ivers, or by the sea; and the right of
transit by the owners with their slaves in passing to or
from one slaveholding State or Territory to another, between
and through the non-slaveholding States and Territories,
shall be protected.

ARTICLE 5. That, in addition to the provisions of the third
paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution of the United States, Congress shall have power
to provide by law, and it shall be its duty so to provide,
that the United States shall pay to the owner who shall
apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave in all
cases, when the marshal or other officer whose duty it was
to arrest said fugitive was prevented from so doing by
violence or intimidation, or when, after arrest, said
fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby
prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for
the recovery of his fugitive slave, under the said clause of
the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof. And
in all such cases, when the United States shall pay for such
fugitive, they shall have the power to reimburse themselves
by imposing and collecting a tax on the county or city in
which said violence, intimidation, or rescue was committed,
equal in amount to the sum paid by them, with the addition
of interest and the costs of collection; and the said county
or city, after it has paid said amount to the United States,
may, for its indemnity, sue and recover from the
wrong-doers, or rescuers, by whom the owner was prevented
from the recovery of his fugitive slave, in like manner as
the owner himself might have sued and recovered.

ARTICLE 6. No future amendment of the Constitution shall
affect the five preceding articles, nor the third paragraph
of the second section of the first article of the
Constitution, nor the third paragraph of the second section
of the fourth article of said Constitution; and no amendment
shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or
give to Congress any power to abolish or interfere with
slavery in any of the States by whose laws it is or may be
allowed or permitted.

ARTICLE 7. SEC. 1. The elective franchise, and the right to
hold office, whether federal, State, territorial, or
municipal, shall not be exercised