New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-14

The amendments we therefore recommend to you, ia
the representative Of NcwYork in the Committee Of
States, az follows:
]. The Territorial question in our view Of the exit
ing diveniy Of views, and the necessity OF practi-
cable comp onse on that subject would be wisely sell
tied by return to tina, which even FROM period loag
anterior 10 the date of the Missouri Compromise was
the fair ard sagacOus policy Of the fathers, namey-s
climatic partition, by securing to the South this right
Of unno1csted immigration into and settlement in the
Territories south OF the latitude IS 30 during the pc
Rod of Territorial minority, with the same right to all
necessary protection TO their accustomed property
which may lie enjoyed by Northern immigrants in re-
gard to their various descriptions of property; and
with full night to the people Of each Territory to de-
ernine tLeir permanent policy in regard to Slavery
ard the Degro the formation of their State Con-
stitution for admission into the Union.
9 The Federal jurisdiction local spots will the
Statee, such forts arsenas, and Interstate
commerce, should be declared not capable Of being ap
flied TO any interference With the lawful right of prop
ey recognized by the States locally concerned and
that simultaneously with this guarantee to the South
in regard 10 Interstate commerce the revival of the
African slhy e-trade should be prohibited.
3 lnafmuch as the Constitution in its wise dstribu
ton Of the different kinds of representations intended
to lie embodied in the three great branches Of the es
lative and Executive power-the Senate the House OF
Representatives, and tie Preeident-llss made the
first the representative of the equal State soye-
reignes the second that Of the people in their repre-
sentative local distrcs and the third that OF the whole
aggregate people Of the whole Union, the mode Of
eleclfR President 10 De mOuncu 30 10
the object q his being the representative of the
true majority Of the whole, and not that Of minority,
which NAV happen to be the local majority Of u
single section. With this view the single electoral
district system for the election of The Presidential
Electors ought to be adopted, with two Electors at
large for each State a. nj present provision being
made for second election between the two highest
candidates, in the even, Of no candidate having
ceived the requisite majority on the first vote
4. Although not directly connected with the conro-
versy which has resulted in the present crisis think
that provision for the Ron-egibility of Presidents
hereafter elected would be acceptable to the general
opinion Of the country and be highly beneficial in iis
Influence upon the administrative action of the tx
ecutive.
In addition to the foregoing proposed amendments Of
the Constitution Of the United States we think that at
the present time very perncious source OF reciprocal
irritation between the two sections OF the country
would be removed if certain amendments were adopted
in the existing legislation In regard to the rendition of
fugitive slaves. On the part Of Congress, we think
that the Federal law ought to provide that an alleged
fugitive who may not admit the right OF his claimant
shoud he delivered over not TO the immediate posses
sion of such claimant but to the Marshal of the Dis
tIiot from which be may be alleged to have escaped
there to receive a full and deliberate trial of the fact 10
issue and that in the event Of his unlawful rescue the
State or the county should be liable to the claimant
for his full value On the part of the States which
have parsed laws designed for the obstruction Of the
rendition of such fugtives, all such laws ought to be
reVealed or amended into conformity with the solemn
faith pighted in the Constitution by each State TO all
the rest and we are convinced that such repeal or
amendment would promptly follow the adoption Of the
above proposed modification Of the existing Fcderallaw
JOHN CnCHRANE GEORGE BRIGGS
WILLIAM y. MACLAY. THOS. J. BARR.
DANIEL H. SlChLES, h. =. CLARh