, 1860-11-22

enforcement Of the Fugitive Slave Law
coupled with condition that cvcry failun
shall deyolye upon the State in which
occurs the duty Of making full compensa
ton to the claimant.
8. 4 concession that the Constitution al
thorizes the carrying Of slaves into tn
common territory, that the Territorial Leg
islatures have no power to interfere will
it, and that Congress has no right Of inter
vention except to enact such laws as ma,
be necessary for its full and complete pro
| lection.
4. A concession Of the right of transi
with slare property through, and Of tempo
rary soiourn in, the free States
Such is the basis Of settlement, so far d!
it has yet been developed, which Is, to b.
rendered 10 the Free States, provided tht
more moderate of the Slavclolding State:
suffer themselves to be inveigled into t1ls
scheme By the disunionists proper, a:
the sole condition on which the Union will
be permitted to stand. The cotton States
despite the Union element, will 60 into il
with seeming hca1tiness, because the disu.
nionists In these States have control Of the
political organizations and will carry the
day through them. The point Of difficulty
will be to entrap such states as Maryland,
Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee,
North Carolina aud Louisiana, into com
initial to il, to the extent Of adopting it as
I'LL ultimatum. It Is believed that the de-
vice is too shallow to succeed-that the
sentiment Of loyalty to the Onion is too
strong in those States to be overborne by a
tfaitorous endearor to subyert it-that the
commercial and socia1 advantages Of the
Union as it is, arc too highly appreciated
oy them to he hastily given up for the polit-
ical and commercial uncertainties Of Il
Southern confederacy based exclusively
upon the despotic idea, md surrounded on
all sides By antagonistic institutions. But
We shall sec.
II will be seen that, with the exception
Of 1he repeal Of the Personal Liberty bills
in certain Northern States, the points in
volved In the proposed basis Of settlement
are precisely those which were in issue
during the recent national canvass, and
against which the Free States have Just re-
corded IN unanimous verdict Not only
SO, but they form the precise issue which
broke the party in twain Mt Charleston, the
dissenting wing carrying with it lurge
proportion Of the strength Of all the border
anu several Of the Cotton states. To ask
from q victorious party the entire reversal
Of all the points for which it went into the
contest is, to say the least, q decidedly cool
proceeding. But it loses some of it, ici-
ness when it is understood that the con-
coctors Of this precious scheme have no
desire that the proposed ultimatum be ac-
cepted-hatit has been framed with special
reference to the end Of arousing the amour
p'ypre Of the border slaveholding States,
aad thus cnticing them into . movement
which they abhor, On the one hand, and Of
being peculiarly odious and unacceptable 10
the free States on the other-ttat its sole
end and aim is disunion, instead Of the
Of concord and ftaternal Unior.
An examination Of tile proposed ul-
'lmatum will also disclose the fact that
ut least two Of the conditions the
repeal Of Personal Liberty bills, and in
identification for fugitives-in no wise af-
iects the interests Of the actual Secession
States. No one Of these has ever lost a
negro through those Personal Liberty bills
nor have all Of them, together, ever lost a
half dozen negroes through the non~execu-
Lon Of the Fugitive Slave law. It is the
states which make NO disunion clamor-
Ll'e border slayeholding Statea-if any,
Elat hare suffered from these causes. This
fact affords additional proof if any were
needed, that disunion per q, and not the cx-
stence of any real grievance, is the impell-
ing motive with the Secessionists. Visions
of the re-opening Of the African slave trade,
of all abundant supply Of cheap negroes,
of Confederacy in which shareholders
institute the sole ruling class, and in
which the interests Of that class will be the
leading object Of governmeut-thesec con-
stitute the inspiration, these furnish the
r,o'iVes, and are the key to the present at-
Litude Of the Sccessionists. The border
States cannot, We think, full to discern the
acts We have pointed out, and that their in |
crcsts can only be protected By maintain- |
ng the Union intact. At all events, they
cannot be deluded into the belief that the
rec States will accede to the proposed ul-
lmatun1, or that they are prepared for my
hing but for n faithful administration Of |
'c Federal Government, in accordance
Tlth the theory Of its founders, and subject
o all the checks and balances which their
wisdom and patriotism provided.