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ancient time were not the Slaves of a different Race. The Romans compelled the Gaul and the Celt, brought them to their own Country, and some of them became great poets, and some eloquent orators, and some accomplished wits, and they became citizens of the Republic of Greece, and of the Republic of Rome, and of the Empire.

"This is not the condition of these persons with whom we are now associated, and about whose affairs we undertake to establish administration. They can never com

persons engaged therein; and the descendants of Africans shall not be citizens.

SEC. 13.-Alleged Fugitives from Labor or Service, on request, shall have a Trial by Jury before being returned.

SEC. 14.-All alleged Fugitives charged with crime committed in violation of the laws of a State shall have the right of Trial by Jury, and if such Person claims to be a citizen of another State, shall have a right of appeal or of a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States.

SEC. 15.-All acts of any inhabitant of the United States tending to incite Persons held to Service or Labor to Insurrection or acts of Domestic Violence, or to abscond, are hereby prohibited and declared to be a penal offense; and all the Courts of the United States shall be open to suppress and punish such offenses at the suit of any citizen of the United States or the suit of any State.

SEC. 16.-All conspiracies in any State to interfere with lawful rights in any other State, or against the United States, shall be suppressed; and no State, or the people thereof, shall withdraw from this Union without the consent of three-fourths of all the States, expressed by an Amendment proposed and ratified in the manner provided in Article five of the Constitution.

SEC. 17.-Whenever any State wherein Involuntary Servitude is recognized or allowed shall propose to Abolish such Servitude, and shall apply for pecuniary assistance therein, the Congress may, in its discretion, grant such relief not exceeding one hundred dollars for each Person liberated. But Congress shall not propose such Abolishment or relief to any State. Congress may assist Free persons of African descent to emigrate and colonize Africa.

SEC. 18.-Duties on Imports may be imposed for Revenue; but shall not be excessive or prohibitory in amount.

SEC. 19. When all of the several States shall have Abolished Slavery, then and thereafter Slavery or Involuntary Servitude, except as a punishment for crime, shall never be established or tolerated in any of the States or Territories of the United States, and they shall be forever Free.

SEC. 20. The provisions of this Article relating to Involuntary Labor or Servitude shall not be altered without the consent of all the States maintaining such Servitude.

mingle with us. It may not be within the reading of some learned Senators, and yet it belongs to demonstrated Science, that the African race and the European are different; and I here now say it as a fact established by science, that the eighth generation of the Mixed race formed by the union of the African and European, cannot continue their species. Quadroons have few children; with Octoroons reproduction is impossible.

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"It establishes as a law of nature that the African has no proper relation to the European, Caucasian, blood. I would have them kindly treated.

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* Against all such policy and all such conduct I shall protest as a man, in the name of humanity, and of law, and of truth, and of religion."

The amendment made, as in Committee of the Whole, having been concurred in, etc., the Joint Resolution, as originally reported by the Judiciary Committee, was at last passed, (April 8th)-by a vote of 38 yeas to 6 nays +―Messrs. Hendricks and McDougall having the uneviable distinction of being the only two Senators, (mis-)representing Free States, who voted against this definitive Charter of American Liberty.

* It was probably to this asseverated fact that Mr. Lincoln alluded, when, in the famous Lincoln and Douglas debates, and afterward, he substantially said that there was a physical bar to the intermixture of the two Races. As to its truth, however, there is ample room for doubt.

The full Senate vote, on passing the Thirteenth Amendment, was: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Conness, Cowan, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harding, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Nesmith, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, and Wilson-38.

NAYS-Messrs. Davis, Hendricks, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, and Sauls

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CHAPTER XXIV.

TREASON IN THE NORTHERN CAMPS.

EMANCIPATION TEST-VOTES IN THE HOUSE-ARNOLD'S RESOLUTION-
BLUE PROSPECTS FOR THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT-LINCOLN'S
ANXIETY-CONGRESSIONAL COPPERHEADS-THINLY-DISGUISED

TREASON-SPEECHES OF VOORHEES, WASHBURNE, AND KELLEY
-SPRINGFIELD COPPERHEAD PEACE-CONVENTION-"THE UNION
AS IT WAS"-PEACE ON ANY TERMS-VALLAN DIGHAM'S LIEU-
TENANTS—ATTITUDE OF COX, DAVIS, SAULSBURY, WOOD, LONG,
ALLEN, HOLMAN, AND OTHERS-NORTHERN ENCOURAGEMENT
TO REBELS-CONSEQUENT SECOND INVASION, OF THE NORTH,
BY LEE-500,000 TREASONABLE NORTHERN "SONS OF LIB-
-RITUAL AND OATHS, OF THE K. G. C." AND "0.
A. K."-COPPERHEAD EFFORTS TO SPLIT THE NORTH AND WEST,

ERTY

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ON TARIFF-ISSUES-SPALDING AND THAD. STEVENS DENOUNCE

TREASON-BREEDING COPPERHEADS.

THE

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HE immortal Charter of Freedom had, as we have seen, with comparative ease, after a ten days' debate, by the power of numbers, run the gauntlet of the Senate; but now it was to be subjected to the much more trying and doubtful ordeal of the House. What would be its fate there? This was a question which gave to Mr. Lincoln, and the other friends of Liberty and Union, great concern.

It is true that various votes had recently been taken in that body, upon propositions which had an indirect bearing upon the subject of Emancipation, as, for instance, that of the 1st of February, 1864, when, by a vote of 80 yeas to 46 nays, it had adopted a Resolution declaring "That a more vigorous policy to enlist, at an early day, and in larger numbers, in our Army, persons of African descent, would meet the approbation of the House;" and that vote, although indirect, being so very nearly a two-thirds vote, was most encouraging. But, on the other hand, a subse

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