The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-03-01

.s-s ----~ The Peace Conferences, '@@1s.
The committee of one from each State,
appointed by the Peace Conference to
report a plan of adjustment Of our unfor-
tuBate national troubles, and, after pros
tracted session, lasting nearly up to twelve
o'clock on Wednesday night, tie 2o,h
u't., adopted, by decisive vote, the main
features of the plan introduced by the
Hon. JAMES GUTHRIE, of Kentucky.
Tie following is the plan originally sub
mitted by AR. GuruRIE :FL-5 b aa 5lE
ART. /. That all territory Of the United
States shall be divided by line from east
| to west, on the par allel of SO so north
latitude and in all territory north of that
line involuntary servitude, except in pun
| ishment of crime, is prohibited whilst it
shall belong to the United States, or be
under territorial government; and in all
territory south of that line involuntary
servitude is recognized, as it exists in the
Southern States Of the Union, whilst such
territory shall belong to the United States,
or be under a territorial government and
neither Congress nor the territorial gov.
eminent shall have power to hinder or
prevent emigrants to said territory from
taking with them persons held to labor or
involuntary service, according to the laws
and usages of the State from which such
persons may be taken, nor to impair the
right arising out of said relations, and be
subject to judicial cognizance; the United
States courts of said territory shall have
jurisdiction thereof and those rights shall
be protected by the courts and all the de :
partnlents of the territorial! government,
under or according to the laws of the
State from which the person bound to
such service may have been taken; and
when any territory north or south of sand
line, within such boundary as Congress
may prescribe, shall contain population
required for member of Congress, ac-
cordng to the then federal ratio, of repre>
sentation Of. the people of the United
States. it may, if its form OF government
be republican, be admitted into the Union
on an equal footing with or without in
voluntary servitude or labor, as the COP
stitution Of such new State NAV provide.
ART 2. That no territory shall here.
after be acquired by the United States
without the concurrence of majority of
the Senators of the States north of Mason
d5 Dixon's line, and also majority of the
Senators south of said line but no treaty
10y which territory shall be acquired shall
be ratified without the two thirds vote of
the Senator'S as required by the consti;u
ton. ...-. .n as .- .-.g y
ART. 3. That the Constitution, and no
amendment thereof, shall be construed to
give Congress power to regulate, abolish
or control, within any State or Territory
of the United States. the relation recog-
nized or established by the laws thereof
touching persons bound to labor or invol-
untary service therein, nor TO interfere
with or abolish involuntary service in the
District of Columbia without the consent
of Maryland and Virginia and the owners,
or without making the owners who do
not consent previously full compensation ;
nor the power to Interfere with or abolish
involuntary service in places under the
exclusive jurisdiction of the United States
within those States and Territories where
the same is established and recognized :;
nor the power to prohibit the removal or
transportation of persons held to labor or
involuntary servitude in any State or Ter
ritory of the United States, to any other
State or Territory thereof, where it is es-
tabllshed or recognized; nor to authorize
specific tax or any higher rate of tax on
persons bound to labor than on lard in
proportion to value; nor to authorize any
OF the African race or their descendants
to become citizens, or to exercise the right
of suffrage in the selection of federal off,
GERS.
ART. 5. That hereafter the paragraph
OF the 4th article of the Constitution shall
not be construed to prevent any of the
States, by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of their judicial and
ministerial officers, from enforcing the
delivery of fugitives from labor from any
other State or Territory of the United
States to the person to whom such labor
or service is due.
| ART. s.. The emigration or importation
of the African race into any State or Ter
ritory of the United States, whether for
residence or involuntary service, is forever
prohibited, and Congress shall have the
power by appropriate legislation to en-
force the provisions of this article.
ART. 6. That the first, second, third and
fifth articles of these amendments, ard the
third paragraph of the second section of
the first article of the Constitution, and
the third paragraph of the fourth article
thereof, shall not be amended or abolish
ed without the consent of all the States.
SAD AccIDENT-Two CHILDREN BURN
ED.-On Saturday last, two children of a
family named Mulloy, living on Irving
street, were left al one in the house during
the temporary absence of their mother
While thus left, some of the neighbors
heard the children screaming, and going
to the house found one Of them in bed and
the other in a cradle, both eEveloped in
flames. Every means of relief was en-