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HHI run i }iY SHERWOOD & LONG. & Jpaimlg Ketospapcr—Sfbotfti to ilitcraturc, agriculture, J&anufcicturcs, Commerce, ano jpHiscellaneous Krafcing. TERM&—$2.00 IN ADVANCE. M » OL. XXII. GEEENSBOROTJGH, 1ST. C, JANUARY 17, 1861. NO. 1,131. he LuntsWottgh Patriot. JAHT.» ;.. LOHU. S 11 E H WOO I) & LONG, KDITUHS AND PHOl'lUETORS. TEBHS: W.O'j A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. j VI IS DF IDTEBT1S1SG IK TIE PATRIOT. J ■ for '1:? first week, and twenty \ ircek thereafter. TWHLVB I.INSS OR beductiona made in fiivur cl ug mallei M follows : A MONTH*, fi MONTHS. 1 nut |imre, $3 50 %b 50 .... $b 00 7 00 lo ixi 14 i/O in mi |6 oo 2" i» CONST! 1'UTiON • >r' TBS 4 \i' . I he |" • ; le t»f ili.- United States, in or rfi-rjo f rm i•■•ifi-ct union, establish > u fd m ■-•ii' 11anqu lny, provide I r|l.< <-• .it in II defence, promote the gener- I lire the blessings of liber-ty I - and our posterity, d<> ordain •i *'- ! sh Ins Constitution for the United s.. es ol A inenea. ARTICLE I. Of the Legislature. •II rion 1. ■† powers herein <r"anted, i J All he I in H congress of the United * hich shall consist of a Senate and lit,* mtativefl. -'i riON II. . The (louse of Representatives shall ho cdjn posed i members chosen every second ■I by the pt-opli of the several states ; and ill •■ - in each stato shall have the qual-irjati to for electors of the moat men h of• he state legijlature. .' No | inil lie a representative who ill not :i:n"(l io tin' age oftwenty-h II seven years a citizen ol dcr such penalties as each Honse may pro-vide. 2 Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for dis-orderrj behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. ■t. Bach lloii-e shall keep a journal of it" proc edings, and t.-om time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their lodgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays ol the membersof cither House • >n a y question, sha I, at the desire of one-fifths of those present, be entered on the jour-nal. 4. Neither Mouse during the session of Congress shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor io any oilier place than that in which the two houses shall ^sitting. SECTION VI. 1. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to he ascertained hy law. and paid out of the ! treasury ot the United Slates. They shall in I all cases, except, treason, felonly, and breach of the pence, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the sea-ion of their re-spective Houses, and in going to or retain-ing from the same ; and for any speech or de-btttein either House, they shall not be ques-tioned in any other place. 2. No senator or representative shall, dur-ing the tir-e for which he was electe be ap-pointed to any civil office under the authority of the nited Slates which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time; and no person holding any office under the Uni-ted States sha I he a member of either Iiouso during his continuance in office. SECTION IX. 1. The migration or importation of snch persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be pro-hibited by the Congress prior to the ;. ear one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importations not exceeding ten dollars for each person. 2. The privelegeof the writ habeas corpus shall i ot he suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex-post-facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be ta-ken. 5. No tax or duty shall belaid on articles expoi ted from any State. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerco or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another; norshallvc sels bound to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriation made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the recipts and expenditures of all puolic money shall he published from time to time. 7. No title of nobility shall he granted by the United Slates, and no person holding any office, of profit or trust under, them shall without the consent of Congress, accept of tiny present, emolument.office, or title ot any kind whatever, from any king, prince or'fore-ign State. SECTION x. 1. No state shall enter into any treaty alliance or confederation ; grant letters of mar" | quc and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of 1 All bills for raising revenue shall origi- j credit: making any thing but gold and sil-nate in the House of Representatives, but i ver coin a tender in payment of debts, pass the Senate may propose or concur with ' any bill of attainder, ex-post-facto law, or! the SECTION VII. I; , and who shall not, when jn wnieh it shall have originated, who shall nhabitant of that state R t e t"l II be chos II rese ativei and direct taxes shall bi til ned among the several states which F ucluded within this union, according 'numbers, which shall be idding ■•• the whole number of nc titling those bound to service id excluding Indians not of all other persons. The amendments, as on other bills. 2. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall, bet.ire it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States: if he law imputing the obligation of contracts; or; grant any title of nobility. 2. No Stale shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on im-ports or exports, txeept what may be abso-approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall lately necessary for executing its inspection return it, with his objections, to that House ' t i hall not exceed one for every c.ir]le sril I, bul •■ -■:. state sball h»ve mire; and ui tii . I I"' made, the state of .'•'• ic II bo ml Ued to choose three; eight ; Rhi di hi rndand Pi • m-on. i; ''onru. ' cut fiva ; Vew ■ ; .'■ †Ji. '/ lour ; /'. nnsylvani* I itic 31 '.7"'. •;/(.' sir ; Fir* ' ■ ,- ■' I<I five; South Curo-laws ; and the nett produce of all duties and mposts laid by any State on imports or ex-j enter the objections at large on their journal, ports shall be for the use of the Treasury of | and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such the United States and all such laws shall be consideration, two-thirds of that House shall subject to the revission and control of Con-agree to pass 1 he bill, it shall bo sent, togeth- gross. No State shall, without the consentl er with the objections, to the other House, of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep ! by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter : and if approved by two-thirds of that House, j into any agreement or compact with another' it shall become a law. But in all such cases the I State, or with a foreign power, to engage in votes of bo h Houses shall be determined by j war unless actually invaded, or in such immi- I yeas and nays, and the names of the persons I neiit danger as will not admit of delay. ARTICLE II. Of the Executive. SECTION I. 1. The Executive power shall be vested in \ •' ' !l be m»«le within votingfor and against the bill shall be enter-t he first i.i 'etng of -.ho Con- cd on tD0 jonrna| of each House respectively. i States, and within every lt .,„.. bi|j s[ia|| not l)e returned by the Pres-ol ton years, in such manner id,.m within ten days (Sundays excel ted at-by law dirett. ["be number of ter it shall have been presented to him, the be a law in like manner as if he II had signed it, unless the. Congress by their a President of the United States of America. adjournment prevent its return, in which He shall bold his office during the *erm offour cast it shall not be a law. years,and together with the Vice President, ■',. Every order, resolution, or vote to which chosen for the same term, bo elected as lol-thc concurrence of the Senate and House of lows: Representatives may be nece-sary, (except a % ,.-.„.,, S(a(c 8nall appf,int in Bacn man. neras-he legislature thereof may direct, a . m : Hi t/rgi i 111 - happen in the repre- Ite, the exei itive au- I issuo « ... 9 oi el sci ion to f « '< i Re1ire«entn»i"es shall • e th sj I, i : d i ther oftl -s. and ■ ■ ■ |■■†■ er of impeachment. SKCTION in. I I S :ite of ihe United Stales sba'l ■d •.( iw« aiora lr«>m each state, the lev is ai ure tliere..!. lor six enator shall h i e one •:■ t. I • ..it••> they shall bo as-em- I if in II • nc«i of the first lecii >n, they i qually as may be, into • Tii seals of i he sei alors of hall be vacated at the expiia-n| ! I i- MT.II i! y ear, ol I ho seciH d C CSS ::'. lo the President of the United States; and be-fore the same shall take effect, shall he ap-proved by him, or being disapproved by him, number of electors, equal to the wbolo num-ber of Senators and Representatives to which proved hire, Disapproved ny mm,, ,)C Suie may |K. entll|c(j in the Congress; but -hall he repassed by two-thirds of the Senate J^ SenatoPor R,-prese..talive, cr pesoo bold-and Ilo„-e,t Representatives, according to I inafficeof tru8t or profit under the U-the rules and limitations piescribed in the niu,d SlateSj slia„ „„ .imiointl>d an ,.|eet0r. y. The electors shall meet in their respect- SECTION VIII. tloi - i .' ii ol i he l .in th and of the ive states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant ofthe same state with themselves. And they] shall make a list ofall the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign arid certify, and transmit sealed t the scat of government of the Uni-ted Slates, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of tbo Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be President, if such number be a majority To establish a uniform rule of natura- of the whole number of electors appointed; uniform, liws on the sub- ai.t! if there be more than one who have such The Congress shall have power— 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, im-posts. and excises, to pay the debts f.nd pro-vide lor the common defence and general we'lare ol the United States; but ail duties, imposis, nnd excises shall be uniform through-out the United States : 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States; :l. To legnlatc commerce with foreign na-tions, and among the several slates; and with the Indian tribes: A 11: r • lass ai i he i x, irat on ol the sixth year, ■■ \. " ill I liza'.ion, anil umiviiu, it»»a UII iiir sun- ••"- •• —•- — - ...........