Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-02-16
Resolutions Offered in the Peace
COnpreSS

The following are the resolutions offered
in the Peace Congress, by Hon. James
Guthrie -
ARTICLE l. That all territory of the
United States shall be divided by line
from east to west, on the parallel of 36
degrees 80 minutes north latitude and in
all territory north of that line, involuntary
servitude, except in punishment of crimo,
is prohibited whilst it shall belong to the
United States, or be under Territorial
Government; and in all territory south of
said line involuntary sorvitude is recog.
nized as it exists in the Southern States OF
the Union, whilst such territory shall be-
long to the United States, or be under a
Territorial Government; and neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial Government shall
have power to hinder or prevent emigrants
to said territory from taking with them
persons held to labor or Involuntary SER
vice, 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
such Territory shall have jurisdiction there
of, and those rights shall be protected by
the Courts and all the departments of the
Territorial Government, under or accord
ing 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 said line, within such boundary
as Congress may prescribe, shall contain a
population required for member of Con-
gress, according to the then Federal ratio
of representation of the people of the
United States, it may, if its form of Gov
ernment be republican, be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, with or without involuntary
servitude or labor, as the Constitution of
such new State may 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
and Dixon's line, and also majority Of
.he Senators south of said line but no
.reaty by which territory shall be acquir-
ID shall be ratified without the two thirds
7ote of the Senators, as required by the
Constitution.
ART. 8. That the Constitution, and no
amendment thereof, shall be construed to
give Congress power to regulate, abolish,
'r control, within any State or Territory
If the United States, the relation estab-
ished or recognized by the laws thereof
ouching persons bound to labor or invol-
lntary service therein, nor to Interfere
With or abolish involuntary service in the
District of Columbia without the consent
If Maryland and Virginia and the owners,
'r without making the owners who do not
previously, full compensation
Tor 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 !
he same is established or recognized; nor
he power to prohibit the removal or
of persons held to labor or
Involuntary service in any State or Terri
ory of the United States, to any other
State or Territory thereof, where it is
or recognized; nor to author.
re a specific tax or any higher rate of
axes on persons bound to labor, than on
and in proportion to value nor to author.
&c any of the African race or their de-
cendants to become citizens, or to exercise
he right of suffrage in the choice of Fed
ART. 4. That hereafter the paragraph (
If the fourth article of the Constitution
hall not be construed to prevent any of
he States, by appropriate legislation, and
through the action of their judicial and
ministerial officers, from enforcing the de-
livery of fugitives from labor from any
other State or Territory of the United
States to the person to whom such service
or labor is due.
ART, 8. The emigration or importation
'f the African race into any State or any
Territory of the United States, whether
or involuntary service, is forever
prohibited, and Congress shall have the
power, by appropriate legislation, to en-
orce the provisions of this article.
ART. 6. That the first, second, third,
md fifth articles of these amendments and
he third paragraph of the second section
Of the first article of the Constitution, and
.he third paragraph of the fourth article
hereof, shall not be amended or abolished
without the consent of all the States