Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-10-15

some oil tue talrest portions oil that unhap-
py regioU.
Bat the long cherished schemes Of ia.
Daticism Tor the extinction Of African ser
wtude could not be given ~, No matter
if Massachusetts, sixty or seventy years
since, dsa sell slaves to the pc pie OF the
Southern States under the guarantees of .
Constitution which sue hoped TO form--
still, Massachusetts, meddiers, both in
Congress and out Of it, now determined,
since they could not "rall,' they would
re,id ':the seal IRON off the bond. The
gallant three thousand clergymen OF
New England - lworlhy disciples of
the Prince of Peace y rallied to a man, {,
in the new crusade of taualiclsm, and
wrought, side by side, with inddels, who
have lor years been in the daily habit of
sneeriug at the Christian Bible and BIAS
pheming the Christian God.
The fears of our timid and facile Presi-
dent were worked upon, as well as his
vanity, and desire OF reelection, by the
extreme and radical members Of his party
and the emancipation and oouGscaton
measures were forced upon him, aud made
part Of his policy in Che conduct of the
war. Every effort of the friends OF peace
but forth in Congress was defeated. The
hostility Of the Abolition leaders to serf.
dom in the south-to employ the words OF
the lamented Douglas twas stronger
than their fidelity to the Constitution -
They believed that a disruption of the
Union would draw after it, as an inevila-
bic consequence, civil war, servile lnsur-
re1tions, and finally, through these, an
utter extinction of slavery in all the South
ern States and, it would seem, they act
ed even on this terrible beiei.
Look at the rqcord On The 18th day
of December, 500 Senator Oritteuden Of
| keRiucky the bosome friend of Henry
Clay III his iifG-tlme introduced into the
Senate OF the Uuited States a series oI
resoiatious as basis Of settlement be-
tween the Two sections oil the Union. The
secession OF South Carolina took place on
the 2Oth of the same month, aud her
members OF Congress retired from their
places. We are thus particular in refer
ence to this subject, because our oppo-
nents, through their Central Committee in
this State, have introduced it into late
address to you and there is speeious
effort made ia that address to turn aside
from the Republicans, the just obloquy
aud reproach which the defeat Of Senator
Crittendens proposition has fastened upon
their party.
The offered compromise woald in terms,
have sealed more than three. fourths ofatl
onr territorial domain against slavery for
ever.-placing about 9OO,0 600 miles under
the provisions oil the Ordinance of 1887
more recently known as the "Wilmot
Provision leaving the remaining 300,-
600 miles subject to whatever laws those
who settled upon it might establish for
themselves, whenever they become a
State. All the other features of the pro-
posed compromise were nothing but re-
aairmanccs of the plainest powers aud
provisions of the Constitution, tavc, posi- =
bly,, the fair and equitable stipulation that
slavery shoald not be abolished iu the
District Of Columbia, as long as it exist
ell in Moryland and Virginia, the two
States which had ceded that Districi to the
General Government
On the 10Th OF January, 1861, Senator
Clark, a leading Republican, moved to
amend the Crttenden proposition by
striking out all the material provisions
certainly all that contained the olive
brancl, of peace and inserting single
resolution breathing war and threats TO-
wards the South. This amendment was
carried by vote Of 25 in favor, all Re-
pubicans, against 23 Dcmocr attic votes -
Bit says the address of the Republican
Uommittee-''six Southern Senators re-
fused to vote at all on the proposed
ameudment;" and then with a degree OF
cool assurance remarkable even in these
times, it goes on to tell the people ot
Pennsylvania that had these Gig South.
ern men voted against the Clark amend.
meut, it would have been defeated, and
tbs Crttenden Compromise might have
been taken up and carried by the same
majority" General Cameron who puts
forth this address cannot be very proud OF
not have kept out Of view the fact that he
himself voted for this very Clark amend.
ment, and the same day moved recon-
slderaton; and, then, when this question
was called up only three days afterwards,
he VOtea agotnt his Oeca nlO,i0a to re.
conSsder. Ii was carried, however, with
the aid OF at least tlcO (Johuson and Sli
dell) Of the six named, and the Compro
nlse was again im S'a,w quo before the
Senate. 1t was finally taken up on the
Sd Of March, and defeatcd--many Of the
Southern Senators having Withdrawn
/ from the Senate IL the interim, the States
having seeded from the Union.
/ Now General Cameron, who issued
the Address, knows just as we'll as did
Senator Cameron, who sustained the
Clark amendment, that 1t required two.
thirds vote to give vitality to the Criteu'
den Compromise. lie kuo ws, too, tha
every Republican vote, Inc,udlDg his own
IN the Senate, was given against the mes
ure, Ia effect, from first to last lie know'
further, that tho Republican Senators 70.
fused Senator Blgler's proposal to sub.
/ init this question 10 a vote of the nnODlt