The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-07-22

would have been. had the people been true t.
themselves and their country, by discountenanc-
ing end condenlning the fanaticism of the Abo
litionists.
This nation has been nation of compromi-
ses. Fromits foundation and through its growth
all lis difficulties and its dissensions, have ended
in mutual concessions. The spirit of our geni
us an,l the briIliancy of our destiny have always
led ns heretofore to compromise. When this
nation was in the throes of dissolution, before
secession had to any extent captivated the South
ern hesrt, we might have prevented this unnat.
urai war. II the Crittenden amendments would
have been adopted. the South would have re-
mained in tie Union. and to day all would he
peace. Fana ticism had triumphed a5 the polls
and the President elect forgetting his country
and remaining true only TO his sectional plat
form and party, stood a mute observer of the
great events which were passing. His party
triumph was dearer TO him than the interests of
his country. His country was forgotten, md
while on his way to assume the Presidential
chair, he dealt in the slang phrase ''nobody is
hurt" Had he beer possessed of the patriot
ism of n CLAW or n Webster he wonid have done
Z d. blGy ul'A AT 1Cott lOf9et liS party deFpllou
and knee at the altar of his country and there
pour the soil upon the troubled waters" and
thus alay the threatening storm. This he could
have done. He had power and influence over
his own party, and at his suggestion his friends
would have adopted compromise which would
have prevented secession and rivetted the chains
which bound this Union together IN indissola-
bic bonds. Was it unbecoming or degrading
to the party coming into power TO have adopted
the Crlttenden compromise! Hear the reason.
able and Just provisions of that preserver OF
our peace:
.4rtjcis I. IN I'll tie Territory of the United
States now held, or hereafter acquired, situated
north Of latitude thirty.s.x degrees and thirty
six degrees and thirty minutes, slavery or in
voluntary servitude, except as punishment
for crme. Is prohibited while such territory
shall remain under territorial government In
all the territory now held. or hereafter acquired,
south Of said line Of latitude. slavery of the
African race IS hereby recognized as existing,
and shall not be interfered with by Congress
bot shall be protected as property by all the
Departments of the territorial government du
ring its continuance: and when any territory
north or south Of said line, within such boun-
, the population requisite for a member OF Con-
Eress according TO the then Federal ratio of rep
reservation of the people of the United States
1t shall, ifits form Of government be republican,
be admitted into the Union on an equal f0oEina
with the original States with or without slavery,
as the Constitution Of such aew STATES NAV
, provide.
| A,t,cle u, Congress shall have no power
TO abolish slavery in places under its exclusive
jurisdiction, or within the limits of States that
permit the holding of slaves,
! Art,cle III. Congress shall have 10 pow we7
/ TO abolish slavery within the District of Co,uun-
{ ba. 50 long as it exists in the adjoining States
/ 81 Virginia and Maryland. OF either, nor with
ont the consent Of the inhabitants, nor without
inst compensation FIRST made TO said owners of
slaves rs DO not consent to such adjustment
Nor shall Congress at any time prohibit officers
of the Federal Government or members Of Con-
gress whose duties require them to be in said
District, from bringing with them their slaves
and holding them as such during the time their
dnties may require them to remain there, and
afterward taking them from the District.
Arttcle ". Congress shall have no power TO
Or ohi5it or hinder the transportation Of slaves
,
which slaves are by law permitted to be held
whether that transportation be by land, naviga-
bic rivers, or by sea.
article V. That in addition to the proys-
ions of the third paragraph of the second sec
ton of the fourth article of the CONSTITUTE on
of the United States, Congress shall have the
power to provide by law, and it shall be It's du-
ty so to provide, that the United States shall
pay to the owners who shall apply for it, the
full value Of his fugitive slave in all cases where
the Marshal, or other officers whose duty it
was TO arrest said fugitive, was prevented from
so doing by violence or intimidation, OF when
after SAID arrest said fugitive was rescued by
force, and the owner thereby prevented and OBJ
structed in the pursuit of his remedy for the re-
coyery of his fugitive slaves under the said
clause OF the Constitution and the laws made
in pursuance thereof, And in such cases when
the United States shall pay for such fugitive
they shall have the right in their own name to
sue the county in which such violence, intimi-
dstion, OF rescue was committed, and to lecov-
er from it with interest and damages, the a.
mount 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-doers or rescu-
ers, BY whom tho owner was prevented from
the recovery Of his fugitive slave, IN hike man-
ner as the owner himself might have sued and
/ recovered.
Article VI. No future amendment of the
! Constitution shall affect the five preceding ar
ticles, nor the third paragraph of the second
section of the first article of the Constitution,
nor the third paragraph of second section of the
fourth article of said Constitution, and no a.
mendment shall be made to the Constitution
which viii authorize or give to Congress any
power to abolish or interfere with slavery in a
ny of the States by whose laws it is or may be
allowed or permitted.