Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-08-13

0i ArlAtenden compromise KoQla haFe bes
Z acceptable to the South would have il
> sured peace; preserved the Union; prs
= vented war; taxation; and preserved th
9 harmony of the ooaassy; bus Repabliean
q lem had the poWsx ia Congress 70 defea
: Fit, and did deseat il. II Is stated upo
. fths authority of Mr.. Latham's speae
: snd of Andy Johnson, and we have see
] IL repeated Ia every Republican journal
! that il SenLhern Saaaturs had staid ami
voted for the Crittepden Compromise
would have been adopted. This is 40
true. The tsing was impossible withou
q Republicans voted for it, and they al
had deelaFed their determination not ID
] | do 30. -..s
r Let Us see how the case stood
+ 4hafe we're thirty-tbrea States repre-
STATED by sixsy- SIX Senator's on the Aoor
during the second session Of the thirty.
sixth Congress.
I The Federal Constitution, Art. Y, sec
tloa !. says It requires Thirds Of both
| Ii aaaes 10 propose amendments to that
instr Iment. .-.s,s.~e.... .s..... .sts...s.s.
| Now, passing BY the utter impossibility
OF getting the Criklended Compromise
resolutions through the hopeiesaly Black
Republican House Of Representative 1t
required forty four vptea 10 pass il thro,
the Senate, The Crittenden Compromise,
In full Senate, had but thirty seven or
thirty eight votes at most. OF these the
AfseeE Southern States had thirty. There
we're seven Or eight Democrats from the
North who could be calculated upon to
m0 FFp i Il n
Bright, of Ind; Douglas, of fll.; Gwinn
and Latham, of GAL; pugh, Of Ohio;
Lanes of Oregon, and Rice, of Mime
sofa.
By any rules Of arithmetic it would be
i'm possible 10 stretch these thirty eight
votes to forty-four. Where were the OH
er six votes 70 eome from to pass the
CrIttcuden resolutions eTen through the
Senate?
The Southern Senators knew il could
nat be aeHe, hence EEaaHy ef them left in
daSpaiT. Others declined Go Yute. What
THEY wanted and what the COUNTRY
wanted, was not the shadow of com
pramtsc passing thHvugn Congress 10 be
defeated by Republicans in their State
Legislatures; bas an assurance that the
slavery agitation should cease. They
wanted an assurance that Republican
deIuagogues would no longer use It to ag-
iEate the country. This they were assur-
ed coa!d not be ualess the representatives
Of lha Rapublican party in Congress voted
for the Crittenden Compromise. Ii Re-
puhhcans refused TO do so, OF course they
would go before the country in opposition
to as nd2ption; and as it rtqnired three |
tgiIihS of The State LegistaI44rys 10 ratifv |
AMI make it . part Of tAe C0nsti.nliou, il |
would he defeated. With Kansas in the |
UsioR the number of States would be |
thirty-four, requiring tweney-six States
TO FAtffy. WIKI Republioanism on the
Increase in the North where could rea-
sonable man look for q ratification of the
Cnitendou Compromise by eleven free
States oi the NorthF
Ipd they ind tha. assurance in the fact !
tha. NJ the very next session Of Congress
the places Of three Democrats then in the
Senate would be filed by Renubiicaus2
On the 4th of March, 1861, the place Of
Big, Of Pa, vas 10 be filled by Edgar
Cuwan; Of Fitch, Of Indiana, by Henry
Lam; aud Of Pugh, of Ohio, by Salmon
=. Iausr. Besides Kansas was certain
10 send two Republicans. This would
giT si4ty-cEEAt asasEOrs, tuirty- four
Democrats aud thIr!y-fVar r pubAcaGs,
thus t,iag the Senate and giving the
casing vote - the Vsce President Ham
lin.
Was this prospect that would assure
ea>oaaJie men that the Cristenden Com
promise could he carried through twenty
SIX stats Legislatures without a back
down on the part of RepubIicansY The
man who coud see any Such prospect
ahead must certainly have faith like a
grain of mustard seed. Il was this stern
determination on the part OF Republicans
70 gssrsevere in she slavery agitation thai
the friends Of the Crittenden
proposition aad let 1t 60 By default.
The following was the vote upon the
question of adopting the resolutions tax
m in Senate March ID, 1861. IL will be
aotieed thai not single Republican voted
for them:
''YEAs-Messrs. Bayard, Biglcr, Bright,
Jrittendsn, Douglas, Gwin, Hunter,
Of Tenn, KeaHejy, Lane,
latham, Mason, Nieholsou, Polk, puxh,
tiee, Sebastian, Thompson and Wig
lalI-l9.
"NArs--Aiessrs. anthony, Bingham,
Chandler, Clask, Dixouy Dooiittie, Oar
zee, Fessenden,- Foots, Fogter, Grimes,
Harlan, kings Morrill, Sumner, Ten
syek, T5umbutl, Wade, Wilkinson and
y WILSON, >" ffp. f4G5 If Gfobe.1 u T.
THE "cLARK SUBSTITUTE"
/ !
IhH Republican press and speakers
lavN grossly misrepreaented the fscta hr