The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-18
John Brough's Speech-A Deliberate
Untruth

The Guzette and Commercial yesterday
contained a ive-column speech, delivered
by joan BRoUGH at Marietta, Ohio, on the
10Th Instant. They speak of it as a very
able ad mastery production. 1t may be
so iftte absence of truth is a sign of ability
Take he following as a specimen:
1T issaid the Crittenden resolution light
bring il about. The resolution uO1s offered
to them 5elOre they fired on Sumpter, and not
a man teas ready 10 take it. and Me NO,h
aOouid Be Uery sorry If they had accsrted IL; for
1 for onespu,n the Critenden resolution, and
l do it fG the reason that the first gun fred
upon Sunpter relieved US from the thrall-
dom Of plavery; and 1 never desire to see
peace reItored, with the political power of
this institution reinstated."
There is no intelligent man who is not
aware ofthe fact, that Mr.. Brough states G
deliberate untruth, when he says that the
South wEuld not take the Crittenden Com.
promisei Before the attack on Sumpter,
Senator Douglas, on the 80 of January,
1861, bekre any State but South Carolina
bad goneout, declared, In his place in the
Senate, tlat the South would take it, and
that the sic responsib ility of the disagree
ment restd upon the Republican party.
On Marah1. 1861, the following debate oc-
Cured in he Senate:
Scarborough said:
The Crittenden proposition has been in
dorsed BY the almost unanimous vote of
the Legislature of Kentucky. 1t has been
Endorsed by the Legislature of the noble
old omnonwealth of Virginia. 1t has
been petfioned for by larger numb Der of
electors Of the y United States than any prop
osition that was ever before Congress. l be-
lieve in my heart to day that it would carry
an overwhelming majority of the people of
my State; aye, sir, a md of nearly every State
10 the Union. Before the Senator'S from the
State of Mississippi left this chamber, Iteurd
me Of them, t0ho assumes at least to be Presi-
Tent Of the Southern Confederacy, propose to
Iccept IL and maintain the Union if that prop
'sition could receive the vote 1t ought to recei0e
rom the other side Of this chamber. Their g.
ore, all of your propositions, of all your
amendments, knowing as do, and know
pg that the historian will write it down, at
by time before the first Of January, two
birds vote for the C!ittenden resolu-
ons in this chamber would have saved ev
81 State in the Union but South Carolina
0orgia would be here by her representa-
ties, and Louisiana, those two great States.
wich at lesst would have broken the whole
coimn of secession" Globe, p. 1910.
The Senator Mr.. Pugh) has said that if
thesristenden proposition could have been
passd early in the session, it would have
save all the States except South Carolina.
| frly believe Il would. While the Crit
tenda proposition YVES not in accorda nee
with Inv cherished views, I avowed my
readiAss and eagerness to occept it. In order
to sa1 the Union, V we could unite upon
it. / hu coufirm tn. Senator's declaration,
that Snator Davis Himself. when on the
Comm tee of Thirteen, was ready. at all
times,t to compromise, on the Crittenden
propoAion. l will gofurther. ard say that
Mr.. 1jombs was also."--P 1881 Globe.
Mr!Brough would have bsen sorry" if
they Id taken i'll Tha is his patriotism!
lie wol lid rather, jeopardi;s the Union aud
bring b civil war than accept the compro-
mise d the venerable Unhn patriot, Johu
j. Orienden, of Kentucky Gin. Eng.