Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-21

Governor OF one OF the states OF THIS I nlon-
WASHINGTON. February ii, 1861.
Ny Dear Gorernor:-Gov Bingham aud myself
telegraph you on Saturday at the request Of
Massachusetts, and New ork. TO send delegates
TO the peace or compromise Congress. They ad
init tbstw were right and they wrOngI that no Re
publican State should haze sent DELEGATES. bat
they are here and can't get away. Ohio. Indiana,
Rhode Island are coming in, and there is some
doubt Of Illinois: and now they beg u.s. for Gods
sake. 10 come TO their rescue and the Re
publican party from rupture.
] hope you will send stiff backed men none.
The whole thing was gotten up against nv judg
ment and advice. aud will end 10 thin smoke.
Still hope. as a matter OF courtesy to
ring brethren, that YOU will send the delegates.
Truly. your friend
z. CHANDLER
His Excellency. Austin Blair.
7. 5 Some Of the manufacturing States think
that eight would be awful. Without little
bloOd-etting this Union would not be worth a
curse"
so Senator Chandler opposed TO com
promise. and was in favor of "blood-letting
He. too, VAS thinking only of a rupture OF the
Republican party and utterly indifferent to
rupture Of the Union He was mistaken about
the delegates from Indiana "caying in" Gov.
Morton had effectually guarded against that BY
egates. who voted against all measures Of peace
aud compromise.
1t will be remembered that Senator Critten-
deu, OF Kentucky. introduced into the Senate of
the United States proposition to compromise
the pending difficulties. between the North and
he South
We presume that the lamented Douglas will
be good authority with Republicans Hear what
he said about the responsibility for failure to
effect a compro mise:
Ia the Senate of the United States, on the 30
day OF January. 1861, in discussing the subject
of the compromise, referring to his own proposi-
ton. Mr. Douglas said:
IL believe this 10 be fli basis Of amicabe
adjustment II you of the Republican side
not willing 10 accept this nor the prop
ostion OF the Senator from Kentucky, (Mr.
Crttenden,) pray tell me what you are willing
to doI | address the inquiry to the Republicans
alone. for the reason that in the committee OF
thirteen. few days ago, every member from the
South, including those from the Cotton States,
(Messrs Toombs ana Davis expressed their
readiness to accept the proposition of my venera-
BILE friend from Kentucky Mr. Crttenden) as a
final settlement Of the controversy, II rendered
and sustained by the Republican members
Hence. the sole responsibility of disagree
ment. and the only difficulty in the way Of an
amicable adjustment. is with the Republican
party See Appendix to Congressional Globe,
lo60 oil, p. A.
Approaching the condition of the country aud
the necessity OF compromise TO avoid the calam
tiles OF civil war and disunion, Mr.. Douglas. in
the same speech, (on page Al ) said:
'ln my opinion we have reached point where
disunion is inevitable. unless some compromise,
founded upon mutual concession. can be made.
| prefer compromise To war. prefer concession
to dissolution of the Union. When | avow
myself in favor of compromise, | do not mean
that one side should give up all that it has
claimed. nor that the other side should give up
everything for which il has cOntended. Nor do
] ask any man to come TO my Standard but |
simply say that will meet every man half way
who is willing 10 preserve the peace of the coun
try, end save the Union from disruption upon
the principle Of compromise and concession
The vote ia the Senate upon Mr.. Crittenden's
proposition was ~ for and - against. OF those
that voted for il Il Democrats and Amer
leans. The 30 votes against il were all Republi-
cans. Not one Of them voted for il. Tie vote
of one Republican Senator would have secured
the passage of the measure in the Senate. In
the House OF Representatives, il was proposed
that the Crttenden propositions should be sub
mitted 10 the vote Of the American people. but
this ~as voted down. The vote was yeas 50,
nays ll3. OF those that voted for submitting il
to the approval OF the people oil were Democrats
and 10 Americans. OF those who voted against
il ITO were Republicans, . were Americans and
| was Democrat. All attempts to effect a com
promise were defeated by Lincoln, his Cabinet
and his supporters in Congress.
We will now show what pledges were made
by Mr. Lincoln, members of his Cabinet, and by
Congress as TO the purposes for which the war
should be prosecuted
Iu his inaugural President Lincoln quoted
from one of his own speeches and reiterated this
declarations:
IL have no purpose directly or indirectly To in
ter.ere with the institution Of slavery in the States
where il exists believe have 40 lawful right
to do so, and have no inclination to do So
now reterate these sentiments. and in doing so
| only press upon the public attention the most
conclusive evidence OF which the ease is suscep-
tible. that the property. peace and security of no
section are to be in any wise endangered by the
now incoming administration"
lis it true, then, III Il any right plainly written
in the Con sttution has been deniedI | think
not. Happily the human mind is constituted
that no party can reach the audacity of doing
this Think if yoI can. OF single instance in
which plainly written provision of the Consti-
tuition has ever been denied sE-I If. by the
mere force Of numbers. majority should deprive
a minority of any clearly written constitutional
rIoN-certanly should if such right were vital
one" IA
In his first message 20 Congress, at the extra
session in the summer of 1861 Mr. Lincoln
said
Lest there be some uneasness in the minds
of candid men as To what il 10 be the course of
the government towar1 the Southern States after
the rebellion shall have been suppressed the ex
ecutive deems IL proper TO saw IL will be his pur
pose then, as ever to be guided by the Constitu
ton and the laws; and that he probably will have
no different understanding of the powers and du
ties OF the Federal Government relative to the
rights OF the States and the people. under the
Constitution, than that expressed in the inaugu
raj address. He desires 20 preserve the govern
ment. that il may be administered for all. as il
was administered by the meu who made u 10y
al citizens everywhere have the right 10 claim
this OF their goyhrnment. aud the government
has no right To withhold or neglect II. IL IL not
perceived that in giving il. there IS any coercion.
any conquest or any subjugation. in any Just
sense of those terms"
On the 22i day Of April, 1861, Mr Seward.
writing To Mr. Dayton. our minister at the Court
of the Emperor Napoleon, and treating OF the
subject OF the present rebellion. said
Il need not further elaborate the proposition
that the revolution is without cause. Z has not
even a pretext IL j. Just As clear that il i with
out object Moral and physical causes have
determined inhexibly the character OF each one
of the Territories over which the dispute has
arisen. and both parties after the election har
monlously agreed on all the Federal laws re