...Constitution, would have given substantial security to the slaveholding rights of the South: " No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress any power to abolish or interfere in any state with the domestic institutions thereof, including that...

...made to the Constitut&n which will authorize or give to Congress any power to abolish or interfere in any state with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to service or labor by the laws of said state." To this proposition, strange to say (as is now well known),...

...76.] RECOMMENDED BY JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, MARCH 2, 1861. "Article Thirteen." "No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize...held to labor or service by the laws of said State." AMENDMENT NOW PENDING FOE ADOPTION.* RECOMMENDED BY JOINT RESOLUTION OP CONGRESS, JUNE 16, 1866. ARTICLE...

...Congress, the following amendment was passed by a two-thirds vote in each House, viz., "No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize...held to labor or service by the laws of said State." Two days afterwards, President Lincoln, in his Inaugural Address, said, "that, holding such a provision...

...valid to all intenta and purposes as part of the said Constitution, namely : ART. 13. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize...held to labor or service by the laws of said State. Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, moved to amend by striking out the words " authorize or " ; a lengthy debate followed...

...amendment to the Constitution, to be submitted to the people for their sanction, forbidding Congress " to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the...including that of persons held to labor or service ]^are by the laws of said State." 2As the time drew near for the new President to assume office, the...

...of the United States, inhibiting any amendment to such Constitution which should authorize Congress "to abolish or interfere within any State, with the...including that of persons held to labor or service under the laws thereof." The mode of ratification proposed by Congress was by the action of " the legislatures...

...to all hítente and purposes, ' as part of the said Constitution, vis. : I " ART. 18. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize...held to labor or service by the laws of said State." APPROVED, March 2, 1861. Total $15,452,949 Poei Qßce Appropriation».— The appropriations for the...

...amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which was as follows : " Акт. XII. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize...including that of persons held to labor or service bv the laws of the said State." He would then preclude by Constitutional amendment, the possibility...

...amendment to the Constitution, to be submitted to the people for their sanction, forbidding Congress " to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the...held to labor or service by the laws of said State." As the time drew near for the new President to assume office, the excitement throughout the country...