The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-03-12
Compromise In 1861.


breath in refuting the Seymourite as
sumption that the present War might
have been averted by the acquisccence
of the North in what is called 1.-THE Crit
tenden Compromise"-that is, by giving
slavery warranty deed of all present and
future territory Of the Union South of
the parallel of SO dogs. 80 min. North
As we never had any more
idea of making any such surrender than
the Slave power had Of accepting it, We
have not deemed the subject Of any seri
GUS importance. The simple fact is, that
the Slavery Propagandists Of the South
had found their long sought excuse ADD
opportunity for breaking up the Union,
and they were determined not to let them
pass unimproved. This is the way they
talked in Congress during the session
which interviewed between Mr.. Lincoln's
election aud his inauguration:
Mr.. O.. r. Singleton of Miss. said
(Dec. 4, 1S60-second day Of the Ses.
stony:
II was not sent here for the purpose
of making any compromise or to patch
up existing difficulties. leave, Sir, to
the sovereign State Of Mississippi to de-
termine for herself her present Federal
relations"
Mr.. Jones of Ga. spoke to the same
purpose.
Mr.. Hawkins of Florida said:
'While | am up, Mr.. Speaker, may
as we'll say in advance, that | am opposed,
and l believe my State is opposed, to all
aud every compromise. The day Of CON-
promise has passed"
Mr.. Ciopton of Alabama said:
"Believing that State has the right
to secede, aud that the only remedy for
present evils is Secession, l will not hold
out any delusivc hope, nor sanction any
temporizing policy
Aud Mr.. Pugh, representing the same
State:
GAS nv State of Alabama intends fol-
lowing South Carolina cut Of the Union
by the 10th Of January next, l pay no
attention to any action taken by this
body"
Ga the following day, Senator Iverson
of Georgia held the following language:
"Sir, the Southern States that are
moving in this matter are not doing it
without due consideration. We believe
that the only security for the institution
to which we attach so much importance
is Secession and Southern Confederacy.
You talk about concessions. You talk
about repeating the Personal Liberty
bills, as concession to the South. Re.
peal them all TO- morrow, sir, and it would
not stem the progress Of this revolution.
1t is not your Personal Liberty bills that
we dread. Nor do We suppose that there
will be any overt acts on the part of Mr.
Lincoln. For one, l do not dread overt
acts. | do propose to wal, for them
Jefferson Davis, the arch-cons pirator
said on the 10th of the same month:
"The States 10 their sovereign capac
ity have nop resolved to judge Of the in
fractions Of the Federal compact, and OF
the mode and measure of redress. Shall
we cling to the mere forms, or idolize
the name of Union, when its blessings
are lost, after its spirit has 4ed?"
On the next day but ono, Wigfall Of
Texas said:
$50 far as this Union is concerned,
the cold sweat of death is upon it. Your
Union is nov dead; your Government is
now dead There is now in the Gulf
States no excitement. There is fixed,
determined will, that they will be Free"
Ga the 18th, the Crittenden resolutions
were introduced. On the 3lst, Senator
Benjamin from Louisiana said:
"Ths State of South Carolina, with a
unanimity scarcely with parallel in his
tory, has dissolved the Union which con-
meets her with the other States of the
Confederacy, aud has declared herself
independent. Next week, Mississippi,
Alabama, and Florida, " II have declared
themselves independents; the week after,
Georgia; and a little later, Louisiana;
soon, very soon, to be followed by Texas
and Arkansas. The day Cor the adjust
ment has passed. II you would give it
now, you are too late
Aud on the 7th of January following,
Senator Toombs of Georgia said:
"The success of the Abolitionists and
their allies, under the name of the Re-
publican party, has produced its logical
results already. The Union, Sir, is dis
solved. That is an accomplished .Jact in
the path of this discussion that men may
as we'll heed. And now you see the gilt
tering bayonet, and you hear the tramp
of armed men from your capital to the
Rio Grande"
Mason Of Virginia was overheard by
Douglas to say: "No matter what COM
promise the North offers, the South must
End way to defeat it," And Pryor of
Virginia telegraphed: eve can get the
Crittenden Compromise, but We don't
want it.
But it is said: "True, the Cotton
States were resolved not to be conciliated
but the Border States would have staid
if the Crittenden Compromise had been
carried, and they would soon have bro't
hooL TN otharo - Rnt Moson and Dry