Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-01-25

red With by Congress; but shall De protect
ed as property by all the departments of the
territorial government during its c%ontinu-
ance; and when any territory, North or
South Of said line, within such boundaries
as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the
population requisite for a member Of Con-
gress, according to the then Federal ratio
of representation Of the people Of the United
States, it shall, fits form of government be
republican, be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States,
with or without slavery. as the Constitution
of such new State may provide.
ART. 2. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in places under its exclusive
jurisdiction, and situate within the limits of
States that permit the holding of slaves.
ART. 3. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery within the District of Co.
lumbia, so long as it exists in the adjoining
States Of Virginia and Maryland, or either.
DOR without the consent of the inhabitants,
nor without Just compensation first made to
such owners of slaves as do not consent to
such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at
any time prohibit officers of the Federal
Government or members of Congress. whose
duties require them to be in said district,
from bringing with them their slaves and
holding them, as such, during the time their
duties may require them to remain there,
and afterwards taking them from the dis
trict.
ART. 4 Congress shall have no power to
prohibit OF hinder the transportation Of
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Territory in which slaves are by law per-
mitted TO be held, whether that transporta-
ton be BY land, uavigable rivers, or BY the
aea
ART. S. That in addition to The provi-
sions of the third paragraph of the second sec
ton of the fourth article Of the Constitution
of the United States, Congress shall have
power to provide by law, and it shall be its
duty SO to prorile, that the United States
shall pay to the owner who shall apply for
it, the full value of his fugitive slave, IN all
cases, when the marshal, or other officer,
whose duty il was to arrest said fugitive,
was prevented from 50 doing by violence or
intimidation, or when, after arrest, said flu
gitive was rescued by force, and the owne,
thereby prevented and INSTRUCTED in the
pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his
fugitive slave, under the said clause Of the
Constitution and the laws made in pursuance
thereof. And in all cases, when the Uni
ted States shall pay for such fugitive, they
shall have the power to reimburse themsel-
YES by imposing and collecting a tax on the
county or city in which said violence, in
tlmldation, Or rescue was committed equal
in amount to the sum paid by them, with
the addition Of interest and the cost Of col
lection; aud the said county or city, after it
has paid said amount to the United Statos,
may, for its indemnity, sue aud recover
from the wrong-doers, or resclers, By whom
the owner was prevented from the recovery
of his fugitive slave, iii like manner as the
owner himself might have sued and recoy-
cred.
Art. G. No future amendment CT the
Constitution shall affect the FIVE preceding
articles, nor the third paragraph Of the Sc
ccna section Of the FIRST article of the Con-
stitution, nof the third paragraph of the Sc
cond section of the fourth article of said
Constitution, and no amendment shall be
made to the Constitution which will author
ize or give to Congress any power to abol-
ish or interfere With slavery in any Of the
States by whose laws it is or may be allow
ed or permitted.
ART. 7. SEC. l The elective franchise
and the right to hold office. whether Fo1e-
raj. State, Territorial or Muuicipal,s shall
not be exercised by persons who are. in
whole or in part. of the African race.
Sec. 2. The United States shall have
power to acquire from time to time, dis
tricts Of the country in Africa and South
America, for the colonization, at the expense
of the Federal Trea6-ry, Of such free ne
groes and mulattoes as the several States !
may wish to have removed from their limits,
and from the District of Columbia, aud such
other places IS may be under the jurisdic-
ton Of Congress.
And, whereas, also, BESIDES slo5e csuses
Of disscnsion embraced in the foregoing a.
mendments proposed to the Constitution Of
the United States, there are others which
come within the jurisdiction of Congress,
and may be remedicd by it's Iegislate power,
and whereas it is the desire Of Congress, as
far as its power vii! extend, to remove all
just cause for the popular discomfort and
agitation which now disturbthe peace of the
country. and threaten the stability ofits in
stitutions; therefore.
|. Resolved, by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States Of
America, IN Congress now assembled, That
the laws now in force for the recovery of
fugitive slaves are in strict pursuance of the
plain and mandatory provisions Of the Con
stitution, and have been sanctioned as valid
and constitutional by tie judgment of the
Supreme Court of the United States; that
the slaveholding States are entitled to the
obser7anoe and execution of those
laws, and that they ought not to be repeal
ed or SO modified or changed as TO impair
their efficiency !; and that laws ought to be
made for the punishment Of those who at
BY rescue Of the slave or other illegal
means, to hinder OF defeat the due execution
Of said laws.
2. That all State laws which conflict with
The fugitive slave acts, or any other constl-
tutlonal acts of Congress, or which in their
operation impede, hinder. or delay the free
and due execution of any Of said acts,
are null and void, by the plain provisions of
The Constitution of the United States. Yet
State laws, void as they arc, have CIV