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  4. Session: 1861-03-02 00:00:00
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The Road to Civil War

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Session 13851: 1861-03-02 00:00:00

The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, takes up H. Res. 80.

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H. Res. 80

Shown with amendment 'H. Res. 80: Mr. Pugh Committee of the Whole Amendment 2: Mr. Bingham's Amendment' (e861762)

There are 2 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.
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Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representa-tives of the provisionUnited States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring. That the following arti-cle be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution are ample of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposeservation, as part of the said Constitution,

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Article I.

In all the territory of the United States now held or hereafter acquired, situate north of latitude 36° 30', slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, is prohibited, while such territory shall remain ofunder territorial government. In all the materrial intory now held or hereafter acquired, south of said line of latitude, slavery of the country; tAfrican race is hereby recognized as existing, and shall not be it needs tonterfered with by Congress; but shall be obeyprotected as property by all the departments of the territorial govern ament during its continuanced; and when any Territory, north or south of said line, within such boundaries an exts Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population from our requisite for a member of Congress, according to the then Federal ratio of represent dangersation of the people of the United States, it shall, if its form of government be looked for in strenuous efforepublican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, with or without slavery, as the constitution of such new State may provide.

Article II.

Congress shall have no power to prabolish slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdiction and situate within the limits of States that peace, protectrmit the holding of slaves.

Article III.

Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery within the public property,District of Columbia so long as it exists in the adjoining States of Virginia and Maryland, or either, nfor without the consent of the laws, rainhabitants, nor without just compensation first made than in new guao such owners of slaves as do not consent to such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at any time prohibit officers of the Federal Government, or members for particular of Congress, whose duties require them to be in said District, from bringing with them their slaves, and holding them as such, dining the time their duties may require them to remain therests, compromis, and afterwards taking them from the District.

Article IV.

Congress shall have no power to prohibit, or hinder the transportation of slaves for particular difficultierom one State to another, or to a Territory in which slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable rivers, or concessiby the sea. But the African slave trade shall be forever suppressed, and it shall be the duty of Congress to make such laws as shall be necessary and effectual, to prevent the migration or importation of slaves, or persons owing service or lablor, into the United States from andsy foreign country, place, or jurisdiction whatever.

ReSEC. 2. That persons committing crimes against the rights of those who hold persons to service or labor in one State, and fleeing to another, That allshall be delivered up in the same manner as persons committempts to dissolving other crimes; and that the laws of the States from which such persons flee shall be the test of criminality.

SEC. 3. Congress shall pass efficient laws for the punishment Unionof all persons in any of the States, who shall in any manner aid and abet invasion or insurrection in any other State, or ovcommit any other act tending to disturb throwe tranquillity of its people, or government of any other abandState.

ARTICLE V.

That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution, w of the United States, Congress shall thave hope or expectation of construcpower to provide by law, and it shall be its duty so to provide, that the United States shall pay to the owners who shall apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave, ing a new onll cases when the marshal, or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest said fugitive, was prevented from so dangerous, illusoryoing by violence or intimidation, or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force, and dethe owner thereby prevented and obstructive; that ined in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his fugitive slave, under the opinsaid clause of the Constitution ofand the Senatlaws made in pursuance thereof. And in all such cases, when the United States noshall pay for such fugitive, they shall have the power to reimburse themselves by imposing and construction is practicabllecting a tax on the county or city in which said violence, intimidation, or rescue was committed, equal in amount to the sum paid by them, with the addition of interest and the costs of collection; and, therefore, said county or city, after it has paid said amount to the United States, may, for its intendemnity, sue and recover from the wrong-doers or rescuers, by whom the owner was prevented from the exrecovery of his fugiting Unionve slave, in like manner as the owner himself might have sued and recovered.

ARTICLE VI.

No future amendment of the Constitution should be directed allall affect the five preceding articles, nor the third paragraph of the energiessecond section of the first article of allthe Constitution, nor the third paragraph of the depsecond section of the fourth article of said Constitution; and no amendments of shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize Gor givernment, and to Congress any power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any of the efforts ofStates by whose laws it is or may be allowed or permitted.

ARTICLE VII.

SEC. 1. The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether Federal, State, territizeorial, or municipal, shall not be exercised by persons who are, in whole or in part, of the African race.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • Motion for the Senate to Take a Recess (introduced on 1861-03-03 07:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e861417)
  • Motion for the Yeas and Nays on Motion to Lay H. Res. 80 on the Table (introduced on 1861-03-03 07:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e862132)

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