%. .,-v... r ",:nl "■'■> '"V h"at " B7erJ : "'.'•'•'"! ieet of bankruptcies, throughout the United a majority.and havoau equal number of votes j year; and .vacancies hajpen. by resigns- ■S|.lU.s . I then the House of Repiesentatives shall im-er„, so, during the recess ol the 5 To coi|) mo„ ,^,1.4,. the nlae \ mediately choose by ballot one of them for I any Bi«te, the exocu ve thereof lhereoftand of foreign coin: and fix the Stan- President; and if no person have a majority, ■ ke temporary appo.ntmtnuuntil the > dard(|f vv,, h(9aI!(l measures: . then, from the n>0 ighest on the list, the ol the Legislature, which shall , (. .,.(( pr)V1(|e for I]K, po„i8hment ofcoun- said House shall in like manner choose the ■ '"'i,Kr u 1 „ ' terfem'ng the securities and current coin of President. Putin cho- sing the President, No person shall be a senator who shall •■ '■' tied totbeageof thirty years, 1 '• > years a citizen ofthe United hoshall not, when elected, be ai 11 >.::-■ pant ul that slate for which he shall I. Tl • Vice President of the United States t ol the S.nate. but sh:. e no •>• ■ .all choose the United States: the votes shall be taken by States, the repre- 7. To establish post offices and post ropds : sentation from each Slate having one vote; a 8. To promote the prograss ofscience and quorum for this purpose shall consist of a useful arts by securing for limited limes to member or members from two-thirds of the authors and inventors the exclu ive light to j States, and a majority of all the States shall their respective writings and discoveries : j be necessary to a 1 hoiee; In every case after 9. To const'tute tribunals inferior to the the choice of the President, the person hav- I supreme court: i ing the greatest, number of vot«.s of the elec-squally divided. fo To defineand puni8h piracie9 and fcl. | tors shall be the Vice President. But ifthere lieu other 01- . committed on the high s'as. and offen- should reraain two or more who have equal - dent pro umpore, in , ^ rHms! „K. |ftw „, „a.i0i,;. m the &„** shall choose from them by ol U ,,, resident or when be \ „f T(, (,i,(.i.„.e wa t lettcr9 of mar. I ballot tho V,ee President. e office ol Presidentoi the qu(, ard repn.a|, am1 make rules concerning 4. The Congress may determine the time ot captures on lard and water: I choosing the electors and the day on which IL\ To raisa and support arnves, but no they shall give their votes, which day shall be appropriation of mony to that use shall be for I the same throughout the United States. te shall have thesole power to chments. When sitting for that nil boon oath or affirmation. v\. President of the United States is 1- ' chi-f JI. side ; and no ] ers vicled without the concur-the members present. 7 ■ nl in case of impeachment shall a longer term than two years 13. To provide a*d maintain a navy : 14. To make rules for .he government 5. No person except a natural-born citizen or citizen of the U. S. at the time of tho a-doption ol'this I (institution, shall be eligible and regulation ofthe land and naval forces : to the office of President; neither shall any 15. To provide for calling forth the mili-l person be eligible to that office who shall not ';';; . ia to execute ; he laws of the Union, suppress have attained to the age ol thirty-five years, fication to hold and enjoy ! ,n1™on' anclrenal invasions : t and been fourteen years a resident w.thin the ■■:.. r, trust, or profit, under the I ..,(,• >o provide for organming, arming and | United States. ites; but the party convicted shall, - be liablj and subject to indict- Igmt ui and punishment accor-io law. I ION IV disciplining the mi'i'ia, and for governing] 0. In case of the removal of the President such part of thein as may be employed in the ' from office, or of his death or resignation, on service of the United States, reserving to the i inability to discharge the powers and duties states respectively the appointment of tho of the said office, the same shall devolve on officers and the authority of training the niili- \ the Vice President; and ihe Congrest may by | . tia according to tho discipline prescribed by law provide for tho case of removal, death or' I. e times, places,and manner of hold- Congress: resignation, or inability, both of the Presi-j - l-jrai natora and repiesentatives (y rr-0 exercj8e exclusive legislation, in all i dent and Vice President, declaring what offi-b 1 in each state by the legis- Pa«es whatsoever, over f.ncli district (not ex-j ccrsshall then act as President; and such offi-i •vof; but the Congress may at any j ccedii.g ten square miles, las may, by cession I eersball act accordingly, until the disability • • . or alter such regulations, ofparticular states and ihe acceptance ot 0l' removed or a President shall be elected. 