The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-21
FROM WARRINGTON.
tsfKoIAL LooRREspoEDgEoE OF THE DISPATCH I

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, 1900
A prominent Republic as honest as anv Of
az, n,s parry can be, said yesterday to a mem ber
nom Virginia "If you Of the South listen
10 any compromises now, you will repent il.
tel you frankly, we leok upon this nnatter
as game OF skill, and we intend 10 cheat Won
- we can. You think the Union meetings in
boston Indicate Change Of sentiment Why.
any capitalist, whose business is su fFering can
sst up such meeting in a day Public opin-
ion which has been deepening and widening
eiy nour Ior the last thirty or forty years
against slavery in any form, can not be changed
ihefe Is no hope of it. We, who know the
IaIe OF comproInisers, every one of whom has
gone down overwhelmed with oblouuy. fnIt
Hot give any substantial compromise. The
iorm may De there, but the soul will be want
ing"
That this is the game which the Republican.
are paying at this moment in the Crisis Com
a, hie,ee, rs proved beyond the shadow of a
doubt 6y the following extract from Webb's
paper Speaking Of the efforts now being made
10 amend the Constitution, by the Southern
men In Congress, Webb says:
let them try 1t: 1t tc,H conSun. t,,ae ;
In 1or the attempt to change the Constitution: thai
Vs. we wlll assent to the attempt being made, CIV
ing hotice IN advance that we shall do all in our
power 10 prevent its success. And we shall NOT
quarrel with any Republican in Cong ress who
may 1eel disposed TO try the experiment, If he will
onIy give notice Of his intention manfuly TO op-
pose lts being sanctioned by the people. They
tnorouE hly understand the subject, and we have
no iears IN regard to their verdict"
MY oounden duty is to place these facts be-
lore the citizens of Virginia. Let them draw
their own conclusions.
hales speecn, yesterday, commanded little
attention. The buffoon OF the Senate his Mt.
terances lose all their point in consequences OF
that fact he is playing for the Presidency
"heh lne pure abolitionists have superseded
the mild aboltionsm of Lincoln Wade,s
threat 10 coloniZe Mexico and Central America
with free negroes, shows what we of the South
nave 10 expect II We yield TO the Republicans
Ihe Republicans are in high glee to-day
1hey say compromise is certain. And how
VIII 1t be passed Mark well. All the South
ern members of the Crisis Committee with a
few Northern men, will vote tor the compro-
mise, the Republicans not voting or voting
against 1t: 1t was with some such expecta-
tion that Penpa gton cons stituted the commit
tee so that the mildest and most Welding
Sosthern men should be opposed to a ma
Jority consisting of decided Northern men,
Thus the South, in its desire to pacificate, will
be made to cut its own throat.
Mr.. Crittenden's plan tor res toring the Mis-
sourl COMPROMISE, meets with little favor
The old gentleman is sincere; but like all
other men Of his age, he is not up 10 the
wants of the time. Present exigencies de-
mand young, brave, honest men, who are not
cum oered with the ideas of past era.
II seems that Lincoln has made advances
indirectly, to Mr.. Ro. +. Scott, with the view
of securing him as Il member of his Cabinet
lie will not serve in any Cabinet. So l hear.
Mr.. Marks, member Of the Louisiana Lee
gisiature, arrived last night with the vote of
his State. He says that when the Commits
sloner from Mississippi came before the Le-
gislature, he was received with great honor by
both houses, and told that Louisiana acting
IN her sovereign capacity, would leave the
Union OF her own free will at the time she
thought fit and that then she would be most
happy to confer with her sister, Mississippi.
Mr.. NJ. asserts that the people of Louisiana
are ahead even of South Carolina in their de-
termination to leave the Union. ZED.