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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (489734)	11/9/2003 5:35:38 AM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Article I: Section IX.IV does indeed prohibit the Confederate CONGRESS from interfering with slavery. However, there is nothing to prevent any individual Confederate STATE from abolishing slavery. So, we are again back to "states rights"... However, you also neglect to point out the following parts of the Confederate constitution: Article IV: Section II.I The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. Article IV: Section II.III No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to whom such service or labor may be due. It seems to me that these two provisions EXPLICITLY ANTICIPATE the possibility that INDIVIDUAL CONFEDERATE STATES may indeed abolish slavery at some point in the future! Otherwise, why would these two provisions exist at all? It seems to me that these two provisions were designed to prevent future conflicts between those Confederate states that had abolished slavery and those that had not yet done so.