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Session 11907: 1860-12-12 12:00:00
More members join the House. Various members present Resolutions to instruct the Committee of Thirty-Three on the slavery question.
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Resolution on the Right of Property in Slaves
Resolved, That amendments of the Constitution of the United States ought to be made as follows, to wit: 1. An express recognition of the right of property in slaves in the States where it now exists or may hereafter exist, and an express denial to the Federal Government of all right or power to prohibit or restrict the trade in slaves between the States. 2. An express requirement that the Federal Government shall protect the right of property in slaves in the District of Columbia, in all Territories of the United States while the territorial condition exists, and wherever else the Federal jurisdiction extends. 3. A provision that every Territory authorized by act of Congress to hold a convention, and whose convention shall adopt a constitution republican in form, shall be admitted into the Union as a State, with or without slavery as its constitution may prescribe. 4. A provision that citizens of any State or Territory, who may be the owners of slaves, shall be per-mitted to hold their slave property while or temporarily residing within the jurisdiction of States whose constitutions do not recognize the institution of slavery. 5. A provision that any State whose Legislature has enacted, or may hereafter enact, laws defeating or impairing the right of the master to have his escaped slave delivered up to him according to the provisions of the fugitive slave law of 1850, shall not be entitled to representation in either House of Congress until the repeal of such nullifying statutes. 6. Such further provisions as will secure to the slaveholding States, through their representation in Congress relating to the subject of slavery. 7. A provision for the appointment, by State authority, of all Federal officers exercising their functions within the limits of the States. 8. A provision that all the above amendments, together with the existing provisions for slave representation upon the three-fifths basis, shall forever be unrepealable and unamendable.
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- Resolution on the Right of Property in Slaves (introduced on 1860-12-12 12:00:00 - CREATE - e812100) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1860-12-12 12:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e812101) [view current proposal at this moment]