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Session 11968: 1861-01-14 12:00:00

Mr. English and Mr. Florence present resolutions on the Crittenden Compromise. The Committee of Thirty-Three reports.

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H. Res. 64

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Joint Resolutions declaratory of the opinion of Congress in regard to certain questions now agitating the Country, and of measures calculated to reconcile existing differences.

Resolved, That provis, in the opinion ought to be made by lawf this committee, without delay, for takie existing discontents among the sense of outhern people, and submitting to their vote the foll grow-ing resolutions ashostility among the basis form to the final and pederal governmanent settlement of those disputes, are greatly to be regretted; and that now disturb the peace of the whether such discountryents and thostility areaten withe existence of the Union:

JOINT RESOLUTIONSout just cause or not, any reasonable, proposing certain, amendments to the C constitution of the United States.

Whereas seriousal remedies, and alarming dissensions have arisen between the ndditional and morthern and southern States concerning the rightspecific and security of the righteffectual guarantees of the slaveholding States, and especially theiir peculiar rights in the common territory of the United States; and whereas it is eminently desirable and propand interests and recognized by the Constitution, necessary to pre-serve that those dissensions, which now threatenpeace of the country and the very existenceperpetuity of thise Union, should be permanenromptly quieted and settled by constitutional provisions which shall do equal justice to all sections, and thereby restore to the people that peace and good will which ought to prevail between all the citizens of the united States: Therefore--cheerfully granted. [Struck out]

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring,

That the foallowing articles be, and are hereby, proposed and submitted as amendments tottempts of [on] the part[s] of the Constitutionlegislatures of any of the United States, which shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of said Constitution, wobstruct or hinder then ratified by conventions of thry and surrende-fourths of thfugitive from several States.

Article 1. In allrvice or labor are in derogation of the Con-sterritoryution of the United States now held or hereafter acquired, situate north of , inconsistent withe southern boundar comity of Kansas and the northern boundary of Now Mexico, slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, is prohibited, while suchgood neighborhood that should prevail among therritory shall remain under teverritorial government. In all territory south of said line, now held or hereafter acquired, slaveryStates, and dangerous to the peace of the African race is hereby recognizUnion.

Resolved as existing, and shall not be interfered with by Congress, but shall be protecThat the several States be respectfully requested to caus property by all the departmentir statutes of the territorial government during its continuance; and be revised, withen any Territory, north or south of said line, within such boundaries view to ascertain if any of them as Congress may prescribe, shall in contain the population requisite for a member of Congreflict with or tend to embarrass, according to the then federal ratio of representa hinder the execution of the peoplelaws of the United States, it shall,made if its form of government be republican, brsuance admitted intof the Union on an equal footing withsecond section of the fouriginal States, with or without slavery, asarticle of the cConstitution of such newthe United State may provide.

Article 2. Congress shall have no powefor to abolish slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and situate within the limitsry up of States that permit the holding of slaves.

Article 3. C-songress shall have no powerheld to labolish slavery withinr of the District of Columbia, so long as it exists in the adjoininglaws of any States of Virginia and Maryland, or either, nor withoutescaping the consent of the inhabitants, nor without just compensation first made to such owners of slaves as do not consent to such abolishment. Nor shall Congress at any time prohibit officerrefrom; and the Senate and House of Representatives of the federal government or members of Congress, whose dutiesestly requirest them to be in said District, from bringing with them their slat all enactments haves, and holding them as such, during the time their duties may require them to remain endency be forthere, and afterwards taking them from the District.

Article 4. Congress shall have no power to prohibit or hinder the transportation of repealed, as required by a just slavense ofrom cone State to another, or to a Territory in which slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether that transportstitutional obligation bes, and by land; navigable rivers, or bya due regard to the spea.

Article 5. That, in addition toof the provisions of the third paragraph of the secorepublic; and section of the fourth article of the ConstitutionPresident of the United States, Congress shall have power to provide by law, an is requested it shall be its duty so to provide, thcom-municate the United States shall payse resolutions to the owner who shall apply for itgovernors of the full value of his fugitive slave, in all casral States, when the marshal, or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest said fugitive, was prevented from so doing bith a request that they will lay violence or intimidation, or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued by me beforce, and the ownerlegislatures thereby prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for thof respectively.

Resolved, That we recovery of his fugitivgnize slave, under the said clause of the Constitution and the laws made iry as now existing in fifteen pursuance thereof. And in all such cases, when the United States shall pay for such fugitive, they shall have the powerby the usages and laws of tho reimburse Stathemselves by imposing; and collecting a tax on the county we recognize no author city in which said violence, intimidation,, legally or rescue was committed, equal in amount to the sum paid by them,otherwise, outside of a State with there addition of interest so exists, and the costs of collection; and the said county or city, aftere wit has paid said amount to the Unitedh slaves or slavery in such States, may, for its indemnity, sue anin disregard recover from the wrong-doers, or rescuers, by whomrights of their owner was prevented fromor the recoverypeace of his fugitive slasociety.

