North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-10-07

ry," ana as Delng lOaueQ Win the DEATH
smell from fields wet with brothers. blood"
Now you even endorse the armng of negroes
for the purpose of plundering and numbering
the white men, women, and children Of the
South. How are the mighty fallen You
talk idly and vainly OF the restraints of
military discipline" among armed negroes,
set on by the inceadiary fanaticism of abol-
tion Generals. By these Generals, white
men have been led in battle, not like the ar
mics OF Christian and civilized nation, but
like m marauding and plundering bands of as
sassins, violating every law of civilized war
fare. How can you hope for better things of
armed negroes led by the same aboli tion ma
rauders ? ..e .....y.
Sir, the bad company into which you have
fallen seems to have rendered you careless in
the statements of facts-a thing which GER
tanly could never with justice have been
said OF you in other days. In a recent ora
tion at the fremont Temple, Boston, You as
serted that the failure of the Crittenden
Compromise was caused, purposely, by the
action Of the Senator'S from the Cotton States
Just the reverse of this is true, for it was the
Republican Senators who purposely caused
the failure Of that just measure, and there.
By Caused the war. The following passage
from the qpeech of Senator Douglas, made in
the Senate Jan. 3, 1861, proves the entire in
correctness of your statement
1 believe this (his plan) to be fair basis
of anicable adjustment. you of the Re.
publican side are not willing to accept this,
nor the proposition of the Senator from Ken
lucky (Mr. Crittenden,) pray tell US what
you are willing to dog | address the inqu-
ry to the Republicans alone, for the reason
that, in the Committee of Thirteen. few days
ago, every member from the South, including
those from the Cotton States (Messrs. Davis
aud Toombs) expressed their readiness to ac-
cep. the proposition of my venerable friend
from Kentucky, Mr.. Crittenden, as a final
settlement of the controversy, it te ndered
and sustained by the Republican members.
Hence the sole responsibility of our Disagree
ment, and the only difficulty in the way of an
amicable adjustment, is with the Republican
party"
That is the truth and it shows that those
with whom you now fraternize, and whose
apologist you have become, are alone respons-
lbe for this barbarous war.
The following passage in the speech Olsen
ator Hugh, of Ohio, delivered on the occasion,
will be read with interest:
The Crlttenden proposition has been en-
dorsed by the almost unanimous vote of the
Legislature of the noble old Common wealth
of Virginia. 1t has been petitioned for by
larger number of electors of the United States
than any proposition that was ever before
Congress. | believe in my heart, to day that
it would carry an overwhelming majority of
the people of my State aye, sir, and of near
ly every State in the Union Before the
Senators from the State of Mississippi left
this Chamber, heard one of them, who now
assumes at least to be President of the South
ern Confederacy, propose to accept it and
maintain the Union, If that proposition could
receive the vote it ought 10 We from the
other side of this Chamber. Therefore, of
all your propnsitions,o of all your amendments.
knowing as do, and knowing that the his.
torian will write it down, at any time before
the lst OF January tw I-thirds vote for the
Crittenden 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 States, which at least would
have broken the whole column of secession. -
Globe, page 1880,
This, sir, settles the question as to who is
to blame for this war, 1t shows that you
have allowed yourself to become the endors-
er and the veuder of the misrepres entations
and falsehoods upon which the administIa-
tion relies to cheat the people into support
of its iniquitious designs. The countenauce
which men like you have given to the usurp-
ers and conspirators has been the chief source
of Llncoln's power to do evil. Left to them
selves, these radical traitors could never
have achieved the ruin they have brought
upon our country. In your past career, you
have often enough warned them. that If they
kept on in their mad course they would de-
stroy their country You have wound ND
by joining their bloody band, and the name
Of Edward Everett must sink in history by
the side of such names as Garrison, Sumner,
Phillips, Seward, Lincoln, and old John
Brown. A true history of the fall of this
Union will one day be written, in which all
the sophistries and lies that cover the pres
ent hour will be swept away, and the men
of this day will stand forth in the light of
truth and justice. Then, sir, the men whom
you denoucnce as traitors and enemies of their
will occupy the proud rank of pa
triots and wise conservators of the nations
honor, while tt e murderous clan of fanatics
and imposters with which you have mixed
your declining days, will sit in the seats of
the condemned and despised. When it is at
last seen that war could not save the Union
that it was never designed to save it that
on the other hand, the war was carried on
for the purpose of destroying not only the
Union, but the Republic itself. then the day