1 to the places of choosing senators. Congress, become the seat ol government of 7- ''''"' President shall, at stated times, re-1 . I ' .' .-• shall assemble at 'east the United States, and to exercise like au- i ceive for bis services a compensation, which | ► year, and such meeting shall thority over all placee purchased, by the con- shall neither be increased nor diminished du- . Monday in De x ..her, unless S,.,|.L ofthe let>ishilure of ihe state in which ' ring the period for which he shall have been id ill b law appo oi a different day. the same shall bclore the erection of forts ran-stCTioN v. Fgazmes. arsenals, dock-yards, and other need- E:i : Souse shall bo 'ho judge of the |"»' bui dings: am!. 1 on ,r turns, and qualification'* ol ila own I |s. To make all laws v/hich shall be neces- 1 - . ..mi a major 1 LV «.| each sha.I con-' sary and proper for carry ing into execution I .111 lodo business; but a small- the foregoing power-, and all otln r powers Ilia} ! .j'luril ll'oni day today, and be nuliio; i-.-ii to compel ihe alteiidaaec of aoecnt mwuibers, iu »udi mmuivr uiid uu-vested by this constitution in the government of the Undid Stales, or any department or officer thereof. elected, and he shall "ot receive witnin that p. nod any other emolument Ironuthe. United States or any ot them. W. Petoro he enter on tho execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or at-tirmation:— "I do solemnly atrcar (or affirm 1 that I will faithfully execute the office oi President of the United Stales, and will, to tho best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend Constitution ofthe United States. SECTION 2. 1. The President shall be commander in-chiefof tho army and navy of tho United States and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the Un-ited States; he may require the opinion in writing of the principal officer in each ofthe executive departments, npon any subject rel-ating to the. duties of their respective offices ; and Ihe shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offe-ices aganst the United States, except in cas '8 of impeachment. 2. He shall have power, by and with the I advice and consent of the Senate, to make I treatriee, provided two-thirds of the senators J present, concur, and he shall nominate, ant! by i and with the advice and consent of the Son-j ate, shail appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of tho supreme court, and all other officers of United States, who*" appointments are no herein otherwise provided for, and .vhich shall be established by law. But the Congress may by law vest theappoitment of such inferior officers as they think proper in tho President alone in the courts of law, or in the heads of depart-ments. 8, The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions wieh shall expire at tho end of their next ses-sion. SECTION in. 1. He shall from lime to time, give to Con-gress 1 formation of the state of the Union, and ret ooimend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and ex-pedient ; he may on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either oi them; and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as be shall think proper; ho shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; ho shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed ; and shail commission all officers of tbo United States. SECTION IV. 1. The President, Vice President, and all Civil officers of the United States, shall be re-moved from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE 111. Ofthe Judiary. SECTION 1. i. The Judicial power of the United Slates shall be vested in ono Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may. Irom time to time, ordain andestablish. Thejudgi - both ot the supreme and inferior courts, shail hold their offices during good behaviour; and shall, at stated times, receive for theirservices a compensation, which shall not ho diminish-ed during their coi.tinuanco in office. SECTION II. 1. The judicial power shall extend to ail cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, thalaws of tbo United States. nnd treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all ceses affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and con-suls; to fllI eases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall bo a party; lo controver-sies between ti o or more States ; between a state and citizens of another state; between bet ween citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands un-der grants of different states; and between a siate, or the citizens thereofand foreign states, tit.zens, or subjects. 