Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-31
The Comuromises
The Crittenden Compromise, as amend
ed by the Senate reads as follows:


vitude, except as punishment for crime, Is
prohibited while such Territory shall remain
! under Territorial Government. In all the
| Territory south of said line of latitude, sta
regV ofhe african race is hereby recognized
as ertsting, and shall not be interferad with
4by Congress, but shall be PROTECTED as PRO
PERTY By ell the departmen's Cf'the Territorial
! Government during its continuance"
The words hereafter acquired were put
into it by the democracy of the Senate,
and on this account more than any other
is this proposition Objectionable to the Re
publicans. Whoever will take a map of
America and mark the line of SO 30, will
see at glance that all territory hereafter
acquired must of necessity be converted
into Slave States, and thus give control Of
the United States Senate, if not Of the
whole government, to those slave States
as long as the Confederacy would exist.
1t has a squirting too at conquest, and if
adopted occasion would soon be found to
lead us into an embroi1meu9 with Mexico,
Central America, &c. The border States
proposition, reported by Judge Hale, has
a different reading, and looks moro ike an
equitable distribution. 1t proposes
/. Recommending the repeal of all the Per
sonal Liberty bills.
2. That the Fugitive Slave law be amende-
for the preventing Of kidnapping and so as
to provide for the equalization of the Com
missioner's fees, &c.
g. That the constitution be so amended as
to prohibit any interference with slavery in
any of the States where it now exists.
4. That Congress shall not abolish slavery
in the Southern dockyards, arsenals, &C., nor
in the District without the consent of the in.
habitants of the District, nor without COM
pensaton.
5. That Congress shall not interfere with
the inner slave trade.
6. That there shall be perpetual prohibi-
ton of the African slave trade.
I. That the line of 36 deg. 80 min, shall
be run through all the existing territory of
the United States; that in all north of that
line slavery shall be prohibited, and that
south of that line neither Congress nor the
territorial Legislature shall hereafter pass
any law abolishing, prohibiting or in any
manner interfering with African slavery, and
when any territory containing a sufficient pop
ulation for one member of Congress in an
area of 10000 square miles, shall apply for
admission as a State, it shall be admitted
with or without slavery, as its constitution
may determine,
At serenade given to Gen. CaRasEoa at
Philadelphia on Saturday evening, he made
one of his effective speeches, from which we
extract the following paragraphs:
"But you ask ME to speak of the Union
1t is in danger. Misguided men in the South
acting under imaginary wrongs, have con
trolled public opinion there against the Tn
ion. The calm, sensible, thinking and patri
otic men there are prevented from exercising
the influence which is due to their positions
for the public welfare. The mob spirit
reigns triumphant. Six States have declared
themselves out of the Union, and in several
of them armies have been organized and put
in the attitude of war. Our forts and our
arsenals have been seized and the public
property of the country has been forc;Av ta-
ken possession Of by men who set the Constr
tuition and laws of the country at defiance
To stay the progress of this rebellion,
and to preserve the integrity of the Border
Slave States, which have, as yet, maintained
their fidelity to the Union, something is re-
quired to be done on our part to strengthen
the power and the influence of the Union lov-
ing men Of these States. In Maryland, such
men as the heroic Hicks, the fearless Davis,
and the learned and patriotic Reyerdy John
son in Virginia, such spirits as W. G. Riyes,
Sherrard Clemens, John NJ. Bolts, James
Barbour, and others in Kentucky, such pa
triOts as Crittenden, Guthrie, Powell, Prem
tice, and their like; in Tennessee, the lion
hearted Andrew johnson, John Bell, Ether
idge, Nelson, and host Of others ; in North
Carolina, such as Morehead, Graham, Bad
ger, Gilmer, and many others like them in all
the Southern States, deserve and commend
themselves to our kindliest sympathes. The
conduct of these noble spirits appeals to US
for emulation of their own self sacrificing
spirit. Shall we, my follow citizena, be less
generous than they prove thenrsel yes to be?
Unless the Border Slave States adhere in
their integrity, the Union will be at an end
If we but afford these men ground to stand
upon, to maintain themselves in resisting the
mad spirit Of secession which surrounds
them, the integrity of those States will be
maintained and the Union be preserved
Shall Pennsylvania, herself border State
hesitate in this emergency to extend to them
her sympathy and her support in their ef-
forts TO save the Union?
81 am one of those who supported the
election, and mean TO sGstain the administra
ton of Mr.. Lincoln, cordially and faithfully,
upon the principles set down in the Chicago
platform. But l am willing to make any
reasonable concession, not involving vital
principle. to save this great country from an
archy and bloodshed, and to preserve the
proud position which it occupies before the
world. We may have material prosperity in
Northern Republic, but separation brings
with it the loss of all infueace upon the des-
TIMES of the world. 1t is not necessary to
take step backwards in supporting the res
olutions Of Mr.. Crittenden, which seou1 %
meet the full appreciation of the peop o.
this city, If it be amended So as not to ex a3l
to territory hereafter to be acnuired. a. to