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PEACE CONFERENCE. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



SECTION- 7. Congress shall provide by law that the 

 United States shall pay to the owner the full value of 

 his fugitive from labor, in all cases where the marshal 

 or other officer whose duty it was to arrest such fugi- 

 tive, was prevented from doing so by violence or in- 

 timidation, from mobs or other riotous assemblages, 

 or when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by Tike 

 violence or intimidation, and the owner thereby de- 

 prived of the same ; and the acceptance of such pay- 

 ment shall preclude the owner from further claim to 

 such fugitive. Congress shall provide by law for se- 

 curing to the citizens of each State the privileges and 

 immunities of citizens in the several States. 



The vote on this section was as follows : 



AYES. Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 

 Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Ohio, Penn- 

 sylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Kansas 12. 



NOES. Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, North 

 Carolina, Vermont, Virginia 7. 



Thus the last section was adopted. New 

 York was divided. 



The adoption of the following resolution was 

 then moved by Mr. Franklin of Pennsylvania : 



Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that the 

 highest political duty of every citizen of the United 

 States is his allegiance to the Federal Government 

 created by the Constitution of the United States, and 

 that no State of this Union has any constitutional right 

 to secede therefrom, or to absolve the citizens of such 

 State from their allegiance to the Government of the 

 United States. 



It was moved to lay the resolution on the 

 table. The vote was as follows : 



AYES. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, 

 New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia 



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NOES. Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Kansas 12. 



Some amendments were then offered and laid 

 on the table, when its indefinite postponement 

 was moved and carried by the following vote : 



AYES. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, 

 New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ten- 

 nessee, Virginia 10. 



NOES. Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania 7. 



New York was divided. 

 The following preamble was then offered by 

 Mr. Guthrie, and agreed to : 



To the Congress of the United States : 



The Convention assembled upon the invitation of the 

 State of Virginia to adjust the unhappy differences 

 which now disturb the peace of the Union and threaten 

 its continuance, make Tsnown to the Congress of the 

 United States, that their body convened in the city of 

 Washington on the 4th instant, and continued in ses- 

 sion until the 27th. 



There were in the body, when action wag taken 

 upon that which is here submitted, one hundred and 

 thirty-three commissioners, representing the following 

 States : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 

 North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. 



They have approved what is herewith submitted, 

 and respectfully request that your honorable body will 

 submit if to conventions in the States as an article of 

 amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 



Permission was then asked by Mr. Johnson 

 to have placed in the journal of the Conven- 

 tion the following resolution : 



Resolved, That while the adoption, by the States of 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- 

 sippi, Louisiana, and Texas, of ordinances declaring 

 the dissolution of their relations with the Union, is an 

 event deeply to be deplored, and whilst abstaining 

 from any judgment on their conduct, we would ex- 

 press the earnest hope that they may soon see cause to 

 resume their honored places in this Confederacy of 

 States ; yet to the end that such return may be facili- 

 tated, and from the conviction that the Union being 

 formed by the assent of the people of the respective 

 States, and being compatible only with freedom and 

 the republican institutions guaranteed to each, cannot 

 and ought not to be maintained by force, we deprecate 

 any effort by the Federal Government to coerce in any 

 form the said States to reunion or submission, as tend- 

 ing to irreparable breach, and leading to incalculable 

 ills ; and we earnestly invoke the abstinence from all 

 counsels or measures of compulsion towards them. 



This permission was granted. 



The result of the labors of the Convention 

 was then laid before Congress, (see CONGRESS, 

 U. S.,) and the Convention adjourned. 



PEDRO V., (late King of Portugal,) PEDRO 

 DE ALCANTARA MARIA FERNANDO MIGUEL 

 RAPHAEL GABRIEL GONZAGA XAVIER JOAO 

 ANTONIO LEOPOLDO VICTOR FRANCISCO D'Assis 

 JULIO ANEOLIO, born at Lisbon, Sept. 16, 1837, 

 died Nov. 24, 1861, in the same city. He was 

 the son of Donna Maria II. de Gloria, and Fer- 

 nando of Saxe Coburg Gotha, king consort. 

 At the death of his mother he became king under 

 his father's regency. He visited England in 

 Nov. 1853, and France at the great exhibition 

 in 1855, and subsequently Italy, Switzerland, 

 and Belgium. He attained his majority (18 

 years) in Sept. 1855. During his father's re- 

 gency, extradition treaties were made with 

 France and Belgium, and treaties of navigation 

 and commerce with the States of South Amer- 

 ica. On assuming the crown in 1855, he con- 

 tinued the ministry of the Duke de Saldanha, 

 but the succeeding year that ministry fell be- 

 fore the opposition, and was succeeded for a 

 year by the Lull Ministry, which in 1857 gave 

 place to a still more progressive ministry, that 

 of D'Avila. In 1859, this in turn was succeed- 

 ed by that of Terceira Fontes. In May, 1858, 

 Don Pedro married Stephanie, princess of 

 Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, who died iu July 

 1859, without issue. The king had a high repu- 

 tation as an intelligent and enlightened ruler. 

 He was attacked early in Nov. 1861, by a ty- 

 phoid fever, which in a few days proved fatal, 

 and from which one of his brothers also died. 

 He was succeeded by his brother, Don Luis 

 Philippe, who ascended the throne as Luis II. 



PENNSYLVANIA, one of the Middle States, 

 and the second in population, is bounded north 

 by Lake Erie and New York, east by New York 

 and New Jersey, south by Delaware, Maryland, 

 and Virginia, and west by Virginia and Ohio. 

 It is about 310 miles in length, and 160 in width, 

 except at the northwest corner, where it is 175 

 miles, and contains an area of 46,000 square 

 miles. The population in 1860 was 2.84-9,997 

 white; 56,373 free colored; total, 2,906,370. 

 The ratio of increase during the previous ten 

 years was 26.20 white, and 5.12 colored. The 



