At the same time it abolished the slave- trade in the District of Columbia.
-- The fourth provided that no construction of the Constitution shall prevent any of the States aiding, by appropriate legislation, in the arrest and delivery of fugitive slaves.
-- The fifth forever prohibited the foreign slave-trade.
-- The sixth declared that the amendments to the Constitution herein proposed shall not be abolished or changed without the consent of all the States.
-- The seventh provided for the payment from the National Treasury for all fugitive slaves whose recapture is prevented by violence.
These propositions met with little favor in either branch of Congress.
Mr.Crittenden, finding that he could not pass his own resolutions, endeavored to substitute these, but could induce only six senators to concur with him.

In the House there was no action whatever upon the report.

The venerable Ex-President was chosen to preside over the deliberations of the conference, but was understood not to approve the recommendations.

Far as they went, they had not gone far enough to satisfy the demands of Virginia, and still less the demands of the States which had already seceded.

It is a curious circumstance that one of the delegates from Pennsylvania, Mr.J.
Henry Puleston, was not a citizen of the United States, but a subject of Queen Victoria, and is now (1884), and has been for several years, a member of the British Parliament.
To complete the anomalies and surprises of that session of Congress, it is necessary to recall the fact, that, with a Republican majority in both branches, Acts organizing the Territories of Colorado, Dakota, and Nevada were passed without containing a word of prohibition on the subject of slavery.