New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-28

no institutional power 10 negotiate with the representative
Of The State Of south Carolina for the surrender Of public
property within the limits That State and ihat ineIpedent
Congress to take further action in relation thereto
Mr.. John Cochrane in the minority report,
defends the conduct Of tho President.
The Compromise question made yesterday sev.
cral decided steps forward at Washington. In
the Old Gentlemen's Conference the Franklin
Guthrie Crittenden proposition was adopted by
trick, Mr.. Field of New.York being absent in
the Supreme Court, and On agreement made
with him in regard to the vote of the New-York
delegation being violated. Had this agreement
been kept in good faith the proposition would
have been rejected. The essential part Of this
proposition is as follows:
In all the present territory Of the United States north
IN, parallel so of north latitude involuntary ssrviiude
EXCEPT IN punheu Of crime prohibited In all the present
r,orv south Of that line c person' held 70 'rrioe
4bsT az IL not, ezs la be changed Nor shall any law
be rssscd by Congress the Territorial Legislature to hinder or
prevent the taking Of such persons from Of tia States OF this
Urion 10 said territory impsr the rights arising from said
relation Bet aA be subject % judicial oocni'aHee
he Fei,ral Couy according e Of The common lag
when any Territory north south Of said line with such boun
diary Congress prescribe shall contain Apopn"on oqn
% Tia, required for Member OF Congress it shall II Its forms
Of Government Republican, be admitted into the Union on an
ru footing h the original States, with without involun'
ary ssrvi,ude the Constitution Of such State may provide
| In the House Of Representatives, Tug action wns
more honest and more important 1t may be
summed up as follows:
! |. The proposition to call National Conyen-
| ton was rejected "a Yeas to 100 Nays.
| III. The Kellogg Compromise was rejected 90
Yeas to 155 Nays.
III. The Crittenden Compromise was rejected
90 Yeas to 1l3 Nays.
". The resolutions reported by the Committee
of Thirtythree were then adopted 1l3 Yeas to
50 Nays. These resolutions declare ]. That the
Southern discontents are dcplorabe, and that more
specific and efFectua guarantees Of the peculiar
rights and interests Of the South should be
promptly and cheerfuy granted; 2. The Personal
Liberty laws are unconstitutional and dangerous
3. State Legislatures are requested to repeal oil
anti-negrO-catching enactments; A. Slavery exists
in fifteen States, and no outside power has any
right to interfere with it; 5. The constitutional
provision for negO-catchiDg and the laws made
in pursuance thereof ought to be executed
and there ought not to be any mobs; 6.
There is no cause for dissolution of
the Union; z. All the States ought to observe
their constitutional obligations 6. The Southern
States ought not to allow Northern men to be
mobbed or lynched, and they are asked to make
laws which shall protect them; 9. Each State
ought to provide against lawless invasions Of any
other State or Territory; 10. AS nobody designs
TO interfere with Slavery in the District of Co
lumbia or in forts or arsenals within the Slave
States, it isn't necessary to do anything concern
ing that matter.
V. The proposal to submit to tie Legislatures
OF the several States an amendment to the Con-
stitution declaring that no amendment Of that
instrument shall ever be made giving Congress
the power to abolish or interfere with Slavery in
the States where it exists received 100 afhrma-
tive and II negative votes, and thus was lost,
two thirds of the votes being necessary to its
ndoption. A motion was made to reconsider this
vote and then another to lay the reconsideration
on the table pending which the House adjourned.
We conclude that the subject is now substan-
tally disposed of 80 far as the present House
Of Representatives is concerned.