Year: 1861

Mr.. Corwins report from the Committee Of Thirty
hree after erumeratng the matters in tie Presidents
Message, ferr 10 item, octice rs the centiousness
u the ress and this pon eccmme ds The States 70
pass s, ch Avs as vii prevent the es suming for
mdable aspect maintaining, notwitLs andng, the free
dom Of the Press


Next, repeal Of all in conflict with the Fugitive
Slave law and expresses sact that the Governors
the different States have brought The subject to
the notice Of their respec i've Legs atures.


Further 1t says that the commi tee deemed II
sary 10 revise the act OF 1850 the reclamation
Of fugives from labor to obyae the objections TO
II at the North and secure its faithful exec ition
this point the report says should borne in mind
that the objections urged by the Northern people not
to tie recovery OF fugitives who really Ia
Dor, but are founded the belief that
the present law may and does permit the
seizure Of persons who are free, and subjects
them to servitude contrary TO both law aud right The
Committee believe to be unjust TO the free States to
that any considerable number Of persons in those
States are opposed to the reclamation Of persons
who by the laws Of any State owe labor
service to any other. any such
class exists II is that known abolitionists This
class may be dsregasded II is certain their numbers
are SO smalrhat danger result to constitutional
rights any portion Of the Union from their peculiar





raj public is Certainly true that this class does not act
with any OF the great political parties Of tho day, and
that it's chief leaders and most talented orators were


srenuously opposed 10 the republican party in tho
late Presidential contest and denounced 1t and its doc
trine in bitter and unsparng terms The great mistake
which Is urging on the public mind to tho wild
est excesses consists in confounding that class
Of known aboltionists with the great mass Of
the republican party Of the North and West Similar to
this, and NANNY growing out of it, is belief, which
seems to have obtained confidence very generally in
the South, that the people Of the -slavehodfng
States have succeeded in electing President entertain
ing a secret design TO accumulate political power
in both branches Of Congress until through Congressional
action it win abolish slavery in the States where it may
then exist How this purpose would DO accomplished
not informed This prediction has been pressed
into the ears Of excited muttudes from the mouths
Of popular orators and placed before their eyes in tho
pges Of partisan press until TO the Southern mind it
seems to have assumed the form OF plausible fact


The report then quotes the language Of the Chicago
platform, condemnng John Browns raid to
show that the republicans have no intention Of
warning upon slavery in the States; but not
whstandng the prepostcrous character OF this idea,
the committee in order TO ece these false Impressions
prepared to submit an amendment to the consttu-
tion whereby any power interfere with slavery in the





the Union by its individual action shall consent to its
existence.


They ent rtain the confident belief that this amend
ment will be approved by number Of States required
by the constitution its adoption. this shall
aot slavery in the States against the probability
of interference by the federal power wholly in
capable Of concoving any form Of constitutional guaan
satify lnose VINO demand further security
for their rights.





The committee then deprecated the agitation created
by the discussion Of the slavery question Congress- and
goes into long review Of Congressional legislation in re
gard slavery in the Territories commenting upon the
Compromise Of 1850 The committee say it settled the
question for the time and permanent peace expected
this hope disspaed by the repeal Of the Nilsson
ri Ccmpromise and the present deporabe condition Of
the country bears wncsst the mschieft has wrought
VIC strong and powerful parties maintaining opposite
opinions this very question. Those hos
tile opinions strongly adhered 10 on zach
side, leaving little or hopo Of adjustment
without surrender Of yictions honestly entertained
An adjustment founded upon legal principles. ia which al
viii agree, seems quite impossible. The expcdency
Withdrawing the subject matter Of controversy
from conflict Of opinion, and by another mode
Of settlement, giving to the South and the
North all that each under existing circumstances
could expect should desire TO obtain, seemed to the
committee the BEST II not the only mode OF peaceful ad
ustment left us. The committee impressed with
the belief growing out Of admontons furnished by
past STORY that in republic constituted ours Is in
all cases when parties obstinatey divided In opinion
upon subjects which touch their interests wake up
the PASSIONS OF daccted sections II is the clear dictate
OF wisdum withdraw tho subject in every posi-
BILE from the strife Of parties, and keep the
Federal government as Far removed from
any oonnexon with IL as duty TO tho Constitution


Soc~
involving the right carry slavery into Territory
yet formed into State governments one peculiarly fitted
for the application of the principle just announced. II
contended on hand that In all Territory in pos
session OF the United States not embraced within the
limits of any State, and lying South OF parallel Of &c. 30
north latitude slavery shall be recognized and protected
by law The Territory thus defined comprehends the
now organized Territory q New Mexico, in
cluding Arizona, which last by law Of Con.
grcss has been attached to and made part OF
New Mexico This Territory was organized In
1850 BY its organic law the Territorial Legislature
was authorised TO laws and report them to Con-
gress II was provided in the act that If Congress
should disaprrovc the laws thus made they should be
null and void In the year 1850 the Territorial
legislature Of New Mexico established slavery in that
Territory This law disapproved at the last session
by vote OF the House, but the Senate have not yet acted
on the BILL and so the law OF the Territory having
been annuled by both houses OF Congress- remains in
full force, and slavery exists by law in New
Mexico II is further provided by tho act OF 1850
that New McSco, when she is admitted into the Union,
shall be admtted with without slavery, her
stitutbn may ordain. Tho committee now propose TO
admit New Mexico into the Union State equal
footing with the original States. by this course the
faith Of the a'ion pledged in the act Of 1850, will be
preserved and the territory lying south Of % degrees 90
minutes win be disposed Of, and the subject in contro
very removed from the Jurisdiction Of the federal govern
ment.


thus oil claimed by the South win be obtained, while
the Northern portion Of remaining territory will DO
subject to such laws as tho constitution aud Con-
grcss may furnish for its government. BY
this adjustment Of the present territory Of the
Union, including the territory OF all tho States,
IL will be found that the area OF free States and
territories including all north OF line Of 30 80 contains
1885, square miles, and population Of nine millions