Page:Confederate Military History - 1899 - Volume 1.djvu/372

334 north of 36° 30’; and allowing its existence in territories south of that line, but requiring admission of States with or without slavery as the constitution of new States may provide. Also forbidding Congress to abolish slavery in any place within the limits of the slave States, or in the District of Columbia as long as it exists in Maryland or Virginia. The resolutions also provided for payment to the owner of a fugitive slave the value of his property where the restoration was prevented, and expressly reaffirmed that Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in the States.