Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-14
Ra.Is Of Aaiustment.


The following are the resolutions offer
ed in the PeAee Congress by Hon. James
Guthrie:
AErIcLx /. That all Territory of the
United States shall be divided BY line
from East 10 West, on the parallel OF $50
30, north latitude; and in all territory
north of that line, involuntary servitude,
except in punishment OF crime, IS prohih-
tied whilst il shall belong TO the United
States, or be under a Territorial Govern
ment: and in all territory south of said
line. involuntary serTiIude is recognized
as it exists ia the Southern States Of the
Union whilst snch territory shall belong
10 the Uaited States, or be under Terri
torial Government; and neither Congress
nor the Territorial Government shall have
power to hinder or prevent emigrAnts TO
said tsF1itory from taking With :hen per-
sons held 10 labor or involuntary service,
according to the laws and usageS of the
State from Nhieh such persons may be ta-
ken, nor 70 impair the night arising out of
said relations, and be subject to judicial
reeognizanee, the United States Courts Of
each and every such Territory shall have
Jurisdiction thereof and those rights shall
be protected by the courts and all the de-
Partmeuts Of the Territorial Government
Under or according to thelAEs of the State
from which the person bound TO such SER
vice may have been taken and Ehen any
territory North or South of said line,
within such boundary as Congress may
prescribe, shall contain population re-
qaired for a member Of Congress, accord
ing 10 the then Federal ratio of represen-
tation Of the people Of the United States,
il may, If its form of Government be re-
publican, be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States,
wiki or without Involuntary serVitude or
labor, as the Constitution of such new
States may provide.
AIR. >. That no territory shall hereafter
De acquired by the United States without
the concurrence Of a majority Of the Sena-
tors Of the States North of Mason and
DiKon's line, and also a majority of the
Senators south Of said line; but no treaty
by which territory shall be acquired shall
be ratified without the two thirds vote Of
the Senators, as required by the Constitu-
ton.
ART. 3. That the Constitution, and no
smendment thereof, shall be construed TO
give Congress power TO regulate, abolish
OF control, within any State or Territory of
the United States, the relations establish
ed or recognized bT the laws thereof
touching persons bound TO labor or iaroI-
untaEy service therein, nor to interfere with
or abolish iuTO untary service in the Dis
triet of Columbia without the consent Of
Maryland and Virginia and the owners, or
without making the owners who do not con-
sent, previously, full compensation: nor the
power to interfere with or abolish inYol-
untaTy service in place under the excIu-
size jurisdiction Of the United States with
in those States and Territories where the
same is established OF recognized; nor the
power to prohibit the removal or lruanspor-
tation Of persons held 70 labor or inVoIu-
tionsry service to any State or TERRITORY of
the United States, TO any other State or
Territory thereof, where it is established or
recognized; nor to authorize specific TAX
or any higher rate Of tRKas on persons
bound TO labor, than on land II proportion
20 value; nor to authorize any Of the Af.i-
can race OF their defendants 70 become cit
liens, or TO exercise the right Of Suffrage
in the choice of Federal officers.
AET. 4. That herEaffer the paragraph Of
the fourth article of the Consultation shall
not be construed 10 prevent any of The
States, by appropriate legislation, aud
through the action OF their judicial and
ministerial officers, from enforcing the de-
livery Of fugitiTes from labor, from any
other State or Territory OF the United
SLates 10 the person TO whom such service
or labor is due.
AIR. 5. The emigration or Importation
Of the African race into any State or any
Territory of the United States, whether for
residence or Involuntary service, Is forever
prohibited, aud Congress shall have the
power by appropriate legislation to enforce
the provisions Of this article.
Arr. 5. That the 6rst, second, third and
Eth articles of these amendments and the
third paragraph OF the second section of
the irSt article Of the Constitution, and
the third paragraph Of the fourth article
thereof, shall not be amended or abolished
without the consent Of all the States.