"The tyranny and injustice of man are not
limited by olimate or soil, but by bis wick
edness and oppression he can ourse all climei
S"Ught
creationists froui the result of the Con
ftT"iiCd
The disuiii ni«»ts also controlled the time
wbn the comuiissioncru to meet commission
er* from other Status should me't together
at Washington. Tti-V 4cb of FVbruarv is too
tieor, and does not give sufficient time for
the Legislatures of tbe Northern States to
consider tho proposition, and it wholly ex
eludes two free States —California and Ore-
gon —from the Convention. The object of
by
\|„. Virginia
0
Commissioners, making demands little short
of those prepared by 8011th Carolina. So
»r frvitn beifig 0 r»oiliav»ry, th-y preclude
all possibility of adjustment. Tboy not only
makn a s'luve codj for present Territories
Hith of 30:30 an ultimatum, but demand
that all domain hereafter acquired shall also
he dedicated to slavery. No Territory south
of 36:30 shall ever be admitted into tho
Cnion as free soil. No matter what t!e
cb..1o.. of th. pop), ra.y l.«- who ,nhi»b,t
,b n
,-t»dMt.an. bes n° m..«,r «h»t th, y
character of ib. or thr c.p.b.lu.M of
the country, from the moment it is recog
niited as territory of the United States slave*
ry is legalized, protected and established
throughout its« length and breadth. Tbe
Virginia resolutions demand that slavery
shall be foroed upon an unwilling people,
forced on them in deiiuDce of their wishes
and protects and power* of resistance! Call
yu this a basis of adjustment and terms of
conciliation? But tbe disunion conspirators
who engineered the thing weut even farther
than this: They instructed their Commis
sioners to demand that slaveholders nhuil
i
have tbe constitutional right to take tbuir
i
slaves into,
through
end
dot
of
Cincinnati. Under the clause of temporary
s a iurn, a Southerner could keep bis ne
grurs nt len«t a vear in a free State. He
I mipht T'urchase a furm in lllinoix nwl
Ide lawe against siavbolding traitors, we ouhiva'ts it with a gau« of slaves. Kvery
n*t oare to see it spliccd up siuifily to season he niight return horae with tbeiu aud jority of seven,
tv.ch nsgroes: spend the holidays and then pu hack with
or
dis*1 U,*m
—Ttraf-v tfinrrrimnTit which M.itOI ^le^uit ".""iV—
its laws is not fit to he maintained. 