Year: 1861

The New York Herald of Saturday publishes tb
following'as the plan agreed upon by the Commit
tee of the Peace Congress for an adjustment of ou
national difficulties:


Article l. In all the territory Of the United State,
not embraced within the limits Of tile Cherokee
treaty grant, north of line from East to West OF
the parallel of 3e degrees 30 minutes North lnti
tude, involuntary servitnde, except in punishment
of crime, is prohibited whilst it shall be under
territorial government; and in all the territor
South of said line, the status of persons owin
scribe or labor as it exists shall not be chang
ed by law while such territory shall be under Ter
rtorial Government; and such government sha
not have power TO hinder or prevent the taking
said territory of persons held to labor or nvounte
ry service within the United States, according
the laws or usage OF any State from which sue
persons may be taken; nor to impair the rights ar
sing out of said relations, which shall be subject
Judic al cognzance in he Federal Courts, accHdin
to the common law; aud when any territory Mort
or South of said line, within such boundary as Cor
gress may prescribe shall contain a population r.
Iquired for member of Congress, according to II
then Federal ratio of representation, IL its form
government be Republican be admitted into tb
Union, on an equal footing with the original State
with or without involuntary service or labor, as Il
Constitution of such new State may provide.


Art. O. Territory shall not be acquired by tb
united States unless by treaty nor except for
and commercial stations and depots, unless sue
treaty shall be ratified by .fonr6iths Of all the
bsrs of the Senate.


Art g. Neither the Constitution nor any amend
ment thereof shall be construed to give Congre
power to abolish or control within any State or Te
ritory the relation established or recognized by tn
avs thereof touching persons bound to labor o
involuntary service therein, or to interfere with
ebolish involuntary service in the District of Co
> r
out the consent of the owners; or making the own
ers who do not consent just compensation; nor th
power to interfere with prohibit representative
and others from bringing with them TO the city 0
Washington, retaining and taking away persons ),
! bound to labor; nor the power 10 Interfere with o
abolish involuntary service in places unler>the ex


elusive jurisdiction of the United States within thos
ates and Territories whore the same is establishes
or recognized nor the power to prohibit the reno
val or transportation, by land sea or river of per
sons held to labor or Involuntary service in an,
State or Territory Of the United States to any 9th
er State Territory thereof whore it is established
or recognized by law or usage and the right, durn
the transportation of touching at shores ports AM
landings, and of landing in of distress, shal
exist; nor shall Congress have power TO authoriz
uny higher rate OF taxes on persons bound to labo
than on land


Art A. The third paragraph of the second sectio
of the fourth article Of the Constitution shalt nc
be construed to prevent any Of the States, by an
propriate legislation, and through the action OF thei
judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing th
delivery Of ugtivcs fromlabor to the person TO whor
such service or labor is due.


Art. 5. The foreign slave trade, and the imports
ton Of slaves into the United States and their Tel
rtories from places beyond the present limits there
r Of and forever prohibited


Art 6. The first, second third and Afth article
together with this article of these amendments an
the third paragraph Of the second section Of the fir
article of the Constitution, and tho third paragrap
of the second section of the fourth article thereo
shall not be amended or abolished without the col
sent of all the States.


Art. 7. Congress shall provide by law that Il
United States shall pay the owner the full value
his fugitive from labor in all cases where the Ma
a shall or other officer whose duty it WAS to arro
such fugitive, was prevented from so doing by VII


lence or intimidation, or when Rfier arrest sue
O fugitive was arrested by force and the her
= by prevented and obStrueted in the pursuit of h
remedy for the recovery of such fugitive.