Randolph County journal., 1861-03-07

Congress the power TO regulate, abolish, or con-
troll, within any State or Territory of the United
States, the relation established and recognized BY
the laws thereof touching persons held 10 labor
or involuntary service therein. nor interfere
with or abolish involuntary service in the Dis
trict Of Columbia without the consent of Mary
land. without the consent of the owners, or
making the owners who do not consent just com
pensation; nor power to interfere with or pro-
hbt the Representatives Of other States from
bringing with them to the District of Columbia
or from retaining and taking away persons 80
held to labor service; the power to inter
fere 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 transporta-
ton of persons held to labor or involuntary
service in any State or Territory 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 10y sea or river the
right of touching at ports, shores, landings, and
landing in case of distress, shall exist. but not
the right of transit through any States territory
if said traffic be against laws thereof nor shall
Congress have the power to authorize any higher
rate of taxation persons held to labor or
service than land. The bringing into the Dis
trict of Columbia persons held to labor or service
for sale or placing them in depots to be after
wards transferred to other places for sale as
| merchandise, shall be prohibited
SEC. 4. The third paragraph of the second Sec
ton of the fourth article of the Constitution
shall not be constructed to prevent any States,
by appropriate Legislation and through the action
of judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing
the delivery of fugtives from labor to persons to
which service or labor is due
SEC. s. The foreign slave trade is hereby for
ever prohibited, and it shall. be the duty of Con-
gress to pass laws to prevent the importation of
slave Coolies, and persons held to service or la
Dor, into the United States and Territories, from
places beyond the limits thereof.
SEC. 6. The first, third and fifth sections, to-
gether with this section and these amendments,
and the third paragraph of the second section of
the first article of the Constitution, and the third
paragraph ofthe section section of the fourth
ticle thereof shall not be amended or abolished
without the consent of all the States.
SEC. :. Congress shall provide by law that the
United States shall pay the owner full value for
his fugitive from labor in cases where the Marsh
al other officers, whose duty to arrest such
fugitive, was prevented from doing so by vio-
lence, intimidation, mobs or rotous assemblages,
or when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued
by like violence or intimidation, and the owner
thereby deprived OF the same; and Congress shall
provide law for securing to the citizens of each
State the privileges and immunities of the cti-
zens of the several States.
The seventh section recommends that when n
fugitive negro paid for he to be free
The following is the Gazette's statement OF
the vote upon it:
a majority of the Virginia and North Carroll
ma delegations voted with the Radicals, against
it. The Missouri delegation was divided, as al
so that of Kansas. Upon all other branches OF
settlement, majority of the Indiana delegation
voted in the affirmative; the first branch. re
latng to Slavery in the Territories, they declined
voting, under instructions from the Indiana
Legislature. The Illinois delegates voted for it
and New York equally divided.