Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-08-22

Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden), pray tell us
what you are willing to do / address
the inquiry to the Republicans alone, for
the reason that, an Me Committee Of Ihir-
! teen, .te'o dayS ago, eUery member from
the South, imcIudtng.tbo8e from Tie cotton
States (N1eSsrs. DaUos anu I5ombS), er-
pressed tier readiness to accept the pro-
position Of my venerable friend from Ken.
lucky, Mr. Criltenden, as a final settlement
OF the controversy, if rendered and sus-
taincd by the Republican members. Hence
nte sole responsibility Of orr disagreement,
and lie only dGcuhy ,m tie '0dy of an
ontCdbIeeGustment, is soith tie RepuJIS-
can pa'ty."-Jan. 3, 1861.
The Peace Congress was another means
by which the border States strobe to avert
the impending strife. How the Republi-
can leaders then conspired against the
peace Of their country may be seen in
letter from Senator Chandler, Of Michigan,
to the Governor of that State:
"7o his Eace5iencY Justice Blair:
"Governor Bingham and myself tele-
graphed you on Saturday, at the request
of Massachusetts and New York, to send
delegates to the Peace or Compromise Con-
gress. They admit that we were right
and that they were wrong; that no Re.
publican State should have sent delegates {;
but they are here and cannot get away.
Ohio, Indiana and Rhode Island are cavng
in, and there is danger of Illinois and
now they beg Us for God sake 10 come to
their rescue, and save the Republican
party from rupture. hope You will send
S?V-6oched men or none. The whole
thug was gotten up against my judgment
and advice, and will end in thin smoke
) Still | hope as matter of courtesy to
some of our erring brethren that you will
send the delegates.
"Truly, your friend,
~. CHANDLER"
"P. S.-Some of the manufacturing
States think that a fight would be awful.
Without little bood-etting this Union
| will not, in my estimation, be worth rush
] WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1861"
l In Pennsylvania, too, the same spirit
. prevailed. 1t was not seen how necessarily
. her position united her in interest with the
7 border States She has learned it since
5 from contcnding armies trampling out 1hcl
n hnrvests and deluging her fields with blood
a Governor Curtin sent to the Peace Con
r gress Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Meredith.
n Mr.. Wilmot was chiefly known from tn
t connection of his name with the attem p
h to embroil the country by the "Wilmo
Proviso,' baffied by patriotic statesman
: ship, in which Clay and Webster joinc
e with the Democratic leaders just as Cla
&c and jackson had joined in the Tariff Con,
It promise of 1888. Mr. Meredith had pub
y lished his belief that the muterings of tn
j. rising storm were what he called "stridu
ID lous cries." unworthy of the slightest a
D. tention.
s. BY Mr.. Lincoln's election, in November
10 1860, the power to save or destroy th
+ Union was in the hands of his party an
y. no adjustment was possible with men VII
G! rejected the jud gment of the Suprem
ID Court, who scorned Cancellation and con
o. promise, and who looked to "litte bloot
u letting to cement the American Unio
t' Till this time, the Union men Of the Sou
ut had controlled, with little difficulty, Il
I'd small but restless class among them wi
% desired a separate nationality. The sui
OF stantial interests Of the South, especial
n the slaveholding interest, were draw
ut reluctantly into secession. General L.
sc Blair, of Missouri, an eminent Republica
to said very truly, in last Congress
AZ "Every man acquainted with the fac
knows that it is fallacious TO call this
Of shareholders rebellion.
on A closer scrutiny demonstrates the contra
~ to be true; such scrutiny demonstrat
~ that the rebellion originated chiefly wi
re- the nou-slaveholders resident in the stron
IN. holds OF the institution, not springin
!" however, from any love of slavery, b
70 from an antagonism of race and hostili
"a to the idea of equality with the blacks i
-: 49, volved in simple emancipation"
nh 1t was the triumph of the Abolitionil
a over the Democrats and Conservatives
,on the North, that secured like triumph
,d the secessionists over the Union men
-. the South. The John Brown raid "
mt taken as practical exposition OF the dc
"a trlne Of "irrepressiblo conflict" The {
=, ultation over its momontary success,
,no lamentaton over its failure, had be
dor swelled by the Abolitionists, so as to SEE
ide general expression of Northern feeli1
~ Riots and rescues had nullifed The CT
,vo stitutional provision for the return of fu
10. lives. The false pretonce that slave
Of would monopolize the territories, when
.h had no territories in which il could exi
Oh had been used as a means OF constant
sed tatOn against slavery in the sOu'h'