North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-10-05


against his oa1u notion to reconsider. 1t was
carried, however, with the aid of at least TWO
(Johnson and slidelD of the "six'' named,
and tho Compromise was again in statu quo
before the Senate. 1t was finally taken up
on the Sd Of March, and d. feated- many of
the Southern Senators having withdrawn
Senate in the interim their States having Sc
ceded from the Union.
Now, General Cameron, who issued the
Address, knows just as well as did Senator
Cameron, who sustained the Clark amend
ment, that it required two thirds vote to
give vitality to the Crjttenden Compromise
He knows, 100, 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 Republi-
can Senator's refused Senator Bglar's pro
posal to submit this question to vote of the
people as instructive of Congress. He knows
also that Mr.. Clemens, of Virginia, on the
l7th of February, before that State adopted
secession, endeavored, in the House Of Rep
resentatives at Washington, to obtain sim
liar arrangement IN that body to test the
question of compromise before the people,
and it was voted down by IL Republicans
against 80 Democrats-every Republican III
the House voting in the negative, They
did not dare to trust the people, the legid-
mate source of power, on this question !
AT the hazard Of furnishing unnecessary
proof On this point, we beg attention to tht
Gear and explicit evidence of Senator Pugt,
a contemporary of the author of the Address,
in the Senate Of the United States. In the
course of his speech in the Senate, in March
1861, he says: ..-...... . ..-
The Crittepden proposition has been endorsed by
the almost unanimous vote of the Legislature Of
Kentucky. 1t has been endorsed by the noble old
Commonwealth ofVrginia 1t has been petitioned
for by larger number of the electors of the United
States than any proposition that ever before
Congress. believe in my heart to-day that it would
carry an overwhe Inning majority the people of my
State, ave. sir, of nearly every State the Uniol..
Before the Senators from the State of Mississippi
at least to be President Of the Southern Copfederaey
propose to accept it, and maintain the Union, thai
proposition could receive the vote it ought receive
from the other side Of the chamber. Therefore.
all of your propositions all of your amendments.
knowing as do, and knowing that the historian
will write it down at any time before the first OF
Jansary, two thirds votO for the Crittenden
lutions in this chamber would have savod every
State in the Cnlon except South Carolina. Georgia
would be here bv her representatives and Louisana
hose two great Ststes--whch at least would have
broken The whole column of Secession Globe, page
1900
Upon the same point, of The same day, the
clarion voice of ;he patriotic Douglas, bore
testimony as follows s'' 3.
The Senator (Mr. Pugh) has snd that if the Crit
tendon proposition could have been pressed early in
the session, it would have save all the states except
Sout b Carolina, l firmly believe this while the
Crittenden proposition in accor dance with my
cherished views. l avowed my readiness and eager.
ness to accept in order to save the Union, if we
could unite upon it. I can confirm the Senator s
declaration that Senator Davis himsslf when the
Committee of Thirteen, WAS really at all times to
compromise on the Crtrenden proposition will 20
further, and say that Mr., Toombs also--- Globe
page 1861. 4.,.-.. -.-....f. .,... - .r
How preposterous at this day then, this
attempt Of one Of the leading actors in that
eventful drama thus to stife conscience, and
so seek to rescue his co-conspirators from
tne recorded verdict of history, aud the e.
served aud inevitable condemnation OF bu.
trayed people u h. 81 .7.T -.- g. a. x.le.g
The controlling spirits of the Republican
party never meant peace--never sought peace
from first to last at any time or in any form,
save upon the one drear and devihsh scondi
ton of turning loose upon our land three and
half millions of black semi barbarians un.
der the specious pretence OF freedom while
in reality, it was only to tear SO many of
these poor creatures away from their homcs
of comparative happiness and peace, to find
starvation, misery and death in an inhospita
President Lincoln has but recently declar.
ed, in very definite terms, be will listen to
no proposition for peace which does not in.
clude thia African millennium, uotwithstand.
ing those plain constitutional prohibitions of
all right GU the r... nv. " tne General Govern
iment thus to intervene, which he himself
with the oath Of office fresh upon his lips,
declared he had no legal ight and no Gin
tention"9 to disregard. ..ge. r.......T .
d live were to credit the rawlings of the
chefiadvisers of the President, ors7 at least,
those who seem to influence him most fully
Sumner, Beecher and Phihpps--hamau rea-
son has been making such rapid progress in
these latter days, s,ithat the haven of human
perfection must be near at hand. But alas
when we look hopefully for the blessed gale
which is to bear us onward in its course, We
hear nothing but the loud breath Of the ru.
pest; see nothing all around us but the an