Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-01

lucky now pGOpOScS-uIlat llc inc oO'oV
shall be extended acknowledging and
protecting our property on the South side
of the line, for the sake Of peace, / said
10 tie CommWc J 7Hirteep, and / sag
herc, wiH oihcr Sotjgfactory provisions, /
woaid accept IT,"
On the 2l of March, the Corwin
amendment, being under consideration,
Senator Pugh Of Ohio, delivered a speech
in which he said
"l'hc Crittcnden proposition has been
indorsed by the almost unanimous vote
of the Legislature of Kentucky. 1t has
been indorsed by the Legislature of the
noble old Commonwealth of Virginia.
1t has been petitioned for by largernum-
Der of electors Of the United States than
any proposition that was ever before Con
gress. believe in my heart, to day, that
it would carry an overwhelming majority
Of the people Of my State, aye, sir, and
Of nearly every other State in the Union.
Before the Senator's from the State Of
Mississippi left this Chamber, heard
one Of them who now assumes, at least
to be President of the Southern Conled =
cracy, propose to accept it and to main
tain the Union, if that proposition could
receive the vote it ought to receive from
the other side of this chamber. There
fore, Of ali your propositions, Of all your
amendments, knowing as | do, and
knowing that the historian will write it
down, at any time before the 1st of Jan
uary, two-thirds vote for the Critton-
den resolutions in the chamber, would
have saved every State in the Union, but
South Carolina"
Mr., Pugh said this in the hearing OF
Seward, Of Wade, of Fessenden, of
Trumbull, Of all the Republican Senators
and not one denied the truth Of bis asser-
| ton.
On the same day Mr.. Douglas again
addressed the Senate in favor 0! com
promise, and coroboratcd the statements
Of Senator Pugh. lie said
"Thc Senator has said if the Critten-
den proposition could have passed early
in the session, it would have saved all
the States, except South Carolina. |
firmly believe it would. While the Crit
tcnden proposition was not in accordance
with my views, ! avowed my readiness
and cagcrness TO accept it, in order to
save the Union, if we conld unite uE on
it. No man has labored harder than !
have to get it passed. ! can confirm the
Senator's declaration, that Senator Da-
Wis himself, when on the Committee of
Thirtccn, UdS rcady at alt GmcS, to com
promise on the Crittcndcn proposition.
| will go further, and say Mr.. Ioombs
was also"
These declarations forever settle the
question, as a point of history, that jeff
Davis, Mr.. loomhs, and every southern
member on the Committee of Thirteen,
expressed their readiness to accept the
Crittendcn Compromise, as the basis Of a
settlement of the dispute between the
North and South, whenever it should be
offered with assurances that it would be
faithfully observed.
On whom rests the responsibility Of
rejecting this great measure of pacica-
ton AMI Of preservation of the Union
The testimony Of Mr.. Douglas, on this
point is direct and positive. Says he :
The sole responsibility of our disagree
ment, and the only difficulty in the way
of an amicablc adjustment, is with the
Republican party"
We have shown conclusvcly that with
the Republican party rests the response
hiIity of n failure to compromise all our
difficulties in Congress. But we will
pursue the object further and establish
their guilt still moro clearly. Virginia
made a proposition to the border free and
slave States to send delegates to Peace
! Convention to be held at Washington.
Delegates were sent from most of the
States, and it was thought for time that
the Convention would be able to agree
upon plan by which the border Sta cs
could be retained in the Union and the
Cotton States brought back
1t was then that Senator Chandler
wrote the following letter to the Cover
nor of Michigan;
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1861.
"MY DEAR Governor Gov. Bng
ham and myself tolcgraphcd You on Sat
urday, at the request of MaSSachusctt
and New York, to send delegates to tn
/ NdNN VI r'lll l'IbHllNN NplC ltoS, H'-
admit that we wero right and they wrong
that no Republican State should hav
sent delegates but they are here an
can't get away, Ohio, Indiana, Rhod
Island are caving in, and there is som
danger OF Illinois, and now they beg Il
for Gods sake, to come to their rescue
and Sape tie REPUBLICAN PARTY from up
, ture. | hope you will send ShB' Jackc
: : men or none. The whole thing was got
ton up against my Judgment and advice
aud will end in thin smoke. Still hop
as matter of courtesy to some of on
errng brethren, that YOU will send tn
delegates, Truly our friend
Il. CHANDLER.
His EXcelIency, AUSTIN BLAIR.
Il. S. Some of tho manufacturing State
think that afght Vouid be o,ctal, JVaL
OFT a hHie blood ietihg, this Union teoui
not be ,oorth a carSe."
Tho "StV6acked" men wore sent an
the Convention was broken up. Th
, "aV backed" men "saved the Rcpublica
party from rupture" and the Peace Con
gross ended "in thin smoke"
a "Wo do not charge that the Rcpubl
cans commenced the war, but we chars
that they prevented it from being averte,
All other parties were willing to yield
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