The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-10-19


CONSIDER. II was carried, however, witt
the aid OF at least taCo johnson and Sli
. dell) of the six named, and the Compro
mise was again IN siGtu quo before ih
Senate. 1t was finally taken up on th'
Sd of March, and defeated-many of tn
Southern Senators having withdraw
from the Senate in the interim, the States
having seeded from the Union.
Now General Cameron, who issued
the Address, knows just as well as die
Senator Cameron, who sustained the
Clark amendment, that it required two.
thirds vote to give Vitality to the CrItten'
den Compromise. He knows, too, tha
every Republican vote, including his own
in the Senate, was given against the mea,
ure, In effect, from first 10 last He knows
further, that the Republican Senators re-
fused Senator Bigler's proposal to sub
NIT this question to vote of the people
as instructive of Congress. He knows
also that Mr.. Clemens, oi Virginia, on he
18th OF February, before that State adop
ted secession, endeavored IN the House
of Representatives at w Washington, to OBJ
tain similar arrangement IN that body
to tes. the question OF compromise before
the people, and it was voted dowl by IL
Republicans against 50 Democrats
Republican in the House voting 10 the
negative They would not-thes did not
dare 20 trust the people the Legitimate
source OF power, on this question
At the hazard of furnishing unne Gees
sary proof on this point, we beg attention
to the clear and explicit evidence of Sena-
tor Pugh cotemporary of the author OF
the Address, 10 the Senate Of the United
States Iu the course of his speech IN the
Senate, in March, 1851, be says:
The Critic nden proposition has been
endorsed by the almost unanimous vote of
the Legislature OF Kentucky IL has
been endorsed by the noble old Common
wealth of Virginia. 1t has been pet'tioned
for by a largr number of the electors of
the United S@ates than any proposition
that was ever before Congress. believe
in my heart to-day that i, would carry
an overwhelming majority of tbo people
OF my State, aye, sir, of nearly every
State in the Unlon Before the Senators
from the State OF Mississippi lett this
chamber, heard one of them, who as
sumes at least to be President of the
Southern CoDfederacy, propose to accept
it, and maintain the Union, if that pro-
position could receive the vote it ought to
receive from the other side of the chamber
Therefore, ali of your propositions, ali of
your amendments, knowing as L 10 aud
knowing thar the historian will write 1t
down-aDy time before the first of Jan
uary , a two.thirds vote for the Crtteuden
resolutions 10 this chamber would have
saved every State in the Union. except
South Caroims. Georgia would be mere
by her representatives., and Louisiana
those two great States-whicn at least
would have broken the whole column Of
Secession.-GIobe, page 1900,
Upon the same point, on the same day,
the clarion voice OF the patriot Douglass
bore testimony as Iollows;
s'The Senator [Mr. Pugh] has said that
if the CritteDden proposition could have
been passed early in the session, it would
have saved all the States except South
Carolina. / firmly believe 1t would -
While the Crittenden proposition was not
IN accordance with my cherished views,
L ayowed my readiness aud eagerness to
accept it in order to save the Union, if
we could unite upou it. | can confirm the
Senator's declaration that Senator Davis
himself. when on the Committee OF Thir-
teen, was ready at all times 10 compro-
mise on the Critteuden proposition L will
90 further, and say that Mr.. Ioombs was
also.-GLO6e, page 1891"
Of fhis n than this
attempt of one of the leading actors in that
eventful drama thus to stihe conscience,
aud SO seek 10 rescue his co-conspirators
from the recorded verdict Of history, aud
the deserved and inevitable condemnation
of betrayed people The controlling
spirits of the Republican party never
meant peaee-never sought peace from
first 70 last, any time or IN any form, save
upon the one drearer and devilish con
dition of turning loose upon our land three
and half millions of black semi -barbar-
ians under :he specious pretense OF free
dom while in reality, it was only TO tear
so many of these poor creatures away from
their homes oil comparative happiness and
peace, to find starvation, misery and
death in an inhospitable cline
President Lincoln has but recently de
clared, in very definite terms, he will lis
Cen to no proposition for peace which does
not include this African millennium, not
withstard ding those plain constitutional
prohibitions of all right on the part of the
General Government thus to intervene,
which he himself, with the oath cf office
fresh upon his lips, declared he "had no
LegaL rsght and no ssafeniion' TO dtS'e-
gard.
If we were to credit the rawlings of the
chief advisers OF the President, or, at
least, those who seem to influence him
most fully-Sumner, Beecher and Phillips
human reason has been making such
rapid progress in these latter days, that
the haven of human perfection must be
near at hand. But alas when we look
hoI efully for the blessed gale which is to
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