Newbern weekly progress., 1861-01-01
Hon. 8. A. Douglas still the riend
of the SOutla-sfill Fighting for the
Union and fIle Rights of the States.

Y,
ferred disunion to the continued reign of the
national party whose principles they profassed
to advocate, have yielded to the nomination of
Mr.. Douglas at Charleston he would have been
triumphantly elected and the country would
now be in the enjoyment Of peace, quiet and
prosperity hitherto unparalleled instead OF the
present deplorable condition of things. But
no; they then, as during the canvass, declared
that great and true patriot as no better than
Lincoln, and now when they, or some Of them,
are running from Lincoln and the Union, thus
abandoning all they have in the latter, like rats
from burning barn, Douglas, noble Roman
that he is, is standing up in his place in the
Senate contendng for the rights of slaVehold-
ers in the Union and under the Constitution.
regiments of conspiring dernagogues. See how
manfnlly, how nobly he is battling for the
Union of the States, for the Rights of the States,
and especially of the slaveholding section.
On Monday, December oath, the Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, introduced
Joint Resolution into the Senate proposing
amendments to the Constitution Of the United
States, with view of restoring peace and pre-
serving the Union. His proposition was read
first and second timc and referred to the Com
mittee of Thirteen. 1t is as follows:
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Resolued by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatires Of the United States Of AmeracU an
Congress assembled, (taco-thirds Of both Houses
coacurrimg,) That the following articles be and
are hereby proposed and submitted as amend
ments to the Constitution Of the United States,
which shall be valid to all intents and pur-
poses, as part of said Constitution, when rat
flied by Conventions of three-.ourths of the
several States.
ARTICLE KILL
Congress shall make no laws In respect to
slavery or servitude in any Territory of the
United States and the status of ch Terrific
ry III respect to seryitude, as the same now
exists by law, shall remain III. changed unit!
the Territory, with such boundaries as Con-
gress may prescribe, have population OF tit
ty thousand white inhabitants, when the
white male citizens thereof over the age Of
twenty-one years may proceed to form con-
stitution and government for themselves, and
exercise all the rights of seif-gOvernment con-
sstent with the Constitution of the United
States and when such new State shall con-
tain the requisite population for member of
Congress, according to the then Federal ratio of
representation, it shall be admitted INTO the
Union on an equal footing with the original
States, with or without slavery, as the consti-
tuition of such new State shall provide at the
time of admission and in the mean time such
new State shall be entitled to delegate in
the Senate, to be chosen by the Legislature and
one delegate IN the House OF Representatives,
to be chosen by the people having the quail
ifications requisite for electors Of the most nu-
merous branch Of the Legislature; and said
delegates shall have all the rights and priyi'
legeS of Senators and Representatives, respec-
lively, except that of voting.
SEC 2. No more territory shall be acQuir- |
by the United States except by treaty OF by
t concurrent vote of two-thirds of each |
House of Congress, and when so acquired the |
status thereof in respect to servitude, it ex-
listed at the time of acquisition, shall remain un-
changed until it shall contain the population |
aforesaid for the formation of new States when |
it shall be subject to terms conditions, and |
privileges herein provided tor the existing Ter !
ritories.
Sec g. The area of all new States shall be
as nearly uniform in size as may be practical
ble having due regard to convenient bounda- |
ries and natural capacities; and shall not be
less than sixty, nor more than eighty thousand |
square miles, except in case of islands which |
may contain less than that amount.
Sec 4. The second and third clauses Of the
stitution, which provides fog delivering up fll-
gitives from justice and fugitives from service
d. labor, shall have the same fore i. the Ter
ritories and new States as in the States of the
Union; and the said clause in respect to fugi-
tives from Justice shall be construed to include
Ill crimes committed within and against the
avs of the State from which the fugitive fed,
whether the acts charged be criminal or not in
he State where the fugitive was found.
Tl,oc oF ~, ;,l
lie of the Constitution, in respect to the Judi.
,ial power of the United States, shall be deem
ID applicable to the Territories and new States
IS we'll as to the States of the Union.
ARTICLE XIV.
Sec l. The elective franchise and the right
o hold office, whether Federal, State Terrific
ial, or municipal shall not be exercised by
PERSONS Of the African race, in whole or in
'art.
Sec g. The United States shall have power
O acquire, from time to time, districts Of coun-
alton, at the expense of the Federal Treasury,
such free negroes and mulattoes as the
everal States may wish to have removed from
heir limits, and from the District of Columbia
nd such other places as may be under the iu-
isdction of Congress.
Sec g. Congress shall have no power to
bolish slavery in the places under its exclusive
lrlSdctlOn, ana situate WlLllln the lllnltS OF
tates that permit the holding Of slaves.
Sec 4. Congress shall have no power to
bolish slavery within the District of Colum-
ia, so long as it exists in the adjoining States
f Virginia and Maryland or either, nor with
ut the consent of the inhabitants, nor without J
lst compensation first made to such owners of
aves as do not consent to such abolishment :
Ior shall Congress at any time prohibit Off ers
the Federal Government or members of Con- ,
ress, whose duties require them to be in said /
strict. from bringing them out as such during
le time their duties may require them to re.
lain there and afterwards taking them from t
lie District.
Sec s. Congaess shall have no power to :,
rohibit or hinder the transportation of slaves =
ON one State to another, or to a Territory in
hich slaves are permitted by law to be held, t
hether such transportation be by land, navi. a
able rivers, or by sea; but the African slave f
,ade shall be forever suppressed, and it shall Il
e the duty Of Congress to make such laws as &
lall be necessary and efectual to prevent the a
igration or Importation of slaves OF persons I
wing service or labor, into the United States =
ON any foreign country, place or jurisdiction y
hatever. n