The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-06
of treason shall work corruption of blood, or
forfeiture, except during the life OF the person


Of treason shall work corruption Of blood, or
forfeiture except during the life OF the person
ati1intsd.
ARTICLEIy.
| SECTION I.
l. Full faith and credit shall he given In
each State to the public acts, records, aud ia
| dicial proceedings cfeyery other state. And
| The Congress may, by general laws, prescribe
| the manner in which such acts, records, and
| proceedings shall be proved, and the effect
! thereof.
sEcTfox II.
| l. The citizens of each State shall be en-
| titled to all the privileges and immunities of
| citizens in the several States, and shall have
| the right of transit and sojourn in any State
of this Confadersey, with their slaves and
| other property, and the right of property in
said slaves shall not be thereby impaired
2 A person charged in any State wit trel-
SON felony, or other crime against the laws
of such State, who shall fee from justice, and
be found in another State, shall, OF demand of
the Executive authority OF tue state from
which he aed, he delivered up to be removed
to the State having Jurisdiction of the crime
No slave or other person held to service
or labor IN any State or Territory OF the Con-
federate States, under the laws thereof es-
ping or lawfully carried in to another, shall,
in consequence OF any law or regula ton there
in, be discharged from snch service or labor;
but shall be delivered up on claim Of the party
to whom such slave belongs, or to whom such
service or labor may be due.
sECTIoS III.
!. Other States may be admitted into this
Confcderacy By vote of two-thirds of the
whole House of Representatives. and two
thirds 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 june
ton OF two nore States or parts of States,
without the consent of the Legislatures of
the States concerned, as we'll as OF the Con
gross.
,. The Congress shall have power 10 dis
pose of and make all needful rules and rPgu-
lations concerning the property of the Con
federate States, including the lands thereof
). The Confederate States may acquire new
territory; and Congress shall have power 10
IegiSiate and provide Governments for the in
habitants of all territory belonging to The
Confederate States, lying without the limits
of the several States; and may permit them,
at such times, and in such manner it may
by law provide, to form States to be admitted
INTO he Contrderacy. In all such territory,
the institution of negro slavery rs it now ex-
lists i'll the Confederate States shall be racOg-
nized and protected by Congress, and By the
Territorial Government: and the inhabitants
of the several Confederate States and Terri |
tories shall have the right TO take to snch
Territory any slaves lawfully held BY theiu
in any of the states or Territories OF the Con
federate States.
!. The Confederate States shall guarantee |
to every State that now is, or hereafter NAV
become, a member of this ConiedeTacy, re- |
publican form of Government, and shall pro- |
ttct each OF them against Invasion, and on |
application OF the Legislature, Tor OF the Exc |
cuJive when the Legislature is not in session. |
against domestic violence.
ARTICLE Y.
!. Upon the demand of any three States, le- |
gally assembled in their several Conventions, /
tie Congress shall summon Il Convention Of |
ali the STATES, to take into con sideratjOn such |
amendments to the Cons Tuition as the said
States shall concur in suggesting at the time
when the said demand is made and should
any OF the proposed amendments TO the Con-
stitutiOn be agreed on by the said Convention
voting by States-aGd the same be ratified by
the Legislatures OF two thirds of the several
states, or by Conventions i'll two thirds there
ot-4s the one or the other mode Of ratification
may be proposed by the general Convention
they shall thencetorward form 4 part OF this
Constitution. But no State shall, without its
consent, be deprived fits equal representation
iii the Senate,
ARTICLE VI.
l. The Government established by this
Constitution is the successor OF the Proyi-
sionaI Government of the Confederate States
Df America, and all the laws pissed by the lat
ter shall continue III force until the shall
be repealed or modified, and all the officers APP
pointed by the same snail remain in office un-
I'll their successors are appointed and quail
fed or the Offices abolished.
:. All debts contracted and engagements en-
tered into before the adoption Of this Consti-
tuition, shall be as valid against the C0ufeder-
ate states under this Constitution as under the
Government.
Confederate States made i'll pursuance there
Of and all treaties made, or which shall be
made, under the authority of the Confederate
States, shall be the supreme Ia " of the land
and the Judges In every state shall be bound
thereby, anything in the Constitution or Ia VS.
u any State u the contrary Notwithstanding.
4. The Senators and Representatives. be
fore men toned and the members of the seva- |
al State legislatures, and all Executive and
judicial officers, both of the Confederate |
states and of the several States, shall ba |
bound by oath or affirmation 10 support this
Constitu ton bu no religious test shall ever |
De required as Il qualification TO any office or |
public trust under the Confederate States.
5. The enumeration, i'll the Cons titution, of |
certain rights, shall not be construed L. DENY
n dlsparage others retained by the people OF
he several States.
6. The powers not delegated to the Confad-
crate States by the Constitution, nor prohibi- | I
led by it to the States, are reserved to the
states, respectively, or TO the people thereof.
ARTICLE VII.
!. The ratiiiCa ton of the Conventions OF |
I've States shall be sufficient tor the establish
nent OF this Constitution be tween the States 6
o ratifying the same.
.. When five States shall have ratified this
Constitution in the manner before specified,
he Congress under the Provisional Constitu-
ion shall prescribe the time tor holding the
lection of President and Vice President and
or the meeting of the Electoral College, and
or counting the votes, and inaugurdtiug the
PRESIDENT. They shall also prescribe the time 5
or holding the first elec ton of members OF
congress under this Constitution, aud the +
ime for assembling the same Until the as t
embling OF such Congress, the Congress '
Inder the Provisional Cons titution shall con-
luue to exercise the legislative powers grant
d them, not extending beyond the time limit :
d by the Constitution Of the Provisional
.IFE AND F1RH ms JRAACE.