The Placer herald., 1862-05-17
From the Mountain Democrat.
THE CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE.

| 1t Will be found in the Congressional GLOBE, of
that year, page ia. AS the resolutions and their
history have been misrepresented by the Repub-
lican party and the Abolition Democrats, we
publish both for the benefit of the public. We
ask every one to read them carefully; having
done so he will come to the conclusion that the
Republican party provoked and are responsible
for the war:
fl joint resolution IS. No. SOY proposing GER
tain amendments to the Constitution Of the
United States.
WHEREAS. Serious and alarming dissensions have
arisen between the Northern and Southern States,
concerning the rights and security Of the rights
of the saveholding States, and especially their
rights in the common territory OF the United
States; and whereas it is eminently desirable and
proper that these dissensons, which now threaten
the existence of this Union, should be permanent
ly quieted and settled by constitutional prOvi-
sions which shall do equal justice to all sections,
and thereby restore to the people that peace and
good will which ought to prevail between all the
citizens of the United States: Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Repre-
se,.tatiues Of the United States Of 4merica, in
Con gress assembled, (two thirds Of both Houses
concurrng) That the following articles be and
are hereby. proposed and submitted as amend
ments to the Constitution of the United States,
which shall be valid to all ntents and purposes,
conventions of threefourhs Of the several States:
ARTICLE l. In all the territory Of the United
States now held or hereafter acquired, situate
north of latitude &c deg. 30 minutes. slavery or
involuntary seIvitude, Except as punishment for
crime is prohibited while such territory shall re-
main under territorial government. In all the
territory south of said line of latitude, slavery OF
the African race is hereby recognized as existing,
and shall not be interlered with by Congress,
but shall be protected as property by all the de-
partments of the territorial government during
its continuance. And when any territory north
or south of said line, within such boundaries as
Congress may prescribe, shall contain the popula
ton required for member of Congress according
TO the then Federal ratio of representation OF the
people of the United States, it shall, if its form
OF government be republican, be admitted INTO
the Union, on an equal footing with the original
States, with or without slavery, as the constitu
ton OF auch new State may provide.
ART. 2. Congress shall have no power to abol-
sb slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdc-
ton. and situate within the limits of States that
permit the holding Of slaves
ART. 3. Congress shall have no power to abol-
sh slavery within the District of Columbia, so
long AS it exists in the adjoining States of Virgil
MIA and Maryland. or either, nor without the con-
sent of the inhabitants, nor without just compen-
sation first made to such owners of slaves as do
not consent to such abolishmcnt. Nor shall Con-
gress at any time prohibit officers of the Federal
Government members of Congress. whose du-
ties require them to be in said district. IRON
bringing with them their slaves. and holding
them as such during the time their duties may
require them to remain there, and aitcrward
taking them from the District.
ART. 4. Congress shall Rave no power to pro-
hbt or hinder the transportation OF slaves from
one State to another, or to Il Territory In which
slaves are by law permitted to be held. whether
that transportation be by land, navigable riveis
or by sea-
,l:,;, 10 isin of
the third paragraph OF the second section OF the
fourth article Of the Constitution of the United
States, Congress shall have power TO provide by
law and il shall be its duty to provide that the
United States shall pay to the owner who shall
apply for it, the full value Of his fugitive slave
in all cases when the marshal or other officer
whose duty it was to arrest said fugitive, was pre-
vented from so doing by violence or intimidation,
or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued
by force and the owner thereby prevented and
obstructed in the pursuit OF his remedy, 1or tne
recovery of his fugitive slave under the SAID
clause of the Constitution and the laws made in
pursu nee thereof And in all such cases, when
the United States shall have the right, in their
own name, to sue the county in which SAID vlo-
lence, intimidation or rescue was committed,
and to recover from it, with interest and damages
the amount paid by them for said fugitive slave.
And the said county, after it has paid said amount
to the United States may, for its indemnity, sue
and recover from the wrong dOcrs or rescuers by
| whom the owner was prevented from the recovery
of his fugitive slave, in like manner as the owner
himself might have sued and recovered.
ART s. No future amendment of the Constitu-
ton shall affect the five preceding articles; nor
the third paragraph Of the second section OF the
first article of the Constitution; the third para
graph of the second section OF the fourth article
Of said Constitution; and no amendment snail De
made to the Constitution which shall give to Con-
gress any power to abolish or Interfere with slav-
cry in any oil the States by whose laws it is, or
may be al flowed or permitted.
| And whereas, also, besides those causes OF dis
eension embraced in the foregoing amendments
proposed to the Constitution OF the United States
there are others which come withln the Jurlsuc- !
tion of Congress, and may be remeded by its
legislative power and whereas. it is the desire OF
Con gress as far as it's power will extend, to re-
move all just cause for the popular discomfort and
| AGITATION which now disturbs the peace or the
country, and threatens the stability OF its instltu
| tiOns: Therefore,
| ! ResoIyedbvt the Senate and House of Repre-
,enfafiyes of the United States of america an
Con press assembled, That the laws now In force
for the recovery of fugitive slaves are IN strct
pursuance of the plain and mandatory provisions
Of the Constitution, and have been sanctioned as
valid and Constitutional by the judgment OF the
Supreme Court of the United States; that the
slayeboldnr States are entitled to the faithful
observance and execution Of those laws, and that
they ought not to be repealed, or SO moolneu vi
changed us to impair their efficiency; ana tnat
laws ought to be made tor the punishment ol .GUse
cal means. to hinder or defeat the due execution
of said laws.
2. That all State laws which conflict with the
fugitive slave acts of Congress, or any other con
stitutional acts of Congress, or which, in their
operation, impede hinder, or delay the Tree
course and execution of any of said acts are null
and void by the plain provisions of the Constltu-
t;on of the United States; yet those State laws,
void v as they are, have given color to practices,
and uI led to consequences, which have obstructed
the due administration and execution OF acts OF
Congress, and especially the acts for the delivery