The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-22

any amendment thereof. shall be construed to
give Congress power to regulate, abolish or
control within any State or Territory of the Uni
ted States, the relation established or recog-
nized by the laws thereof touching persons
bound to labor or involuntary service therein,
nor to interfere with or abolish involuntary ser.
vice in the District of Columbia without the
consent of Maryland and Virginia and the
owners, nor without making the owners, who
do not consent previously, full compensation
voluntary service in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States within those
States and Territories where the same is estab.
lished or recognized; nor the power to prohi.
bit 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 or Territory thereof in which it is
established or recognized nor to authorize
specific tax or any higher rate of taxes on per-
sons bound to labor than on 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. 4. That hereafter the paragraph of the
fourth article of the constitution shall not be
construed to prevent any of the States, by ap-
propriate legislation, and through the action
of their judicial and ministerial officers. from
enforcing the delivery of fugitives from labor
from any other State or Territory of the United
States to the person to whom such service or
labor is due.
Art. 5. The emigration or importation of the
African 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 ar
ticle.
Art. 6. That the first, second third and fifth
articles of these amendments, and the third par
agraph OF the second section of the first article
OF the constitution, and third paragraph of the
fourth article thereof, shall not be amended or
abolished without the consent of all the States.
If it be true that the committee has
accepted these propositions, we have no
doubt they will be concurred in by the
Conference, and presented to Congress. If
so, the fight will then commence in earnest
between the Union men and the uncompro.
missing Republicans. 1t is said that Mr..
CoRw1N of Ohio, will take charge of the
propositions endorsed by the Conference,
and endeavOr to obtain vote upon them
without debate. Iftwo-thirds of the House
and Senate vote for them, they will then be
proposed to the States for ratification or
rejection then they " shall be valid to all
intents and purposes as part of the Consti-
tuition, when ratified by the Legislatures OF
three'fourths of the several States, or by
conventions in three>fourths thereof, as the
one or the other mode of ratification may
be proposed by the Congress-"
"A good sign is this. In the House of
Representatives, On the 9th, Mr. MORRIS, of
Pennsylvania, said: "Mr. Speaker.-I
ask the unanimous consent of the House,
for leave to present the memorial of two
thousand two hundred and eighty-nine citi>
zens of Philadelphia of whom, with the
exception Of two, voted for Mr. LINCOLN for
President of the United States-in favor Of
the CR1rrENDEN propositions, or some such
proposition as will settle the existing diff.
culties in the country" The memorial was
received.
The National Antislavery Standard is
in ecstacies over the dissolution of the
Union. Abolitionism has triumphed, and
the Standard rejoices that the great Re-
publican army has come up to do the work
which Abolitionists had been for so MANY
long years cutting out. Listen to It's ex>
ultations:
For the last ten years, yea, eleven next 7th
Of March, the Hunkerdom of the North has
been engaged in a constant effort to save the
Union. The Abolitonism of the North has
been all the time busy in the opposite direction
trying to break it up. Well, we have beaten.
The Union is dissolved in spite of the Hunkers.
1t is nothing odd that they should rage and
imagine strange things. Nobody likes to be
licked. That is just what they are. Let US be
patient with them, and let them expend their
froth and fury. Better times are at hand, and
all the nearer the worse they behave. One
thing is certain, the Union is dissolved.
These are the men into whose hands the
honest masses Of the Republican party have
been playing. The Abolitionists were the
advance guard of the Republican party. Is
it net time, in view of the above from the
Standard. that conservative, union loving
Republicans should turn a short corner,
and repudiate the lead of the A bolitionists,
who exult over broken Union?
The Columbus (MississippD Southern
Republic publishes the following to show the
difference between the prices of beef in the
capital of that State and the prices in New
York, to wit:
NEW YORK PRICES.
Cn0lce steakS... ................. Ioc.0yZUc.
Roasting pieces. .l2c. @l5c.
COLUMBUS PRICES.
Choice steaks. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. loo.
Roasting pieces. ................... &c.
This does not look as though the people
of the new Southern Confederacy were on
the verge of starvation, when in Mississippi
a pound Of cotton will get pound of choice
beefsteak.
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed an act for the election of delegates
to form State Constitution, which is to
be held in May next. The delegates are to