, 1861-03-08

rmuMPHAL INAUGURATION Of q Republican
This is the language that the North have
used and heard for years, aud by these
enunclations is elected, by the North ALONE
,uiikoni single electoral role from tie south
withoot a single vote of any kind in ten
States, a northern President, On a northern
platform, by northern votes alone. Return
to the Constitution, and all yet may be
well.
REPuBLIoANs IN CoNGREss.-While The
opposition are SO unsparingin in their denim
Citations Of our erring bretbern Of the South
50 bitter in their fierce invective, they Oh
stinately refuse to either listen to any prop.
osition, or propose anything, for settling
our deep trouble. In the same narrow spirit
Of sectional partisanship that framed their
unconstitutional platfom, they hesitate to
abandon it, although it certainly will
plunge the country into the horrors Of civil
war upon the frst attempt to carry out its
obnoxious doctrines. Messrs. Crittenden,
tho American, Douglas, the Popular Sow
srnsy advocate, (. Breckenridge, the Repre-
sentative Of the South, in a spirit worthy Of
the better days Of the Republic, offering up
their parties as a..sacrifce on the altar Of
their common country, have Joined head,
heart, and hand, to rescue the Union from
the Impending Crisis.S the "Irrepressible
Conflict" These three Leaders represent
the sentiment Of twenty-nine hundred thous-
and votes Of the forty-seven hundred thou
sand votes cast at the lato election. From
the bitterly hostile speech of Wade, who
was pat forward BY the Republicans as the
representative of.their policy, to their de-
feat Of Crittenden's resolutions, their sullen
discomfort. theiI acornfal defiance as they
50 hanghtily wear their crests Of victory,
their votes, their speeches, their actions
heartily echo Wade's battle shout-"No
Compromise The men Of that party who
desire TO sink their parllsauship deep be-
meath their patriotism, have become alarm
ed Tbuflow Weed, who before the elee-
tioh was the most irrepressibIe Of the ire
thus severely denOunces his fel-
low Republicans: stssg sasa
If the chances Of any adjustment by
means Of which the Uoion men Of the
border slave States may become encoura-
ged fortified are dying daily we have
ouly 10 express our renewed regrets. Of
he disinclinaiioRof The Republicans In Con.
gress to entertain propositions OF adjust
ment, there is sufficient evidence in the re-
ports Of their proceedings. Nightly, as
/" outside appeals" may be regarded, we
yehtufe 10 express the opinion that, instead
Of standing as tie Republican party has
done for he last fre ,beeks, IN Congress par.
rying propositions, there would have been
wisdom 10 assuming an Affirmative attitude.
The importance Of the question involved
the magnitude Of the interests at stake
the fearfulness Of the couAict that ap-
Proaches- sufficient, 10 our judgemet to
have Justified a forIoard movement. To n
lustrale our meaning: Representative from
the Border Slave States submitted prop.
osition to the Republican Representatives
on which they would stand in the defence
Of the Union. The Republicans in caucus
postponed he consideration Of IL Indefinitely
The proposition contained much to which
there was no objection. Several Of its fea-
lures were entirely acceptable. These, re-
turned in the form Of counter proposition,
might and possibly would, have constituted
he basis Of an ultimate agremeAt.p
Thus, itissoen, according to Republican
authority. that the Republicans refused to
ereR entertain GnyPropositiOn from The Union
LoviHg Border Slare Sta;es, although as
Mr.. Weed SO justly remarks, IL ,Oo,.ld hare
led 10 a settlement.