Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-11
coaIPRo1TlsE pLANs.

COMPROMISE PLANS.
The Respective Propositions or the
S SESsE s STATE Gommi al aud OF
and Robinson OF New York.
TIE PROPOSITION OF rae BORDER STATES.
This proposition wO published last
Tuesday, but as we IRE re-publishing
most of the propositions that have been
submitted, We also reproduce this one.
The Committee of the fourteen border
States, composed of Messrs, Crittenden,
of Kentucky, Chairman; Harris, of Mary
land; Sherman, of Ohio; Nixon, of New
Jersey; Salisbury, OF Delaware; Gilmcr
of North Carolina; Hatton, of Tennessee;
Petit, of Indiana; Harris, of Virginia;
NcClcrnand, OF illinois, Barrett, of Mis-
souri, Sebastian, of Arkansas; Yandever,
of Iowa, and Hale, of Pennsylvania, Mt
their meeting in Washington, on Saturday
last, adopted the following plan of amend
ing the Constitution, by a vote only want
ing that Of Mr. Sherman to make it unani-
nous:
Recommending repeal of oil Personal
Lbiberty Bills.
An efficient amendment of the Fugitive
Slave law, preventing kidnapping, equal.
izing the COMMISSIONER fec, &c.
That the Constitution be so amended as
70 prohibit any interference with slaves in
any Of the States
That Congress shall not abolish slavery
In the dock yards, &C., or in the District Of
Columbia, without the consent of Maryland
and the consent Of the inhabitants of the
District, nor without Compensation.
That Congress shall not interfere with
the Interstate slave trade.
That there shall be a perpetual prohibi.
tion Of the African slave trade.
That the line 80 deg. 80 min. shall be
run through all the existing territory of
the United Slater, and In all north of that
line slavery shall bo prohibited, land south
of that line neither Congress nor the Ter
ritorial Legislature shall hereafter pass
any law Rbolishing, prohibiting, or in any
manner interfering with African slavery
When any territory containing sufIi-
Cient population for one member of Con-
gress, in any area of 10000 square miles,
shall apply for admission as State, it
shall be admitted, with or without slavery,
rs its Constitution may determine.
There can be no doubt that these propo-
sitions, in the absence Of better ones,
would prove acceptable to the North gem
orally, and If submitted to tue vote of the
people would receive three-fourths, or
probably five-sixtis, of the whole vote OF
the country. The border States have the
greatest interest in the present coutrovcr-
sy, and the most urgent desire to settle it
peAceUbly. The representatives of those
States, too, appear to possess more states
mansbip than the colleagues generally, as
these propositions plainly indicate.
Mr.. ETHERIDsE's (TENN.) RESOLUTIONS.
Tho following propositions were sub
mitted to the House of Representatives on
Monday last, by Mr.. Emerson Etheridge, of
Tennessee:
Be 1t resoEps6 by the Senate end House nj
Representatives Of the United Stdtes Of amer.
ieG IN Congress assembled, That the follow
ing amendments to the Constitution of the
United States be proposed TO the several
States for their adoption aud ratification:
First, That Congress shall have no pow
or to interfere with slavery in any OF the
States Of the Union.
Second, That Congress shall have no
power to interfere with slavery in the navy
yards, dock var Is, arsenals, forts. or other
places coded to the United States within
the limits of any State where slavery ex-
iSts.
Third, That Congress shall have no
power to interfere with or abolish slavery
10 the District of Columbia, without the
consent OF the States of Maryland aud
Virginia, aud without the consent of the
inhabitants of said District, and without
making just compensation therefor.
EOGrth, That Congress shall have no
power to prohibit the removal ortrauspor-
tation OF slaves from ono slave State TO
another.
FINN, That the emigration or importa-
ton of persons held to service or labor for
life, or term Of years, carried to any
States or Territories belonSingg To the
United States, 10 pelpetually prohibited
Congress shall pass all lave necessary to
make said prohibition effective.
This Sth resolution reads very muddy
to rs; but We presume that it reads as the
author wrote 1t, inasmueh as We take it
verbatim from the Na6oaal InteAigenetr.
Sixth, In all territory of the United
States not included Within the limits OF
any State north of parallel So So' north
latitude plavery or involuntary ServitudE,
except for crime whereof the pArty shall
be dolly convicted, shall be prohibited,
aud in all Territories ofthe United States
not included within the limits Of any State
lying south of said parallel of see so neither
Congress nor any Territorial Legislature
Shall have power to pass Any law abolish
ing or prohibiting, or interfering with the
right 20 hold slaves; and whenever 10 any
portion Of the fSFFitofiES h61AdEd By thO