Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-12-21

ccullhoia gooa "a all ttte people.
The only hope of these men is in their
ability to intimidatc the mass. of the
people, and induce them, through fear,
to reinstate the leaders who have been
so signally rebukcd by the popular
voice 1t is clearly manifest that these
repudiated leaders do not intend that
the country shall have peace unless they
can again reach the places from which
they have been driven. No moderation
no concessions, even-on the part of
the Republicans, will do anything to al
lay the storm. 1t is poioer these leaders
want, and if they cannot retain it under
the Constitution, the Constitution must
be destroyed. Like Milton's Devils,
they prefer to ''rule in hell, rather than
serge in Heaven. y
Gov. Ma gofiin's Prop osftton to Save the
Union.
Gov Masohiu has addressed the fol-
lowing circular letter to the Governors
of the Slave States;
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
-s% Frankfort, Dec. o 1850
Entertaining the opinion that some
movement should be Instituted at the
earliest possible moment to arrest the.
progress Of events which seem to be
rapidly hurrying the Government of
the Union to dismemberment, as an ini-
tiatory step, have, with great dihidence
concluded to submit to the Governors
of the Slave States series of PROPOSE:
l'tions, and ask their counsel and CO. ope-
ration in bringing about a settlement
! upon them as a basis Should the
! propositions be approved, they can be
submitted to the assembling Legisla-
lures and Conventions of the Slave
States, and Convention of all of said
]. States, or of those only approving, be
called to pass upon them, and ask a
general Convention of all the States of
the Union that may be disposed to meet
us on. this basis for full conference
| The present good to be accomplished
! would be to arrest the secession move
,mcnt, until the question as to whether
/ the Union can be preserved upon fair
and honorable terms, can be fully tested
I IF there be basis for the adjustment
of sour difficulties within the Union,
nothing should be left undone in order
to its development. To this end it
] seems to me there should be confer
ence of the States in some form, and it
appears to me the form above suggested
would be most effective. l, therefore,
] as the Governor of State having as
deep stake in the perpetuity Of the
Union, and at the same time as much
| solicitude for the maintenance of the
institution of slavery as any other,
would respectfully beg leave to submit
for your consideration the following
outline of propositions:
! 1st. Repeal by an amendment of the
! Constitution of the United States, all
laws in the Free States in any degree
multiplying or obstructing the execution
of the Fugitive Slave Law.
I'd. Amendment to said law to enforce
its thorough execution in ali the Free
States, providing compensation to the
owner of the slave from the State which
fails to deliver him up under the re-
quirements of the law, or throws OBJ
structions in the way of his recovery.
3d. The passage of a law by Congress,
compelling the Governors of Free States
to return fugitivcs from justice, indicted
by grand jury in another State, for
stealing or enticing away slave.
u IL,
to divide all the territories now belong
ing to the United States or hereafter to
be acquired, between the Free and the
Slave States, say upon the line of the
37th degree of North latitude-all
North of that line to come into the
Union with requisite population as Free
State, and all South of the sameto come
in as Slave Ststes. rs
/ 9Th. To amend the Constitution so as
to guarantee forever to all the States
4 the free navigation Of the Mississippi
River.
| 9Th. To alter the Constitution SO as
to give the South the power, say in the
United States Senate, to protect itself
from unconstitutional and oppressive
legislation upon the subject of slavery
Respectfully, your ob't servant.
B. MAGOFFIN.
AS specimen Of the more moderate
demands Of the South, we publish the
foregoing circular of the Governor of
Kentucky to the Governors of the other
Slave States. It will be seen that Ken
lucky is not ready as yet to go out of
the Union, but proposes first to make
these very modest demands, and if they
are not complied with, then the Union
is to be dissolved at once. It will be
seen that the Governor does not pretend
that the General Government or any of
the Free States, either has, or proposes
to violate the Constitution. The o6jec-
tons lie against the Consultation itsel T.
And this is the real difficulty. These
slave holding disunionists have there
real quarrel with the Constitution, and
their clamor and false charges against
the North, are transparent shams.-
They have the Supreme Court and both
houses of Congress, so that there is no
chance of violating the Constitution by
the Republicans even if they were dis
posed to do SO. But Governor Magofin
distinctly puts it upon the ground that
they must have the Constitution itself
changed as condition of remaining in
the Union. And such changes! Will
you look at his proposition? And this,
be it remembered, is not the raving of
South Carolina. is the proposition
of Union loving Kentucky, offered as a