Year: 1861




gltlve He'd, whether the acts charged were criminal
or not ia the place where the fugitive was found.


Sec o. The elective franchise and the right to
| hoid once whether federal, State, territorial, or
municipal, shall not be exercised by persons of the
| African race, in whole or in part.


Sec. 6. The United States shall have power to
| acquire districts of country in Africa or South
America, for the colonization, at the expense of
the federal treasury of such free negroes and mu-
attoes as the several States may desire to have re-
moved from within their limits, and from the Dis
trict of Columbia, and such other places may be
under the jurisdiction of Congress.
Sec. Z. whenever any person held to service or
labor as provided in the third clause of the second
section of the foal tn article of the Constitution
shall escape. and the marshal or other officer
whose duty it may be to arrest such fugitive, shall
be prevented from doing by violence or intmi-
dation; 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 service or labor may be
due; and in all cases, when the United States shah
pay for such fugitive, they shall have the right in
their own name, to sue the county in which such
violence, intimidation, or rescue committed,
and to recover the amount paid bv 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, together with interest and damages.


Sec. s. The first and second clauses of the first
section of the second article of the Constitution
shall read follows:


The executive power shall be vested in Presi-
dent of the United States of America. The Presi-
dent and Vice President shall hold their Offices for
the term OF six years, aud shall be Ineligible to the
office of President for the ensuing six wears after
having performed the duties of President and shall
be elected follows:


The legislature of each State at its session after
any federal census, shall divide said State into
many congressional districts as it shall be entitled
to representatives in Congress; which districts
shall be as compact in form and
nearly equal in population as practica-
ble In each of said districts one elector of Presi
dent and Vice President shall be chosen by the
people thereof having the qualifications requisite
Tor electors of representatives in Congress; and,
in addition two electors for the State at large shall
be chosen by the members of the Legislature, as
sembed in joint convention for that purpose on
the day appointed by Congress.


EXCITEMENT AT BosToN-THE MAYOR REFUSES ID


PROTECT WENDELL PHILLIPS AND THE ANTI SLAVE


RY MEETING.


BosTON, Jan. 19.-Wendell PhiIiips is announced
to speak tomorrow.


The Anti-Slavery Society asked for protection
against interference of Mayor Wightman, who re-
fused to protect Phillips, but assured the society
that the peace of the city should be maintained.


The Society then sought for protection for Phil
lips from Governor Andrews who sent his aids to
see what Mayor Wightman proposed to do. The
Mayor replied, that if there was any disturbance
the hall would be cleared and if there were indca-
tions Of row before the doors were opened the
hall would be closed.


Protection has also been asked for the annual
ant-slavery meeting to be held next week, but
refused.


BosToN, January 2O.-Wendell Phillips address,
ed the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, in
Music Hail. this afternoon, the state of the crisis.
he declared himself to be disunion man, and was
glad to see South Carolina and other Southern
slave States practically initiating disunion move
ment. He hoped that all the slave States would
leave the Union, and not stand upon the order of
their going, but go at once. He denounced the
compromise spirit manifested by Mr. Seward and
Charles Francis Adams with much severity of Ian
guage, and there occasional stamping of
feet and Kissing, but no outbreak.


Mr.. Phillips was escorted home BY few police
men and great crowd pushing about him. The
audience in the Hall was composed mainly of those
regularly attending service there.


TIE PENSACOLA FORTS.


Popular interest in warlike movements now
centres nearer at home than when Charleston was
the only point from which radiated the war excite
ments of the day. The immediate interest of at
least three States-Mssissipp, Alabama and Flori-
da, is now becoming alive to the Importance of oc-
cupying the forts within the borders Of the latter
Commonwealth. We see repeated at Pensacola,
the man9uvre of Anderson at Moultrie. There
three forts at Pensacola Navy Yard and
redoubt. Commandant Armstrong has abandoned
the Navy Yard and Fort Barancas, removing mu-
nitions and spikng guns, and transferring his
forces, amounting in the aggregate to between two
and three hundred men, from the main land to
Santa Rosa Island has prepared to make good his



