The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-08-06

South Carolina were not present.
There was, long after this-March
2d-some more voting on the Critten-
den Resolution, but it was considered
as killed after the above vote on the
Clark substitute. 1t was formally
killed March I'd, 1861. The above
statements are taken from the Con-
gressional Globe for 1860, '61, Part l,
pages 29O, 4O4 and 400, and Part 2,
page 1405.
1t is thus seen that, while the Repub-
licans voted steadily against the Crit,
tenden Resolution, the secession Sena-
tors could have carried it had they
been so disposed.
But Mr.. Pugh says that Toombs
asked the Republicans to vote for the,
resolution-which, it lis seen, he de-
clined to vote for, himself Let us see
precisely what Toombs said. In his
speech January Z, 1861, he said II
said to the Committee of Thirteen, and
1 say here, that NTH other satisfactory
provisions, / would accept the Critten-
den Resolution. If that or some other
arrangement is not made, am for i'm
mediate action. We are as ready no,r
to fight as zoe shall erer be. Il * = 7
,oiN not buy shameful peace; I wiU
haze equality or war Georgia is on the
aoar path and demands a fuN and final
settlement this time" Previously, in
the same speech, he said, addressing
the Republican Senators And nor
you see the glittering bayonet, and you
hear the tramp Of armed men from your
capital to the Rio Grande. It's sight
that gladdenS the eyes and cheers the
heart Of other millions ready to second
Them" Verify, Mr.. Pugh is right,
Toombs did ask the Republicans to
vote for the Crittenden Resolution
But Mr.. Pugh further says, that Doug
las stated in the hearing Of Toombs
and Davis, that they were ready to ac-
cept the Crittenden Resolution. Mr..
Douglas exact language Speech in the
Senate January 3, 1861 was as fol-
lows: " In the Committee of Thirteen,
a few days ago, every member from
the South, including those from the
Cotton States (Toombs and Davis) ex-
pressed their readiness to accept the
proposition of my venerable friend,
Mr.. Crittenden, as final settlement Of
the controversy, If rendered and suS-
tanned By the Republican members
From all this it appears that Toombs
and Davis, by their votes, could have
had the Crittcnden Resolution, but
they would not vote. 1t further ap-
pears that they were willing, in the
exercise of a gracious condescension
to accept it if humbly "tendered and
sustained" by the Republicans.
To superinduce this degree of humil-
ity, Mr.. Toombs made to the Republi-
cans the above courteous request. Yet,
Mr.. Pugh says the Republican mem
bers should have complied.
Why did he not comply when the
same request, in principle, was made
to him at Charleston, in much the same
manner? Why, then, did he make an
insurrection, and, in words ofburning
cloauence, declare to the South that
the Northern Democrats were not yet
ready to lay their hands on theirmouths,
and their mouths in the dust?
How did he dare to ask the Republi-
cans to do that, as Legislators, which
he as a partisan scorned to DO?
The Republicans were prepared for
no such humiliation. But there were
other reasons why they would not
vote for the Crittenden Resolution -
Mr.. Pugh is reported as saying that it
was the same as the Missouri Compro-
mise. Surely this is mistake Of the
reporter. Mr.. Pugh knows better
The Missouri Compromise applied alone
to the Louisiana Purchase the Critten.
den Resolution to all our present and
all future territories. The former pro-
hibited slavery north oflatitude 360 3O'
and was silent as to territory south of
that line, leaving that, according to
Republican doctrine, free by operation
of the Constitution, and free or slave as
the people thereof should determine,
according to the Douglas doctrine
The Crittenden Resolution declared
that, "In all the territory noD held or
hereafter to be acquired south Of said line
of latitude, slavery of the african race is
hereby recognized as erjSting and shall
not be interfered Vith By Congress, bit
shall be protected as PROPERTY By all
departments of the Territorial Gouern-
ment during its continuance.' There
were also other provisions in the Crit
tenden Resolution, such as allowing
the transit of slaves through the free
States, not to befound in The Missouri
Compromise. The Republicans were
never in favor of the Missouri Compro-
mise, but it having become law & the
South having received its part of the
consideration, they denounced, as a
breach Of plighted faith, the act which
sought to deprive the North. of its con-
sideration. t.r
But the Crittenden Resolution was
very different from that Itwas awide
departure from the policy of the faith
ers, which made slavery local and free
dom national, which was so sensitive
that it would not permit the word
slave in the Constitution. Nr
The Crittenden Resolution national
lied slavery it declared human beings
property it put the offensive word
''slavery" into the Constitution; it made
every man in the nation responsible