Yet the proposition was opposed by only three members of the committee of thirty-three,--Mason W.
Tappan of New Hampshire, Cadwallader C.Washburn of Wisconsin, and William Kellogg of Illinois.
After a consideration of the whole subject, the majority of the committee made a report embodying nearly every objectionable proposition which had been submitted.

The report included a resolution asking the States to repeal all their personal-liberty bills, in order that the recapture and return of fugitive slaves should in no degree be obstructed.

It included an amendment to the Constitution as proposed by Mr.Adams.

It offered to admit New Mexico, which then embraced Arizona, immediately, with its slave-code as adopted by the Territorial Legislature,--thus confirming and assuring its permanent character as a slave State.

It proposed to amend the Fugitive-slave Law by providing that the right to freedom of an alleged fugitive should be tried in the slave State from which he was accused of fleeing, rather than in the free State where he was seized.