The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-03-21
Adjustment Measures--Eetfer
from Hon. gas. r. Hale.
WASHINGTON, Feb. z, IS
DIToR OF Potter JOURNAL:

EDITOR OF POTTER JOURNAL:
Sir-The article in your last paper
under the head of g Border State Propo-
sitions not being quite accurate in its
statement of the seventh proposition. the
one relfting to Territories. | wish TO
correct it, aud while on the subject To
say a very few words respecting the
others. The article relating 70 the ex,
istiug Territories as agreed to by me aud
reported to the Republican caucus were
as follows:
I. That the line Of So 30 shall
be run through all the existing Ter
%ritories of the United States, that IN all
north Of that liue, Slavery shah be forev.
err prohibited. and south of that line nei-
Their Congress nor a Territorial legislature
shall hereafter pass any law either fer or
against Slavery, a4d when any territory
south Of that line containing a sufficient
population for one mnnber Of Congress
on an area of 10000 square miles shall
apply for admission as Il State, it shall be
admitted with or without Slavery, az It's
constitution may determine.
With this correction the propositions
which are to be regarded as the basis Of
a settlement arc as follows
l. Recommending the repeal of all the Per-
sonal Liberty bills
2. That the Fugitive Slave law be amended
for the preventing Of kidnapping, and so AS to
provide for the equalization OF the Comm S
soners' fec, &C.
3. That the Constitution be so amended as
to prohibit any Interference with slavery III
any of the States where it now exists.
4. That Congress shall not abolish slavery
in the Southern dockyards, a~rsenals, &c nor
in the District of Columbia without the con-
sent Of Maryland and the consent OF the in
habitauts Of the District, nor without COM
pensation.
5. That Congress shall not interfere with
the interstate slave trade.
8. That there shall be a perpetual prohibit
ton of the African slave trade.
1.-THE It'll proposition rs corrected by Mr..
Hale, is given above -En.J
The first Two propositions may be re-
garded substantially as one. The FngI-
tive Slave law being justly regarded as
afford,ng facilities for kidnapping free
,n,.o,s AID taling them INFO slavery.
MANY States believed it necessary to pass
I,ws f,r ,La nrnver,i,n nf mis- crime
c,,1ad ,crsnrai liberty hills When the
fugitive slave law hall be altered so as
TO prevent the very evil taaf personal lib
nr,rr h,Il. u.,e ;r,enlrd tn remedy. then
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