Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-09

as persons committing other crimes. and that
the laws of The State from which such persons
flee shall be the test of eriminality.
4. That Congress shalt pass efficient laws
for the punishment of all persons in any OF the
States who shall in any manner aid and abet
invasion or instruction IN any other State, or
commit any other acts against the law Of ma
tons. tending to disturb the tranquility OF the
people or government of any O-her State.
s.. That fugitive slaves shall be surrendered
under the provisions Of the fugitive slave act OF
1856, without being entitled to a writ of habeas
corpus, of trial by jury, or other similar obstrue-
tons of legislation in the States to which he
may flee.
6. That no law shall ever be passed in re-
lation TO African slavery in the States or Terri
tories, or elsewhere in the United States, with
out the consent ola majority Of the senators and
representatives of the slaveholding States.
Z. That none of these provisions, nor any
other provisions of the Constitution in relation
to slavery. Except the African slave trade
shall ever be altered except by the consent Of
each and all of the State in which slavery ex-
lists.
Mr.. Toombs, before leaving his home for
Washington, in a letter to the Danburg Com
mittee uses this language: at (the Legislature
of Georgia. proposes to resist wrongs at the
time, and in the manner best calculated to Oh
tain REDRESS" Again he says: "a reasonable
aud eonvenienttime should be allowed. within
which our wrongs might be redressed 10y the
wrong doers'' before the slave States go out OF
the Union. There is but one mode" SAYS Mr.
Toombs, by which To remedy the evils com
plaieI OF, in the Union, this mode is by amend
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The amendments of the Constitution should be
such as could neither be eyaded or resisted. by
the abolition States, and should not rest for
their efficacy upon the oaths Of aboliuonists; no
oaths can bind them" And after stating the
two modes in which the Constitution can be
amended, he concludes as follows:
Thus you perceive the road is plain; it is
easily tested; you can here find n test which
ought 10 satisfy every honest resistance man
in Georgia. Do this: Offer in Congress such
amendments ofthe Constitution a. will givey ou
full aud ample security for your wrongs; then it
the Black Republican party will vote for the
amendments, or even a majority Of them, in
good faith, they can be easily carried through
Congress: then | think it would be reasonable
and ia r To postpone action until the Legisla-
lures OF the Northern States could be conven-
ieRtly called together for definite action on the
amendments. Ii they intend to stop THIS war
on your rights and your property, they will
adopt such amendments at once in Cong ess:
if they will not do this, you ought not 20 delay
an hour after the Adj of March 10 seeede from
the Union. This Is the constitutional and effrc
tual ultimatum, mea"s something. and can be
tested. at once. This will be putting planks
where they are gooG for something, i: they are
the right kind Of planks; but cutting plans IN
your Georgia Platform is putting them where
our experience teaches US they are powericss for
good, and only subjects Us to the gibes and
jeers Of our enemies; a cart load of new planks
in the Georgia Platform will not redress one
wrong nor protect one right of the people of
Georgia. Demand additional constitutional
securities from your confederates, and if they
are refused, confederate with such of them rs
are willing to grant them, or defend them your
selves.
am truly your friend and fellow citizen,
R. T0OMBS.
SION after writing this letter, he came to
Washington and offered the resolutions above
quoted.
Mr. Handy, of Mississippi, in a speech to the
of Baltimore, took substa ntially the
same grounds. There are Democrats in the
States who are willing to grant all of the
of Slavery, and if that spirit prevails,
shall be land of Slavery, and not of free
ION.
There is a rumor that a conspiracy is on foot
o prevent by force, the Inauguration Of Lincoln.
The people of the free States should he prepared
ar the emergency, ifsueh a thing should be at
empted; to be forewarned. is 10 be forearmed.-
The people or States must move, for, the govern
nent is in communion with the conspirators, as
t would appear The Government is ordering
rms South, and refuses to re %enforce the Forts
It Charleston. The slave States are arming
md preparing for war of some sort. l think
here is too much good sense in the people OF
slav~eholding States to attempt by armed
'orce. to prevent the Inauguration of Lincoln =
Still I give rumors as they transpire. The sure
st way to prevent such All event is to be prepar
ID to meet it, if unfortunately it should be
orced upon us. South Carolina is in open re
,ellion and the President issues no proclamation