Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-10-19

| District OF Columbia, as long as If existed
( in Maryland and Virginia, the two States
which had ceded that District to the Gene
raj Government.
On the 10Th of January, 1861. Sena-
tor Clarke, leading Republican, moved
to amend the Crittenden proposition by
striking out all the material provisions
certainly all that contained the olive
branch OF peace, and inserting a single
resolution breathing war and threats
toward the South. This amendment was
carried by a vote of % in favor, all Re
publicans, against % Democratic votes
But, says the address OF the Republican
Committee" six Southern Senators re-
fused to vote at all on the proposed amend
ment and then, with a degree of cool
assurance remarkable even in these times,
1t goes on to tell the people of Pennsylva-
MIA that had these six Southern men
voted against the Clarke amendment, it
would have been defeated. and the Crit
tenden Compromise might have been taken
up and carried by the same majority"
General Cameron, who puts forth the
Address, cannot be very proud of his own
share IN this record, or he would not have
kept out Of view the fact that he himself
voted .for this very Clark amendment,
and the same day moved a reconsidera-
tion; and, then, when this question was
called up only three days afterwards, he
r0tet dgainst hjs OlrH motion TO reconsider
1t was carried, however, with the aid Of
at least tic0 (Johnson and SIideil) of the
SIX" named, and the Compromise was
again an Stata,quO before the Senate. Jt
was finally taken up on the Sd of March,
and deteated-many Of the Southern Sen
ators having withdrawn from the Senate
in the interim, their States Having seeded
from the Union.
Now, General Cameron, who issued
the Address, knows just as we'll rs did
Senator Cameron, who sustained the Clarl;
amendment, that it required q two-thirds
vote TO give vitality TO the Crittcnden
Compromise. He knows, too, that every
Republican vote, including his own, in the
Senate, was given against the measure,
in effect, from first to last. He knows
further, that the Republican Senators re-
fused Senator Bigler's proposal TO submit
this question to a vote Of the people as
that Mr.. Clemens, Of Virginia, on the
18th of February, before that State
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l1ouse VI representatives Ut w a'LiA9 9ioIl'
/ 10 OBTAIN similar arrangement IN that
Z body 10 test the question OF compromise
before the people, and 1t was voted down
by Il2 RoDIIbIicans aoainst so Demo-
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the legitimate source OF power, on tins
question
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Fu@h, cotemporaFy OF the author OF the
Address, in the Senate Of the United
| States In the course of his speech in
the Senate, IN March, l06I, he says:
The Crittenden proposition has been en-
dorsed by the almost unanimous vote Of the
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