Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-23
Conclusion of Thursday's Conversational
Proceedings.

UAshiNtIOA, reDIuhIy zl..
SENATE - The Crittenden resolutions
were taken up.
Mr.. Wilson alluded to the Secession move
ment, characteriziDg it with a reasonable
conspiracy, which had its rise thirty years
ago in the notification plot. He then pro-
cGeded to argue that the assertions that the
North hated the South we're not true.
He said that the citizens of Massachusetts,,
and the whole North, have ever treated the
South with kindness and courtesy. New
England especially Massachusetts, had been
singled out for reproach. Massachusetts,
clings to the teachings of Washington and
Adams.
She reads in all history that slavery has
hastened the decay and fall of nations, and
learns in the pages of Plato, Socrates, Burke,
Fox, Humboldt, Washington, Jefferson, and
others testimonies, which deepen her con-
viction against slavery domination and ex-
pansion. He referred to the speech of the
Senator of Louisiana (BeDiaminG when un-
der the pressure Of the scorching arguments
Of the Senator from Oregon (Baker) he lost
his temper and made an assault on Massa-
cbusetts.
Governor Andrew never said the invasion
of Virginia was right, and never had auy
sympathy with it, as the Senator from Lou
isiaDa charged. There was no truth in the
accusation that Massachusetts sent Senators
threats that unless the North change its sent
ments the Union can not remain, and con-
tended that the sentiments Of the North were
those of the Declaration of Independence
ard the founders of the Republic.
The venerable Senator from Kentucky
comes forward as paci6er, with a compro-
mise. He accorded TO the Senator from
Kentucky purity of motive and patriotic in
te1ests, but said the plan for running the
nf uTae M q hu n
unqualified concession, cheat and delu-
sion. The leaders of slavery, through pagan
ism, had fixed their hungry eyes on Cuba,
Mexico and Central America, and had fought
their battles on this question.
They were ANONYMOUSLY beaten by the
people, and then rebelled. The Senator from
Kentucky (Crittenden) proposes also to make
the rule applicable to all the territory here
after to be acquired. The freemen of the
North, who fought the battle in November,
will never accept this.
He (Crittenden) also proposes to insert in
the Constitution a provision that Congress
shall not abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia while it exists in Virginia aud
| Maryla Why should the nation bind
| itself to wait the pleasure Of Virginia. Such
| a proposition is an insult to the people Of the
| United States.
The Senator from Kentucky, seconded by
the Senator from Illinois, proposes that the
elective franchise shall not be exercised by
any persons of the African race. Why is
such proposition made now?
This class of men had exercised the rights
of citizenship in Massachusetts, for eighty
years. and the ancestors of these men fought
with heroic courage in the Revolution for
liberty and independence. Men of the
North could never put the proposition OF
the Senator from Kentucky in the Consti-
| tuition.
They would fear, if they did, the re-
| proaches of insulted reason aud violated
conscience, that their names should be en-.
rolled among those who had betrayed the
cause of the people, and that they would be
consigned to the moral indign alton of history