North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-10-01
WHO DEFEATED the COMPROMISE .


the Crittenden Compromise had been adopt
ed by Congress and submitted to the people,
the desola.ing war in which the country is
now engaged, would have been avoided
But the Republican Porty, its leaders and
it's representatives in Congress, were deter
mined, that no compromise should be submit
ted to the people. They voted against the
Crlttenden Compromise measures in Con-
gress, and defeated them, and they are re-
sponsible for the failure of this patriotic and
humane effort to prevent bloody conflict in
the country. In proof of this position the
evidence is so full and unmstakable, the
Iacts 80 plain and apparent, that all must be
convinced who will look at the official rec
ord on the subject
Here is the vote by which the Crttenden
Resolutions were defeated. 1t will be seen
that euery Republican in the Senate roted
agains. them.
Yeas-Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bright,
Crittenden. Douglas, Gwin, Hunter, johnson
of Tennessee, Kennedy, Lane, Latham, Ma
son, Nicholson, Polk, Pugh Rice, Sebastian,
Thomson and Wigfall-18.
Nays-Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Chan
dler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle, Durkee, Fes-
sender, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Harlan, King,
Morrill, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Will
son, Wade and Wilkinson-20.
In order that the loyal and patriotic men
Of this county may understand the import
ance of these Resolutions, and what would
| have been the effect of their ready and hon
est adoption by the Representatives from the
| Northern States, we call attention to the fol-
| lowing extracts from the speeches of Senator
Pugh, of Ohio, and Senator Douglas, of Hi
| nos, delivered on that occasion. Senator
| Pugh said " "
"The Crittenden proposition has been in
dorsed by the almost unanimous vote of the
Legislature of Kentucky. 1t has been in
dorsed by the Legislature of the noble old
| Commonwealth Of Virginia. II has been pc
titioned for by large number of electors of
the United States that any proposition that
was ever before Congress. I believe in my
heart, to-day, that 1t would carry an over
whelming majority of the people of my State /;
| aye, sir, and of nearly every State in the I'm
ion. Before the Senator's from the State of
Mississippi left this chamber, heard one Of
them, arho nop assumes at least to be Presi-
dent the Southern Contederacu, proposed
| to accept 1t and maintain the Union If that
proposition could recire the rote IL ought to
receire from the other side Of this chamber.
Therefore, of all your propositions, of all your
amendments, knowing as do, and knowing
that the historian will write it down, at
any time before the lst of January, a two
third vote for the Crittendon resolutions in
| this chamber would have saved every State
in the Union but South Carolina Georgia
would be here by her representatives, and
Louisiana also-those two great Staes which
at least would have broken the whole column
of secession.--[p. 1880, Gtobe.l
On the same subject Senator Douglas
spoke as follows:
'The Senator (Mr. Pugh) has said that if
passed early in the session, it would have
saved all the States except South Carolina
firmly believe it would. While the Crit
tenden proposition was not in accordance
with my cherished views, | avowed my read
mess and eagerness to accept it in order to
save the Union, if we could unite upon it. |
can confirm the Senator's declaration that
Senator Davis himself, when on that Com
mittee of Thirteen, was ready, at all times,
to compromise on the Crittenden proposition
qrM go further and say that Dir. 7oomb,
a1as also."-[p. 1881 Giobe.l
From these facts two important positions
are fully sustained: first, that the Critten-
den Compromise was defeated by Republican
rotes and second, that the adoption of those
Compromise resolutions would have saved to
the Union every Southern State, with per-
haps the single exception of South Carolina.
This the Republican Senators were told, this
they kneao, and yet because they were pledg
ed to the Chicago Platform and opposed to
slavery, they said let the Union slide," and
defeated the Crlttenden Compromise. The
result of their action on that occasion is be-
fore the country written in characters Of
blood, and the people at the coming election
will hold them responsible for this wilfu
sacrifice of all the best interests of the coun
try on the altar of partisan hate and political
rancor. The Crittenden Compromise was
defeated by Republican votes, and by this
act they proved that to them the supposed
welfare of few negroes was of more import
ance than the Union the Constitution, and
the peace, happiness and prosperity ofthir-
ty million Of aohite men, BY their own acts
let them be judged.
E9 Colonel Christian, of the Twenty