The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-05-21
who Refused a just Compromise.


vet after two years of war, who can say
we are any nearer victory than when
Mr.. Lincoln and his Congress inaugu-
rated it by declaring in advance
against. "aU compromise ?" s. ~.
CAN'T s
''All hopes of compromise with the
cotton states was abandoned when they
assumed the position that the separa-
ton, of the Union was complete and
final, and that they never would con-
sent to reconstruction in any contin-
gency-not even if we would furnish
them with blank sheet of paper, and
permit them to inscribe their own
terms. "-Senator Douglas.
Either Senator Douglas, when he
dictated the above paragraph, was
sadly mistaken, or else s. N. CAN'T
tells wilful falsehood. Cass County
Republican.
This won't do. Senator Douglas
died in June 1861. This was several
months after actual Rebellion and war
had transpired. This then was his
opinion after the "Crittenden Amend
ment" had been defeated in Congress
and the Peace Measures of the "Peace
Congress had been rejected by the
House of Representatives, by the radi-
cal War Abolitionists p Doaoagiac
Herald.
As Joe Bagstock would say "there's
edication for you; there's farming" Be-
cause Douglas died in "June 1861"
he of course meant that "they (the
Southern States) assumed the position
that the separation was complete after
the "Crittenden Compromise and Peace
measures had been defeated by the radi-
cal abolitionists." This is species
of reasoning that does fall honor to the
head from whence it animated. But
unfortunately for CAN'T, Mr.. Douglas
did not stop when he had written the
above. In the same letter from which
we took the above paragraph, Mr..
Douglas tells us how and when they
assumed the position that separation
was complete" We quote:
Still the hope was cherished that
reasonable and satisfactory terms of
adjustment could be agreed upon with
Tennessee, North Carolina and the
Border States, and that whatever terms
would prove satisfactory to these
States, would create Union party in
the Cotton States which would be pow
erful enough, at the ballot box, to de-
stroy the revolutionary Government,
and bring those States back into the
Union by the voice of their own people.
This hope was cherished by Union
men North and South, and was never
abandoned until actual war was levied
at Charleston, and the authoritative
announcement made by the revolu-
tionary government at Montgomery,
that the secession flag would be planted
upon the walls of the capitol at Wash
ington, and proclamation issued, in
vlting the pirates of the world to prey
upon the commerce of the United
States.
| These startling facts, taken in con-
nection with the boastful announce
meDt that the ravages of war and car
mage should be transferred from the
cottonfields OF the South to the wheat
fields and corn6elds of the North, fur
nish conclusive evidence that it was
the fixed purpose of the secessionists
utterly to destroy the Government of
our fathers, and obliterate the United
States from the map of the world.
| Here, then, we have it distinctly set
forth when Mr.. Douglas came to the
conclusion that all compromise was al
an end. And the reader will notice
that in the above, Mr.. Douglas says
never word about abolitionists" OF
&" radical Republicans" He says the
hope of compromise was cherished un-
til the authoritative announcement
was made;" by whom, why by the
revolutionary Government, that the
secession flag would be planted upon
the capital wall at Washington" But
not word about "radical abolition.
lists" or abolitionists of any kind and
it is not to be supposed that he had
such unbounded affection for either alb
olitionists or Republicans, that be
would endeavor to serene them from
J all blame, if, as CAN'T says, they were
really guilty of bringing this war upor
the country. Any one at all CONVEX
SAINT with Mr. Douglas history would
certainly suppose that he would MOI
/ only have been the first, but the loudes
} in his denunciation of them. And. i.
, it not little strange that if this wa,
his opinion after the Crittender
Amendment had been defeated" ant
the "Peace Measures rejected" h,
did not say SO, just by way of change
instead of denouncing these southern
j traitors, over whose great acrongs thu
, secession sympathizing sigher after
! monarchy SO loudly mourns.
Again, in a speech delivered prev