Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-17
The cCrittemdcu Compromise.


The Crittendeu Compromise.
The CRITTENDEN Compromise seems to
be about the only plan that meets with
much favor. AS there is much interest
felt in this plan of adjusting existing diff
iculties we publish it complete: ...
A joint resolution Is. No. SOY proposing certain
amendments to the Constitution of the United
States.
Whereas serious and alarming disscnsons have
arisen between the Northern and Southern States
concerning the rights and security of the rights of
savcholdng States, and especially their rights in
the common territory of the United States; and
whereas it is eminentlv desirable and proper that
these dissensions which now threaten the very ex
istcncc of this Union, should be permanently
quoted and settled by constitutional provisions,
which shall do equal justice to all sections, and
thereby restore to the people that peace and good
will which ought to prevail between all the citi
zens of the United States: Therefore,
| Resolved By The Senate anil House of Representa-
tires orthe United Statcs Of 1mcrica IN Conqress as;
senbled. two thirds of both Houses concurrnr }
| that the following articles be, and are hereby,
proposed and submitted as amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, which shall be
Constitution, when ratified by conventions of three
fourths Of the several States;
! ART. l. In all the territory of the United States
now held, or hereafter acquired, situated north of
latitude 3G deg 80 min, slavery or involuntary
scrvtude except as n punishment for crime, is
prohibited while such territery shall remain under
territorial government. In all the territory south
of said line of latitude, slavery of the iican race
is hereby recognized as existing, and shall not be
intcrered with by Congress, but shall he protect.
cd property bv all the departments of the terri
toral government during its continuance. And
when any Territory, north or SOUTH of said line
within such boundaries as Congress may prescribe
shall contain the population requisite for member
of Congress according to the Federal rat of rep.
resentation of the people of the United States, ii
shall, If its form Of government be republican be
admitted into the Union, on an equal footing with
the original States, with without slavery rs the
constitution Of such new State may provide.
ART. 3 Congress shall have no power to abol
sh slavery in the places under its exclusive imis-
dction, and st,me within the limits Of States that
permit the holding of slaves.
ART. 3. Congress shall have no power to abo
ish slavery within the District of Columbia, Sc
long as it exists in the adjoining States of Virgin
in and Maryland, or either, nor without the con
sent of the inhabitants, without Just compensa
ton FIRST made to such owners of slaves as do no
consent to such aboishment. Nor shall Congress
at any time prohibit officers of the Federal Gov
crnmcnt, or members Of Congress, whose dutie
require them to be in said District, from bringing
with them their slaves, and holding them as suci
during the time their duties may require them 4
remain there, and afterwards taking them from
the District.
ART. 4. Congress shall have no power to pro
bibit or hinder the TRANSFORMATION of slaves from
one State to another, or to n Territory, in which
slaves are permitted to be held whether tina
TRANSFORMATION be by land navigable rivers, or b
, the sea.
! Art 5. That in addition to the provisions @
the third paragraph of the second section of tn
fourth article of the Constitution of the Unite
! States, Congress shall have power to provide b,
aw and it shall be its duty so to provide that thu
United States shall pay to the owner who shall an
ply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave in nj
; cases where the Marshal or other officer whose
duty it was to arrest said fugitive was preventeC
from so doing BY violence or intimidation, or whe
} after arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force
and the owner thereby prevented and obsructe
in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery ofhi
fugitive slave under the said clause of the Const
tuition and the laws made in pursuance thereof
And in all such cases. when the United State
shall nav for said fugitive. they shall have th
right in their own name, to sue the county il
+ which said violence, intimidation, or rescue wa
co committed, and to recover from it, with interes
| ana damages, the amount paid by them Tor sal
2 fugitive slave. And the said county, after it ha
5 paid said amount to the United States, may, ft
= its indemnity, sue and recover from the wron
doers or rescuers by whom the owner was preyel
ted from the recovery ofhis fugitive slave, in iii,
n manner as the owner himself might have sued an
t recovered.
y ARr. G. No future amendment of the Const
/ tuition shall effect the five preceding articles ne
h the third pararraph of the second section of III
IL lr-
craph of the second section ,f the fourth ortic
Q of said Constitution. and no amendment shall /
c made to the Constitntion which shall nntborze
rive TO Congress- nnv mower m abolish or ;ntcrre
!. Nth slavery in 9ny Of thc states bv whose laws
It is, or may be, allowed or permit,ed.
c And whereas, also. bcsides those causes of di
!, sension embraced in tho rnreroing amendmcn
j. pronosed To the Cons,itnton of the IInited S,,,e
i there are others which cone w;tbn the iuris'l,
tion of Congress, and NAV be remcIiel by its les