Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-21
THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 2l 1861

also all laws which may be requisite to pro-.
tect the parties to all such suits, orders,
judgments, or DEGREES, their heirs, personal
representatives, or assignees.
SECTION 2.
The judicial power shall extend to all
cases Of law and equity, arising under this
Constitution: the laws of the United States,
and of this Confederacy, and treaties made,
or which shall be made, under its authori-
ty; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls; to all cases
of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to
controversies between two or more States !;
between citizens of different States between
citizens of the same State claiming lands
under grants of different States.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, and
those in which a State shall be party,
the supreme court shall have original ju-
risdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the supreme court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and
fact, with such exceptions and under such
regulations as the Congress shall make.
! 8. The trial of all crimes, except in cases
of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such
trial shall be held in the State where the
said crimes shall have been committed but
when not committed within any State, the
trial shall be at such place or places as the
Congress may by law have directed.
SECTION 8.
l. Treason against this Confederacy
shall consist only in levyiug war against it,
or in adhering to its enemies, giving them
aid and comfort. No person shall be con,
victed 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 corruption of
blood, or forfeiture, except during the life
of the person attainted.
ARTICLE w.
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 effect of such 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
fee from justice, and be found in another
State, shall, on demand of the executive
authority of the State from which he fled,
Tbe delivered up, to be removed to the State
having jurisdiction of the crime.
3. A slave in one State, escaping to an.
other, shall be delivered up on claim of
the party to whom said slave may belong, by
the executive authority of the State in which
such slave shall be found, and in case of
any abduction or forcible rescue, full COM
pensation, including the value of the slave
and all costs and expenses, shall be made
to the party, by the State in which such ab-
duction or rescue shall take place.
SECTION 3.
l. The Confederacy shall guaranty to
every State in this Union, a republican
form of government, and shall protect each
of them against invasion and, on applica-
tion of the legislature, or of the executive
(when the Legislature cannot be convened, }
against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
/. The Congress, by vote Of two-thirds,
may at any time, alter or amend this Con-
stitution
RTICLE VI.
l. This Constitution, and the laws of the
Confederacy which shall be made in pur-
suance thereof, and all treaties made, under
the authority of the Confederacy, shall be
the supreme law of the land; and the
Judges in every State be bound thereby, any
thing in the Constitution or laws of any
State to the contrary Notwithstanding.
2. The Government hereby instituted
shall take immediate steps for the settle
ment of all matters between the States form
ing it, and their other late confederates of
the United States in relation to the public
debt at the time of their withdrawal from
them; these States hereby declaring it to
be their wish and earnest desire to adjust
everything pertaining to the common liza
bility, and common obligations of that
union upon the principles of right, justice,
equity and good faith.
8. Until otherwise provided by the Con.
gress, the city of Montgomery, in the State
of Alabama, shall be the seat of Govern
ment
4. The members of the Congress and all
executive and judicial officers of the Con-
federacy shall be bound by oath or afirma-
tion to support this Constitution; but DO
religious test shall be required as qualii.
cation to any office or public trust under
this Confederacy.
S. The Congress shall have power to ad-
nit other States.
The Standing Committees.
The President of the Southern Congress
has announced the following Standing Com
mittees
Committee on the Organization of the
Executive Department of the Government
-Messrs. Stephens, of Georgia; Conrad,