Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-01-12
SIOUX CITY, IOWA:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l2, 1861
NECESSITY OF COMPROMISE.


1t is in vain tina, an anxious and suffer
ing country looks to Congress for the res,
toration of peace and confidence. While
the pillars Of the republic are lettering to
their fall, and public affairs are every day
becoming confusion worse COMPOUNDED,
those who are charged with the keeping OF
the government seem determined to bring
ruin to our doors, if not by actual and di.
rect effort, at least by stupid inac,ion.--
No demagogus claims-no sane man ex-
poets that the present storm will pass
away without dsruption-probably blood
shed-unless soma measures are speedily
adopted suitable to the emergency. 1t is
idle 20 talk of submitting this controversy
to the arbitrament of the sword. When
secession first assumed visible shape and
form, had Mr.. BUCHANAN been as feady
and active an executiouer as he was when
Democrats seeded from his administrs
ton because Of his Lecompton policy, the
movement nigh. possibly have been etfec-
tually checked. But now that the move.
NEXT has assumed popular character in
nearly one half of the Union and is sup
ported almost unanimously in several
States, it is simply madness to trust in the
strong arm of power. 1t would open a
wound that would tester for generations to
come. There is but one way Of leading
back to harmony and prosperity, and that
10 through consultation aud coneesslon.-
We know the mention Of compromise ex
cites the derson Of extremists and tana.
tics. because they know it would be fatal
to their faverite schemes But this gov.
ernment was founded III a spirit Of com
promise, and in that spirit only can it be
maintained. Politicians have so long aud
persisteutly ridiculed this idea, that now
whom an urgent necessity for compromise
exists, they would rather see the Union
shversd into atoms than yield 1.-THE OF
their prejudices
The people, irrespective of party, are
impatient for a settlement, and it is only
demasogues who say nay and prevent it,
The unbounded joy and enthusiasm with
which the announcement oil an agreement
Ly the com mittee of thirty>three was hail
ed is indicative Of public sentiment, and
shows how warmly and heartily com.
promise would be endorsed by the entire
country, We regret that the republicans
who can SO well afford to be just and gen
erous, repudiate all offers OF adjustment
That some of their leaders are as tho.
roughly inbued with d!sunion as the
Rhetts and Ianceys Of the South, theg
actions strong y argue. They tell us that
to compromise is but to postpone disuni
on-that it will come if not in one day at
lest to the next generation, aud there
are unworthy an American citizen. If a
person is suffering from disease would you
refuse to administer any remedy simply
because it would at most postpone death,
which must come sooner or later? POST
ponement ever is worthy OF patriotic en-
dsavor. 1t will enable US in our rapid
strides to power and greatness to outgrow
these difficulties. The people will not
always slumber nor sleep, and if by any
honorable compromise we can escape the
impending damage before the spirit of
dscord can again take possession of us
the people will have effectually silepced
the clamor of demagogues and punished
tho plotters Of treason.