of Fort Pickens. Whether he has abandoned Fort
McCree, also, we are not advised, but we doubt if
he has. This fortress is powerful and castle-like
masonry erection, built low sand-spit of the
main land, and appearing to rise out of the water.
1t is further seaward than Fort Pickens, of which
it is the visa Wis the channel, and a vessel
entering must needs run the gauntlet of its guns
before approaching the latter which, however, of
itself, eectuay closes the harbor against the ad-
mission of an enemy of even very heavy force
Fort Pickens is designed to mount less than
two hundred and twelve guns, and under the pro.
lection of its immense batteries the ships of an enc
my could make good their harbor in the Bay of
Pensacola, if they did not care to run the risk
from shore batteries which could not be in very
dangerous range they could land forces and Fsup-
plies the Fort to the eastward on Santa Rosa
Island, which is some forty miles long, and thus
throw in reinfOrcements and rendezvous even an
army at the Fort without interruption, unless of
force entrenched the island ITSELF in the rear of
the fort-which however, is almost il not quite as
defensibIe from front. If we are to have
the seizure of this stronghold is, of course, of
the first Importance, for unless it is occupied by
it viii secure to the enemy base of operations
along our whole gulf coast, and keep open road
right into the heart of the South, which cannot be
obstructed by any fixed Notifications. Once within
the gates of the harbor, and army could be dis
embarked at any point on the wide bay which it
might select. 1t could run up beyond the Escam-
bia river and land many hours ahead of any oppo
sing force which might be at Pensacola beside pa-
cling wide river between it and the latter-or even
two rivers, the Escambia and Blackwater-by going
far enough up. Hence, with tart of at least for
ty-eight hours, it could march into interior Ala
bama. An enemy holding Fort Pickens could rem
devious a naval force there and keep up blockade
of all the ports of the Cult! unless could meet it
on the sea.


News from Washington of the position of the
Administration should very soon advise US whether
the risk of bloodshed is to be incurred in seizing
Fort Pckens, or whether we shall find reason to
delay the alternative of appeal to that terrible der
nier resort in fair prospect of peaceful cession.
If it is to lie seized by direct power of it will
not be by force coming under its guns from the
water approach. 1t must be stormed by a sudden
attack from heavy force concentrated the
island to tn eastward, which will take it with a
Zouave-like rush in double-quick time-pouring
into it in such numbers as to at once oyerpower
every chance of resistance the part of the garri
son. Though done in the night, and with the
quickest movement, and though escaping loss from
the batteries in the approach, the work at the
walls will be bloody business if the garrison have
a mind to make it so. The commander has com
mited the same act of hostility that Anderson did
at Moultrie but we do believe that he will soon
surrender the fort, as the commandant at Baton
Rouge did the arsenal, on the grounds of the pres
ence of an overwhelming force and the plea Of
avoiding useless boodshedding. He is reported to
have said he would not fire on his countrymen.
We do not believe that he will.-NoJae Advertiser,
l5k.


FLORIDA


Hon. Jas. A. Pedan, formerly United States
Charge at Buenos Ayres, arrived here yesterday
from Florida, of which State he has been a citizen
ever since it became State. He is an intelligent
gentleman and thorough Union man. He declares
emphaticalIy that immediate secession is not the
sentiment Of the people, as was clearly confessed
by the refusal of the Legislature to submit the
dinance of secession to the people for their ratif-
cation. He states further that the treasury is ab-
solutely empty, and the revenues of the State ex-
ceedingly limited States.


SIGNING OF THE FLORIDA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION.


On Friday the llth inst, the Florida ordinance
of secession enrolled and signed by the mem
bers of the Convention. The following is ac
count of the proceedings


The Committee EnrolIments beg leave re-
spectfully to report, that, in obedience to resou
ton adopted by this Convention, the enrolment of
the ffOrdnance of secession" has been properly and
correctly made under the direction of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of the sovereign State of
Florida and the same is now submitted to this
Convention for signature.


We beg leave to present further the following
correspondence between the Hon. Judges and Miss