Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-12-24

power and Cypress minoritles, TO arrest and
hold in check which tendency, compacts and
constitutions are made and whereas the only
~effectual constitutional security for the rights
Of minoriiies, whether as people or as States,
is the power expressly reserved in constita1
tions Of protecting those rights BY their own
action and whereas this mode of protection
by checks and guarantees IS recognized in the
Federal Constitution, as well as in the case OF
the equality Of the States in representation
and ia suffrage in the Senate, as in the provi-
sion for overriding the veto of the President
and for amending the Constitution, not 10
enumeratel other examples and whereas, un-
happily, because OF the vast extent and d.
versihed interest and institutions Of the sew
eral States of the Union, sectional divisions
can no longer be suppressed, and whereas IL
concerns the peace aud stability Of sthe Fed
erdl Union and Government that a division
OF the States into more slRveholding and non
slaveholding sections, causing hitherto, aud
from the nature aad necessity OF the case, in
aammatory and disastrous controversies upon
the subject of slavery, ending already in pres
ent disruption Of the Union, should be forever
hereafter ignored and whereas this impor-
tant end is best to be obtained by the recogni-
ton of other sections without regard to slav-
cry, neither of which sections shall alone be
strong enough TO Cypress or control the others,
and each be vested with power to protect IT.
self from aggressious; Therefore,
"Resolped by the Senate and House of
Representdtices OF the United States of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, 1.-TWO thirds of both
Houses concurring,) That the following arti-
Giles be, aud are hereby, proposed as amend
meRts to the Constitution of The United
States, which shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as part Of said Constitution when
ratified by conventions in three fourths of the
several States '.
Mark observation-disclosures to the COnstitu-
ton of the United States; one common Con-
%stitution, forming one common Union for all
the States,
The following are the material sections of
the proposed amendments which were to be
known as Articles XIII, XIV and XIV of the
present Constitution.
"ARTICLE XuL
"SEc. l. The United States are divided
into four sections, as follows
THE States Of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
n%ecticut, New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylyania, and all new States annexed and ad-
mitted into the Union, or formed or erected
within the jurisdiction Of any of said States,
or by the junction of two or more of the
same or of parts thereof, or out of territory
acquired north Of said States, shall constitute
one section, to be known as the North.
"The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Kansas, and all new States annexed or ad-
mitted into the Union, or erected within the
Jurisdiction of any of said States, or by the
junction of two or more of the same, or Of
parts thereof, or out OF territory now held or
hereafter acquired north of latitude see 30I,
and east of the crest Of the Rocky Mountains,
shall constitute another section, 10 be known
as the West.
1.-THE State of Oregon and California, and
4 all new States annexed and admitted into the
Union, or formed or erected within the juris-
| dietion of two or more of the same, or of
parts thereof, or out of territory now held or
! hereafter acquired west of the crest of the
Rocky Mountains and of the Rio Grande,
shall constitute another section, to be known
as the Pacific.
t "The States of Delaware, Maryland, Vir.
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
/. Missouri, and all new States annexed and ad-
mitted into the Union, or formed or erected
: within the jurisdiction of any OF said States,
or by the junction Of two or more of the
: same, or Of parts thereof or out of territory
. acquired east of the Rio Grand and south OF
latitude 36 deg. 30 min, shall constitute an,
other section, to be known as the South.
"SEc. 2. On demand of one-third of the
Senators of any one Of the sections on any
bill, order, resolution, or vote, to which the
, concurrence of the House Of Representatives
, may be necessary, except on q question OF
, adjournment, a vote shall be had by sections,
and a majority of the Senators from each
section voting, shall be necessary to the pas
! sage Of such bill, order, or resolution, and to
q the validity of every such vote.
"SEc. 3 Two of the electors for President
and Vice President shall be appointed by each
State in such manner as the Legislature there
, of may direct, for the State at large. The
! other electors to which each State may be
! entitled, shall be chosen in the respective
q Congressional Districts into which the State
i may, at the regular decenninl period, have
!, been divided, by the electors of each district
having the qualifications requisite for %eleetor:
of the most numerous branch of the State
!; Legislature. A majority Of all the electors
in each OF the four sections in this article es
tablished, shall be necessary to the choice o
President and Vice President; and the con
"a c%urrence of a majority Of the States Of eacl
section shall be necessary 10 the choice o
President by. the House OF Representatives.
and Of the Senators from each section for tn,
choice of Vice President by the Senate, when
ever the right Of choice shall devolve upol
h them respectively"
The section relating to Secession is as foI
lows;
!. ARTICLE XIV.
is mo State shall secede without the consen
of the Legislature OF the States Of the sectio
e. TO which the State proposing to seeede belong
Of The President shall have power to adjust wit
h. seeding States all questions arising by reaso
Of their secession but the terms pf adjaa