Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-19
Greeley on Compromise.

Prom the New York Tribune, December l2!h
But will you do nothing, concede nothing,
70 "ssve the Union?" we are asked. Our
reply is, that we mean to remain in and be
loyal to the Union shall gladly see all
do the same: but we will hire nobody, bride
nobody pay nobody. cajole nobody, to remain IN It,
We desire no other Union than one that Is just and
eoual If that we have is not such a one, 1t ought
not to endure If its blessings are indeed partial
and one sided-as is yehemently alleged, but as we
do not believe-then it ought to pass away or be
essentially ma6ifed. But to make concessions in
voving vita! principles because some State or sec
ton threatens to secede is to ncite constant bully
ing and menace by proffering rewards for turbu-
lence and giving bountes for treason. Hence we
have not regarded with lively appreciation the rals
ing of the House Committee Of Thirty-Ihree In It's
very best aspect, the Committee implies tmldlty and
apologv on the part of certain supporters OF Mr.
Lincoln Every demand for some explanation or
qualification of Lincoln's success is IN effect an
assumption that we have right to be Republican or
that Republicanlsm shall really mean nothing. And
as we are not sorry that Lincoln Is elected nor that
he stands on the Chicago Platform that we have
done what we could to effect this result, we do not
propose to sit personally the stool of repentance
nor vet to place friends there. We regret that
the people of any State or section should hate the
Union; but if any do, we cannot help IT, ana as
we ask no one TO suppress trampe on his conVlc-
lions in order TO keep in the UniOn So we do not
propose to suppress sacrifice our CONVICTIONS IN
order to keep any else in.
Mr.. Senator Crittenden-a statesman whom all re-
spect and esteem is said to be about 10 propose to
save the Union by a new Compromise, whereof the
gst is an extension of the Missouri line TO the "a
ciie Ocean. We trust no such compromise will be
made-at all events, that it will not be made by the
aid of the Republican votes. This is old friend
with new faee-"Monsieur Toason come again"
So long apoas 1917 Jan l5th) the bill organizing the
Territory of Oregon being before the House-Gen.
Burt of S. C. moved lin effect this same extension,
and it was voted down by ia nays to 50 yeas
every Wing from the free states. with all the DEM
ocrats from the free States but five voting nay Mr.
Douglas next Aug. l5th) moved to extend that line
TO the Pacific on a direct proposition, which the SEN
ate adopted-yeas 80, nays 81 but, on reaching the
House it was there again decisively reJected-yeas
50 only three of them from the free States); nays
l2I The Senate then receded-29 TO 25-and the
bill passed excluding slavery pegapptorily from
Oregon not because that Territorf*was North OF
Sc : 30 min. but because it was not deemed auNl-
sable to let slavery go there The proposition (lh
words or in effect was made at least twice alIer-
wards with varying success in the Senate out
always defeated in the House, where it never once
1--WE think received Wing vote from the free
States and rarely or never more than three to fye
votes from free State Democrats. If the free States
were ever decided and hearty any point, they
have been 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 they deliberately and repeat
edlv refused to do when inoffensivey solicited they
should not now be bullied into doing by threats of
dssolving the Union And we intend that they shall
not
We say this with the highest regard for Mr.. Crit
tendon whose course has been consistent and patrl-
otto from first to last He stands where he has
ALWAYS stood and acts as he has felt and thought
from the first So do we.