Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-28
! OHIO LEGISLATURE.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
ADS6URNnD SESSION !.
I'M SENATE.
SATURDAY, January &c, 1861,

u6 OONCIuUE AuCbSubC uuu hkiuio lSoete
tions were referred to the committee on Federal
Relations.
The President signed S. ]. R., for the pay
ment Of the State armorer.
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
A message was received from the Governor
enclosing certain resolutions on the crisis, pass.
ed by the Tennessee Legislature on the 22nd
inst. The resolutions proposed national con-
stitutional convention at Nashville or some 9TH
er appointed place, and amendments to the
Constitution, as basis for adjustment Of diff
culties embodied in the resolutions. The reso.
lutions are as follows: to-
RESOLUTIONS PROPOSING AMENDMENTS 70 TaE
CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Resolved By the General Assembly Of the State
of Tennessee, That o Convention Of delegates
from all tho siavehoiding States should Assem-
BILE at Nashville, Tennessee or such other place
as majority OF the States cooperating may
designate, on the fourth day of Februrry, 1861,
to digest and define basis upon which, il pos
sible, the Federal Union and the Constitutional
rights Of the Slave States may be perpetuated
and preserved
R.solued, That the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, appoint number of dele
gates TO said Convention of our ablest and Wis
cbt mbu, tQudl W OuE WhOiO uCiCkutiuu ih OOu-
gress, and that the Governor Of Tennessee i'm
mediately furnish copies of these resolutions to
the Governors of the slaveholding States, and
urge the participation of such States, In said
Convention.
Resolped, That In the opinion Of this General
Assembly, such plan of adjustment shall en-
brace the following propositions as amendments
to the Constitution of the United States.
/. A deolaratory amendment that African
slaves, as held under the institutions of the
slayeholding States shall be recognized as prop
erty, and entitled to the status of other property
in the States where slavery exists, in all places
within the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress in
the slave States, in all the Territories south OF
sc deg. 80 min, in the District OF Columbia, in
| transit and while temporarily sojourning with
the owner in the non-siaveholding States and
Territories north of So deg. 80 min., and when
| fugitives from the owner, in the several places
above named, as well as in all places, in the ex
elusive jurisdiction of Congress, in the non.
slaveholding States. sl t.l 4. 5r
Q. That in all the territory now owned, or
which may be hereafter acquired by the United
States, south of the parallel Of 36 deg. 80 min
African slavery shall be recognized as existing,
and be protected by all the departments of the
ederal and territorial Governments, and in all
ed, il shall not be recognized as existing;
and wheneverh States formed out OF any Of
said territory south of said line, having q
population equal to that OF Congressional dis
trict, shall apply for admission into the Union,
the same shall be admitted as O slave St.tes;
while States north OF the line, formed out
Of said territory, and having population
equal to Congressional district, shall be ad-
mitted without slavery; but the States formed
out Of said territory, north and south, having
been admitted as members of the Union, shall
have all the powers over the institution Of slave.
ry possessed by the other State of the Union.
3. Congress shall have no power to abolish
slavery in places under it's exlusive Jurisdiction,
and situate within the limits of States that per.
NIT the holding of slaves.
4. Congress shall have no power to abolish
slavery within the District of Columbia, as long
as 1t exists In the adjoining States Of Virginia
and Maryland, or either, nor without the con-
sent Of the inhabitants, nor without just com.
pensation made to such owners Of slaves as do
not consent to such abolishment. Nor shall
Congress at any time prohibit officers Of the
federal government, or members of Congress
whose duties require them to be in said Dis.
trict, from bringing with them their slaves, and
holding them as such, during the time their
duties may require them to remain there, and
afterwards take them from the District,
S. Congress shall have no power to prohibit
or hinder the transportation Of slaves from one
States to another, or the Territory in which
slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether
that transportation be by land, navigable rivers
or by seas. sra tt fTtt1 rrfss
g. In addition to the Fugitive Slave clause,
provide, that when slave has been demanded
of the Executive authority of the State TO which
he has fed, II he is not delivered, and the owner
permitted to carry him out of the State in peace,
the State 90 failing to deliver, shall pay to the
owner the value of such slave,and such damages
as he may have sustained In attempting to re-
claim his slave, and secure his right of action IN
the supFsms;G Court of the United States, with
execution against the property of such State
and the individuals thereof.
Z. No future amendment OF the Constitution
shall affect the six proceeding articles, nor the
third paragraph Of the second section Of the first
article Of the Constitution, nor the third para.
graph Of the second section of the fourth article
of the Constitution; and no amendments shall be
madeto the Constitution which will authorize
or give Congress any power to abolish or inter-
fere with slavery in any of the States by whose
law Il Ia, or may be allowed or permitted.
8. That slave property shall be rendered se-
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soiourning in non-slaveholding States or Ter.
ritories, or in the District Of Columbia.
g. An amendment to the effect that all fugi-
tives are to be deemed those offending the laWs
within the jurisdiction of the state, and who es.
cape thereirom into other States; and that Il is
the duty Of each State to suppress armed inva-.
sions Of another State. i1hHt'tst AAt
Resolvsd, That said Convention 9th slave
holding States having agreed upol basis Of
adjustment satisfactory TO themselves, should,
in the opinion OF this General Assembly, refer
il to Convention of all the States, slavehold.
ing and non. slaveholding, in the manner fc,-
lowing: -ts. i'.z ~
II should invite all States friendly to such
plan OF adjustment, to elect delegates In such
manner as 10 reflect the popularlwill,t to assemble
In aConstitutional Convention Of allthe States,
North and South, to be held at Richmond, Viz
giuia, on tho ----- day OF February, 1861, to
revise aud perfect such plan Of adjustment, for
It's reference for final ratification and adoption
by Convention Of the States respectively. g'
RssoIUed, That should plan of adjustment,
satisfactory to the South, mot be acceded TO by
q requisite number Of States to perfect amend
ments TO the Constitution Of the United States,
It is the opinion of this General Assembly that
the slaveholding States should adopt for them
selves the Constitution of the United States,
with such amendments a. may be satisfactory to
the slaveholding States, and that they should
invite into the Union with them all States OF
the North which are willing to abide by such
amended Constitution and frame of Govern
ment, severing at once all connections with
States refusing such reasonable guarantees to
our future safety: such renewed conditions Of
Federal Union being first submit ted for rat