress.
Sec. 3. Congress shall have no power to abol-
ish slavery in the places under its exclusive juris-
diction and situate within the limits of States that
permit the holding of slaves.
Sec. 4. Congress shall havo no power to abol-
ing slavery within the District Of Columbia SO long
as it existe in the adjoining States of Virginia and
Maryland, OF either, nor without the consent of
the inhabitants, nor without just compensation first
made to such owners of slaves as do not consent
to such Adjustment. Nor shall Congress at any
time prohibit off cers of the Federal Government
or members of Congress, whose duties require
them to be in said District, from bringing with
them their slaves and holding them as such dur
ing the time their duties may require them to re-
main there, and afterwards taking them from the
District.
Sec. S. Congress shall have no power TO pro-
hibit or hinder the transportation of slaves from
one State to another, or to a Territory in which
slaves are permitted by law to be held, whether
such transportation be by land, n~avigable rivers
or by sea but the African slave trade shall be
forever suppressed, and it shall be the duty Of
Congress to make such laws as shall be necessary
and %effectual TO prevent the migration or importa-
ton Of slaves or persons owing service or labor,
into the United States from any foreign country,
place, or jurisdiction whatsoever.
Sec. 6. In addition to the provisions of the
third paragraph of the second section of the fourth
article of the Constitution, Congress shall have
power to provide by law, and it shall be its duty
so to provide, that the United States shall pay to
the owner who shall apply for it the full value Of
his fugitive slave in all cases when the marshal,
or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest said
fugitive, was prevented from 80 doing by violence
or intimidation, or when, after arrest, said fugi.
tive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby
prevented and INSTRUCTED in the pursuit Of his
remedy for the recovery of his fugitive slave under
the said clause OF the Constitution and the laws
made 10 pursuance thereof. And in all such cases
when the United States shall pay for such fugi-
tives, they shall have the right in their own name
to sue the county in which said violence, intimida-
ton, or rescue was committed, and to recover from
ii, with interests and damages, the amount paid
by them for said fugitive slave. And the said
county, after it has paid said amounts to the Uni,
ted States, may, for its indemnify, sue and recover
from the wrong doors or rescuers by whom the
owner was prevented from the recovery of his fu.
gitive slave in like manner as the owner himself
might have sued and recovered.
Sec, 7. No future amendment of the Constitu.
ton shall effect this and the preceding article,
nor the third paragraph Of the second section oil
the first article of the Constitution, nor the third
!, paragraph of the second section of the fourth arti
Gle of said Constitution, and no amendment shall
be made to the Constitution which will authorize
f or give to Congress any power to abolish or inter
fere with slavery in any Of the States by whose
laws it is, or may be allowed or sanctioned.