Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-16

is country not governed by The Chicago
Platform, and he viii also haye excellent luek
If ne succeeds in getting out of Washing
ton as safely as he got into it. r
AS whole the Inaugural is a most ingeni-
Gus and neatly worded stump-speeoh---as in
nocent of craftsmanship as were his way y-sde
efforts before he sneoked into Washington -
| fIe takes the Chicago Platform for his text
and seems oblivious to every other interest
and principle. -4Mgststa Dispatch,
The Peace Conference Pronounced Cheat
and Hamburg.
In the Senate on Friday the report Of the
Select Committee on the propositions of the
Feace Conference was called up. v ~
Mr.. Hunter said the propositions of the
Peace Conference would put the South in
worse position than it now occupied under the
Constitution and the Drcd Scott decision.--
1t prohibited slavery north of 5000, and
gave the South the chance of another
law suit as to their rights in the territory
south of that parallel 1t provided that the
status of. persons held to service should not
be changed when they reached the Terrific
ries. Thus a stakeholder might not be able
to emancipatc his slave if the law of the State
from which he came prohibited it. This use
OF the word status was an attempt to evade
! the plain and manly propositions offered by
Mr.. Crittcndcn.
If this amendment was adopted, the ,ques-
ton of the right of master to his property
would have to be adjudicated before Terrific.
rial courts without appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Judges of
these courts would be the appointces of par
ty which asserted that the normal condition
of the territories would be that of freedom
lie objected to the proposition further be-
cause it made no provision for future terrific
ries. The provision that no territory should
be acquired without the consent of a majority
of the representatives of both sections would
effectually exclude the South from any more
territory, for it was not to be supposed that
the twenty-cight or thirty free States. soon to
be in the Union would allow the few remain.
ing slave States to control their wishes as to
the acquisition of territory
The clause making it the duty Of Congress
to pass laws prohibiting the importation of
slaves from beyond the limits of the United
States, would prevent the interchange of
slaves between the border States and the
Southern Confcdcracy.
The clause that Congress shall provide by
law for securing to the citizens of each State
the privilege and immunities of citizens in
the several States, would give Congress the
power to intr"fere in matters belonging to the
States, and ...uld open the slave States to an
intrusion of abolition emmissarics
He thought they should enter upon no
new experiments. The propositions never
were passed upon as whole by the Confer.
cnce, and he knew thut majority of the Vr-
ginia delegation were very decidedly opposed
to them. Many of the States had declared
for the Crittenden resolutions, and he had
therefore offered them as an amendment.
MIR. Crittendcn defended the report as sut.
isfactory to all sections of the country Now
was the time for mediation and pacifcation
The provision in regard to tho acquisition OF
territory would sufficiently protect the South
At any rate, he wished to settle the difficulty
of the present, aud would be willing to meet
the future when il came.
Mr.. Mason said he could not agree to ono
of these propositions Before he could as
sent to any amendments to the Constitution
he wished to understand them clearly He
went into history of the appointment of the
| Conference Convention, and expressed his
great respect for the gentlemen composing it.
But he was bound by his obligations to tho
Constitution not to concur in their action
These propositions give no security to the
rights of the South, but took away what little
they now had. He examined the details OF
the propositions at length, and condemned
the whole project
discussion on legal points ensucd be-
tween Mcssrs. Mason md Crittenden, in
which MIR. Bragg participated. The latte,
thought that constitutional amendments ought
to be clear, and if it was the intention to re
eognizc slavery, it should have been stated il
plain terms.
The discussion WAS continued by Messrs
Pugh, Baker, Green and Lane The latter
declared the report of the Peace Conference ;
cheat hunbug and deception.
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