Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-03-01

between citizens of different States be-
tween citizens of the same State claiming
lands under grants of different States
2. In all Cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, and
those i'll which State shall be party,
the supreme court shall have original iu-
,isdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the supreme court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and
fact, with such exceptions and under such
regulations as the Congress shall make
3. The trial of all crimes, except in
cases OF impeachment, shall be by jury,
and such trial shall be held in the State
where the said crimes shall have been
committed but when net committed with
in any State, the trial shall be at such
place as the Congress may by law have
directed.
SECTION 3.
1. Treason against this Confederacv
shall consist only in levying war against
IT, or in adhering to its enemies, giving
them a'dssnd comfort. No person shall
be convicted OF treason unless on the tes-
tlmony OF two witnesses to the same overt
act, or on confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have the power
to declare the punishment OF treason but
no attsinder of treason that shall work
corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except
during the lite of the person attained.
ARTICLE ".
SECTION l.
1. Fall faith and credit shall be given
in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings OF every other
State. And the Congress may, by general
laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records, and proceeding shall be
proved aud the effect of such proof
SECTION 2.
/. The citizens of each State shall be en-
titled to all privileges and immuni,ies of
citizens in the several States.
Q. A person charged in any State with
treason, felony, or other crime, swho shall
flee from Justice, and be found in another
State, shall, on demand of the exective
authority of the State from which he fed,
be delivered up, to be removed to ,the
State having Jurisdiction of the crime.
3. A slave in one State, escaping to
another shall be delivered up on claim OF
the party to whom said slave may belong
by the executive authority of the State in
which such slave shall be found, and in
case Of any abduction or forcible rescue,
full compensation, including the value OF
the slave and all costs and expenses. shall
be made to the party, by the State in which
such abduction or rescue shall take place.
sEcT1oa 8.
1. The Confederacy shall guarantee to
every State IN this Union, a republican
form Of government, and shall protect each
of them against invasion and, on applica-
-; 81, Of 4I
(when the Legislature cannot be convened,)
against domestic violence.
ARTICLE v
/. The Congress, by vote of two-thirds,
may, at any time, alter Or amend this
Constitution.
ARTICLE VI.
l. This Constitution. and the laws of the
Confederacy which shall be made in pnr-
suance thereof, and all treaties made or
which shall be made, under the authority
Of the Confederacy, shall be the supreme
State shall be bound thereby, anything in
the Constitution or laws of any State to
the contrary Notwithstanding. ats6
3. the Government hereby instituted
shall take immediate steps for the settle
nent Of all matters between the States
forming it, and their other late confeder-
a,es of the United States in relation to
the public property and public debt at the
time Of their withdrawal from them these
States hereby declaring It to be their wish
and earnest desire 10 adjust everything
pertaining to the common property and
common liability, and common obligations
of that Union, npon the principles OF right,
justice, equality and good fait..
3. Until otherwise provided by the Con
gress the city Of Montgomery, III the State
of Alabama, shall be the seat Of Govern
ment.
4. The members of the Congress and
all executive and judicial officers of the
Confederacy shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support this Constitution,
bnt no religious test shall be required IS a
qualification to any Office or public trust
under this Confederacy.
5. The Congress shall have power to adj
nit other States.
The WAR FEELING IN LoUIsIANA.--Since
Mr.. Lincoln's late speech, foreshadowing
coercion policy, war IS deemed inevitable.
On the first demonstration by the Lincoln
government the provisional government
will send Immediately large army to the
North the South will never wait to be
invaded.ass. . ss
3. One hundred thousand aollNrs were aak.s
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