Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-01

Judge Douglas, Mr.. Guthrie, MIR. Rivers,
Governor Hicks, and others, urgently ap-
pealed to Mr.. Lincoln to interpose for set
Element. Their interview continued several
hours.
The Commissioners from the Southern
Conference are expected to arrive here before
the close of the week; they are accredited to
the incoming Administration, and pending
their efforts to negotiate nothing will be done
to disturb the public peace
The select committee of five on the Presi'
dents course in receiving the commissioners
ofSouth Carolina reported to-day. The ma
jority report is signed by Davis, Howard and
Reynolds. The committee regard the meas
ure itself, as we'll as the manner in which
it was treated by the President, rs. among
the most remarkable events of the extraordi-
nary times in which we live. The commit.
tee cannot perceive on what principle the
President assumed to entertain or hold
official communication with the representa-.
tives of South Carolina, for it seemed OBJ
vious enough that under the principles an
nounced in his annual message, the COM
missioners could be regarded in no other
light than as engaged in a revolutionary
effort to subvert the Government, and it would
have been the duty of the executive to en-.
force the law against any individuals
known or suspected of completely in any
movement of reasonable character. They
fail to see any circumstances justifying the
President in entertaining diplomatic inter-
course with South Carolina, except on the
assumption that South Carolina was an indie
pendent power, and the President, by accord
ing them an official reply, Involved to some
extent recognition of the assumed position
of the rebellious States
Tho following is an abstr act of the reso.
lutions of the Committee of Thirty. three +:
| Resofred, That in the opinion Of the com
mittee, the existing discomfort among the
Southern people aud hostility among them
to tho Federal Government, are greatly te
be regretted, and whether such are without
just cause or not, any reasonable constitu
tional remedies and additional specific ant
etfectual guarantees Of their peculiar rights
and interests, as recognized by the Consti
tuition, necessary to preserve the peace O.
the country, and the perpetuity Of tn
Union, should be promptly and cheerful.
granted.
| Resolved, by the Senate and House, Tha
ell attempts If Legislature to obstruct tn
recovery of fugitives from service, are il
dcrogation of the Constitution, inconsisten
with the good neighborhood that SHOULD
f prevail among the States, and daDgerou
5 to the peace of the Union.
3 Resolved, That the several States be re
, quested to cause their statutes to be revised
with the view of ascertaining if any con
flict tended to embarrass the execution o
the laws for the delivery of persons held tt
( labor by the laws of any States ESCAPING
. therefrom, and earnestly request that suc
. enactments be forthwith repealed, as requir
ed by due regard for the peace Of tn
y public; and that the President be requests
y to communicate these resolutions to tn
= Governors of the several States, requestin
that they be laid before the Legislature
, Thereof.
/ Resolred, That we recognize slavery q
i now existing in fifteen States by the usage
4 and laws of those States and recognize n
: thority, legal or otherwise, outside suc'
I States, to interfere with slaves in disregar
!. of the rights Of the owners and of the peac
: of society.
Resolved, That we recognize the justic
n and propriety of faithful execution of tn
y Constitution and laws made in pursuanc
' thereof on the subject of fugitive slaves, an
% discountenance all mobs or hindrances to tn
l. execution of such law; and the citizens
r each State shall be entitled to all the priv
eles and immunities of citizens in the se1
eral States
# Resolved, That we recognize no such con
flicting elements in its composition as stuff
Gent cause, from any source, for dissolutio
of this Governments; that we are not sen
e here to destroy but sustain and harmonic
J.. the institutions of the country, and see equs
J. justice done to all parts, and to perpetuate it
3 existence on terms of equality and justic
d to all.
e Resolred, That the faithful observance OF
), the part of all the States of all Constitutions
d obligations to each other, and to the Genera
Q Government is essential to the peace of tn
country.
Resoloed, That it is the duty of the Fed
eral Government to enforce the Federal laws
protect Federal property, and preserve tn
Union Of the States.
Resolued, That each State is requested t.
revise its statute, and, if necessary, 81
amend it as to secure, without legislation BY
, Congress, the right of transit to citizens o
other States travelling therein.
RESOLVED, That each State is respectfully
requested to enact snch laws as will prevent
and punish any attempt whatever in sucl
States to set on foot the lawless invasion O
any other State or Territory.
Resolcea, That the President be requested
to transmit the foregoing to the Governors
with request to communicate them to Their
respective Legislatures.