The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-02-13
No. 27
Communicated.
Suggestions Of comnromise.

the United States, | expressed my views through a
Texas paper IN plan OF compromise between the free
and slave States These views are set forth subsan-
tally in the Critteuden resolutions With two material
exceptions wherein the honorable senator's iferfrom
mine. These two propositions of his | think The south
cannot submit to with Justice and honor to herself
! In consequence OF general appreciation aud numer-
Gus solicitations tor publication OF my view while IL
! Texas, consented; and for the same reasons now
prepare them for public expression through vour
journal, should you think them worthy
First ThatalI southern aggreved States should
meet by delegates in convention and set forth plainly
and unequivocaby their grievances, through the ag-
gressIye legislation and ether and doings Of tie
northern States upon the domestic institutions Of the
south, which right is, and ever has been, clearly
guaranteed TO them in the constitution, by which, and
for the mutual benefit and for more competent pretcc
ion against foreign invasion, (not enc Etate against
another we become confederated government
Thus the civilized worldnight see the justice Of our
cause and complaint against the aggresss sister States
Second let oil the States, north south Of Mason
DlXon8 line, tree slave who have kept the federal
compact sacred and nyolae declare themselves the
proper and original government and that the federal
officers In the territory Of said States are the only le
gay authorised federal officers Of this governments and
that all these States manning themiwhch have legis
lated themselves out Of the Union by personal liberty
bills, or have otherwise violated the constitutions be
declared as aliens to this federal compact by their own
acts and therefore, haye legal rights nor privileges
IN this government nor cannot have long they
sttution of the conle3eracg
/ Third. That Abe Lincoln who was chiefly elected
president by those States which had previously egated
themselves out OF the Union though elected according
to the forms prescribed by the constitution Of those
States which vet remain in the Union according to the
compact is not therefore the legal president of these
United States Of America any than if certian
number Of States or Kingdoms IN Europe or South
America, should have elected president according
the provisions Of constitution and then send him
I +..sya Ei,.iFf f..4-1r H.
Lincoln designs and claims the right and pre-
side over Us because his people elected him according
4 to our laws.
Fourth. The south bY rhe first law of nature, self
protection, cannot allow Lincoln and his party to pre-
side over them, without thorough recantation by him
and his party Of the avoed objects for which lie was
elected, namely eXterpaton Of African slavery and
then, proper guarantees that they viii protect nvolae
all the rights guaranteed to the citizen in his slave pop
erty as in other property
! Therefore, fer the peace harmony prosperity and
perpetuity e this great and heretofore Ike most happy
and prosperous people on the globe let the aggrieved
States propose to the aggressng States by general
venton the following amendments to the constitution
Proposition lst. We the people Of The slavholding
States propose 10 the nonsayehodiHg States for the
mutual interests of both sections Of the Union in order
that the subject Of slavery shall never peace
and prosperity again
First. That the parallel of SO deg. 80 min north
be revival Of and extension of the compromise line
to the Pacific ocean and that all territories and States
north Of said sne may be free SOIL at the option
Of the people, embracing all territories now, may
in future be acquired, on the American continent
And all territories that is now or my be acquired on
the con aent Of North America, south Of this line, to
the sthmus of Panama, and the island OF Cuba if ae
quired shall and forever be slave territory and
law laws shall be passed either in State territory
infringing the right Of slave property All rights
shall be guaranteed to the holder by the general gov
ernmen by the State and territory laws as in any other
| property.
Second Any person wishing to.pass through a non
savehoding State territory by land For water. shall
have the ght Of transit protected by the law of the
State through which he is passing and by the federal
government in the right Of his property.
And shall have the right Of sojourning in any free
State in the Union with bis slave not exceeding twelve
months without mpalrng bis right to said property.
Third Any slave escaping into free State, and the
same being known a runaway sHse to any officer
of the State from the highest 20 the lowest grade and
the said runaway being within the power Of apprehen
sion by said officer, and known to him for ten DAYS
and he fails to aPprehend said runaway in days,
with a view to deliver him in reasonable time to a
sheriff Of sareholdine county in q sayehoding
State the State in which sid delinquent officer resides
shall pay, proof o. such official delinquency one
thousand dollars 70 the owner Of said slave recoverable
under the jurisdiction OF the federal United States
district court either And every person who shall
seek to prevent recovery of runaway slave, shall
pay to the OF said slave five hundred dollars
and be subject to imprisonment less than twelve
MONTHS to come under the jurisdiction of the aforesaid
courts.
Fourth. Any officer OF private citizen delivering q
runaway slave 70 a sheriff Of any county in a slave
State the treasurer OF said county shall pay the officer
or private citizen just and adequate compensation for
the faithful observance of the law And the owner Of
the slave on receiving him shall refund lis money to
the county treasurer
Fifth The question Of sayerg shall n5yer be dis
cussed in congress in any manner shape or form.
Asregards this compromise line passing through the
southern part Of California let her, in the spirit Of
compromise yield this to the south the south in the
above proposals giving the north eght-nnths Of
the public domain
sixth. We. tie people u the slavehoding States.
10th part with sister States Of the north whose
citizens are oir brothers and sisters whose patriotic
fathers fought With our patriotic fathers in de
fence againsta common enemy, for common liberty
which liberty we aveiuhefited from orr common ia
theirs, who beGUeatAad to u6 common c0nstituUop
framed BY then wisdom, indicted 5Y their Patriotism
and byir have secured tie richest baan Of freedom
for cghty-iye years in the enjoyment Of which, We
have become powerful nation, decidedly the most hap
py and prosperous aud scarcely second in power and
wisdom to any nation Gu the globe all Of which affords
conclusive evidence that the constitution under which
we have lived, the laws by which have been ruled
our domestic institutions BY which We have Iaaryt
ouy prospered have been approved BY the God Of ma
tious.
Butnow in an eyl huua under the inference Of sonc
evil genius we seetbis heaven favored nation the land
Of the free and the home Of the brave, become the
land Of contention and strife the nation heavily threat
ened with the most awful calamity that befa i
ton, internal and hloodshed. Surely the nation
has snHed surely we have departed from the footsteps
Of our ancestors we should not have been so sud
denly deserted by the Lerd of our fathers Let us en-
qure at whose door The sin lieth and put it from us
that Gods wrath may be agersG from the nation, and
the people perish not
What were the footsteps of our father whom thc
God of justice led to victory in war, and unparalleled