The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-02-21


have power to abolish or impair the
relation of persons held to service or
| labor in the District of Columbia, un-
der the laws in force therein, without
the consent Of Maryland and Virginia,
so long as such relations shall exist in
either of those States, under the laws
thereof, nor shall Congress have power
to interfere with or prevent the removal
of persons held to service or labor from
one State or Territory to another.
Sec. 8. The African Slave Trade
shall be fofever suppressed, and it shall
be the duty of Congress to make such
laws as will effectually prevent the
immigration or importation into the
United States of persons held to service
or labor for life, or fol. period of years,
or of any person intended to De so held
in any State or place within the United
States, under any pretense whatever.
Sec. 4. The second clause of the
second section of the fourth article of
the Constitution shall be construed to
include all crimes committed within
and against the State or place from
which the fugitive fled, whether the
acts charged were criminal or not in
the place where the fugitive was found.
SEC. s. 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. 6. The United States shall have
power to acquire districts of coventry
in Africa or South America, for the
colonization, at the expense of the
Federal Treasury, of such free negroes
and mulattoes as the several States
may desire to have removed from with
in their limits, and from the District of
Columbia, and such other places as
may be under the jurisdiction of Con-
gress.
Sec. I is materially the same as Sec.
5, of the Crittenden Compromise.
Sec. 8. The first and second clause
of the first section of the second article
of the Constitution shall read as fol-
lows:
The Executive power shall be 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 en-
suing six years after having performed
the duty of President.
The last resolution also provides for
the election of President and Vice
President, in the same manner as at
present.
Sd, THE BORDER STATE COMPROMISE.
/. Recommending the repeal of the
Personal Liberty Bills.
Q. That the Fugitive Slave Law be
amended for the preventing of kid
mapping, and so as to provide for the
equalization Of the Commissioners
fee, DC. 49,
8. That the Constitution be so amen
ded as to prohibit any interference with
slavery in any of the States where it
now exists. n
4. That Congress shall not abolish
slavery in any of the Southern dock
yards, arsenals, &C., nor in the District
of Columbia, without the consent of
Maryland and the consent of the in
habitants of the District, nor without
compensation.
5. That Congress shall not interfere
with the interstate slave trade.
6. That there shall be perpetual
prohibition of the African slave trade.
Z. That the line of SO degrees 80
minutes shall be run through all the
existing territory of the United States;
that in all north of that line slavery
shall be prohibited, and that south of
that line neither Congress nor the Ter
ritorial Legislature shall hereafter pass
any law abolishing, prohibiting, or in
any manner interfering with African
slavery and that when any territory
containing a sufficient population for
one member of Congress in an area of
10000 square miles shall apply for
admission as a State, it shall be adj
mitted with or without slavery as its
constitution may determine.
4TH. Mr.. ETHERIDGE's RESOLUTIONS.
First-Congress shall have no power
to regulate or control within the States,
the relations established or recognized
by the law of any State respecting per-
sons held to service or labor.
Second-Congress shall have no
power to interfere with or abolish sla-
very in navy yards, arsenals, forts or
other places ceded to the United States,
or the relations recognized by the laws
of any State within which such places
are situate, respecting persons held to
service or labor.
Third-Congress shall have no power
TO interfere with or abolish the relations
recognized by the laws of the District
of Columbia respecting persons held
to service or labor, without the consent
of the States of Maryland and Virginia,
and also the consent of the inhabitants
of the said District, and without making
just compensation in the premises.
Fourth-Congress shall have no
power to prohibit the removal or trans
portation from one State to another of
persons held to service or labor.
Fifth-The immigration or importa-
ton from abroad of persons held to
service or labor for life, or for term of
years, or persons intended to be SO held
and carried into any of the States, is