1. In all cases affecting ambassadors, oth-er publi" ministers, and consuls, and those in which ;' stale shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the ol her cases before mentioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdi'-tion, both as lo law antl lact, with such exceptions, an under such regulations as the Congress shall make. .'!. The rial of all crimes, except ;n cases of impeachment, shall be hy jury, and such trial shail l>.! held in the state where the said crimes shall nave been committed; but when not com-mitted within any state, tho trial shall be at such jilac-o or places as Congress may by law have directed. SECTION III. 1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and com'ort. No person shall be convicted of t reason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to tho same overt act, or con/ess ion in open court. 2. Congress shall have power todi-clure the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or for-feiture, except during the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. MisceUaneotu. SECTION I I. Full faith andjeredit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings ofevery other state. And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and | ro-ceedingsshall be proved, and theeiiect tl ere-of. SECTION II. 1. The citizens of each state shall bo enti-tled to all privileges and immunities of citi-zens in the several states 2. A person charged in any state with trea-son, felony, or other crime, who shall flee | from justice, and be found in another stale. shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered i up, to be removed to the state having uris-diction of the crime. •i. No person held to service or labor in one : late, under the lavs thereof, escaping into, another shall, in consequence of any law or , regulation therein, bo discharged from SUIT service or labor; bul shall be delivered up on i claim ofthe party to whom such service o~ labor may be due. SECTION III. 1. Now states may be admitted by Con-1 gress i.ito this Union; but. no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction ofany other state, nor any state be firmed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent ofthe leg-islatures of the states concerned, as well as of Cngress. 2. Congress shall have power to dispose of, 1 and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory, or o*.her property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of tho United States or of any particular state. SECTION IV. 1. Tho United States shall guarantee to ev-ery stato in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on, application of the legislature, or ofthe executive (when the leg-islature cannot be convened), against domes-tic violence. ARTICLE V. Of Amendments. 1. Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shal' deem it necesaf rv, shall pro-pose amendments tgajhis const tntion, or, on the application of We legislatures of two-thirds of .he several states, sh.ill call a con-vention for propo ing amendtr.onts, which, in either case, shall be valid to fll intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by tho legislatures of .hree fourths of ot the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof* as the one or the other mode of ratification may bo proposed by Con-gress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year ono thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any mnn- I ner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of tho first article; and that no state, without i's consent, shall bo deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate. ARTICLE VI. -Miscellaneous. 1. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this con-stitution, shall be as valid against the United Slate-- under this constitution, as under the confederation. 2. This constitution, and tho laws of tho United states which shall be made in pursu-ance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall he made, under the authority of tho Uni- Resolvcd bth. That we consider an just I necessary, and therefore badly, node-. " yet firmly demand Constitutional nai 11 lor the following points, to wif : a ren-si; all State laws wherein found, which nrv trary to.the Constitution of the Unil additional guaranties for tho execui Fugitive Slave Law, providing eithei safe return ofthe faintive without exp r, tho owner, or his full value at the pis cape, when his return shall be silt aisled. Security to slave proper! v in the] trict of Columbia, and the public dock y.' kc, of tho United States, as Ion - > shall exist—in the States where said I* or property is located. Security to pro| erty in the common territories 1 - as they shall remain in a territorial o ' | —no territory to be r ceived as a Sti it shall bav an established pop;' which time it shall bo immediate v obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence. ART. 7, In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial byjury shall be pre-served and no fact tried by jury shall ho other wise re-examined in any court of tho United Slates than according ^o the rules of the common law. Art 8. Excessive ball shall not lo requir quired, nor excessive fines impossed, ncr cru-el and unusual punishments inflicted. Art. 9. The enumeration in tbo constitu-tion of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retainder by the people. Art. 10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor pro-hibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. Art. 11. