Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-21
The Peace Conference.

We are glad to see from the published re.
port Of the Committee of the Peace Confer
ence at Washington, that the telegraphie re-
port upon which We commented few DAYS
ago, was incorrect in its essential statements
of that report. The New York HsTaLd gives
the following as the report, which We have
reason to believe is substantially correct.
Should it be adopted. ard incorporated in the
Constitution, we think it would restore to the
South sense of security, and should put to
rest now and forever the agitation which has
proved so fruitful source Of evil TO the
country:
ARTICLE l. In all the territory of the
United States, not embraced within the limits
of the Cherokee treaty grant, north OF line
from east to west on the parallel OF sc de-
grees 80 minutes north latitude, involuntary
servitude, except in punishment o. crime, is
prohibited whilst it shall be under Terri
torial government; and in all the territory
south of said line, the status of persons
owing service or labor as it now exists shall
not be changed by law while such territory
shall Re under a Territorial government; and
neither Congress nor the Territorial govern
ment shall have power to hinder or pre-
vent the taking to said territory Of persons
held to labor or involuntary service, within
the United States, according to the laws or
usages of the State from which such persons
may be taken, nor to impair the rights arts
ing out of said relations, which shall he sub
ject to judicial cogniZance in the federal
courts, according to the common law; and
when any territory north or south of said
line, within such boundary as Congress NAV
prescribe, shall contain population requir-
I'd for a member of Congress, according to
the then federal ratio of representation, il
shall, if its form of government be republi-
can, be admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, with or with
out involuntary service or labor, as the con-
stitutiOn OF such new State may provide.
ARTICLE 2. Territory shall not be acquired
by the United States, unless by treaty; nor.
except for naval and commercial stations
and depots, unless such treaty shall be ratified
by four-fifths of all the members of the Sem
ate.
ARTICLE 5. Neither the Constitution, nor
any amendment thereof, shall be construed
to give Congress power to regulate, abolish,
or control, within any State or territory of
the United States, the relation established or
recognized by the laws thereof touching per-
sons bound to labor or involuntary service
therein, nor to interfere with or abolish inyoI-
untary service in the District of Columbia
without the consent of Maryland and with.
out the consent of the owners. OF making the
owners who do not consent just compensa-
ton; nor the power to interfere with or pro-
hibit representatives and others from bring
ing with them to the city of Washington, re-
tanning and taking away, persons so bound
to labor; nor the power to interfere with or
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, by land, sea, or river, of per-
sons 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 or
usage; and the right during transportation
of touching at ports, shores, and landings,
and of landing in case of distress, shall exist.
Nor shall Congress have power to authorize
any higher rate of taxation on persons bound
to labor than on land.
ARTICLE 4. The third paragraph of the
second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution shall not be construed to pre-
vent any of the States. by appropriate legis-
lation, and through the action of their Judi
ciaI and ministerial officers, from enforcing
the delivery of fngitives from labor to the
person to whom such service or labor is due.
ARTICLE 5. The foreign slave trade and
the Importation of slaves into the United
States and their Territories, from places be-
yond the present limits thereof, are forever
prohibited
ARTICLE 6. The first, third, and fifth ar
ticles, together with this article, of these
amendments, and the third paragraph of the
second section of the first article or the Con-
stitution, and the third paragraph of the
second section of the fourth article thereof,
shall not be amended or abolished without
the consent of all the States
ARTICLE z. Congress shall provide by law
that the United States shall pay TO the own
er the full value of his fugitive from labor,
in all cases where the marshal or other Off
Ger, whose duty it was to arrest such fugi-
tive, was prevented from so doing by yio-
lence or intimidation from mobs and riotous
assemblages, or when, after arrest, such fugi-
tive was rescued by force, and the owner
thereby prevented and DISTRACTED in the pur-
suit Of his remedy for the recovery of such
fugitive