Peace Conference

In January, 1861, the Legislature of Virginia pa ed a resolution inviting the various States to appoint delegates to meet at Washington to consider an adjustment of the national difficulties then pending. This Conference met February 4 and adjourned February 27. Twenty-one States were represented. As a result of the - + ape mae me mem am eye + - deliberations of the Conference a constitutional amendment was proposed which prohibited slavery north of the parallel of 36° 30’ northern latitude; south of this line it was to exist without restraint. It denied the right of pa ing laws giving freedom to slaves temporarily in the free States or to fugitive slaves, and forbade Congre from controlling slavery in the Southern States, but prohibited the slave trade. The amendment was brought up in the Senate, but failed of introduction in the House. 74