The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-07-23

DIS III years, esteemed lOf his talents
and beloved for his virtues; this was
"scorned by the gulf States" Why
was it not passed? The party opposed
10 the Administration had the majority
the reason is, they did not want peace
unless they could have independence.
Here are the facts in regard TO the
proposed Compromise. while the
Compromise was pending, Clarke Of
n. Hampshire introduced substitute,
which substitute was virtually the Con-
stitution ofthe United States
five Senators voted for the substitute
and twenty-three against it, thus adopt
ing the substitute, and Of course cut
ting off the original Crittenden Com
promise. Toombs, Davis, Slidell, Wig
fall, lverson and one other Southern
Senator stood by refusing to cote, and
thus a!ioUed the substitute to be adop.
ted, when by voting with the twenty
threef they conld have defeated it bv
four votes, and by uniting with the
twenty-three upon the Crittenden
Amendment, they could hare passed ii
6y four v0teS No sooner was the Clarke
Substitute adopted than these sixSouth-
ern Senators walked deliberately up to
the telegraph Office and dispatched TO
the whole South, that the Crittenden
Compromise was defeated, and all hopes
Of compromise was past"
A Peace Convention was called
the best men of the nation composed
that Convention. But Virginia came
there in the spirit of dictation and not
Of compromise, 50 that nothing could
be done by that body.
Secession was work upon which
some leading minds had settled many
years before; they had labored for it,
by all means in their power. In the
South Carolina Secession Convention,
Mr.. Parker said ut appears to me,
that the public mind is made up to the
great occasion that now awaits US. 1t
is no SPaSmOdic effort that has come sud
denly upon us, but it has been gradual
J. terminating fora long series Of years
until at last it has come to that point
When we may say the matter Is eht.ro-
ly right"
Mr. Ingals said: "Most Of us have
had this matter under consideration
for the last 20 years" Mr. Keitt said:
II have been engaged in this movement
ever since entered political life; l am
content with what has been done to-day,
and content with what will take place
tomorrow. We have carried the body
of this Union to its last resting place.
and now we will drop the flag over its
grave Mr. Rhett said: "The seces-
sion Of South Carolina is not an erent
of a day. It is not anything produced By
Mr.. Lincoln'S election, or By the noa-ere-
cnttOn Of the Stare lar It las been
matter rhich has been gathering lead for
thirty gears"
Thus was this matter deliberately,
and firmly accomplished all efforts at
reconciliation failed. And now what
could the government do but smite
with that sword which it holds not in
vain?
And now what shall be said of those
who oppose the government? What
are they doing? Let the apostle an
swer: "Whosoever therefore resisteth
the power, resisteth the ordinance of
God; and they that resist shall receive
to themselves damnation. III Or if
more ancient authority be demanded
take Ezra I, 2G.
4" Wh0soeucr will not do the law Of thy
God and the lar Of the king, let judg-
ment be executed speedily upon him.
uhether it be unto death, or to JaniSh-
ment, or to colfScation Of goods, or to in
prtSonment,"
Hear it, those who have discouraged
enlistments, and encouraged desertions
and talked Of resisting conscription.
Hear it those who have been joyful
when the battle has gone against the
armies ofthe Union; that have sym
pathized with rebellion, nor breathed
Il prayer for the government in the
hour of its trial Iis resisting the
ordinance of God. 1t tends to the de-
of the government, and the
introdution Of anarchy and utter ruin.
| have spoken so long as to weary
you all; but my heart is full. My
country, yow country is bleeding at
every pore. Lawlessncss, violence,
despotism has arisen against order,
peace and liberty. But when think
of the interest at stake, it seems to me
as if the sacred dust within the graves
of revolutionary fathers demanded
tongue that the cry might arise, " Plead
for the country for which | shed my
blood; )" it seems to me the gaze of the
eyes of unborn millions are fixed upon
me, and the coming nations cry "hand
us the Constitution as it ,0aS when your
fathers gave it to you; hand us
that old flag with not star dimmed,
nor a stripe erased it seems to me |
can see the uplifted hands and stream
ing eyes of the enslaved millions of the
old world, and hear them beseeching
me to plead for the rights Of outraged
and crushed humanity; for the preser-
vation of that country whose free gov
ernmont is their last and only hope.
One word in regard to the end of
this contest. As to time, none can
speak with certainty. None can tell
how much blood must yet be shed
how many of our brothers must die on
the CORY field, and in the crowded hos
pitaI; how many widows and orphans
must be added to the long list of