The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-29
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1ly Dear General: You are a soldier, and am
not yet agree in one thirg-frankness. l have
little time or taste for argument as you, and will
strive to emulate your directness and brevity.
| agree with you that it is well to settle the dis
turbing questions you indicate now, and settle them
finally.
| propose, then, that we settle the Territorial
question on the basis of MIR. JefersGn's proposition
reported to Congress in April, 1784-within two
months after the Confederation first had any terri
tory to deal with. MIR. Jefferson was one of our
greatest Revolutionary statesmen-he was a Fir-
ginan-a savehoder-and especially honored and
confded in by Kentucky till his death, which hap
pened forty years afterward. New York was then
Slave State, yet she supported him right heartily;
so did sixteen out of the twenty-thI ee Members
present and voting, though nearly all were from
Slave States. propose that we now take up Mr..
Jeferson's bill or projected ordinance, adapt and
apply it to all the Federal Territories, present and
prospective, and thus settle the Territorial question
forever. This will give solid and lasting peace to
the country far as the Territories affect it.
AS to all other slave questions, l propose as
follows
l. Let each State cherish or prohibit slavery, as
| it shall see fit.
II. Let each citizen like or dislike slavery to
him shall good, and be at perfect liberty to
| give his reasons for the faith that is in him.
| Ill. Let every slave-owner manage his own
| negroes, so long as he shall retain them in some
slave State; if any runs out of such State, let the
| owner be at perfect liberty to persuade entice
him back into servtude, free from any impertinent
intermeddling. Should any third party poke his
into what is of his business let the master
be at liberty to cowhide him for the intrusion. But
| let the laws of every free State hold every man
| free who does not choose to be slave.
| ~. If any person goes from free into a slave
State, and there attempts to stir up rebellion
interfere in any way between masters and slaves,
let him be dealt with the law of that slave State
| shall direct.
| Such seem to the essential bases of settle
ment of the territorial and slavery questions, which
| deem essentially fair, just and reasonable. A
settlement on such bases would be repugnant to no
moral sense, would leave room for heartburn
| ings, and would be essentially indestructible. If
| you will give it your support, no effort of mine
| shall be wanting to ensure its success.
| Yours, truly, HORACE GREELEY.
Gen. Leslie Combs, Frankfort, KY.
| THE JAPANESE EMBAssY.-We have news of the
arrival of the steam frigate Niagara, having the
Japanese Embassy on board, at Hong Kong. She
reached there on the 22d of October, after pas.
sage of nearly twelve days from Batavia. All on
board were in good health. She was to leave on
the 30th for Yeddo, where she was expected to re-
main ten days, and would return to Hong Kong
about the LIST of December, to take on board the
American minister to China, Mr.. Ward, who would
proceed in her as far Alden, on his return to the
| United States. Mr.. Ward had paid visit to the
| Niagara, and was received with distinguished
honor. 1t was understood that the arrival OF
the Embassy at Yeddo, extraordinary demon
strstion of welcome was to be made by the ia