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Thurlow Weed And Compromise Measures

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Day
21
Month
December
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Evcuing Journal to-Dight publishes a leaditig editorial front tho pen of Thurlow Weed, taking etrong conserviitive ground, ai.d while firmly maiotaining the coMtitutionalky of tho principies of the. Republican psirty, ad visea snob a compromiso as wi'l settle exieting difficultiei and avert the evita at present threatening tho Union. The compromises of the Journal' are eet forth as follows: We are prepared to guy that an efficiënt hut not revolting f'ugitive slavo law ehould be followed by a repual of the Porsoual Liberty Laws. We are ahnost propnred to say that Territorial rnay be Hfifely lelt to taka care of thernselves, and that when tliey contuin a population which undor tho census entit'e them to a Representa live in Congresij, they may como into tho Union with a State government ot their own iruining, provided, of course, h:it thuv conform to tho Conslitution of the United States. Tbij in view of the urroundinga of tho territory belonging to tho Republic - i:i view of the fact that for four years at least freedom will have fair play - and io v'ew also, of two other elemente - emigration and the census, thia we eay alrajt constrains us to balieve that we rnay now confine tho future ol the territorio to the intclliI genee and patriotisrn of thoeo who aro to inhabit them; or ïf thia nuggestion is inadniissible, thera is another which contemplates a división of the remain, ing tcrritories of the U S. aa in 1820, when the Missouri Compromiso line was estabtwbed To thu we shall bo told that the compact wasviolated, and that the South cannot be. trusted. Perhapa it would be so again, but not in our generation, nor in the next, nor indeed un:il tho lossons of tho last bíx yean havo been forgotten. Senator Seward has been in the city for three days, and left here with bi family for Auburn at noon. It is bblieved here that tho Journal nrtiolo represent tho views of 11 r. Lincoln.

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