The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12


 the fugitive slave laws by enac.ments of their State legislatures.
 ,. They have denied to citizens of Southern States the right of transit through slaveholding States with their slaves, and the right to hold them while temporarily sojouning therein.
 6. They have degraded American citizens by placing them upon an equality with negroes ut the ballot box,
 To reZress the grievances hereinbefore com pained of, and means of restoring harmony and fraternal good will between the people of all the states, the following amendments to the con stitution of the United States are proposed:
 l. The President and Vice President of the United States shall each be chosen alternately from aslaveholding and non -savcholding state-but, in no case, shall both be chosen from saveholding or non -slaveholding states
 y In all the territory of the United States now h1d, or which may hereafter be acquired, situate north of latitude 36 deg. 30 min., slavery. or in voluntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, is prohibited while such territory shall re- main under territorial government. In all the ter ritory now held, or which may hereafter be acquir ed, south of said line of latitude, slavery of the African race is hereby recognized as existing, and shall not be interfered with by Congress, but shall be protected as property by all the departments of the territorial government during it's continuance And where any territory, north or south of said line, within such boundaries as Congress may pre- sCTiDe, Sudil contain populitlOH member of Congress, according to the then federal ratio of representation of the people of the United States, 1t shall if its form of government be repub llcan, be admitted into the Union on an equal foot ing with the original states, with without slavery, as the constitution of such new state may provide. ,. Congress shall have no power to legslate on the subject of slavery, except to protect the citi zen in his right of property in slaves. 1. That ill addition to the provisions of the third Nparagraph of the second section of the fourth ari c,e Of the constitution of the United States, Con- gress shall have power to provide by law, and 1t shall be it's duty so to provide that the United ~States shall pay to the owner who shall apply for it, the fall 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 so doing by violence; or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued bY force and the owner thereby pre- ,lented and obstructedin the pursuit of his remedy Tor the recovery of his fugitive slave under the said clause of the constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof. And in all such cases, when the U. $. shall pay for such fugitive, they shall have the right, in their own name, to sue the cOun ty in which said violence, intimidation, or rescue committed, and to recover from it, with inter- est and damages, the amount paid by them for said fugitive slave. And the said county, after it has paid said amount to the United States, may for its indemnity, sue and recover from the wrong dOers or rescuers. by whom the owner was prevented from
  as the owner himself might have sued and recover ed.
 ,. The third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution, shall not be construed to prevent any of the States from having concurrent jurisdiction with the United States, by appropriate legislation, and through the action of 6eir judicial and ministerial officers, from enforc ing the delivery of fugitives from labor to the nerson to whom such service or labor is due.
 |. Citizens of savehoiding States when travel mo through or temporarily soourning with their slaves in non. slavehodng States, shall be protect ed in their right of property in such slaves.
 '. The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether Federal, State, Territorial or Muni cpal, shall not be exercised by persons of the African race, in whole or in part
 S. These amendments and the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the constiution and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article thereof. shall not be . amended or aboshed without the consent of all | the States.
 That the sense of the people of the United States may be taken upon the amendments above pro- posed;
 Resoloed By the peopls of Arkansas in Conrention assenlJIed, That we recommend the calling of a Convention of the States of the federal Union, at the earliest practicable day, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth article of the constitution of the United States.
 Z. delegates of this convention be appointed, whose duty it shall be to lay before the President and Congress of the United States and before the gov ernors and legislatures of the several States copy of these proceedings.
 B. Resolred turaher, That looking to the call of a National Convention, as recommended in the first resolution above, this convention elect m dele gates to represent the State of Arkanses in such convention.
 4. Rtsolred further, That committee of five delegates of this convention be appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States urging upon them the importance of united effort on the part of the patriotic citizens of all sections and parties to save the country from the dangers which imperil it, and which threaten it's destruc- tion-and especially, to arrest the reckless and fanatcal spirit of sectonalism North and South, which if not arrested, will inevitably involve us in bloody civil
 THOMPSON, of Cramtord.
 Mr. Grace moved 200 copies be printed for the use of the House. Adopted.
 Mr. Gould offered the following resou- tionJ>and moved it be referred to commit teeSon federal relations. Carried:
 Resoloed, That this convention recognize the right of any State to withdraw from the federal rr:a, ,,bnn in fin onno1 Of such State. n lOnper