. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . ople of our commonwealth, desire to do so with a feeling of mutualregard and respect for each other—cherishing the hope that in our futurerelations we may better enjoy that peace and harmony essential to thehappiness of
. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . ople of our commonwealth, desire to do so with a feeling of mutualregard and respect for each other—cherishing the hope that in our futurerelations we may better enjoy that peace and harmony essential to thehappiness of a free and enlightened people. It was at this period that John J. Crittenden of Kentucky came forwardin the Senate with his famous propositions of compromise, for the purpose,if possible, of healing the difficulty. As these propositions possess anhistorical interest and importance, it may be proper here to state theirprincipal contents. They provided that thenceforth slavery or involun-tary servitude, except for crime, of which the party should be duly con-victed by process of law, should be prohibited in all the Territories of theUnited States lying north of latitude thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes ;that in all the Territories south of that latitude, slavery should not be in-terfered with by Congress; and that when the Territories north of that *¥ i<*-j».. THE CRITTENDEN PROPOSITIONS OF COMPROMISE. G7 line were entitled to admission as States to the Union, they should be soadmitted, with slavery or without it, as their respective inhabitants mightthemselves at that period determine. They also provided that Congressshould possess no right to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia;they denied the same right in the national dock yards and arsenals; theymaintained the right of the transit of slaves through the free States; andthey proposed, that States in which fugitive slaves had been rescued fromthe possession of their masters, when in pursuit of them, should
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