gress have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation
on persons bound to labor than on land.

ART. 4. The third paragraph of the second section of the
fourth article of the Constitution, shall not be construed
to prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation,
and through the action of their judicial and ministerial
officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from
labor to the person to whom such service or labor is due.

ART. 5. The foreign slave-trade and the importation of
slaves into the United States and their Territories from
places beyond the present limits thereof, are forever
prohibited.

ART. 6. The first, third, and fifth articles, together with
this article of these amendments, and the third paragraph of
the second section of the first article of the Constitution,
and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth
article thereof, shall not be amended or abolished without
the consent of all the States.

ART. 7. Congress shall provide by law that the United States
shall pay to the owner the full value of his fugitive from
labor, in all cases where the marshal or other officers,
whose duty it was to arrest such fugitive, was prevented
from so doing by violence or intimidation from mobs and
riotous assemblies, or when after such arrest such fugitive
was rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and
obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of
such fugitive.

Mr. Field, the member of the committee from New York, dissented from
this report, as also did Mr. Baldwin, of Connecticut, and Mr.
Crowninshield, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Seddon, of Virginia.

This report was under discussion, and various amendments were proposed
to it until the twenty-seventh day of February, a majority of your
Commissioners steadily opposing all its provisions except that
prohibiting the foreign slave-trade, and most of such majority being
opposed to the submission, by the Convention, of any amendment of the
Constitution of the United States at the present time, and in the
present excited state of the public mind. During the consideration of
the report various independent propositions were made by the consent,
and with the concurrence of your Commissioners; among which was one by
Mr. Baldwin, of Connecticut, presented on the fifteenth of February,
in