The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-10-28

30 was motion to postpone, and there is
no such vote as SIS to %; but that is not
essential, as | shall give the vote cor
rectly, and it shows that, on the motion of
Mr. Clark, of New Hampshire, to strike
out the compromise and insert certain
propositions of his own, every Republican
Senator present voted to strike out the
compromise, and every Southern Senator
who voted On the subject, and every Dem
ocratic Senator from the North, voted to
sustain it, as follows:
In favor of striking it out-Messrs.
Anthony, Baker, Bingham, Cameron,
Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doc.
little, Durkee, Fessenden, Foote, Foster,
Grimes, Hale, Harlan, King, Seward, Sim
mons, Sumner Ten Eyck, Trumbull,
Wade, Wilkinson and Wilson'S
Against striking out the compromise
Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Bright, Clingman,
Critteudeu, Fitch, Green, Lane, Latham,
Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell,
Pugh, Rice, Salisbury and Sebastian
90.
And so the compromise fell for the
present, by vote of 25 to 23
But you proceed to show, with seeming
exultation, that "si.c Southern Senator's
sat IN their seats and refused to vote," and
hence the defeat of the compromise.
That is true, General. But it would
have been quito as easy for you to have
shown, that 25 Republican Senators
sat IN their seats and voted against 1t,
and hence its rejection. With them it
was no half way business; they were
against it unitedly, aud on all occasions
You charge the responsibility for the
failure of the compromise on six Senators
who did not vote all, rather than on 25
Senators who voted directly against it
know you pride yourself on being a man
of courage; but | had not supposed that
you had nerve enough to 60 before an in
telligent public with such logic as that.
But you do not give the whole history,
and, by the omission, men are made to be-
lieve that which may not be true. Why
did you not inform the public that within
few hours after the defeat of the com
promise, on the 10th of January, you,
yourself, as though alarmed at the weight
of the responsibility assumed by your par
ty, moved reconsideration of the vote by
which the compromise fell ; that the vote
on your motion was taken-not, as you
say, some weeks afterwards, but on the
18th, two days thereafter, and that whilst
Messrs. Hemphill, johnson of Arkansas,
and Slidell, who had withheld their votes
from the compromise GU the 10Th, repent
ed the wrong, and voted for the reconsider
alton, you, to the amazemeIt of the Sem
ate, uoted against your own motion to re-
consider, and was joined by every Repu6-
Hcan Senator present.; and farther, that
by this vote the compromise was placed
in precisely the position it occupied before
the adoption of the Clark amendment,
and so it stood to the close of the session,
ready at all times for favorable action
On this vote which can be found on page
Ais of the LIST vol of the Globe, Messrs.
Bayard, Bragg, Cliagman, Crittenden,
Green, Hunter, johnson, Of Arkansas !;
johnson, of Tennessee Kennedy, Mason,
Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell Saulsbu-
ry, Sebastian, and Slidell, on the part of
the South. sustained the compromise,
whilst Messrs. Seward, Wade, Sumner,
yourself and every other Republican voted
against 1t. How preposterous it is then
for you to pretend that the compromise
was finally lost because six Southern Sem
ators withheld their votes on one indirect
question, which they helped to reverse
within forty-eisht hours thereafter. But,
General, if it were great wrong in the
Cotton State Senators, against whom you
complain SO much, to withhold their votes
from the compromise, what arc you to say
for yourself and the remainder Of the Re-
publicans who voted invariably against
it The truth is, General, and you know
1t as well as | do, you and your party
friends defeated the Crittendeu Comprom.
Use, as you did all other efforts for a settle
ment. If the responsibility of peace or
war hinges on the rejection of the COM
promise as you concede, then you may as
well call for the rocks and mountains to
fall on you and hide you from the indigna-
ton OF an outraged people, now as at any
other time, for the responsibility of the
war, with all its attendant horrors aud af-
tilctions, will be laid at your door by the
impartial historian.
You filled the Peace Conference with i'm
practicable men, for the avowed purpose of
defeating the pataiotic aud humane purpose
for which it had been called and when
the proceedings of that body came to the
Senate, MIR Seward moved to strike out
the entire series of propositions, and IN
sert others of his own production, for no
other purpose, that any one could perceive,
than to manifest his contempt FIR every
effort at compromise and adjustment lie
seemed to imagine himself equal in digni-
ty aud power to convention of States,
and was, evidently beside, exulting in the
delusion of sixty day wrangle, and no.
body hurt.
| don't mean, by anything I say, to
mitigate the folly and wickedness Of the
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