execution, ought to be so amended as to expressly
limit the authority and duty to cases in which there shall
be resistance, or danger of resistance or rescue.

4. That the laws for the suppression of the African
slave-trade, and especially those prohibiting the
importation of slaves into the United States, ought to be
made effectual, and ought to be thoroughly executed, and all
further enactments necessary to those ends ought to be
promptly made.

No. 2.

_Proposed Amendments by Mr. Seddon._

To secure concert and promote harmony between the
slaveholding and non-slaveholding sections of the Union, the
assent of the majority of the Senators from the slaveholding
States, and of the majority of the Senators from the
non-slaveholding States, shall be requisite to the validity
of all action of the Senate, on which the ayes and noes may
be called by five Senators.

And on a written declaration, signed and presented for
record on the Journal of the Senate by a majority of
Senators from either the non-slaveholding or slaveholding
States, of their want of confidence in any officer or
appointee of the Executive, exercising functions exclusively
or continuously within the class of States, or any of them,
which the signers represent, then such officer shall be
removed by the Executive; and if not removed at the
expiration of ten days from the presentation of such
declaration, the office shall be deemed vacant and open to
new appointment.

The connection of every State with the Union is recognized
as depending on the continuing assent of its people, and
compulsion shall in no case, nor under any form, be
attempted by the Government of the Union against a State
acting in its collective or organic capacity. Any State, by
the action of a convention of its people, assembled pursuant
to a law of its Legislature, is held entitled to dissolve
its relation to the Federal Government, and withdraw from
the Union; and, on due notice given of such withdrawal to
the Executive of the Union, he shall appoint two
Commissioners, to meet two Commissioners to be appointed by
the Governor of the State, who, with the aid, if needed from
the disagreement of the Commissioners, of an umpire, to be
selected by a majority of them, shall eq