Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-08

and when any territory North and
South of said line, within such bounda-
ries as Congress may prescribe. shall
contain the population requisite for
member Of Congress, according to the
then federal ratio Of representation of
the people Of the Uniled States, it shall
then be the duty of Congress to admit
such territory into the Union ON terms
of equality with the original States
MR.. DOUGLAS SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
sCRITTENDEN AMENDMENTS.
SEC. | Congress shall make no laws
/, in respect to domestic scrvitude in any
Territory of the United States; and
all Territorial Government shall be
formed on the model and in the terms
of the organic acts, approved September
nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, called
s:rHE coMPRoMIsE MEASURES" and the
validity of all Territorial enactments
shall be finally determined by the Su.
preme Court Of the United States, on
appeal, or writ of error, from the terri
! torial Courts; but no new Territory
shall be organized until it shall contain
twenty thousand white inhabitants;
nor shall any new State be admitted
into the Union until it shall contain
the requisite population for Reprcsen-
tative in Congress, according to the
then Federal ratio of representation.
SEC, 2. Congress shall have no power
to abolish or interfere with the relation
of persons held to service or labor in
any State, under the laws thereof; nor
| in any place under the exclusive juris-
diction of Congress, and situate within
the limits of any State or Territory un-
der whose laws persons are held to ser
vice or labor; nor shall Congress have
power to abolish or impair the relation
of persons held to service or labor in
the District of Columbia, under the
laws in force therein, without the con-
sent of Maryland and Virginia, so long
as such relation shall exist in either of
those States, under the laws thereof; nor
shall Congress have power to interfere
with or prevent the removal of persons
held to service or labor from one State
or Territory to another.
Sec. 3. The African slave trade shall
be forever suppressed and it shall be
the duty ofCongress to make such laws
as will efectualiy prevent the immigra-
ton or importation into the United
States of persons held to service OR la
Dor for life, or for period Of years, or
of any person intended to be SO held in
any State Or place within the United
States, under any pretense whatever.
L YNha onnan1 al &c fho
sond section of the fourth article of the
Constitution shall be construed to in
clude all crimes committed within and
against the State OF. place from which
the fugitive fed, whether the acts
lcharged were criminal or not in the place
where the fugitive was found.
! Sec. 5. The elective franchise and the
right to hold office, whether Federal,
State, Territorial, or Municipal, shall not
be exercised by persons of the African
race, in whole or in part.
Sec. 6.a The United States shall have
power to acquire districts of country in
Africa or South America, for the colo
nization, at the expense of the Federal
Treasury, Of such free. negroes and mu-
lattoes as the several States may desire
to have removed from within their limits
and from the District of Columbia, and
such other places as may be under the
| Jurisdiction of Congress.
SEC. 7. Whenever any person held to.
service or labor, as provided in the third
| clause of the second section of the fourth
article of the Constitution, shall escape,
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| duty it may be to arrest such fugitive,
shall be prevented from SO doing by vi
olence or intimidation; or when, after
| arrest, such fugitive shall be rescued by
force, Congress shall have power, and it
shall be its duty, to provide by law for
the payment of the full value of such
fugitive to the party to whom such SER
vice or labor may be due; and in all Ca
ses, when the United States shall pay
for such fugitive they shall have the
right, in their own name, to sue the
county in which such violence, intimi-
dation or rescue was committed, to re-
cover the amount paid by them with in
terest and damages; and the said county,
for its indemnity, may sue and recover
from the wrong -doers or rescuers the
amount paid to the. United States, to-
gether with interest and damages.
Sec 8. The first and second clauses
of the first section of the second article
of the Constitution shall read as follows
The executive power shall be vested
in President of the United States of
America. The President and Vice
President shall hold their Offices for the
term of six years, and shall be ineligible
to the Office of President for the ensuing
six years after having performed the du-
ties of President, and shall be elected as
follows:
The Legislature of each State, at its
first session after any Federal census,
shall divide said State into as many Com
gressional districts as it shall be entitled
to Representative in Congress; which
districts shall be as compact in form,
and as nearly equal in population, as
practicable. In each Of said districts,
one elector of President and Vice Presi-
dent shall be chosen by the people
thereof having the qualifications requi-
site for electors Of Representatives in
Congress; and, in addition, two electors
for the State at large shall be chosen by
the members of the Legislature, assem-
bled in joint convention for that pur-
pose, on the day appointed by Congress.