Resolved, in like manner as the owner himself might have suedThat we recognize the justice and recovered.

Article 6. No future amendmentpropriety of a faithful execution of the Constitution shall affect the five preceding articles, nor, and laws made in pur-suance the third paragraph ofreof, on the second subjection of the fugirst article of the Constitutionve slaves, nor the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth artfugitives from servicle of said Constitutionr labor, and no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorizediscountenance all mobs or give to Congress any powerhin-drances to abolish or interfere with slavery ithe execution any of the States by whosesuch laws it is or may be allowed or permitted.

Article 7. Sec. 1. The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether federal,, and that citizens of each State, territorial, or municipal, shall not be exercised by persons who are, in whole or in part, of the African race.

Sec. 2. The Unitled States shto all thave power to acquire from time to time districtrivileges of country in Africa and South America, for the coloimmunization, at expense of the federal treasury, of such free negroes and mulattoes ascitizens in the several States may wish to have remo.

Resolved from their limits, and from the District of Columbia, andThat we recognize no such other places as may be under the jurisdicconflicting elements in its composition of Congress.

And whereas, also, besides thoseor sufficient causes of dissension embraced in the from any source, foregoing amendments proposed to the Constit dissolution of the United States, there are others which come within the jurisdiction of Congress, and may be remedied by its legislative power; and wis government; that we were not sent hereas it is the to desire of Congress, as far as its power will extend, to removtroy, but to sustain and harmonize all just cause for the popular dinscontent and agitaution which now disturb the peace of the country, and threaten the stability of its institutions: Therefore--

1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representativeo see that equal justice is done to all parts of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws now in force for thsame; and finally, to perpetuate recovery of fugitive slaves are in strict pursuaexistence of the plain and mandatory provisionterms of the Constitution, and have been sanctioned as validequality and constitutional by the judgment of the Supreme Court ofjustice to all the United States; that the slaveholding St.

Resolved, Thates are entitled to the faithful observance and execution, on the part of all those laws, and thatStates, of all they ought not to be repeir constitutionaled or so modified or changed abligations to impair each otheir efficiency; and that laws ought to be made for the punishmhe federal government is essential tof those who attempt, by rescupeace of the country.

Resolave or other illegal means, to hinder or defeat the due execution of said laws.

2. That all State laws which conflict with the fugitive slave acts, or any other constd, That each State be requested to revise its statutes, and, if necessary, so to amend the same as to secure, withoutional acts of C legislation by congress, or which in to citizens of otheir operation impede, hStates traveling thereinder, or delay the free course and due exsame protecution of anyas citizens of said acts, are nulluch State enjoy; and void by the plainalso to provisions of the Constitution oftect the United States. Yet citizens of othoser State laws, void as they are, have given color to practices, and led to consequences which have obl-ing or sojourning therein againstructed the due administration and execution of actspopular violence of Congress, and especially the-gal summacts for the delivery of fugitive slaves, and have punishment, withereby contributed much to the discord and commotion now prevailing. Congress, thererial in due form of law fore, in the present perilous juncture, does not deem it improper,mputed crimes.

Resolved, That each State be also respectfully and earnrequestly, to recommend the repeal of thoseo enact such laws to the several States which have enacted them, oas will prevent and punish any attempt whatever in such legislStative correctionsto recognize [arrange] or explanations ofset on foot them lawless may prevent invasion of any otheir being usedState or perverted to such mischievous purposes.

3.Territory.

Resolved, That the act of the eightePresidenth of September, eighteen hundr requested to trand fifty, commonly calledsmit copies of the fugitive slave law, ought to be so amended aoregoing resolutions to make the feegovernors of the commissioner, mentioned in the eighth section of the act, equal in amoseveral States, with a request that they be communt, in the cases decided by him, wheted to their his decision be in favor of or against the claimant. And to avoid misconstruction, the lasrespective legislatures.

Resolved, That clause of the fifth section of said act, which authorizes the person holding a warrant for the arrest or detention of a fugitivere are no propositions from any quarter to interfere with slave to summon to his aid the posse comitatus, and which declares it to bery in the District of Columbia, or in places under the duty of all good citizens to assist him in its execuexclusive jurisdiction, ought to be sof Congress, amended as to expressly limit situate within the authority and duty to caslimits of States in which there shall be resistance, or daat permit the holdinger of resistanceslaves, or rescue.

4. That the laws forto interfere with the suppression of the Africaninter-State slave, trade, and especially those prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States ought to be made effectual, and ought to beis committee does not deem it necessary thoroughly executaked, andy all further enactments necessary toion on those ends ought to be promptly madesubjects.

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  • H. Res. 64 (introduced on 1861-01-14 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e843040) [This document]
  • Point of Order: Appealing the Decision and Objecting to Yield (introduced on 1861-01-22 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e839203)
  • Motion for Tellers on Seconding the Previous Question (introduced on 1861-02-26 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e843437)

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