The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-05-17
Section B.

l. Treason against this Confederacy
shall consist only in levying war against
1t, or in adhering to its enemies. giving
them aid and comfort. No person shall
be convicted of treason unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act or on confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to
declare the punishment Of treason; but
no attainder of treason shall work corrup-
ton of BLOOD or forfeiture, except during
the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE ".
Section l.
l. Full faith and credit shall be given
in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of every other
State. And the Congress may by general
laws, prescribe the manner in which such
acts, records. and proceedings shall be
proved and the eIe-t ofsuch proof.
Section 2.
|. The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all privileges and immunities
OF citizens in the several States.
2. A person charged in any State with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from Justice. and be found in another
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. slave in one State, escaping to
another, shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom said slave may be-
| long, by the executive authority of the
State in which such slave shall be found
and in. case of any abduction or forcible
rescue, full compensation, including the
value of the slave and all costs ard ex-
pensses, shall be made to the party, by
the State in which such abduction or res
cue shall take place.
Section 3.
l. The Confederacy shall guaranty to
every State in this Union, republican
form of government, and shall protect
each of them against invasion; and, on
application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive, (when the Legislature cannot
be convened against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
l. The Congress, by vote of two-thirds,
may, at any time, alter or amend this
| Constitution.
| ARTICLE VI.
| !. This Constitution, and the laws o!
the Confederacy which shall be made in
pursuance thereof, and all treaties made,
or which shall be made, under the au-
thority of the Confederacy, shall be the
supreme law of the land; and the judges
in every State shall be bound thereby
any thing in the Constitution or laws OF
any State to tho contrary notwithstand-
ing.
.. Tho Government hereby instituted
shall take immediate steps for the settle
ment of all matters between the States
forming it, and their other late confeder
ates of the United States, in relation tc
the public property and public debt al
the time Of their Withdrawal from them
these States hereby declaring it TO be theil
wish and earnest desire to adjust every
thing pertaining 81, to The common
property, common liability, and common
obligations Of that Union, upon the prin
ciples Of right, justice, equity, end gooc
faith.
3. Until otherwise provided by the Con
gress, the city of Montgomery, in thu
State of Alabama, shall be the seat o
Government.
i. The members of the Congress, anC
all executive and judicial officers of th'
Confederacy, shall be bound by oath OF
affirmation to support this Constitution
but no religious test shall be required a
a qualification to any office or public trus
under this Confederacy.
5. The Congress shall have power t.
| admit nther States