Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-08-02
coNGREss---J. J. cR1TTENDEN.

We have done injustice to Mr.. Crit
tenden's position in reference to the
war, or he has changed that position in
accordance with the popular sentiment
While he was a candidate for Congress
at the special election in June, he was
claimed by the "compromisers," as still
adhearing to his impracticable PROPOSE
tions, and it was declared that he would
make their adoption by Congress the
sole condition Of his support ofthe move
ment for the maintenance of the Union.
He was thereupon glori6ed by the Gin
cinnati Enquirer and its class of papers,
as the greatest statesman and patriot
of the age" And, supposing this to be
his position, We classed him with the
worst and most dangerous of the enc
mics of the Union.
But, either the Enquirer mistook his
position, Or Mr.. c. has, as We said,
wholly changed his ground. For, a
few days ago, he introduced into Con-
gress, the following just and patriotic
resolution:
"Resolced, by the House Of representa-
tires Of the Congress of the United States.
That the present deplorable cirH uar has
been forced upon the country by the DIS
unionists Of the Southern States, now in
revoh against the Constitutional Gouern-
ment, and in arms around the Capital" "
"Thot IN this national emergency, C1n-
gress, banisAing all feeling Of mere passion
or resentment, aciN recollect only its duty
to the ,chole country; that this ,cor is not
'oaged upon our purt IN any spirit Of op-
preston, nor for any purpose Of conquest
or su9jugotioa, nor purpose of ouerthrO'e-
ing or Interfering aeith the rights or es-
toblished institutions Of the States, but to
defend and maintain the supremacy Of the
Constitution, and to prcserre the Union
eoth all the dignity, equality and rights Of
the sereral States unimparei; and that as
soon as these objects are accomplished, the
,car ought to cease"
Whether the unmistakeable condem-
nation of his nlschievous ''compromise,'
by the unanimous voice of all true men,
had anything to do with his abandon
ment of it, and his introduction of this
truly patriotic platform OF not, we
neither know nor care. The resolution
is right, whatever the motive Of the
mover. 1t is platform broad enough
for all Union men to stand upon, and
we are happy to see that it had but four
negative votes in the Senate, two OF
whom objected to the first clause, and
two to the last clause Of the resolution
We notice that the Cincinnati Enquirer
utterly denies the truth of the resolu-
ton, and says the ''Republicans forced
the war upon the nation, and not the
disunionists of the Southern States, as
! declared by MIR. Crittenden.
Mr.. Crittenden can hardly fail of i'm
mort?lity. He has had the happy for
tune of giving out two platforms. The
old one on which the Enquirer and its
class still stand, which proposed tc
settle our troubles by throwing the
blame upon the North, and demanding
that the disunionlsts be appeased by such
radical changes Of the Constitution as
would insure them the absolute contro
of the Government in the future. Ano
now he has given US an entire y new ant
perfectly acceptable one, in which he de
clares the simple truth, that the "wa'
was forced upon the country by the
Southern disunionists, and that it is only
prosecuted by the Government, for ths
sole purpose Of saving the Union
With heart and head, we go for this
| "Critenden rcsoultion." But it must al
ways be understood, that it is the las
one of the platforms upon which VIZ
stand.