The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-12-26

The following proposition, was submitted to
the Senate as a compromise by Senator Crit
tenden.
WHEREAS, alarming discussions have arisen
between the Northern and Southern States, as
to their rights on the common Territory of the
United States, and it is eminently desirable
and proper that these dissensieRs be settled by
Constitutional provisions which give equal JUS
tice to all sections, and thereby restore peace,
therefore,
Resoloed-by the Senate and House of
Representatives, that the following article be
proposed and submitted as an amendment to
the Constitution, which shall be valid as part
of the Constitution when ratified by the con-
ventions of three-fourths Of the people of the
States:
First-In all the territory now or hereafter
acquired north of 36 dogs. 80 minutes, slavery
or Involuntary servitude, except for punish
ment of crime, is prohibited, while in all the
territory south Of that, slavery is hereby rec
ognized as existing, and shall not be interfered
with by Congress, but shall be protected as
property by all the departments of the terri
torial government, during its continuance.
All the territory North or South of said line
within said boundaries, as Congress may pre-
scribe, when it contains a population necessary
for a member of Congress with a republican
form of government, shall be admitted into
the Union on an equality with the original
States, with or without slavery, as the Constr
tuition of the State shall prescribe.
Second-Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in the States permitting STA
very.
Third-Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia
while it exists in Virginia and Maryland, or
either. nor shall Congress at any time pro-
hibit the officers of the Government, or mem
beers of Congress, whose duties require them
to live in the District of Columbia, from
bringing slaves there and holding them as
such.
Fourth Congress shall have no powers to
hinder the transportation of slaves from one
State to another, whether by land, navigable
rivers or by sea.
Fifth-Congress shall have power, by law,
to pay an owner who shall apply the full value
for a fugitive slave in all cases where the Mar
shall is prevented from discharging his duty by
force or rescue made after arrest. In all such
cases the owner shall have power to sue the
county in which the violence or rescue was
made, and the county shall have the right
to sue the individuals who committed the
wrong, in the same manner as the owner could
sue.
9Th. No future amendment OF amendments
shall affect the preceding articles, and Con
gress shall never have power to Interfere with
slavery in the States where it is now permitted
The - resolution declares that the south
ern States have a right to the faithful execu-
ton of the laws for the recovery OF slaves,
and such laws ought not to be repealed OF
modified so as to impair their efficiency; all
laws in conflict with the fugitive slave law 1t
shall not be deemed improper for Congress to
ask the repeal of; the fugitive slave law ought
to be so altered as to make the fee of the Com
missioner equal, whether he decides for OIL
against the claimant; and the clause authorizing
the person holding the warrant to summon a
posse comitatus. to be so as to restrict 1t to
cases where violence or rescne is attempted.
The laws for the suppression OF the Atrl
can slave trade ought to be effectually executed
A FAcr.-A mattter-of-fact editor speaking
of the bad literature of the present day says
You may read many of the crack weeklies
for a year and scarcely ind a fact which viii
make you wiser or better-al fiction, romance
lies-velvct feathers-little 6ends equipped In
smiles and crinoline, big scoundrels in epau
| let's, with a moustache, turning the hearts Of
simpering maidens; the everyday history Of
life ingeniously belied and genteelly out
stretched and yet always ends beautifully
Hundreds of persons who think they can't at
ford to take their home paper in the course o.
a year spend three times that amount in trash
re- Hon. John BELL, of Tenn, has writ
ten a long letter on political matters. He il
tor adjusting the grievance of the South ~
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