Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1861-02-20

II A"s olcHsc WOulds by&all ScnSi
o1e persons, bc pronounced as iniunan ani
aln INV Such is Tie, condition 4of tho 70
cae.t'n92 States, in reference to the oencru
government. While son the surfacc Of affairs
inns seeding movement seems to Ia not n,,,,
POPULAR but almost unanimous. it is ncver
thcesS fact, that there u.s. in ,ll 49,,
states, 4, y large, ann powerful class Of TIM neo
PIE VINO do not sympatl,iyc at Al, in ,hf
movement. They comprise the conscrv,,;v,
ana moral Classes; the patriotic and un;or
1'','; cl'@enS' men who justly appreciate
' ~. "cs''e 20 preserve the benefits of the
uh'on' IL Is true that the class have not
as 5et' ossn able to make their influence
e't WIN s9ilicient force to stem :hc tide o.
secession out 1t 'sfcqualyf true that suc,
a Grass does c1'st-that they arc bcyinnino
70 to, ra!ly and move in the right. DIRECTION
ana that II time De only given them. thcy
Will yet be fable, no. only to check :ths dis
""'o" movement, but eventually to br;np
BACK The seeding States. 10 enable them
Ito 90 ms, they must have a footing &c
ssana upon; and hence they, asked Of north.
crn moEbels snch concessions as will cnah,e
,''e'n |" snow the people Of the south, who
.,: oee" ce'uued and rendered mad bv the
~ Ct tho disu,1on leaders
.na 'heY nave really nothing to fear from
,ho po''cy ofthc incoming administration
/ nc t'e same time they do not AK the Ka.
p""'cahs 10 sacrifice any practical alyan.
'ase or principle. This is the POSITION q
an me Union men Of the border States al
whom johnson, E,herulge and Nelson. OF
cnn1SSsee, !Gllmer, OF North Carolina, Ad.
ANS, Moore and Anderson, of kcntucLv
Al'lls"n and Clemens; OF Virginia. Hamilton
,ot Iexas, Barrett, of Missouri. Bonl;vnv
%" ,1, LOUISIANA, and others are a fair ,yne -
lleSe men are true, patrio tic and Union
loving; men: They are willing and ready to
meet ard fight the disunion movement, and
only ask that the north shall not render
them power less by cxaspcrating. the. South
err, people,; resortiagto coercive measures,
be:oSe they have time to, operate uqpn til.
public mind there. l. does seem to mo
that everys nsiblo man ouyl.t to DO. willinu
70 cooperate with them in such a work
A!rcady the good effects Of their efforts is
being seen in Tcnncssce, Kentucky, Mary.
land, and more particularly in the election
III Virginia; on the 4;h instant. That cleo
tion is looked upon as practically accidino
the course of the border Slave States, and
~ lact sounding the death knell of disunion.
Still: VIC. must not deceive. ourselves by
this apparent victory, nor loose its practical
fruits 10Y too ,hasty action, or by refusing
now TO grant what the Border States ask,
In fact, it was ouly npon the ASSURANCE that
this should be granted them, that This resal,
was obtained. Had the people Of Virginia
been satisfied that no! concession would be
made by tho North, the disunion ticket
would have been overwhelmingly, elected,
and as it is, the Union men are svch only on
the conditions that their reasonable reoncsitss
should be complied with. So too Of tho
Union men Of the other border States. And
the real question now IS, whether the North
Will consent to such an arrangement as shall
satiSfytho border States, and retain them
within tho Union, or by refusing to do this,
let them 50 with seeding States; for no
matter whether justifiab!o or not: sub, IL,
Mo< efent, w;Nfte Mfir .Qc;ion. OF course, nc
one o, thinks of trying to pacify the seeding
8 hy any sort ola compromise. -
W the various compromises proposed, it
Is difficult to tell, which will be likely to be
adopted probably rot either, exactly Is
they now stand, but instead, one embracing
In part the features OF several. Tho Crit
'tenden plan appears to be most popular in
tho country: if wo arc to Judge by the mum
Der Of petitions sent in asking for it's adop-
ton; but is evident that the people did not
understand it as applying to all 7tr,3r:,t5ru
Hereafter TO B: aclnirzL When it is distinct.
y understood that all our future acquisitions
Of Territory will in all human probability
be south or 6 deg: 80 min, it will be at
once seen that this.i* simply proposition
to pledge:in advance, all Territory hereafter
acquired, to slavery! OF course no such
proposition will be entertained by Republi-
cans for a moment; and hence it is unneces-
sary to waste time in talking further about
this ava 80! ~ =,
The next, plan, is the restoration cf the
Missouri Compromise Inc, simply. With
this the border State men say they will be
satisfied, accompanied with a constitutional
guaranty that slavery in the States shall not
be intcrfercd with by tho General Govern
ment, and which everybody is willing to
give, as no such power is claimed by any
one now, and TO attempt to exercise it, is
expressly denounced now in the Chicago
platform. This many Of the Republicans
say they arc willing to give particularly
those from the border free States. I am
aware that ultra Republicans object to- this,
as backing down; but tho conservative por-
ton do dot so consider it. They say tho
Republican party was formed, in opposition
to, and because of the repeal Of that line and
the attempt of the. Democrats to extend
slavery into the free Territory north oft
This last attempt VIC have defeated, By Tic!
contest in Kansas. She is now a free State
in the Union. II therefore, We now compel
them to come to us and ask for a restoration
OF that line, that certainly is triumph for
us, and not for them. That would leave the
condition Of. the Territory. south of it also
yc to be decided; and We could Keep sla-
very out IF it BY the same means by which it.
was kept out Of Kansas This lastider also
receives great strength from the fact that We
shall be in posse sson Of the government, and
instead OF its patronage, influence and army
used against freedom there, we can use
them in favor Of it. In fact the great OBJ
lection to this plan is, that it DIES MT settle.
the slavery question. II would have it as
before, bone Of contention still; and what
everybody desires, is TO sec it finally dis.
posed Of AS to New Mexico ever becoming,
or 1T least remaining a slave State no one
has any feac. The great influences of the
climate and soil have already settled that
question. Even il admitted to day as a slave
State, it would not in all human probability, ,
remain so ten hears. With q most iniamo1sa