The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-12

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ties seek to effect changes With a view of heading
! off the next Administration.
VIM. NJ. Stewart, of Washoe, has written to
! Representative Burch, of California and enclosed
| him the caption of memorial which is being ex-
tensivey signed by the citizens of Nevada Terrific.
| ry praying the organization of that Territory
| Mr.. Stewart is a son in-law of Ex-Governor H. S..
Foote and a lawyer of ability. He saws that Neva.
da is unsuited to slavery, but this makes no differ
ence to the people, who will have speedily gov
ernment to protect their increasing interests from
Mormon rule. The Governor of California recon-
| mends an extension of the Eastern boundary over
| Washoe. The House Territorial Committee was
to-day, at the instance Of Mr.. Burch instructed to
| report on the subject.
| Departure ofthe President Elect from Spring
field en- route for Washington.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 1.-THE President elect, Mr..
Lincoln, started this morning on his journey to
the capitol. He left here ats o'clock after making
few brief farewell remarks to the or ovid Assem-.
bed at the depot He made no alluson to political
matters.
President-Elect Lincoln at Indianapolis
His Reception and Address to the People.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-THE approach of the
train bearing the President elect and his party was
announced by firing a salute of thirty four guns
The President elect received at the depot bv
Governor Morton and escorted in a carriage drawn
by four white horses. 4 large procession was
formed and great enthusiasm manifested along the
line of march.
Mr.. Lincoln stood erect in his carriage, acknow-
Lodging the welcome of surrounding thousands.
On reaching the Richard Bates House the process
sion halted, and Mr.. Lincoln was escorted to the
balcony, where he addressed the throng of people
as follows:
He said he came here to thank them for the sup
port given by Indiana to the true and just cause.
with temper and hot blood. Let US not misunder-
stand their meaning, nor the meaning of those who
use them. Let us get their meaning from the men
who deprecate the things they would represent, by
their use.
What is the meaning of these words? Would
marching army into South Carolina with hostile
intent be an invasion? | think it would, and it
would be coercion also, if South Carolina was
forced to submit. But if the United States should
merely hold and retake its own forts, collect duties
or withhold mails where habitually violated
would any or all of these things be invasion or co,
ercion?
Do professional Union-lovers, when they resolve
to resist coercion, understand such things on the
part Of the United States to be coercion or inva-
sion? If they do, their idea of preserving the
Union is exceedingly thin and airy. In their view
the Union as family relation would seem to be no
d
aent to be maintained by passional attachment.
Now, in what consists the special sacredness of
State? lspeak not of the position assigned to
State in the Union by the Constitution for by that
bond we all recognize that position. However, a
State cannot carry out a county if the State and
county possess equals in territory and inhabitants
In what as matter of principle, is State better
| than a county
Would an exchange of names be an exchange of
| rights upon that principle? Upon what rightfu
! principle may State, being not more than one
fifth part of nation in soil and population, break
up nation and then larger division of it.
self? What mysterious right to play the tyrant is
conferred district of country with its people
| by merely calling it State?
| Mr.. Lincoln, in conclusion, said he was not as
| serting anything, but merely asking questions for
| them to consider and decide, in their own minds
| what was right and what was wrong.
1.-THE foregoing report was received at 2 o'clock
! this A. NJ, during the heavy rain storm, which
rendered the working of the telegraph so imperfect
as to make the despatch nearly uninteiligibIe,
| which may account for the obscurity of some of
| the paragraphs. .-Rcporter.
! VIRGINIA MEDIATION COMMISSIONER TO TIRE Seeding
| STATES.
RrCHMoND, Feb. 1l.-Governor Letcher trans
mtted to the Legislature to day communication
from Judge Robertson, Commissioner to the seced-
| ing States, dated Montgomery, Feb. 3d. in which
he says the Governor of Georgia accepts the medi-
alton of Virginia, and gives assurance that the
authorities of Georgia will abstain during the Pc
| riod contemplated from all acts that would pro-
duce collision of arms with the General Govern
ment. The Commissioner also states his belief that
the Governor of Alabama will give favorable an
swer, and that South Carolina will conform her
course to the action or recommendation of the
Southern Confederation.
1t ordered to be printed.
