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whatever properly arises under the considera- 

 tion of the subject-matter of the bill. The Con- 

 stitution does not anywhere provide for an en- 

 actment by Congress of any law for the rendi- 

 tion of fugitive slaves ; and if it did, I hold that 

 by the treason of slavery the people are ab- 

 l from that obligation upon their part. 

 This is so by the common law, and in the 

 nature and fitness of things it must be so." 



Considerable debate ensued, -when the bill 

 AY as passed by the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Ashley, John 

 D. Baldwin, Baxter, Seaman, Blame, Blair, Blow, 

 Boutwell, Boyd, Brandegree, Ambrose W. Clark, 

 Freeman Clarke, Cobb, Cole, Creswell, Henry Winter 

 Davis, Thomas T. Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Donnelly, 

 Driggs, Eckley, Eliot, Farnsworth, Frank, Garfield, 

 Cooch, Griswold, Higbv, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asahel 

 VV. Hubbard, John H. Hubbard, Hulburd, Ingersoll, 

 Jenckes, Julian, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Little- 

 John, Loan, Longyear", Marvin, McClurg, Mclndoe, 

 Samuel F. Miller, "Moorhead, Morrill, Daniel Morris, 

 Amos Myers, Leonard Myers, Norton, Charles O'Neill, 

 Orth, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Price, Alexander H. 

 Rice, John H. Rice, Schenck, Scofield, Shannon, 

 Sloan, Spalding, Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Thomas, 

 Tracv, TJpson, Van Valkenburgh, Webster, Whaley, 

 Williams, Wilder, Wilson, Windom, and Woodbridge 

 82. 



NATS Messrs. James C. Allen, William J. Allen, 

 Augustus C. Baldwin, Bliss, Brooks, James S. Brown, 

 Chanler, Coffroth, Cox, Cravens, Dawson, Dennison, 

 Eden, Edgerton, Eldridge, English, Finck, Ganson, 

 Grider, Harding, Harrington, Charles M. Harris, Hoi- 

 man, Hutchins, Kalbfleisch, Kernan, King, Knapp, 

 Law, Lazear, Le Blond, Mallory, Marcy, McDowell, 

 McKinney, William H. Miller, James R. Morris, Mor- 

 rison, Odell, Pendleton, Pruyn, Radford, Robinson, 

 James S. Rollins, Ross, Smithers, William G. Steele, 

 Stiles, Strouse, Stuart, Sweat, Wadsworth, Ward, 

 Wheeler, Chilton A. White, Joseph W. White, and 

 Fernando Wood 57. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Ancona, Anderson, Arnold, 

 Bailey, Broomall, William G. Brown, Clay, Deming, 

 Dumpnt, Fenton, Grinnell, Hale, Hall, Benjamin G. 

 Harris, Herrick, Philip Johnson, William Johnson, 

 Kasson, Orlando Kellogg, Long, McAllister, McBride, 

 Middleton, Nelson, Noble, John O'Neill, Perrv, Pom- 

 eroy, Samuel J. Randall, William H. Randall, "Rogers, 

 Edward H. Rollins, Scott, Smith, Stebbins, John B. 

 Steele, Yoorhees, Elihu B. Washburne, William B. 

 Washburn, Winfield, Benjamin Wood, and Teaman 



This bill of the House was considered in the 

 Senate on June 23d, and a motion was made 

 to amend it by excepting from repeal the act 

 of Feb. 12th, 1793 ; thus making it similar to 

 the bill of the Senate. This motion failed, and 

 the bill from the House was passed by the fol- 

 lowing vote : 



TEAS Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, 

 Conness, Dtron, Fessenden, Foot, Grimes, Hale, 

 Harlan, Harris, Hicks, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indi- 

 ana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomerov, 

 Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbuil, 

 Wade, and Wilson 27. 



NATS Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Cowan, Davis, 

 Johnson, McDougall, Powell, Richardson, Riddle, 

 Saulsbury, Van Winkle, and Willey 12. 



ABSENT Messrs. Collamer, Doolittle, Foster, Hard- 

 ing, Henderson, Hendricks, Nesmith, Sherman, Wil- 

 kinson, and Wright 10. 



in the Senate, on the 28th of March, the 

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following joint resolution relative to amend- 

 ments to the Constitution, was taken up for dis- 

 cussion: 



ART. 1. Slavery or involuntary servitude, except 

 as a punishment for crime, shall not exist in the 

 United States. 



ART. 2. The Congress, whenever a majority of th( 

 members elected to each House shall deem it neces 

 sary, may propose amendments to the ConstiUition, 

 or, on the application of the Legislatures of a ma- 

 jority of the several States, shall call a convention 

 for proposing amendments, which in either case shall 

 be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the 

 Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of 

 two-thirds of the several States, or by convention? 

 in two-thirds thereof, as the one or the other mode 

 of ratification may be proposed by Congress. 



To this resolution the Committee on the 

 Judiciary proposed the following amendment 

 by striking out all after the resolving clause : 



(Two-thirds of both Houses concurring), That thf 

 following article be proposed to the Legislatures of 

 the several States as an amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States, which, when ratified bj 

 three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, tc 

 all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Con- 

 stitution, namely : 



ART. XIII. SM. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary 

 servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof 

 the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist 

 within the United States, or any place subject to 

 their jurisdiction. 



Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this 

 article by appropriate legislation. 



Mr. Trumbuil, of Illinois, took the floor and 

 said : " It is a proposition so to amend the Con- 

 stitution of the United States as forever tc 

 prohibit slavery within its jurisdiction, anc' 

 authorize the Congress of the United States tc 

 pass such laws as may be necessary to carry 

 this provision into effect. 



" "\Vithout stopping to inquire into all the 

 causes of our troubles, and of the distress, desola- 

 tion, and death which have grown out of this 

 atrocious rebellion, I suppose it will be generally 

 admitted that they sprung from slavery. If a 

 large political party in the Xorth attributes 

 . these troubles to the impertinent interference of 

 northern philanthropists and fanatics with an 

 institution in the southern States with which 

 they had no right to interfere, I reply, if there had 

 been no such institution there could "have been no 

 alleged impertinent interference ; if there had 

 been no slavery in the South, there could have 

 been no abolitionists in the Xorth to interfere 

 with it. If, upon the other hand, it be said 

 that this rebellion grows out of the attempt on 

 the part of those in the interest of slavery to 

 govern this country so as to perpetuate, and in- 

 crease the slaveholding power, and failing in 

 this that they have endeavored to overthrow 

 the Government and set up an empire of their 

 own, founded upon slavery as its chief corner- 

 stone, I reply, if there had been no slavery 

 there could have been no foundation on which 

 to build. If the freedom of speech and of the 

 press, so dear to freemen everywhere, and 

 especially cherished in this time of war by a 

 large party in the Xorth who are now opposed 

 to interfering with slavery, has been denied us 



