The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-02-21

The Different Plans for Compromise.
That our readers may have before
them the differ mt plans for settling the
existing national difficulties, we publish
below the substance of the various
compromises now before the country.
1sr, THE cR1rTENDEN COMPROMISE.
1. In all the territories now or here
after acquired north of latitude thirty
six degrees, and thirty minutes, slavery
or involuntary solitude, except for the
punishment of crime, is prohibited !;
while in all the territory south OF. that
latitude,. slavery is here recognized as
existing, and shall not be interfered
with by Congress, but shall be protected
as property by all departments OF the
territorial government during its con-
tinuance; all the territory north or south
of said line, within such boundaries as
Congress may prescribe when it con-
tains a population necessary for mem
Der of Congress, with republican
form of government, shall be admitted
into the Union on an equality with the
original States, with or without slavery,
as the Constitution of the State shall
prescribe. SIS rks
2. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery in the States permitting
slavery.
8. Congress shall have no power to
abolish slavery In the District of Column
bia while it exists in Virginia and
Maryland, or either; nor shall Congress
at any time prohibit the officers of the
Government or members of Congress,
whose duties require them to live in the
District of Columbia, from bringing
slaves there, and holding them as such.
4. Congress shall have no power to
hinder the transportation of slaves
from one State to another, whether by
land, navigable rivers or the sea.
5. Congress shall have power by law
to pay an owner who shall apply, the
full value for fugitive slave in all cases
when the marshal is prevented from
discharging his duty by force or rescue
made after arrest. In all such cases
the owner shall have power to sue the
county in which such violence or rescue
was made, and the county shall have
the right to sue the individuals who
committed the wrong, in the same
manper as the owner could sue.
6. No further amendment or amend
ments shall affect the preceding arti-
cles, and Congress shall never have
power to interfere with slavery in the
States where it is now permitted.
The last resolution declares that the
Southern States have right to the
faithful execution of the laws for the
recovery of slaves, aud such laws ought
not to be repealed or modified so as to
impair their efficiency. All laws in
conflict with the Fugitive Slave Law.
it shall not be deemed improper for
Congress to ask the repeal Of
The Fugitive Slave Law ought to be
so altered as to make the fee of the
Commissioner equal, whether he de-
cides for or against the claimant, and
the clause authorizing the person hold
ing the warrant to summon a posse
c0D1itatsss to be so as to restrict it to
cases where violence or rescue is at
tempted. The laws for the suppression
of the African Slave Trade ought to
effectually executed.
I'd. Mr.. DOUGLAS SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
CRITTENDEN AMENDMENT.
SEC. I. Congress shall make no laws
m respect to domestic servitude in any
Territory of the United States and all
Territorial Governments shall be
formed on the model and in the terms
Of the organic acts, approved September
nine, eighteen hundred and fifty, called
The Compromise Measures !" and the
validity of all Territorial enactments
shall be finally determined by the Su-
preme Court of the United States, on
appeal, or writ of error, from the Ter
ritorial Courts; but no new Territory
shall be organized until it contains
twelve thousand white inhabitants nor
shall any new State be admitted into
the Union until it shall contain the
requisite population for Representative
in Congress, according to the then
Federal ratio of representation.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have no pawer
to abolish or interfere with the relation
of persons held to service or labor in
any State, under the laws thereof; nor
in any place under the exclusive iuris.
aiction of Congress, and situate within
the limits of any State or Territory