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to as a State whenever applying, any suit is law or equity comin need or pro-cueted against ono of the United States by ci-tizens of another state, or by Citizens or by-citizens of subjects of any foreign state. Ar\ 12 § 1. The electors shall moot in their respectative, states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom at least shall not bo an inhabitant 01 thosame state with themselves; t;iey shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shali make distinct lists of all persons voted for .is President am' of all persons voted for as Vice- President and of'thehumber of votes for caca wjioh list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to tho seat o! the government of the United States, directed to the Presi-dent of the Senato; the President of the Sen ate shall, in the prosence of tho Senate and House of Representfctives, open all the certi-ficates, and the votes shall then be counted ; tho person having tho greater number, of votes for President, shall be tho Presidents. ! bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws ofany state to the coutrary notwith-standing. mc state legislatures,and all executive and judi-cial officers, both of the United States and the several sta cs, shall be bound by oath or affir-mation to support this const tulion: but no . if such number be a majority of tho whole led States, shall bo the supreme law of the number ot electors appointed : antl il DO land; and the judges in every stato shall be person have such a majority then from the persons having tho highest numbers, not exceeding three, on tho list of those voted for as President, the House of 8. Ihe .-(tutors and representatives before Representatives shall choose in mediately by entionod, and the mem'ers ofthe several ballot tho President. But in choosing the President, tho votes shall he taken by states, the representation from each stato havLg ono vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two religions test shall ever be required as a quail- thirds of the Stales, and a majority of all the fication to any office, or publie trust, under ' Hie United States. ARTICLE VII Ofthe Ratification. I. The ratification of the conventions of nine states shall be sufficient for the establish-ment of this Constitutor between the states so ratifying the same. Done in Convention, by tho unanimous con-sent of tho states present, the seventeenth day ol September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eigbty-eeven, States shall be necessary to a choice. And if tho House of Representatives shall not l>') a 1 r -t 1 n- 10 in Betohedttk, That these reso'etionsln. warded to our Legislature with th that our representatives in tbo Nat j gress be instructed and requested by every means in their power t;cs, and that all tho slave S to unite for that object. HcsulvcdWi, That oar nt. arably connected with those of li States, North and South, and that 011. It' laturo is requested lo send delegates t f Vention of tho Border States atilaltiai " tho 12lh February, or whatever .'I > ■\; may be agreed upou, to tons nt with th to the proper course to be pursued—a recommond that iho Hon. Thomas I iffin, Wm. A. (iruham, Thos. Bragg and < I or je E. Badger be appointed delegates. ^ Resolve 8th, That we discountenance ias» and precipitated action, and rec prudont, moderate, and Bra coin becomes the ditrnitv of the Stnii, -ml L,.,. :.S comes dignity Stato and neas of the threatening eri fasofaeftCA, That we recommend State be put in a position of del dihtely, by furnishing arms, and re-o tut: the militia system of the State Resolved lOf/i, That should v.. taimng Constitutional guaranties .or n and due rights, then we recommend Convention of allthe States willing lo lish such Constitutional guarant and a new Confederacy bo form. basis ofthe old, with such guarai 1 i dunce and experience demand, w(h tiri pro-vision that other States, McordiQ ; tr£lliose guaranties, may be received thereto. ,. Resolvrd Mf/t, That if the Got! injpl will not unito with tho Border S a 5 sttin M 2. The person having tho greatest number of votes as Vice President shall bo tho Nice President, if such n mbor bo a niajirity tit the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the and of the I adependence of the United States ' two highest numbers on the list, the Senate of America the twelfth. In witness whereof, j shall choose the Vice Presideni; a quorum for we have hereunto subscribed our names. GEORGE WASHINGTON. President, and Deputy from Virginia. Connecticut. Wm. Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, New York. Alexander Hamilton. _V> "■ Tfampshire, John Langdon, Nicholas Oilman. Massachusetts, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. A" '•" Ji rsey William Livingston, David Brearly, William Patterson, Jonathan I hiyton, Pi nnsylvania. Benjamin Franklin, TboaMifflin, Robert Mori is, (ieorgo ('lymer, I i: imas F.tzsimons, .hired IngTSoIl, James Wils in, G overnenr Mori is. J). iware. George R< a I. the purpose shall consist of two-thuds of the whoie number of senators, and a majority of the wbolo number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office ot President shall he eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. Maryland. James M'Henry, Daniel ofSt. T. Jenifer. Daniel Carioll. Virginia. John Blair, James Madison, jr. North Carolaia. William Blount, Rich'd Dobhs Spaight, Hugh Will amson. South Carotin '.. John Rutledge. Gunning Bedford, jr.,Chas. C. Pinkcnev, John I 'ickinson, Richard Baasett, Jacob Broom. Attest, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. Georgia. W illiam Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Jackson, Sec. AMFOMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION". ART. I. Congress shall make no law res- Far the 1'ai.ii t. { Public Meeting; In Davidson County. i According to previous notice, a large and enthusiastic meeting ol the citizens of David-son county, (irrespective of party.; was held ; at the Court House in Lexington on the oth ; day ol January, 1861, for tho purpose ol tak-ing into consideration the disturbed state of our National affairs. Ou motion of .1. C. HedgcorU. Esq., Dr. W. D. Lindsay was called 10 the (hair, and ' Alfred Hargravo and C. P. Lowe appointed 1 Secretaries. B. A. Kitrell, Esq., explained the object of the meeting in a few appropriate remarks. Oil motion, a committee of nine was ap-pointed to report resolutions for the consid-eration of tho meeting. The motion having been concurred in.— The Chairman appointed tho follow ing gen-tlemen as the committee, viz : 14 * Douthit. Dr W R Holt, Henderson Adams, Solomon A Mock-. Dr R I. Beall, Gen Goo W Smith. Rev Willis S Miller, DW C Johnson, and E l> Hampton. Resolutions from Dr. W. R Holt, D. W. C. Johnson, G. W. Smith, Alfred Hargravo arid return of the recreant States, and t*v struction of the Union. Resolved Vith, That i! in the com that now exist in our Federal arTai igency should hereafter arise, th.-tU" eign voice of the people of tie Car lina should be consulted, our h j lives in our State Legislatures shoull slructed to vote for a Convention oi pie to decide, solely upon quc , National affairs. * Resolved Vith, That these :esoi-t| sent to our Senators and Cotnsa 1 Geneva! Assembly, and our R at Washington. Alter the reading of tho resnliit otic speeches were made b] I erave, B. A. Kitrell, Dr. W R. Douthit, and D. W. C. Johnson. Harmony and good feeling throughout tho meeting. All pirt ing to attain a common end—a and honorable adjustment of the ; ; acuities, and it possible, a pressrv I Union. Resolvi I, That these proceedin to the GroensbOTOugh Patriot Standard for publication. W. D LIND8A1 ■con- 11 tit 1 .'ol. ii • 1 1 aii> na l I |be in- I 0111 1 >l liar IV C. . I ■ I ■e sent I ill! I pecting an establishment of religion, or pro-' B. A. Kitrell, were severally read, and on bibitiug the free exercise thereof; or abridg- motion referred to the following committee : ing the freedom of speech, or ofthe press, or: Dr. C. L. Payne made some appropriate the right ofthe people peaceably to assemble | remarks. During the absence of the committee, John W. Thomas, F'sq., obeyed the call made upon him, and addressed the assemblage in a lengthy and able speech. The committee on resolution-, afier retir-ing for about one and a half hours, returned and reported the follow:ng, viz : Whereas, An alarming crisis now exists in our National affairs, we, the people of David-son county, solemnly feeling our responsibil-ity to each other, 10 our child'en, to our Stale, the Nation and to the world, Besotted Is/. That the Union of these States, 1 ho products of the valor, the wisdom, the prudent and harmonizing spirit, of our fathers has beer, productive ol incalculable blessings to us as a people, and demands our highest efforts to preserve and hand it down to posterity. Retkvedini, That the interests of each les- on a presentment or indictment of a grand and every section are inseparably connected and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ART. -. A well regulated militia being ne-cessary to tho security of a freo state, the right ol the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ART. •!. