Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05

The Republican central organ has issued call
for what it terms Union State Convention" to
meet in this city on the 18th of June for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for the officers of
State, to be voted for at the next general elec-
tion IL closes with the hope "that all good citi-
zens will, for the time put aside party and unite
for the country" That advice is evidently in
for occasionally the telegraph advises us that the
REPUBLICAN members of Congress meet in eau
Gus to direct the affairs of the Government, and
we hear no censure from Republicans for these
evidences of partsanship in the administration of
our public affairs. The appeal of the Republi-
can organ to "put aside party and unite for the
country should have been made and needed du-
ring the session of Congress in le60-6l, when
the troubles which eliminated in the present
civil war could have been compromised, the
Union firmly cemented and Mr.. LINCOLN would
now have been President of happy and united
people. But the Republicans refused to "put
aside party and "unite for the country when
there could have been final settlement of the
controversy upon terms which would have been
satisfactory to seven-eights of the people
of the whole nation. What said Mr..
DOUGLAS on the Ord of January, 1862,
when he stated that the Republicans in Congress
had rejected all overtures which had been Offered
for compromise, and refused to suggest any them
selves. Mark the emphatic words: Hence the
sole responsibility of our disagreement, and the
o,lr a e Ia
ment is with the Republican party That this
is strictly true we present further evidence. On
the 7th Of January, 1861, Mr.. TooNBs address
ed the Senate, and, lin the course of his speech,
said: r.4
But although l insist upon this perfect equality,
yet when it was proposed-as | understand the
Senator from Kentucky now proposes-that the
line of $3.50 shall be extended, acknowledging
and protecting property on the South side of
the line, for the sake of peace, L said to the
Committee of Thirteen, and say here, with 9th
er satisfactory provisions, l would accept it."
On the ID of March, the CoRwIN amendment
being under consideration, Senator PuGH, of
On o, delivered a speech. in which he said;
"The Crittenden proposition has been indorsed
by the almost unan nous vote of the Legislature
V.
islature of the noble old Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia. 1t has been petitioned for by larger
number of electors of the United States than any
proposition that was ever before Congress. i
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 Senators from Missis-
sissippi left this Chamber. heard one of them
who now assumes, at least, to be President OF
the Southern Confederacy, propose 10 accept Il and
10 maintain the Union, ii that proposition could
receive the vote it ought to receive from the 9TH
er 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 first of January,
two thirds vote for the Crittenden resolutions
| in the Chamber would have saved every State in
the Union, but South Carolina"
Mr. PueH said this in the hearing Of SEWARD,
of WADE, of FEssESpES, of TRuMBuLL, of all
the Republican Senators, and not one denied the
truth of his assertion. fa
On the same day Mr.. DoueLss again addressed
the Senate in favor of compromise, and corrobo-
rated the statement of Senator PueH. He said:
"The Senator has said II the Oristenden propo-
stion could have passed early in the session, it
would have saved ell the States except South
Carolina. firmly believe Il would. While the
Crittendcn proposition was not in accordance
with my cherished views, / avowed my readiness
and eagerncss 10 accept it, in order to save the
Union, If We could unite upon It. No man has
labored harder than l have TO get il passed. 1
can confirm the Senator's declaration, that Sena-
tor Davis himself, when on the Committee Of
Thirteen. pas ready at all times to compromise
on the Orittenden proposition. will go further,
and say that Mr.. Toonnbs was also" -.
II the Republicans had, at that time, been will
ing to "put aside party, and unite for the coun-