Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-03-09
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st liberty to amend Il on all other subjects.
The next proposition is the admission OF
New Mexico into the Union IS State.
While am not disposed 10 regard the I'D.
mission Of New Mexico tnder certain cir.
cumstances as anything wrong, yet assert
that at the present tine there u no necessi.
" for its admission. Il Is said that Terri
tory is secured to slavery by virtue Of coms
promise measures of 1850, aud the Dred
Scott decision II so, ought not the South
to be content with thati Whenever New
Mexico applies for admission into this I'm
ion with proper Constitution, viii take
her case into consideration
There is one other portion Of the report
OF the committee which, / think, Is more
Objectionable than any other. l anf SORRY
that have not the time to argue It 1t
length. 1t is proposition 90 take By law
from the executive officers Of the severd
States Of this Union, who a-e selected BY
and are responsible to the people, the duff
OF surrendering fugitives from Justice, and
to lodge it in the judges Of the district
courts Of the United States, appointed by
the President Of the United States for lifei
aud who are not responsible to the people
object to il as a monstrous proposition
and full of danger to the liberties Of tho
people Before 1 would vote for it, must
have coupled with il a proposition 10 arnenA
the Constitution Of the United States, MAX.
ing the judges Of the circuit courts of the
United States elective By a vote Of thd
people in the districts where they serve,
and to hold their offices, not for life, bat fot
q term Of years.
/ win next refer to what Is called tho
Crittenden proposition There hare been
presented to US many petitions for the adop.
tion of these propositions as an amendment
to the Constitution, and / have no doubg
that many signatures have been obtained
on the supposition that these propositions
are identical with the Missouri compromise,
which was repealed ia 1854. They are, ia
form and substance, materia IL different.
The Missouri compromise simply prohibited
slavery in all the Louisiana Territory, not
inclnded in the State of Missouri, north Of
SO , 80, and left its existercs south Of
that line an open Question.
The Crittendeu propositions provide
1. That in all the Territory of the U.
States. now held or hereafter acquired, south
of latitude SO . 30. slavery Of the &frican
race is hereby recognized as sristing, and shaH
not be iute,fsred NTH By Congress bat shall
be protected as property, by all the depart
meats of the territorial government, during
its continuance.
2. THAT Congress shall have no powet
to abolish slavery in places under its ex.
cl Isive Jurisdiction, and situated within the
limits of States that permit the holding Of
slaves"
). That Congress shall have no power ID
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,
so long as 1t exists in the States of Mary
land and Virginia, nor without the consent
of the inhabitants, nor without Just COM
pensation.
4. That Congress shall not Interfere Win
the transportation of slaves from one State
to another, or to q Territory, in which
slaves are permitted to be held, whether
that transportation be by sea, BY land, OF
by navigable rivers.
5. That the United States shall pay the
owner, who shall apply for it, the full value
Of bis fugitive slave, in oil cases when the
m Irshal or other officer, whose duty it was
to arrest a fugitive, was prevented from or.
resting by violence or intimidation, or when
after arrest, the fugitive was rescued by
force. And that the United States shall
have power to reimburse themselves by I'M.
posing and collecting tax on the COUNTY
or city in which the Violeuce, intimidation,
or rescue was committed, equal in amoudt
to the sum paid. with interest and the costs
of collection. And the county or city may
sue the persons who prevented the arrest
or committed the rescue, and recover tbs
amount paid.
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