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  4. Session: 1861-01-14 12:00:00
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The Road to Civil War

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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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There are 9 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.

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.

That the following articles be, and are hereby, proposed and submitted as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of said Constitution, when ratified by conventions of three fourths of the several States.

ART. 13. That in all the territory now held by the United States situate north of latitude 36° 30' involuntary servitude, except in the punishment for crime, is prohibited while such territory shall remain under a territorial government; that in all the territory now held south of said line, neither Congress nor any Territorial Legislature shall hinder or prevent the emigration to said territory of persons held to service from any State of this Union, when that relation exists by virtue of any law or usage of such State, while it shall remain in a territorial condition; and when any territory north or south of said line, within such boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall contain the population requisite for a member of Congress, according to the then Federal ratio of representation of the people of the United States, it may, if its form of government be republican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, with or without the relation of persons held to service and labor, as the constitution of such new State may provide.

ART 14. That nothing in the Constitution of the United States, or any amendment thereto, shall be so construed as to authorize any department of the Government to, in any manner, interfere with the relation of persons held to service in any State where that relation exists, nor in any manner to establish or sustain that relation in any State where it is prohibited by the laws or constitution of such State. And that this article shall not be altered or amended without the consent of every State in the Union.

ART 15. The third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution shall be taken and construed to authorize and empower Congress to pass laws necessary to secure the return of persons held to service or labor under the laws of any State, who may have escaped therefrom, to the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

ART 16. The migration or importation of persons held to service or involuntary servitude, into any State, Territory, or place within the United States, from any place nr country beyond the limits of the United States or Territories thereof, is forever prohibited.

ART 17. No Territory beyond the present limits of the United States and the Territories thereof, shall be annexed to or be acquired by the United States, unless by treaty, which treaty shall be ratified by a vote of two thirds of the Senate.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • 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)
  • Motion to Lay Motion to Appeal on the Table (introduced on 1861-02-27 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e846622)
    • Motion for the Yeas and Nays on Motion to Lay Motion to Appeal on the Table (introduced on 1861-02-27 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e846624)
  • Point of Order: Main Question Ordered (introduced on 1861-02-27 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e846627)
  • Motion to Reconsider Motion for the Previous Question on H. Res. 64: Mr. Clemens' Amendment: Mr. Kellogg's Amendment (introduced on 1861-02-27 12:00:00 - PROCEDURE - e846639)

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