Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-02-21
Repert of the Peace Conference.

Report Of the Peace Conference.
The following is the report which was
submitted to the Peace Congress BY the
Committee on plan of settlement;
= Article /. In all the territory OF the
United States not embraced within the
limits of the Cherokee treaty grant, north
of a line from east to west, on the parallel
of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north
latitude, involuntary servitude, except in
punishment Of crime, is prohibited whilst it
shall be under Territorial government;
and in all the territory south of said line
the status of persons owing service or Ia
Dor as it now exists shall not be changed
By law while such territory shall be under
aTerritoral government; and neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial government shall
have power to hinder or prevent the taking
to said. territory of persons held TO labor
or involuntary service within the United
States, according TO the laws or usager OF
any State from which such persons may be
taken, nor which shall be subject to judi
cial coguizance in the Federal courts ac-
cording to the common law; and when
any territory north or south of said line,
within such boundary as Congress may
prescribe, shall contain population requir-
ed for a member of Congress, according
70 the then Federal ratio of representation,
II shall, if its form of government be re-
publican, be admitted into the Union OH an
equal footing with the original States,
with or without involuntary service or la
Dor, as the constitution of such new State
may provide.
:. Art. 2. Territory shall not be acquired
by the United States unless by treaty, nor,
except for naval and commercial stations
and depots, unless such treaty shall be
ratified by four -fiflhs of all the members
of the Senate.
Art. 3. Neither the constitution nor
any amendment thereof shall be construed
to give Congress power 20 abloish or con-
tsoI within any State or Territory the re-
iation established or recognized by the
laws thereof touching persons bound to la
Dor or involuntary service therein, or 10 in
ierfere with or abolish Involuntary service
in the District of Columbia without the
consent of Maryland. aud without the Con-
sent of the OWNERS, or making the owner>
who do not consent just compensation; nor
the power TO interfere with taking to the
city of Washington, retaining and taking
AWAY, persons so bound 10 labor; nor the
power 10 interfere will. or abolish invulun-
tary service in places under the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States within
those States and Territories where the same
is established or recognized; nor the power
TO prohibit the removal or transportation,
by land, sea or river, of persons held to Ia
Dor or involuntary service in any State or
Territory thereof where it is established
or recognized by law or usage, and the
right during transportation of touching at
shores, ports and landigs, and of landing
in case of distress, shall exist; nor shall
Congress have power to authorize any
higher rate Of taxes on perons bound to
labor than on land.
81 Art. 4. The third paragraph Of the sec
ond section of the fourth article of the
constitution shall not be construed to pre-
vent any of the States, by appropriate
legislation, and through the action Of their
judicial and Ministerial officers, from en-
forcing the delivery of fugitives from labor
to the person TO whom such service or la
Dor is due.
$ Art. 5. The foreign slave trade, and the
importation of slaves into the United
States and their Territories, from places
beyond the present limits thereof, are for
ever prohibited.
Art. 6. The first, second, third and
fifth articles of these amendments, and the
third paragraph of the second section of
the first article of the constitution, and
the third paragraph of the second section
of the fourth article thereof, shall not be
amended or abolished without the consent
OF the States.
Art. 7. Congress shall provide by law
that the United States shall have TO pay to
the owner the full value of bis fugitive
from labor in all cases where the Marshal
or other officers whose duty it was to arrest
fugitive, was prevented from SO doing by
violence or intimidation, or when, after
arrest, such fugitive was rescued by force,
asd The owner thereby prevented and OBJ
structed in the pursuit of his remedy for
recovery of such fugitive.