Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-28


that will send the cold chilIs to the hearts
Of tbs traitors in our midst.
We publish for the third time the tvo.
plans of eoppromiSe known as the Bor.
der State propositions. and the propoai-.
tions Of Mr. Etberidge, of Tennessee, =
Why It is that one or other of these propo-
-sitiOus cannot be accepted, We are at \
loss TO know. As We said about Mr. Cor
wins Majority report, it is not 10 be e1-
peeted that the radical extremists would
be cOnctliAted by fair and equitable COM
promise. The feature in NJ. Crittendenrs
plan, looking TO the further acquisition of
territory, never will harmonize the coun-
try, because, as the Baltimore American
ably remarked in its structures upon Mr..
Disadvantages letter, it will encourage FL
libusterism, and NsP,rit ofslavery propagan-
dism that will never stop short of new ac-
QUESTIONS from Mexico. 1t is this feature
which makes it so especially obnoxious to
the Northern people, and they never will
vote for it unless the objection is abated.
On the contrary, the South, we mean the,
extreme South, will not vote for it if the
objection is abated. Aud thus the matter
stands. And is the country to go TO pie
ces meanwhile, when such fair and cOnser-
yatiye grounds as MessrS. Rice, aud Cor
win. and Etheridge, and Adams have Offer.
ed, are before it-grounds upon which
all truly patriotic men can stand? This
Is really the question.
What we particularly like about the
proposition of Mr.. EthertdgO is, that 1t
mako the future acquisition of territory
impossible, unless acquired IN suOh way
that we shall never resort to, except
vixen we are strenuousIy in need of it.
"MOre territory" has been, up to this time,
our curse.
We confess that VIC have no special cuthu-
siasm about the line of $50 sOi, as prOvid-
ed for in the Border State resolutions; for
We remember that that line was the old
Missouri Compromise line, which the
South went to work and repealed, and
trod under their feet MS something very in
sultiug to them. If it was obnoxious
then, why may it not be,so again z And
that is our fear, and the fear of tens of
thousands of people who would otherwise
go heart and soul for the line, as basis of
compromise. The fact is that the North
lost confidence in the South by the perfd-
ioRs repeal of the old line, aud they are
afraid to trust them, even should 1t be en-
grated in the Constitution, and made
theoretically inviOlnble. But still, as We
said, tho more conservative people of the
Northern States, and they are the majori-
W, could be brought to take the line of
"Thirty-six thirty" at venture, in the
hope of eiTecting a final and everlasting
Punishment Of the slavery question from
Congress. II would be line that would
work pretty nearly equal for both sections,
provided the compromise was limited to
the territory now in hand, as proposed in
tho Border State resolutions, This the
figures will show. We have before US,
for instance, the calculation made by the
Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee for 1850. In that report 1t appears
that division of tho territories between
the North and the South, by tue line of
SEQ aO', would give to each quantity very
nearly in proportion to the respective
populations of the free aud slave States,
viz to tho free States, l,7s5 ,965 square
miles for population of 100000; and
to the slave States, 1908 III square miles
for population of 100000.
These respective amounts, viz 10000
900 for the free States, and L, 100000 for
the slave States, will vary but very little
from the true sums.
This division would make the whole
number of square miles between the Two
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