Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-07
JOINT RESOLUTION.

JOINT RESOLUTION.
Resolu.d Bv the Senate and House of Represeu-
tatiUes of the United States Of America in Congress
assembled (tlCo thirds Of both Houses coHcurring).
That the following articles be and are hereby
proposed and submitted as amendments to
the Constitution of the United States, which
shall be valid to all intents and purposes,
as part of said Constitution, when ratified
by Conventions of three-fourthe nj the sever
al States.
Article xIu.-Congress shall make no laws
in respect TO slavery or servitude in any Ter
ritory of the United States; and the status OF
each Territory in respect to servitude, as the
same now exists 10y law, shall remain I'M
changed until the Territory, with such bound
aries as Congress may prescribe. shall have
population of fifty thousand white inhabi-
tants. when the white male citizens thereof
over the age Of twenty-One years may pro-
coed to form a Con- ttution and Government
for themselves, and exercise all the rights Of
selfgOvernment consistent with the COnsii-
tuition of the United States; and when such
new State shall contain the requisite popula-
ton for member of Congress, according to
the then Federal ratio of represn ntation. II
shall be admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, with or with
out slavery. as the Constitution of such new
State shall provide at the time Of admission :;
and in the meantime such new State shall he
entitled to one delegate to the Senate, to be
chosen by the Legislature, and one delegate
in the House of Representatives, to be chosen
by the people having the qualifications re-
quisite for electors of the most numerous
branch of the Legislature; and said delegates
shall have all the rights and privileges OF
Senators and Representatives respectively,
except that of voting.
Section 2. No more territory shall be ac-
CURED by the United States except by treaty
or by the concurrent vote of twO-thirds of
each House of Congress, and when so acquir-
ed the status thereof in respect to servilude.
as it existed at the time of acquisition. shall
remain unchanged until it shall contain the
population aforesaid for the formation Of new
States when it shall be subject to the terms.
conditions, and privileges herein provided for
the existing Territories.
Section s. The erea of all new States shall
be as nearly uniform in size as NAV be pTac-
ticabie, having due regard TO convenient
boundaries and natural capacities; and shall
not be less than sixty nor more thsp eighty
thousand square miles. except in case of is
lands which may contain less than that
amount.
Section 4. The second and third clauses of
| the second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution, which provides for delivering
I'D fugilives from justice and fugitives from
| service or labor shall have the same force in
the Territories and new States as in the
States of the Union; and the said clause in
respect to fugitives from justice shall be con-
strued to include all crimes committed with
| in and against the laws of the State from
which the fugitive fed, whether the acts
charged be criminal or not in the State where
| the fugitive was found.
Section 5. The second section of the third
article of the Constitution, in respect to the
| Iudic;al power of the United States, shall be
deemed applicable to the Territories and new
States, as well as TO the States of the Union.
Article xIv.-SectiCn l. The elective fran
chise and the right to hold Office, whether
Federal, State, Territorial, or municipal,
shall not be exercised by persons of the Afri-
can race, in whole or in part.
Section 2. The United States shall have
power TO acquire, from time to time, districts
of country in Africa and South America. tor
the colonization, at the expense of the Fede-
raj treasury, of snch free negroes and mula-
toes as the several States may wish to remove
from their limits, and from the District of
Columbia, and such other places may be
under the Jurisdiction of Congress.
Section 8. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in the places under its ex
elusive Jurisdiction, and situated within the
| limits of States that permit tie holding of
slaves
Section f. Congress shall have no power
| to abolish slavery within the District of Co
| lumbia so long it exists in the adjoining
States of Virginia and Maryland, or either.
nor without the consent of the inhabitants,
nor without just compensation first made to
such owners of slaves as do not consent to
such adjustment. Nor shall Congress at
| any time prohibit officers of the Federal Gov
eminent or members of Congress, whose du-
/ ties require them to be in said District, from
bringing with them their slaves and holding
| them as such during the time their duties
may require them to remain there. and after
wards taking them from the District
Section >. Congress shall have no power
| to prohibit or hinder the transportation OF
slaves from one State to another, or a Terri
| tory in which slaves are permitted by law to
| be held, whether such transportation be by
| land, navgable rivers. or by sea; but the At
rican slave trade shall be forever suppressed.
and it shall be the duty OF Congress to make
| such laws as shall be necessary and effecutu-
| al to prevent the migration or importation oil
slaves or persons owing service or labor into
| the United States from any foreign country,
place, or jurisdiction VIII itsoever
ESec. 6. In addition to the provisions of the
| third paragraph of the second section OF the
fourth article of the Constitution, Congress
| shall have power TO provide by law, aud il
shall be Its duty 81 to provide, that the
United States shall pay to the owner who
shall apply for it the full value of his fugi.
tive slave in all cases when the marshal, or
| other officer, whose duty il was to arrest said
fugitive, was prevented from so doing by vi
olence or intimidation. or when, after arrest
said fugitive was rescued, aud the owner
thereby prevented and obsIructed IN the pur.
suit Of his remedy for the recovery of bis
fugitive slave nnder The said clause of the
Constitution and the laws made in pursuance
thereof. And in all snch cases when the
United States shall pay for such fugitives they
shall have the right in their own name to
sue the county in which said violence in
tlmidation, or rescue was committed, and to
recover from it, with interest and dana oes
the amount paid by them for said fugitive