, 1861-02-22
From the San Frmrisco Balletn, jan. Both.
The CliimaiHln Of The South
cRIrrENDEN's coMrnonIsE "A!


II In our Washington correspondence, some
! comments are made upon the joint ReSoln
$ tons submitted to the United States Sen,
E ate, by Senator Cri.tenden Of Kentucky
! They are as follows:
WHrRr4s, the Union is IN danger and
it is difficult, If not impossible FOR Congress
to concur " the requisite majority, SO as to
enable It to take such measures, to recon.
mend the States such amendments TO the
Constitution as are necessary TO avert the
danger.
WHEREAS, in so great an emergency the
spinior and Judgment Of the people ought
TO he heard: Therefore,
ReMired That provision be made by law
without delay for tuking the sense of the
people, and submitting 10 them the follow
ing resolution:
RcsoleM by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, two-thirds
Of both houses concurring: That the fol-
lowing articles be, and they are hereby, pro-
posed and submitted as amendments to the
Constitution Of the United States, which
shall be valid to all inteuts aud purposes as
part Of said Constitution, when ratified by
conventions of three-fourths of the several
States:
Art. l. In all the territory OF the Uni
ted States now held or hereafter acquired
situate north Of latitude thirty-six degrees
and thirty minutes, slavery or involuntary
seryitude, except as a punishment for crime,
is prohibited, while such territory shall re-
main under territorial government In all
the territory south Of said line Of latitude
slavery Of the African race is hereby recog-
nized as existing, and shall not be interler-
cd with by Congress; but shall be protected
as property by all the departments Of the
territorial government during its contin-
uance; 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 then Federal
ratio Of representation Of the people Of the
United States, it shall, if its form Of gov
ernment be republican, be adm tied into the
Union on an equal footing with the origin
al States, with or without slavery, ns- the
constitution Of such new Statc-Inay pro-
vide.
Art. .. Congress shall have no power
to abolish slavery in places under its exclu-
sive jurisdiction, and situate within the lin.
its of States that permit the holding OF
slaves.
Art. 3. Congress shall have no power
to abolish slavery within the District Of
Columbia, so long as it exists in the adjoin-
ing States Of Virginia and Maryland, or
either, nor without the consent Of the in-
habitants, nor without just compensation
irst made TO such owners Of slaves as do
not consent TO such abolshment. Nor shall
Congress at any time prohibit officers Of the
Federal Government or members Of Con
gress, whose duties 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 afterwards taking them
from the District
Art. A. Congress shall have no power
to prohibit or hinder the transportation OF
slaves from one State TO another, or TO a
territory in which slaves are BY law permit
ted TO be held, whether that transportation
be by land, navigable rivers, or by the sea.
Art. 5. That, ia addition 10 the pro.
visions Of the third paragraph Of the sec
ond section Of the fourth article of the
/ Constitution Of the United States, Congress
shall have power to provide by law, and il
shall be its duty 50 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, wheu the Marshal
or other officer, whose duty it was TO arrest
said fugitive, was prevented from so doing
by violence or intimidation, or when after
arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force,
and the owner thereby prevented aud OBJ
structed in the pursuit Of his remedy for
the recovery of his fugitive slave, under
\ the said clause Of the Constitution and the
laws made in pursuance thereof Aud in
all such cases, when the United States shall
pay for such fugitive, they shall have the
right, in their own name, to sue the county
in which said violence, intimidation or res
cue was committed, aud to recover from it,
with interest and damages, the amount paid
by them for said fugitive slave. And the
said county, after it has paid said amount
to the United States, may, for its indemni.
/, ty, sue and recover from the wrong doers,
or rescuers, by whom the owner was pre-
vented from the recovery Of bis fugitive
slave, in like manner as the owner himself
, might have sued and recovered.
Art. 6. No future amendment Of the
Constitution shall affect the five preceding
articles, nor the third paragraph Of the sec
- .aat;cn Of tho fret ortirln of tho Cnn.
= stitution, nor the third paragraph of the
second section Of the fourth article of said
Constitution, and no amendment shall be
made to the Constitution which will author
izc or give to Congress any power to abol-
ish or Interfere with slavery in any Of the
States by whose laws it is or may be allow
ed or permitted.
j, AND WHEREAS, also, besides those causes
: of dssension embraced in the foregoing
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