The Crittenden Compromise of 1860 included the following statements:
-Congress was not allowed to interfere with slavery.
-No future amendments against slavery were allowed.
The Crittenden Compromise (18 December 1860) was an unsuccessful attempt by Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky to prevent the southern states of the United States from leaving the Union, and thus the impending secessionist war to prevent.
The Crittenden Compromise was intended to expand the United States Constitution by six additional articles. These amendments would extend the Missouri Compromise to prohibit slavery north of latitude 36 ° 30 '. South of this demarcation line, which was to be extended to the Pacific, slavery should be maintained in all existing and future territories. But that would have meant that in states like California, where slavery was banned at the time, the immediate introduction of slavery would have to happen. There should be no interference by the federal government in the affairs of the individual states. Congress was also prohibited from abolishing slavery on federal property (forts, arsenals, naval bases, etc.) within a slave state. Slaveholders whose property fled to the north and could not get back were to be compensated by the state. Likewise, Congress would have been prohibited from abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent of its citizens, and only if previously abolished in Virginia and Maryland. No future addendum law could have lifted it.
