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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Conference, as recommended by the report of the majority of that Committee, and a Conference with the authorities of the Confederated States, as recommended by one of the reports; and a commission to each of the non-slaveholding States, to invite the authorities thereof to initiate such proceedings as will be acceptable to the slaveholding States now in the Union, and to the Confederated States. Referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Amendment proposed. Mr. Boyd, of Botetourt, offered the following which was referred to the Committee of the Whole and ordered to be printed: substitute for the first section of the amendments to the Constitution reported by the Committee on Federal Relations: In all the present territory of the United States north of the parallel of 36 degrees and 30 minutes of North latitude, involuntary servitude, except in punishment for crime, is prohibited. In all the present territory of the United States south of said line of la
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], A. J. Donnellson on the existing crisis. (search)
The Convention. Mr. Boyd, of Botetourt, yesterday offered a substitute for the first section of the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution, making some essential changes therein, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole. The resolutions in respect to an ad calorem. tax upon negroes were up again, Mr. Goode having withdrawn his motion to lay on the table. No action was taken in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Holcombe finished his speech, which produced an "irrepressible" display of enthusiasm in the Hall and an order to "clear the gallery" was very near being carried into effect. The "floor," however, happened to be more culpable than the gallery this time. Mr. Baldwin, one of the most eloquent speakers in the body, on the Union side, commenced a speech, which he will continue to-day. Mr. Carlile offered the Peace conference plan of adjustment, as a substitute for the report of the Committee on General Relations, supporting it in a brief speech. He takes groun