Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-12-21
The Great Issue.
GEN SCOTS OPINION.

WASHINGTON, Dec 10. Gen. Sent
has given the President an elabor,t,
opinion in reference to the present copdi
ton of the military defense of the country
and what should be done in view of Dos
sible contingencies. He deprecates secs.
sion. He begs his own State of Virginia
to pause and bear the ills she has, rather
than fly to those she knows not Of. But
if secession occurs, he says, it will result
not in the formation of two, but four dis.
tinct nationalities. These are, as near
as | recollect, as follows: New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa and Minnesota, except what
will next mention, as one The second
will consist of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio
Western Virginia, and 50 along down the
Blue Ridge, taking in Western Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan.
sas, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas. The
third will consist of South Carolina,
Georgia, East Florida, Eastern Virginia,
and, perhaps, Maryland and Delaware.
The Pacific States will constitute the
fourth. .
The General treats the exclusion of the
grain growing States of the West from
direct communication with the Gulf Of
Mexico as an impossibility. They will
have free course to 60 down the Mississ
ippi, and will insist upon Pensacola as
naval depot.
MR.. cRITTENDEN's PLAN.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia North Americ n says:
" Mr.. Crittenden has indicated a plan
of adjustment, which it is believed will
be offered as an ultimatum on behalf Of
the South, and if declined, after an earnest
appeal from him without the suggestion
of an alternative compromise from the
North, may lead to very serious conse-
quences. It's general features are an ex-
tension of the Missouri line to the Pa
cific, to be made as an amendment to the
Constitution; more effective laws, if nee
essary, for the prevention of the African
slave trade; slavery not to be abolished
in the district of Columbia, or the forts
docks and arsenals of the United States
in the Southern states the repeal of all
laws conflicting with the spirit and obi
cations of the Constitution; and the
Fugitive Slave law amended to satisfy both
sections. Mr.. Crittenden thinks these
terms or others embodying the same
principles would kill off the secession
scheme, and be accepted by the great body
Of the Southern people as peace offering
and settlement They have more reason
to recommend them than most of the
southern propositions, and are free from
the obnoxious exaction of protection for
slavery in the territories, so arrogantly
demanded by Mr.. Iverson and that class
of politicians"
PEACE PROPOSITION
The Boston Journal says: 1.-THE whole
North should assemble by accredited rep
resentatives and unanimously adopt the
following resolution, would it not be con-
sidered as giving all reasonable security
for the inviolability of slavery within the
States: fE ta.
Resolved, That the maintenance invi-
olate of the rights of the States, and
especially the right Of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions,
according to its own judgment exclusively,
is essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of our
political fabric depends; and we denounce
the lawless invasion by armed force of
the soil Of any State or Territory, no
matter under what pretext, as among the
greatest of crimes"
Could the cotton States, in order to
assure their people against alleged danger,
ask to the free States or Of the incoming
Republican administration, any more ex-
plicit and satisfactory declaration than
this? And we have been quoting the
foruth resolution in the Chicago platform,
which was freely enunciated without any
request from outside parties, and when no
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