Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-02-20
The Peace Conference.

The following plan of adjustment, it is stated
has been adopted by the commissioners at Washing
ton by decisive vote, seven saveholding and four
teen non saveholding States being represented:
Mr.. GUrHRIE's PLAN OF ADJUSTMENT.
Article l. That all the territory Of the United
States shall be divided by line from east to west
north latitude and in all territory north of that
line involuntary seryitude, except in punishment Of
crime, is prohibited whilst it shall belong to the
United States or be under Territorial government;
and in all territory south Of said line involuntary
servitude is recognized as it exists in the Southern
States of the Union whilst such territory shall
belong to the United States be under Territorial
government; and neither Congress nor the Terri
toria. government shall have the power to hinder
prevent emigrants to said Territory from taking
with them persons held by them to labor or invol-
untary service, according to the laws or usage of
the State from which such persons may be taken,
nor to impair the light arising out of said relations,
and be subject to judicial cognizancc. The United
States Courts of such Territory shall have jursdic
ton thereof, and those rights shall be protected by
the courts and all the departments Of the Territorial
government under or according to the laws of the
State from which the person bound to such service
may have been taken. And when any territory
north south Of said line, within such boundary
as Congress may prescribe shall contain the popu-
lation required for member of Congress, accord
ing to the then federal ratio of representation of the
people Of the United States it may, if its form Of
government be republican, be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original States
with or without involuntary servtude or labor, as
the constitution of such new State may provide
Art. 2. That no territory shall hereafter be &C.
qured by the United States without the concurrence
Of three-fourths of the Senate; but no treaty by
which territory shall be acquired shall be ratified
without the two-thrds vote of the Senate, as re-
quired by the constitution.
Art 8. That neither the constitution. any
amendment thereof, shall be construed to give Con.
gress power to regulate, abolish control within
any State Territory of the United States the re-
laon established recognized by the laws thereof
touching persons bound to labor or involuntary
service therein; to interfere with or abolish in
voluntary service in the District Of Columbia with
out the consent of Maryland and Virginia. and tie
owners, nor without making the owners who do not
consent previously full compensation the pow
er to interfere with abolish involuntary service in
places under the exclusive 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
Territory of the United States to any other State
Territory thereof in which it is established re-
cognized; nor to authorize specific tax any higher
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land in proportion to value; nor to authorize any
Of the African race or their descendants to become
citizens or exercise the right of suffrage in the
choice of federal officers
Art. f. That hereafter the paragraph of the fourth
article of the constitution shall not be construed to
prevent any Of the States, by appropriate legislation
and through the action Of their judicial and minis
teral officers from enforcing the delivery offugtives
from labor from any other State or Territory of the
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labor is due.
Art. 5. The emigration of importation or the Af
rican race into any State or any Territory of the
United States whether for residence or involuntary
service, is forever prohibited, and Congress shall
have the power, by appropriate legislation to enforce
| the provisions of this article.
| Art. 6. That the first second, third and fifth
articles of these amendments, and the third para
graph of the second section of the first article of thu
constitution and third paragraph of the fourth article
thereof, shall not be amended or abolished withou
the consent of all the States.