Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-06-13

States" IL would Tot now be claimed
by Congress that these grants authori-
zed an interference in The sale Of
slaves between the people OF different
States, nor would it be claimed that they
authorized the abolition of slavery in the
District oil Columbia while Maryland and
Virginia remained slave States, nor the
like abolition in forts and other places
within slave States. But what viii be
claimed in the future we cannot know
So, also, in relation 10 the Territories be-
longing 10 the United States. While we
are aware thai all the Territories, then
unorgsnized, were organized by acts of the
last Congress which cont ain no prohibition
OF slavery, and while we know that this
was the tction of Congress in which the
free States had the control at the time the
acls were passed, still these are but the acts
of Congress subject TO repeal or alteration
as public feeling may change under lem
porary excitement.
Ii is but just that the rights of The slave
States, now. in small minority of the
whole States, should be guarded in the
particulars mentioned by such constitution
al guarantees as shall render them secure
against future legislation in times Of excite.
ment. Our distinguished fellow citizen,
the Hon. John J. Crittenden, for The pur-
pose Of securing by constitutional guaran-
teas rights already possessed, presented to
Congress certain propositions TO amend the
Constitution which met with general ap.
proyal, and were satisfactory TO us and 10
our people, .and those propositions. as orig
inally offered, or any that are equivalent,
W would be now satisfactory, and would quiet
apprehensons that exist 10 some extent in
the minds of real friends of the Union, and
which are industriously excited by those
who sre enemies of the Union and of the
people. Whether any such constitutional
guarantees would have the effect Of recon-
cling any of the seeded States 10 the gov
eminent from which they have torn them
selves away we cannot say, but we allow
ourselves 10 hope that the masses in those
States will in time learn that the dangers
they were made 10 fear we've greatly exsg-
serasd, and that they will then be disposed
10 listen TO the calls of interest and of pa
triotsm, and return 10 The family from
which they have gone out. One effect of
giving such guarantees, certainly, will he
TO prove TO the world by the frank recog-
milton Of the rights of the few slave States
adhering to the Union, that the States which
have seeded have abandoned the best gov
eminent in the world without any soud or
sufficient canse.
1t may be urged that there are not now a
sufficient number Of States acting in the u
MON 10 ratify any such constitutional a
mendments as will furnish the guarantees
we require. But it is to DO remembered
that there is no time fixed by the Constitu-
iton for such ratification, and if they should
be ratified BY the free States, then al the
end of the present civil war, terminate as
1T may. either in The restoration of the Sc
ceded States to the Union, or in the estab-
lishment of their separate netionaI existence
there will be the number OF States required
for The ratification.
Fellow citizens of the United States,
you are abou, 10 be engaged in war in
which the horrors that ordinarily attend
that state are likely 10 be aggravated by
the fact that You are of the same family,
and have long lived together in intimate
intercourse and in friendly relations. The
kind feeling that once existed has been
changed 10 bitterness soon TO degene rate,
it may be, into deadly animo,iiy.
We desire L" remind you that ou are
contending about question of principle
upon which we wouiJ fain believe that
you are OH each side convinced that YOU
are right. II is no longer question Of par.
Iy politics, no longer question about the
right 10 hold slaves in territories. or 10
reiake them when they escape; the ques.
ton row 10 be settled is, whether we shall !
live in the same Union as formerly, or
whether our fathers formed a government
upon such principles that any one State
msy, at her own pleasure, without the con.
sent Of the others, and without resrF,->.i%l. !
liy 10 any human power, witt:
her connection with the goy
claim 10 be sovereign as
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