Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-08
From the Cincinnati Gazotte.l
The Com pronaise Measures,

khe Com psonalse Measures,
In response 70 many letters cfinqeiry,
We here republish the substance of all
she leading plans of Compromise which
have beenibruught before Congress-;
THE BORDER STATE COMPROMISE.
l. Recommending the repeal Of all
the Personal Liberty bills.
2. That the Fugitive Slave Law be
amended for the prevention of kidnap-
ping, and so as to provide for the equal
ization of the Commissioners fee, &c.
). That the Constitution be so amend
ed 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 dock yards, ar
senals, &C., nor in the District of Colum-
bia without the consent of Maryland
and the consent of the inhabitants OF
the District, nor without compensation
5. That Congress shall not interfere
with the inter State slave trade.
s, That there shall be perpetual
prohibition of the African slave trade
I. That the line Of 80 degrees 30
minutes shall be run through all the ex-
isting territory of the United States;
that in all north Of that line slavery
shall be prohibited. and that south cl
that line neither Congress nor the Ter
iritorial Legislature shall hereafter pass
any law abolishing, prohibiting, or in
any manner interfering with African
slavery; and that when any Territory
containing sufficient population tol
one member OF Congress in any area oi
10000 square miles shall apply for ad-
n,;ssion as State, it shall be admitted
with OF without slavery, as its constitu-
ton may determine.
Mr.. ErHERIDGE's RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Etheridge's proposition is as fol
lows:
First-Congress shall have no powe,
to regulate or control within the States
the relations established or recognized
by the law of any State respecting per
sons held to service or labor.
Second-Gorgress shall have no pow
er to interfere with or abolish slavery
in navy yards, arsenals, forts, or other
places ceded to the United States, or the
relations recognized by the laws of any
State within which such places are stu
ate. respecting persons held to service
Third Congress shall have no power
TO interfere with or abolish the relations
recognized by the laws of the District
ofColumbia respecting persons held q
service or labor, without the consent
of the States Of Maryland and Virginia,
and also the consent of the inhabitants
of the said District, and without making
just compensation IN. the premises.
Fourth-Congres shall have no powel
to prohibit the removal or transportation
/. from one State to another of persons
held to service or labor.
Eiftsa-Thc immigration or impor.
tation from abroad of persons held to
service or labor for life,er for term OF
years, or persons intended to be SO held
and carried into any of the States, is
perpdually prohibited, and Congress
shall pass all laws necessary to. make
said prohibition effective.
Sixth-No territory beyoud the pres
ent limits of the Territories of the
United States, shall hereafter be ac-
euired or annexed to the United States,
unless the same be done by the coeur-
rent vote of two-thirds Of both Houses
of Congress, or the same be acquired by
treaty by vote Of thirds Of the
Senate.
THE CRITTENDEN AND BIGLER coMPRo-
MISSES.
CriHendcn Compromise.
|. In all the territories now or here
after ACQUIRED north of thirtysix de-
gress and thirty minutes, slavery Or in
voluntary seryitude, except for the pun
ishrneut Of crime, is prohibited; while in
all the territory south of that latitude,
slavery is here recognized. as existing,
and shall not be interfered with by Con-
gress, but shall be protected as property
by all departments of the Territorial
Government during its continuance. All
the territory north or south Of said line,
within such boundaries as Congress may
prescribe, when it contains population
necessary for a member Of Congress,
with a republican form of government,
4 shall be admitted into the Union on an
equality with the original States, with
or without slavery, as the Constitution
of the State shall prescribe. .zss. !.
2. Congress shall have no power to
oholish slavery in the States permitting
slavery.
Il 8. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in the District OF Column
bia while it exists in Virginia and
MARYLAND, or either; nor shall Congress
i Mt any time prohibit the officers of the
Government or members of Congress,
whose duties require them to live In
the District of Columbia, bringing
slaves there, and. holding them as such.
4. Congress shall have no power to
hinder the transportation of slaves from
enc State to another, whether by land,
navigable rivers or sea.
S. Congress shall have power by law
to pay an owner who shall apply. the
full value for a fugitive slave in all cases
when the marshall is prevented from
discharging his duty by force or rescue
made after arrest. In all such cases
the owner'shall have power to sue the
county in which such violence or res
cue was made, and the county shall have
the right to sue the individuals who
committed the wrong, in the same man
ner as the owner could sue.
6. No further amendment or amend
ments shall affect the preceding articles,
and Congress shall never have power to
interfere with slavery in the States
where it is now permitted.
The last resolution declared that the