The constitutional union., 1861-01-04
Joint Resolution.

Joint Resolution.
 Rssolrr9 Gytfe Senate and House of Rspreraf1- Aires of tbo jaitrd Sla'cS of 1merica H Congress qpyem5led tttro-thtrIs of doth Houses c0Hcgtla9,) That the following articles be and are hereby proposed and submitted as amendments to the Constitution ofthe United States, which shall be yaId to all inJents and purposes, as part of said Constitution. when ratified by Conventions of three-fourtbs of the several States.
 ARTICLE XIII. Congress shall make no laws ia respect to slavery or scrEtulc in any Territory of the United States. and the S'afpv of each Ter ritorv in respect to seryitude. as the same now exists by law. shall remain unchanged until the Territory, with such boundaries as Congress may prescribe. shall have population of fifty thou sand white iDhaPit3nts. when the white male citizens thereof over the age of twcnty-onc years may proceed to form a constitution and govern ugut for themselves. and exercise all the rights of se,l-goyernmcnJ consistent with the ConstltU- don of the United States: and when such new State shall contain the requisite population for member of Congress, according to the then Fed eral ratio of representation. il shall be admitted into the nion on an equal footing with the orig u3l States, with or without slavery, as the con sttution of such uc| State shall provide at the time of admission; and, in the meantime, such new State shall he entitled to one delegate in the Senate, 10 be chosen by the Legislature, and one delegate to tLe Iouse oi hepreseAtatjyes, to be chosen by the people having the qualifications requisite ior electors of tine most numerous branch of the Legislatures and said lelg -ate, shall have al! the right and privileges If Senators and Representatives, respectively, except that of voting.
 SEC. ?. No more territory shall be acquirej by the United States except by treaty, or by the concurrent vote of two-thrds of each House of Congress, and when SO acquired, the ,idtu2 there gf in itlt,lp nI tl, time of acquisition shall remain unchanged; il shall contain the population aforesaid for the formation of new States, when il -hali be subject to the terms. conditions and privileges herein provided for the existing Territories.
 SGc. 3. The area ot all Eew States shall be as nearly uniform in size as cay be practicable. having due regard to convenient boundaries and natural capacities; and shall not be less than sixty, nor more than eighty thousaud square miles, except in case of islands which may con tain less tian that amount
 SEC. l. Tine second and third clauses of the second section of the fourth article of the Con.ti- tuton. which provides for delivering mp tu-itycs from justice, and fugitives from service or labor shall have the same force in the Territories and new States as in the States of the Union; and the sad clause in respect to fugitjyes from jus tico shall be construed 10 include all crimes com mitted within and against the laws of the State from which the fugitive fled, whether the acts charged be criminal or not in the State where the fugitive was found.
 SEC. ]. The second section of the third article of the Constitution, in respect to the judicial power of the United States, shall be deemed ap- plicabe to the Territories and new States as well as to the States of the Union.
 ARTICLE KY. SEC. 1. The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether Federal. State, Territorial or municipal shall not be cxcr- ciscd by persons of the African race, in whole or in part.
 SEC. ?. The United States shall have power to acqurc from time 10 time, districts of country in Africa and South America for the colonization, a the expense of the Federal Treasury, of such free negroes and mulattocs as the several States may wish to have removed from their limits. and from the District of Columbia and such other places as may be under the jUris fiction of Congress.
 SEC. ,. Congress shall have no power to abol- l ish slavery in the places under its exclusive jurisdiction and situate within the limits of States that permit the holding of slaves.
 SEC. | Congress shall have no power to abol- 1 ish slavery within the District of Columbia SO long as it exists in the adjoining States of Vir- ginia or Maryland, or either, nor without the con sent of the inhabitants, nor without just compcu- sation first made to such owners of slaves as do not consent to such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at any time prohibit officers of the Fed eral Government or members of Congress. whose
 
 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
 Sac. ,. Congress shall have no power 10 pro- hiblt or hinder q transportation of slaves from one State to another, d Territory in which slaves are permitted by law to be hel,l whether such transportation be by land, nayigable rivers or by sea; but the African slave trade shall be forever suppressed, and it shall be the duty of Congress to make such laws as shall be necessary and effcctuai to prevent the migration or impOI- tation of slaves or persons owing service or labor into the United States from any foreign country place or jurisdiction whatever.
 SEC. 6. In addition 10 the provisions of the third paragraph of tho second section of the fourth article of the Constitution, Congress shall have power to provide by law, and it shall be its duty so to provide, that the United States shall pay to the owner who shall apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave in all cases when 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 and obstructed 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 And i'll all such cases, when the United States shall pay for such fugitiyes they shall have the right in their name to sue the county in which said violence intimidation, or rescue was com mitted, and to recover from it, with interests and damages, the amount paid by them for said fugi- tive slave. And the said county, after 1t has paid said amounts to the United States, may for it's indemnity, sue and recover from the wrong doers or rescuers by whom the owner was pre- vented from the recovery of his fugitive slave in like manner as the owner himself migis have sued and recovered.
 SEC. 6. No future amendment of the Con stitu- tion shall affect this and the preceding article,