Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-29
The Border srnre Compromise.

by resolutions of their Legislatures. "The
Federal Government shall protect slavery in
all the Territories south of 800 3P, and
guarantee the right of transit through the
fee States" This is all right, with one ex-
ception. The 36o 3O' should be stricken out.
Nobody asks any exclusion of slavery north
of that, and such line makes an invidious
distinction against the institutions of the
South. 1t is destructive of the equality of
the States, and in direct violation of that
provision of the Constitution which secures
to citizens of each State the same rights in
all the States. Besides, our Union had like
TO have split on that line once, and it will
only preserve a splitting place for next
time.
Give the South their full rights in the
Union? Anticipate their wants? Fulfil our
fraternal obligations and then our fraternal
relations will continue undisturbed.
AS it will prevent all future misunder-
standing, to put it all in black and white,
there should be constitutional provision for
buying Mexican provinces, as we did New
Mexico, Arizona and Texas-at least Mr..
Douglas says we paid Texas ten millions for
nothing, besides the war she cost us-so as
to make slave States to supply the demand;
or we should have a constitutional proYi-
sion for declaring that "war exists by the
act of Mexico" when Mexico is perfectly
quiet, as the sainted Polk did; and when
foreign nations make war on us, we can not
choose but play the maniiest-destiny trump.
In this way the South may maintain its
equality in the Union, unless one of the ac-
quisitiOns should go and make free State
of ITSELF as. California did; in that case they
can secede and have new guarantees, as they
did then.
Protection of slavery in the Territories is
well. But it is particularly beautiful in the
way it has got to be done. The North has
got TO do this; for part of the South has
gone OUT and because, as "strong Union
man" from Virginia said to the Republicans
in the House, last week: "You have caused
this difficulty, why don't you come forward
with measures to settle it?"
The North has got to save the Union by
guaranteeing the South its rights. And the
North is the Republican Party, for the Demo-
cratic Party does not control single North
ern State The Northern Democrats split
the National Convention, by their refusal to
corcede protection to slavery in the Terri.
tories, because they said, and with uncom-
mon truth, too, that such platform would
utterly destroy their party in the North
Now the Republicans have got TO come up
to the bull-ring, and put that in the Constitu-
tion, which in a political platform would
sink Northern Democracy beyond soundings.
And they will do it, too; and it will lay
out the Republican Party so cold that the
hand of resurre ction will never reach it; and
its ghost will seek through dark places, un-
derground rooms, dark lanterns, grips oaths
and signs, 10 emerge again to the upper air ;
just as Whiggery did when slaughtered by
the compromise of 1850. Thus two birds
will be killed with one stone. The South
will have its rights, and Republiesnism viii
have its epitaph written with two Ds, which
/ viii not have any reference al all TO Doctors
| Of Divinity.
The right of transit of slaves through the
free States, is a right indispensable to the
equality of the South in the Union. 1t will
not make another slave, unless their droves
get mixed with our free colored people in
tine transit; but that is nothing but what
other woolly cattle are liable to. The right
of transit includes the right of temporary
sojourn. Many of the Southern people are
so dependent on the attendance of their
slaves that they are not comfortable without
them. Sucking babes, whose parents are
travelling North, have to be separated from
their black nurses by The inhuman abolition
provision of our Constitution, which allows
no slave. milk TO be drank on our premises
and Southern gentlemen coming among us
are deprived of the disciplinary exercise
necessary to their muscular development, by
the separation from their domestic relations,
who also are liable TO forget the Scriptural
command to be obedient unto their masters.
There are some difficulties in the details,
but a compromising spirit will overcome
them all. The right of transit must be free
from all question OF hindrance, and must be
surrounded with such safeguards as are
necessary to the safety of the property.
There must be no B. G. nonsense of courts
and habeas corpus, nor inquiries whether the
transitory property may not have been
picked up by the wayside; for any of these
would make the right of transit delusior
and snare.
1t is possible that the right may not be ex.
tremely valuable to the South, though ar
exchange here, where negroes may be bought
and sold, may be convenience; but ffe,
people contend for an idea as quick a
for interest. Besides, as they care nothing
about this, it viii be convenient to have it Il
throw off as their part of the compromise
The South is entitled to its rights, whether |
wants to use them or not. And it will be
glorious day in our annals when, unde
this right of transit, Senator ToOmbs shal
fulfill his prophesy, and call the roll of hi
slaves at the foot ofBunker Hill. Then Crit
tenden may say: "'Now lettest thou tn
servant depart in peace for mine eyes hay
seen the salvation Of my country"