So the amendment was not agreed to.
The following gentlemen disagreed to the vote of their respective States:
Mr. Bronson, of New York; Mr. Granger, of New York; Mr. Dodge, of New York; Mr. Corning, of New York; Mr. Orth, of Indiana; Mr. Hackleman, of Indiana.
Mr. SEDDON:—I suppose it is now in order for me to move my substitute for the report of the majority of the committee.
Mr. TUCK:—I also have a substitute to offer. I shall not discuss it.
Mr. SEDDON:—The substitute which I propose embodies the Crittenden resolutions, with the modifications suggested by Virginia. These are principally confined to the first section, which is made to apply to our future as well as our present territory. I have modified the form of the substitute in several particulars, and now offer it without farther introduction. These are the amendments which I understand the delegation from Virginia is instructed to insist upon:
JOINT RESOLUTIONS
PROPOSING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Whereas, serious and alarming dissensions have arisen between the Northern and Southern States, concerning the rights and security of the rights of the slaveholding States, and especially their rights in the common territory of the United States; and whereas, it is eminently desirable and proper that those dissensions, which now threaten the very existence of this Union, should be permanently quieted and settled by constitutional provisions, which shall do equal justice to all sections, and thereby restore to the people that peace and good will which ought to prevail between all the citizens of the United States: therefore,
Resolved, by this Convention, that the following articles are hereby approved and submitted to the Congress of the United States, with the request that they may, by the requisite constitutional majority of two-thirds, be recommended to the respective States of the Union, to be, when ratified by conventions of three-fourths of the States, valid and operative as amendments of the Constitution of the Union.