Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-02-27
THE NATIONAL TR0UBLRs.
Mr.. GUTHRIE's PROPOSITION

ton, now in session in Washington, to
which was referred all propositions for
compromise of cur National difficulties
agreed, on Wednesday night last, to the
plan proposed by Hon. james Guthrie, OF |
Kentucky. A telegrarhic dispatch from
Washington states that Mr.. Field, one of
the New York Commissioners, took a
strong stand against the Compromise pro.
posed, and that other delegates from
Northern States, are cxerting themselves
most strenuously to defeat it. Still it is
hoped by many that the proposition will
be agreed to, and the prospects of set
tlement of our national difficulties, on an
honorable basis, are therefore considered
: more promising.
Mr.. Guthrie's plan in brief is; First
The re-establishment of the Missouri
! Compromise line. with provision for the
! admission of new States into the Union,
when they have the requisite population,
: with or without slavery as their constitu-
9 tions shall provide. SecOnd-No territory
shall hereafter be acquired by the United
e States without the concurrence Of a ma.
t jority of the Senators of the States north
t of Mason and Dixon's line, and also
= majority of the Senators south of said
line; but no treaty by which territory
n shall be acquired shall be ratified without
G the three fourths vote of the Senators, as
n required by the Constitution. Third
e Forever prohibits Congress from interfer-
l. ing with the institution of slavery in any
II Territory, in the District Of Columbia, or
= in any other place under the exclusive
l. Jurisdiction of the United States nor
a shall the rights Of citizenship ever be con-
&c ferred upon perSons Of African descent.
a. Fouh-Hereafter the paragraph of the
of fourth article of the Constitution shall not
b be construed to prevent any of the States,
d by appropriate legislation, and through
Of the action of her judicial and ministerial
n officers, from enforcing the delivery oi
Is fugitives from labor from any other State
h or Territory of the United States to the
person &c whom such service or labor is
ri due. FVh-The importation oftbe Afri.
20 can race into any State or Territory i:
is forever prohibited. Sirh--The first, sec
ond, third and fifth articles of these
ID amendments and the third paragraph o.
the second section of the first article o.
lg the Constitution, and the third paragraph
H. of the fourth article thereof shall not bt
amended or abolished without the consen
re of all the States.
CONTEMPLATED OUTRAGE.
Il. The Harrisburg Patriot d, Union says
l. Several Yankees are here, pressing upor
q the Republican members of the Legsla-
10 ture the necessity of putting the State oil
& wa: footing. These men are interested
le in The sale Of arms mantyact,redm Connecticut
A war is what they want-frst to sell arm
e. to the South, and then to the North
Yankee Abolitonism may thus be mad
OF TO pay" The proposition, we observe, wa
in seriously discussed in the Hou e few day
ny ago! We expect to see the Repub,ica,
Id majority of the Legislature commit al
n. manner of evil, but from this piece of vii
a. lainy they must deSist. The State is not in
id vaded, nor is there danger of invasion o
domestic insur ection. There is, there
u fore, no authority in the Legislature t
-, EARN the State;" and as sure as such
bill passes, the bonds upon which none
10 is raised to pay for the arms will never
paid. Notice of this fact will at once b
:. given, and the whole nefarious schem
!. shall be resisted at every step. Let ou
:. Legislators bear in mind that we sti
have an uncorrupted Supreme Court i
the State, and hence that their unconsti
IN tutional enactments will be but waste {
paper. If the Republicans want arms, le
them buy them. themselves. We thin
nobody, either North or South, woul
e object to that but they shall not squan
der the money of the PEOPLE by such un
j. mitigated nonsense and vilainy as that {
arming the State at the public expense
he Canton Democrat.
ne TIE EXPLODED CONSPIRACY.
ry. The special Committed appointed
be- investigate and report upon the allegt
conspiracy to seize upon the Capital
eat Washington, made its report on Thur
.th day. 1t thus concludes:
ev- "The Committee are unanimously
the opinion that the evidence produc,
before them does not prove the existen
lost of secret organization here, or elsewhel
70. hostile to the Government, that has
-, its object, upon its own responsibility,
her attack upon the Capitol, or any other
the public property Eere, or an interru
ton of any Of the functions of the Cover
Inns ment."
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