Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-16


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oihcers OF me Confederate States snail removed
from ONCE on impeachment ior, anu convection OIL
treason bribery, or hgh crimes and misdemeaneFs.
AhtlSbb III
SECTION l.
1, me JUDICIAL power OF tne Confederate states
shah DC vestedl IN one superior court, ana IN sueh
INFERIOR Oourts As the congress may from time 70
,,me osuaih ana eslsonse' Inc Judges, ootn OF
me supreme and in,enor conr,s, shan hold Their
oinceS curing good oehaViof, ana snai, at stated
.Imes, reeve lot their services a coinpensa'on'
'. sna" not oe uhinisheo uuring 'neir con-
'inui'nce IN Once.
SECTION q
i: lne Jnulcli power snah eA.ehu 10 an cases
arls,ng unuer uis Oonsuluuon une laws OF the
Cou,eueraie STATES ana treatleS maze or whieh
soell De made under theIr authority TO oil cases
lnec.,ng ambassadors 10, o'ner PUBIC minister: ana
.onsuS W al cases OF auuiiraity anu maritlme
JURISDICTION; 70 controversies 70 whlch the Confede-
ne o'.''es snali' NC Party' W eon'fo'ets'es pe,
M ..! TWO OF more states between otate ana
ciSs~eiis oi auotner ota'e Wnere ,ue otate pam
u, oel"eee ci.1eus Saunlng ianus unuer grants
u u',,e'eu' ou's; anu ue.ween c'i'e OF tne c't'
lens anu 'Vregn sues c,szens OF suoeets
out Io otle snan NC Sueu W cio~e" OF suu9ect OF
anS i1lelgn 0Oite'
Z. III -" VASES "ieoOi's a'nuassnuors, o'ner pun
so In'nlS,eIs, anu cousus, anu tnoSc IN Which
sn"il oe pVty' 'qe supreme court snaii nave
, ~ al .ne ou'ier cases before
'he pup'elne Oour. st,a nave appeDate
iisu'o''on oo'n as 10 ~" anu lacr WIN Sucn eN
OeP'ious anu uuuer S"on lesuia''ous, us the Ooh-
y es' s Tn'i, MAKE:
.ue .iai u "ii crimes except IN cases Oh ll
pe"euu,eht snaii DC ny Jury, ana such trlai snai
pe ne'u III 'he o't,e where the saiu crimes shN
n:se peen SouHi,teui out wnen not committed
"i'i,'n any Dta'e, 'he uiai suai oe NJ sucn pace
Vi P"Ves as 'ne congress may ny Ia" nave uirected
SECTION o.; :,
4. ,ie,son "g'llst '.le Oouleuer'.e states snai
CONSIST only IN leVylng war against them' or In ad
HeIiug 70 l'lelr enemies giving mem sio ana com
'or" NO person snaii oe convicted OF treason I'M
ess gu Tue testinohy OF TWO witnesses 10 the same
overt nc rct, or ON confession IN open court.
Z: lhe congress sha'l nave power 10 declare inc
Oh tre'.Son ou, no a'taihaer OF treason
San WorN corruption OF oioou, or forfeiture except
curing the lie Oh 'ile person a a..alnted'
AhllOLh w.
80 SECTION l..
l. run lal'n ana credlt SNAIL DE gwen IN each
o'a,e 10 the puohc acts records ana judicial pro-
ceeuinsS Oh every other state And the Congress
may ny general laws prescribe the manner in
which such acts records, and proceedings shall be
proved, ana the effect thereof
sEcTios 2.
]. The citizens OF each State shall he entitled TO
all the privileges aod lnmunities OF citizens in the
several states, and shall have the right OF transit
and soourn IN any State OF this Confederacy, with
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby i'm
paired.
2. person charged in any State with treason
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State, shall, on demand of the Executive authority
OF the State from which he fled, be delivered up to
be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime:
3. No slave or other person held 20 service or la
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States under the laws thereof escaping or lawfully
carried into another shall, in consequence of any
law or regulation therein be discharged from such
service or labor but shall be delivered up claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to
whom such service or labor may be due.
SECTION 3.
l. Other Slater may be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote of two-thirds of the whole House
of Representatives and two-thrds of the Senate ;
the Senate voting by States but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of
any other State; nor any State be formed by the
junction OF two or more States, parts of States
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
concerned as well as Of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose OF
and make all needful rules and regulations con-
corning the property of the Confederate States in
GLIDING the lands thereof.
B. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritory and Congress shall have power to legislae
and provide governments for the inhabitants of all
territory belonging TO the Confederate States, lying
within the limits of tue several States; and may
permit them at such times and in such manner,
us 1t may by law provide, TO form States 10 be adj
mitted into the COnfederacy. In all such territory
the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in
the Confederate States shall be recognized and pro-
tected by Congress, and by the territorial govern
menti and the Inhabitants of the several Contede-
rate States and Territories, shall have the right to
take to such territory any slaves, lawfully held by
them in any OF the States or Territories of the Con-
federate States.
A. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become men,
Der OF this Coniederacy republican form of gov
ernment and shall protect each of them against
invasion am on application OF the legislature Tor
of the Executive when the legislature is not in
sion) against domestic violence.
| ARTICLE V.
! SECTION l.
! /. Upon the demand of any three States legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress