Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-10-19

titution and tho laws, can be giveN .e:t,
be cheeriuIly given to all the States win.
lawfully demanded, for whatever cor.e,
as cheeriuIly 10 one section as TO oanoiLor u
These repeated public pledges brorah,
voluntarily to the standard rsised IN 81
hal! OF the Union, hundreds ofthousan6s
VI as brave men as ever breasted n bavo.
net Inc armies thus raised were precin-
lV''ea upon The South, with varied for
tunes OF victory and defeat and war. civ.
II war-always the most bloody of ali hu.
man stri!es-hss ever since RACED over
some OF the fa:rest portions of that unban.
py region.
But the long cherished schemes of fan.
atlclsm Tor the extinction O: African seryi-
t1de could not be given up. No matteris
massachusetts,, sixty or seventy veors
since d'a sell slaves to the people OF the
southern states, under the guarantees oF
Constitution which she helped 10 fory,
stlll, Massachusetts meddlers, both jn,lon.
gress and out of it, now determined sinc,
hey could not rail" they would rsnI uhe
. seal from of the bond" The pollany
" three thousand clergymen of New Eng.
iand - worthy disciples of the Prince Of
Ieace .)-ralIied TO a man, in the new
crusade Of ianaticism, and wrought aida
by side, with infidels, who have ior years
been in the daily habit of sneerinp n The
Christians faith, ridiculinc the ChT;st;on,s
God! ''''an
The fears OF our timid and facile presi.
dent were worked upon, as well as his van
NY nhu ug'lfe ol reelection, by the ex.
IRENE and radical members of his parry
ana lhe emancipation aud oonfistation
measures were forced upon him. and
made part OF his policy in the conduct
oil The war. Every effort of the friends of
peace put forth in Congress was defeated
The hostility Of the Abolition leaders 70
serldom IN the SoAth-to employ the
words of the lameffted Donglas--. was
stronger tlnn their fidelity to the Cousti-
tutlon'' They believed that disruption
OF the Union would draw after It. az an
inevitable consequence, civil war. servile
lnsurrections, and finally, through these,
an utter extinction of slavery in all the
southern states and, it would seem, they
acted even on this terrible relief.
Lok at the record: On the 18Th day of
December, 1860, Senator Crittenden. of
Kentucky, the bosom friend of Henry
Clay in his lifetime, introduced into the
Senate of the United States series Of res.
the Two seCtI0ns OF the Union. The Sc.
cesslon OF South Carolina took place on
tho Goth of the same month. and her
members of Congress retired from their
places We are tRns particular in refer
ence to this subjeN, because our opno-
nents through their Central Committee
in this state, have introduced it into
late address TO you and there is a specious
effort made in that address to turn aside
from tue Republicans, the Just oblouuy
and ieproach which the defeat of Senator
CriLtenden's proposition has fastened up.
on their party.
The offered compromise would, in terms.
have sealed more than three-fourths ofa.I
our terrltora. domain against slavery for
ever-plaeing about 100000 square miles
under the provisions of the Ordinance Of
1857, more recently known as the "Wil-
mot ProyiSo"-leavIng the remaining 30O,-
600 miles subject to whatever laws those
who settled upon it might establish for
themselves, whenever they became a State.
All the other features of the proposed
compromise were nothing but re ahilman
ces of the plainest powers and provision
OF the Constitution, save, possibly, tic
fair and equitable stipulation that SLAYER
should not be abolished in the District ol
Columbia, rs long as it existed in Mary
land and Virginia, the two States which
ceded that District 10 the General Govern
ment.
Ga the 18th OF January, 1861, Senator
Clark, a leading Republican. moved 70
amend the Crittendoh proposition by stri-
king out all the material provisions Ger
taiDly all that contained the olive branch
Of peace, and inserting single resolution
breathing war and threats toward the
South. This amendment was carried by .
vote of 2j in favor, all Republicans, against
23 Democratic votes. But, says the ad-
dress of the Republican Committee-"six
Southern Senators refused TO vote at all on
tho proposed amendment; ; and then, with
a degree OF cool assurance remarkable eY-
en- in these times, il goes on to tell the peo.
ple of Pennsy lvania that had these six
Southern members voted sgainst the
Clarke amendment, it would have been
defeated, and tho Crittenden Compromise
might have been taken up and carried by
the same majority. General Cameron,
who puts forth this address, cannot be
very proud of his own share in this record,
or he would not have kept out OF view
the fact that himself voted for this very
Clark amendment, and the same day
moved reconsideration and, then, when
this question was called up only three
days afterwards, he votea against h'S o0a
motion 10 reconsider, twas carried however,
with the aid of at least heo johnson and
Sideln Of six" named, and the Compro'
mise was again in 8tatlt quo before tpe Sen.
ote. IL was finally taken up on the Sd Of
March. and defeated many of the South
ern senators having Withdrawn from the
Senate in the interim, their States having
seeded from the Union.
/ Now, Gen. Cameron, WHO issued the ad
dress, knows just as well as did Senator
Cameron, who sustained the Clark amend
ment, that it required two-thirds vote u
give vitality to the Crittenaep Compro
mise. lie knows, too, that syery Repuh
lican vote, including his own, in the Seu
ate, was given against the measure, In o.
feol, from fret 10 last. lie knows further