Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-31
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The Republicans are iercely denounced
as refusing all concessions, and suffering
ithe Union to go to pieces rather than agree
TO compromise in which partizan non-es-
sentials would be sacrificed.
Thettruth Is the only sound and praeti-
cable suggestions of a settlement Of sec
tional difficulties have come from Repub
llicacs.
Charles Francis dams. on the commit
tee of Thirty Three, labored heroicallyf to
cOnciliate the rage of the factions. But
his Statesmap-likeg propositions were. all
most unheeded by the Representatives Of the
South. They refused to meet him half
way. -'s
SIr Stewards exceeding able and dis
prssiOnate speech, pronounced even by the
New York Herald .'eminently conciGiatory,"
in which he said that every political name
and thing should be subordinate to Union,
and SO far as be was concerned would be
so, has not had respectful hearing in the
South. The New Orleand Pieayune is the
only Southern paper of any importance
that has published it. The rest have given
brief and imperfect abstracts, or have gar
bled 1t for purposes of perversion.
The men who talk 50 loudly and de-
nounce the Republicans so vindictively as
refusing to surrender IL Partizan point of
ceremony for the sake of the country, have
proposed but one Compromise, and that an
utterly untennble and impracttcable, one
the Crittendeu Compromise-which would
put into the Consultation that the terrific
rial government shall protect slavery in all
territory now possessed or hereafter to be
acquired, South of 36e BOZ This means,
ms Mr.. Breckenridge had the unaccountable
honesty to say, in substance and almost in
terms, the conquest OF Mexico for the ges-
Enlistment of slavery. We have repeat
eddy shown, that If three of the States now
in the Union, would refuse to endorse this
proposed amendment, it would fail. The
presumption is therefore unavoidable, that
those who are pressing it have some ulte-
rior purpose.
On the other hand, the Republicans have
made propositions for a settlement Of trou-
bles that would be satisfactory to every
reasonable and fair man.
They have proposed:
LIST. To admit the disputed territory
with or without slavery, rs may be deter
mined by the people.
End. To repeal all laws in Republican
States that are in contravention of Consti-
tutioual laws, and to make no opposition
to the enforcement OF the Fugitive Slave
Law.
Sd. To amend the Constitution so as to
explicitly declare the inviolnbility Of sla-
very in the States where it exists under
the laws thereof, unless by consent of
those Statcs-to declare that slavery shall
not he abolished in the District Of Coluu-
bia so long as it exists in Maryland, or at
any time without the compensation OF the
owners-and thatit shall not be interfered
with in the dock-yards, or elsewhere in
Federal property in Slave States.
4th. Compensation to owners of fugi-
tive slaves when the fugitiyes are rescued
from the officers of the law.
All these things have been rendered by
Republicans, for the sake of peace-ten-
dercd in spirit of concession and mag
nanimity, when the mcnacing position of
their opponents, and the overt acts of dis
loyalty to the Government, on the part of
those threatening to break the Union,
would have justified in them an attitude of
absolute defiance.
When the history of the last six days is
written, as the generations that are to run
their course on this continent shall read
it, the wonder will be, not that the party
which had Just elected u President was
incorporating in the midst of conspi-
racy and revolution, but that that party
made such frequent and generous over
lures, to be received with such misappre-
hensiOn Nnd coGlumely. And this posi-
ton of the party can only be accounted
for aud justified, by tho consideration that
the cxertion of the Union men of the South
in their hard battles against the rampant
delusion of the hour, were deeply sympa-
thised with and fully appreciated, in the
Northern States and BY Republican states
men.