The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-02
Ths Peace oon1erelacs Proportions.

telegraphic correspondence Of the Cincinnati
Gazette. They were adopted by a vote Of
sixteen to FIVE, the vote being taken by
States. The plan is the one offered by
Franklin of Pennsylvania, as substitute
for the report of the committee made by
Guthrie
SEC. l. In all the present territory of the
United States north of the parallel of thir-
ty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude,
involuntary servitude, except as a punish
ment for crimes, shall be prohibited In
all the present territory south of that line
the status of persons held to involuntary
service or labor, as it now exists, shall not
be changed, nor shall any law be passed by
Congress or the territorial Legislature to
hinder or prevent the taking of such per-
sons from any of the States of this Union to
said Territory, nor impair any right arising
from said relation, but the same shall be
subject to the Judicial cognlZance of
the Federal Courts, according to the COM
mon law. When any territory, north or
south of said line, within such boundary
rs Congress may prescribe, shall contain a
population equal to that required for a
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 invol-
untary servitude, as the Constitution of
such State may provide.
SEC. 2. No Territory shall be acquired by
the United States except by discovery, and
for naval and commercial stations depots
and transit routes, without the concurrence
of q majority of all the Senators from the
States which allow involuntary servitude,
N oF oil Fha he
States which prohibit the relation. Nor
shall Territory be acquired by treaty, unless
the votes of majority of the Senators from
each of the States, herein before mentioned,
be cast as part of the two-thirds majority
necessary for the ratification of such treaty.
SEC. 8. Neither the Constitution, nor any
amendment thereof shall be construed to
give Congress the power to regulate, abol-
ish, or control, within any State or Terrific
ry of the United States, the relation estab-
lished and recognized by the laws thereof
touching persons held to labor or involunta-
ry service therein, nor interfere with or
abolish involuntary service in the District
of Columbia without the consent of Mary
land, or without the consent of the owners,
or making the owners who do not consent
Just compensation nor lower to interfere
| with or prohibit the Representatives of 9TH
or States from bringing with them to the
District of Columbia, from retaining and
taking away persons so held to labor or SER
| vice. nor the power to interfere with or
abolish involuntary service in places under
the Executive Jurisdiction of the United
States, within those States and Territories
where the same is established or recognized,
nor the power to prohibit the removal or
transportation of persons held to labor or
involuntary service in any State or Terrific
| ry of the United States, to any other State
or Territory thereof, where it is established
or recognized by law, usage and right.
During the transportation by sea or river
| the right of touching at ports, shores, land
ings, and landing in case Of distress, shall
exist, but not the right Of transit through
any State territory, if said traffic be against
laws thereof; nor shall Congress have the
power to authorize any higher rate of taxa
| ton on persons held to labor or service
than land. The bringing into the District
of Columbia persons held to labor or service
| for sale, or placing them in depots to be af-
forwards transferred to other places for sale
as merchandise, shall be prohibited.
SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the sec
ond section of the fourth article of the Con-
stitution shall not be construed to prevent
any States by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of judicial and ministe-
rial officers, from enforcing the delivery of
| fugitives from labor to persons to whom
such service or labor is due.
SEC. 5. The foreign slave trade is hereby
forever prohibited, and it shall be the duty
of Congress to pass laws to prevent the i'm
portation of slaves, Coolies, and persons
| held to service or labor, into the United
States and Territories, from places beyond
| the limits thereof.
! SEC. 6. The first, third and fifth sections,
| together with this section and these amend
ments, and the third paragraph of the sec
ond section of the first article of the Con-
stitution, and the third paragraph OF
the second section of the fourth article
thereof, shall not be amended or abolished
without the consent of all the States.
SEC. Z. Congress shall provide by law that
the United States shall pay the owner full
value for his fugitive from labor in eases
where the Marshal or other officers, whose
duty was to arrest such fugitive, was pre-
vented from doing SO by violence intimida-
ton, mobs or riotous assemblages, or when,
after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by
like violence or intimidation, and the owner
thereby deprived of the same and Con-
gress shall provide a law for securing to
the citizens of each State the privileges and
immupities of the citizens of the several
States.
The seventh section recommends that
when atugitive negro was paid for he was
| to be free.