The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-01-10
THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN.

THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN.
The Committee of thirteen sat three
hours to-day, and reached one important
result. 1t has bees constantly charged
by the South, and was repeated in Mr..
Nicholson $ speech to-day. tha, the grow
ing power of the Republican party
threatened amendments Of the Cunstitu
tion by which their rights in the Stats
would be impaired, if not destroyed. To
m ct this difficulty the Republicans con
fcrred together, and submitted the fol
lowing propositions through Mr. Sew
ard, though they were drawn by Messrs.
| Grimes and Collamer:
First: No amendment shall be made
to the Constitution which will authorize
or give to Congress any power to abolish
or interfere in any State with the doues
tic institutions thereof, including that
of persons held to service or labor bv the
laws of such State
This was carried by the following vote:
IEAs-Messrs. Powell, Hunter. Crit
tenden, Seward, Douglas, Collamer,
Wade, Bigler, Rice, Dovlittle and Grimes
IL
NAYs-Messrs. Davis and Tcombs-2.
.Second: The Fugitive Slave law of
1890 shall be so amended as to secure to
the alleged fugitive a trial by jury.
Mr.. DOUGLAS proposed to amend by
inserting Gin the State from which the
fugitive escaped" This was carried,
and t en- the whole proposition was voted
down by the Democrats, all the Repul .
llcans sustaining it.
Third: 1t shall be respectfully recon-
:nended to the State Legis atures to re.
view all their laws affecting the righ.s of
persons recently sident iu other States.
and to modify or repeal al such as shall
contravene the provisions of the Consti-
tuition of the United States or of any of
the laws made in pursuance thereof
This was lost as follows -
YEAs-Messrs Grimes, Seward. Wade.
Dooll,tle, Coilamer. and Crit,cndcn-6
NAYS - Messrs Powell, Hunter,
Toomts, Douglas, Davis, Bi-ler and
Rice.
The Southern men voted adversely
upon the ground that, though it was not
openly assigned, this proposition would
affect their laws imprisouing colorcd sea
men.
1t will be see that the extremists
would not sustain the proposition intend,
ed to meet the very cases they had spe-
officially cha ged against the North.
Mr.. Toombs's resolutions were then
called up, and four Of them voted upon,
Mr.. Douglas refusing to 90 upon the
record. They were then postponed till
"Wednesday, Mr. Toonbs and the ultras
resisting any delay. And, for the trans,
pareut object of using the action of the
Committee to operate upon the pending
elections for the Southern Conventions,
Mr. Davis offered the follown. resou.
tion, which lies over with the others:
That it shall be declared by amend
ment Of the Constitution that property
IN Slaves, recognized as such by the local
law of any of the States of the Union,
shall stand on the same footing in all
Constitutional and Federal relations as
any other species Of property so recog-
n'zed; aud, like other proprrty, shall not
be subject to be divested or impaired by
the local law of any other State, either III
escape thereto, or by the transit or So
iourn of the owner therein. And in 30
case whatever shal! such property be
subject to be divested or impaired by
any legislative act of the United States,
or any of the Territories thereof.
The above we find in the telegraphic
re orts of the New York Tribune, Of
Dec 25th. "Chicago. the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago TriLune,
speaking of Davis's resolution, says:
As the auctioncers say, this is the last,
least, and lowest terms Oh which the Cot
ton States will remain in the Union. If
this price be not paid. they will follow
South Carolina. Examine this PROPOSE.
tion aud see its sweeping character. 1t
overs infinitely more ground than the
whole Breckenridge platform, which the
Northern Democracy Indignantly repudi-
ated lst. 1t demands an amendment to
the Constitution recognizing slaves as
property. I'd. 4 right to carry slaves
into the free States, and, '.ike other
property, they shall not be subject to be
divestcd or impaired by the law of such
free State. Sd. A slave code for the
Territories guaranteed by the Coustitu-
tiOn
The first clause, if granted, will in
stantly annul the laws against the Afri.
can slave trade, aud reopen that traffic
under the sanction of the Constitution.
As soon as "slaves are placed on the
same footing as all other species Of prop
erty, in all constitutional aod federal re-
lations," tEeD the slave trade becomes a
lawful commerce, and a mi lion Of slaves
year may be imported, and no act Of
i Congress can prevent or abolish it,