The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-12-20
GREELEY ON COMPROMISE.
From the N. Y. Tribune, Dec. 18th.

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From the N. Y. Tribune, Dec. 18th.
"But will you do nothing, concede
nothing, to ave tho Union 7" we are
asked. Our reply is, that we mean to
remain in and be loyal TO the Union; we
shall gladly see all do the same; but we
will hire nobody, bribo nobody, to re-
main in it. We desire no other Union
than one hat is just and equal: if that
we have is MT such a one, it ought not
to endure. If its blessings are indeed
partial and one sided-as is vehement
ly alleged, but as we do not believe
then it ought to pass away or be essen
TALLY modified. But to make conces.
sions involving vital principles because
some State or section threatens to So
code, is to incite constant bullying and
menace by prolicring rewards for lur-
bulence and giving buntles for treason.
Hence we have not regarded with live
" appreciation the raising ofthe House
Committee of Thirty-Three. In its
very best aspect, the Committee implies
timidity and apology on the part of Ger.
tain supporters Of Mr.. Lincoln. Every
demand for some explanation or quail
iication Of L%incoln's success is in effect
assumption that we have no righttob DO
Republican or that Rcpublicanism shall
really mean nothing. And as we arc
not sorry that Lincoln is elected, nor
that he stands on the Chicago Platform,
nor that we have done what We could
to effect this result, we do not propose
to sit personally on tho stool of repent
lance, nor yet to place our friendsthere.
We regret that the people of any State
or section should hate the Union; but
if any do, we cannot help it. And as
we ask no one to suppress Or trample
on his convictions in order to keep US
in the Union, 80 we do not propose to
suppress or sacrifice our convictions in
order to keep any one else in.
Mr.. Senator Crittenden-a states
mar whom all respect and estecm-is
said to be about 70 propose to save the
Union by a new Compromise, whereof
the gist is an extension of the Missouri
line to the Pacific Ocean. We trust no
such compromise will be madc-at all
events, that it will not be made by the
aid of the Republican votes. This is
an old friend with q new face-"Mon-
sieur Tonson como again" So long ago
as lS47 (Jan 18TH the bill organizing
the Territory Of Oregon being before
the House-Gen. Burt of S. G. moved
Gin effect) this same extension, and it
was voted down by ia nays to 81 yeas
every Wing from tho free States,
with all the Democrats from the free
States but five, voting nay. Mr.. Doug.
las next (Aug. l5th) moved to extend
that limo on the Pacific on a direct prop.
o%sition, which the Senate adopted--yeas
33, nays II; but, on reaching the House
it was there again decisively rejected
yeas 50 (only three OF them from the
free States; nays III. The Senate
then receded--29 to 25--and the bill
passed excluding slavery peremptorily
from Oregon, not because that Territory
was North of 39o 80 min, but because
it was not deemed advisable to let sla.
very go there. The proposition Gin
words or in etfect) was made at least
twice afterwards, with varying success
in the Senate, but always defeated in
the House, where it never once 1--WE
thir.k) received u Wing vote from the
FREQ States, and rarely or never more
than three to five votes from free State
Democrats. 1.-THE free States were ev-
or decided and hearty or any point,
they have been on that Of refusing to
extend the Missouri line TO the Pacific
and thus concede to slavery all present
and future United States territory South
of that line. And what thoy delibera-
tely and repeatedly refused to do when
inoffensively solicited, they should not
now bo buliied into doing by threats OF
dissolving the Union. And VIC intend
that they shall not.
We say this with the highest regard
for Mr.. Crittenden, whose course has
been col %sistent and patriotic from first
TO last, He stands where be has al
ways stood, and acts as he has felt and
thought from the first. So do we.