RALEIGH, Feb. 1l.-The Legislature is busiy en-
gagged in despatching business.
The counties are choosing candidates for the
State Convention Nearly every county will have
them, on both sides. In Wake county, the Union
ticket is, Messrs. Badger, Holden and Busbee.
The Legislature will probably adjourn next week.
Several Railroad bills have been passed, making
| State appropriations.
| The Revenue bill now under consideration, low
ers the tax On many articles.
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The proceedings of this
body still conducted under the seal of secrecy
but learn that the select committee has not vet
made report, nor has any definite action been
taken by that committee. Yesterday, Mr.. Dudley
Field, of New York, and Mr.. Crowninshied, of
Massachusetts,, took their seats as members of the
same. 1t is stated that the latter desired first to
get record OF the grievances complained of by
the South. He is reported to have made passion
ate address, and to have interfered with the ut
most harmony and good feeling which had previ-
ousy marked the deliberations of the committee
Mr. Guthrie, Judge Rutfin, and others spoke in
| reply, the latter taking eminently conservative
| ground and eliciting the decided appreciation of
| the members from Ohio, Indiana, and other bor-
| der States, slave and free. Judge White, (the
member from Pennsylvania hear from relia-
BILE sources, made stirring speech, advising concil-
latlon and speedy and amicable adjustment of the
| present difficulties.
| The Crittenden and other measures OF compro-
mise proposed by Congress have been under dis
| cussion, and several new methods of adjustment
have been proposed-one by Mr.. Guthrie and an.
other by Mr.. Reverdy Johnson-but it is not likely
that any result can be attained for several days,
| though it is extremely probable, things now
| look, that it will end favorably.
THE RESOLUTIONS OFFERED IN TIE PEACE CONGRESS-
| The following the resolutions offered in the
Peace Congress by Hon. James Guthrie:
ARTICLE That all the territory the United States
shall be divided by line from east to west the paraL
lei of sc degrees 30 minutes north latitude and in all
territory north of that ne involuntary servude except
in punishment of crime, is prohibited whilst shall be-
long to the United States, be under Territorial
ernment and in all territory south of said line involun
tary servtude IS recognized as it exists in the Southern
States of the Union whilst such territory shall belong to
the United States, be under Territorial Government
and neither Congress the Territorial Government shall
have to hinder prevent emigrants said
tory from taking with them persons held to labor
voluntary service according the laws and usages
the State from which such persons may be TAKEN
impair the right arising out of said relations and be
subject to judicial cognizance the United States Courts
of such Territory shall have jurisdiction thereof, and
those rights shall be protected by the courts and all the
departments of the Territorial Government under or
cordng to the laws of the State from which the
| bound such service have been taken and when
any territory north south of said line, within such
boundary Congress may prescribe shall contain popu
ation required for member of Congress, according
the then Federal ratio of representation of the people OF the
United States, it may if its form of Government be
publican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States with without tary
vitude or labor the Constitution of such State
may provide.
ART. 2. That territory shall hereafter be acquired by
the United States without the of a majority
lne and also majority Of the Senators south of said
ne but treaty by which territory shall be acquired
shall be ratified without the twohirls' vote of the Sena.
tors, as required by the Constitution.
ART. 5. That the Constitution, and no amendment
thereof shall be construed to give Congress power
the United States the relation established recognized
by the laws thereof touching bound labor
involuntary service therein interfere with abol-
sh involuntary service in the District Columbia with
out the consent Of Maryland and Virginia the owners
or without making the owners who do consent pre-
viousy full compensation; the power to interfere
with abolish inv vountary service in places under Ahe
exclusive jurisdiction of the United States within those
recognized the power to prohibit the removal or
transportation of persons held to labor Involuntary SER
vice in State Territory of the United States any
other State or Territory thereof where is established
recognized nor to authorize specific tax higher
rate of taxes persons bound labor than land in
proportion to value to authorize any of the African
their descendants to become citizens
else the right of suffrage in the choice of Federal officers
ART l. That hereafter the paragraph of the Fourth
tce of the Constitution shall be construed prevent
of the States by appropriate legislation and through
the action of their judicial and ministerial officers from
enforcing the delivery of ugitives from labor from
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