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be qua tor d in any house without the onsent ofthe owner; nor in time of war but in a man-ner to be prescribed by law. As r. i The right ot the people to be secure in their pi rsons, bouses, papers, and effects, against an easonabta searches and seizures, sinill not be violated ; and no warrants shall ssue but upon probable cause, supported by oatb or affirmation, and particularly describ ing the place to be searched, and the persons or things 0 be seized. AKT. 5. No person shalll bo hold to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, un- Al.KBEO HARORAVK, I a C.P.Lowa, 'JSecreti.n jury, except in cases arising in the land or nav il lorces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of wai or public danger; ror shall any person be subject tor tho same of-fern e to be put twice in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall bo compelled, in any crimin-with those of all the rest, and what, is in any-way it iurious to the ono will be disastrous toothers. Resolved 3rd, That no section or State ought to separate itself from tho Confederacy, and thus expose the whole to the hazards olCivil al Case, to be witness against himself; now be war and social and commercial ruin, without de] rived ol life, liberty,or property without due process of law ; nor shall private property bo taken lor public use without just compen-sation. ART. I>. In all criminal prosecutions the ac-cused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury ofthe -•; te and district wherein the crime shall have been commuted, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to bo in-tormed of the nature and cause ofthe accusa-tion : lo bo confronted with the witnesses first using every honorable means to obtain a redress of our grievances; first, through the Constitutional methods already provided; secondly, it those prove insufficient by an ef-fort to obtain additional Constitutional guar-antees, and then secession and revolution should only be the last resort. Resolved 4th, That a period ha> arrived in our history as a nation, when the security of our instittions and the perco and prosperity of the whole people require additional ''.in-stitutional provisions, which sbali settle tho il . lour iirue.: d on umbi '.ales mtor d c Star t. • ii i- , Mr. be v. y lin rem l. d re-, iniaa, .•1 ui. ii against him : to have compulsory process for | question at issue forever lion. F. W. Pltken This gentleman, who has been years as Minister to Russia, ha - his native State, South t'arolin , . evening of the .".Oth uf last month ed a violent disunion speech a-' 1 The representative of thirty -ol. j dwindled to the dimensions ol an ing ono State to secede without How would a flag bearing 1 n ceived in tho waters of Russia power in Europe won d n -peci ii dream of Mr. Pickous's life .s realized. Twenty-seven years li mined, with Dufl Green, that ;h u- was auostion which would unito ti Js.iir.i dissolve the Union, and th r. ..a , tbi tion of slavery. He lahoret) w houn to broak down Gen. S'cu Democratic party, but laileo however, went on, and Mr. Vai it; and now Mr. Pickens rotur sia, Where ho had consideration . not been.use no was a Si 11th '% becauso ne represented the tho earth, and lakes steps Tsiroythi' Republic and tooverwhs 01 with aguish 1 friends of free institutions in all lands. II. I tcr that ho had frozen lo Russian ban U I returned to engage in such a wajrk — ft Standard. 1 Kow and Tb<-n. No small degree of indignati .11 itnatui felt that the President ol tiu a ted has allowed the South Crolinadm... - to bully him with a demand hkl Maj. Ai son should be sent back to V rl Uoultr • naun oftheir displeasure and at irn i-> South Carolina. A compel . M in en in-stituted between this conduct a *J thai li Fillmore, some nine or ten \ u * BgO, he quietly sent a strt n" force.<o u tame to preserve it from an 1 1.1c .a ed alia I South Carolina. The then I Carolina applied to President 1 . raorc for an explanation. "S r. ' WM the a -swi r. President oi the I'nited States is not ret sibfe lor his official conduct £to| ti e govt of South Carolina" | It is probable that Mr. Fdlnloro 1 pressed a civil war, as Mr. Buchanan n huve done if be had seal a ptoA-' for I tb roe mc .libs ago.— /
Object Description
Title | The Greensborough patriot [January 17, 1861] |
Date | 1861-01-17 |
Editor(s) |
Sherwood, M.S. Long, James A. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Place |
Greensboro (N.C.) Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The January 17, 1861, issue of The Greensborough Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C., by M.S. Sherwood & James A. Long. |
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Original publisher | M.S. Sherwood & James A. Long |
Language | eng |
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Newspaper name | The Greensborough Patriot |
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