The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-18

were, for the last time, thrust into the
legislative tribunal for tranquil solution before
the conflict in the forum Of reason should be
-" the intestine shock
. And furious close Of civil butcherv.s
The public record shows what result w,s
reached by these committees, or rather how
resultless were their labors. Mr.. Corwin, for .
majority, presented his resolutions and bills;
Mr.. Adams declined to recommend even his
own propositions, inasmuch Is he believed the
South would accept nothing he could offer.
Waehburne, OF Wisconsin, and Tappan, of New
Hampshire, of the committee, offered nothing
by way Of compromise. The conservative men,
with Taylor, Phelps, Rust, Whitley, Winslow,
Nelson, Hamlin, and others Of the committee,
wished to 60 further than Governor Corwin.
They recommended the Ctittenden propagation.
The votes on the Corwm measures were
strangely homogeneous. The vote on the Crit
tenden proposition was well defined, but Is not
so well understood. From the frequency of
inquiries since the war as to this latter vote the
people were eager to know upon whom to fix
De stated that all other proportions, whether
of the Peace Convention or the Border State
project, or the measures of the committees,
were comparatively of no moment; for the
Crittenden proposition was the only one which
could have arrested the struggle. It would
have received larger vote than any other. It
would have bad more effect In moderating
Southern excitement Even Davis, TOombe,
and others Of the Gulf States would have &C.
eepted it. have talked with Mr.. Crittenden
frequently on this point. Not only has he con-
frmed the public declarations of Douglas and
Pugh, and the speech of Toombs himself, to
this effect, bat he said It was so understood
IN committee. At one time when the commit
tee was in session, he said: mr.. Toombs,
IL & l. e. hi
wrongs and apprehensions, be acceptable to
your" Mr.. Toombs, with some profanity, re-
piled, " Not by good deal; but my State viii
accept it, and I will follow my State to -"
And he did.
Twill not open the question whether 1t was
wise then to offer Accommodations it may not
be profitable now to ask whether the millions
Of young men whose bodies are MANNED, or
whose bones are decaying under the sod of the
South, and the heavy load of public debt under
which we sweat and toll, have their compensa.
ton in black liberty. Nor will discuss whett-
er the blacks have been bettered by their pre-
cipitate freedom, passing, as so many have,
from slavery through starvation and suffering
to death.
There is no comfort in the reflection that the
negroes will be exterminated with the exter-
mination of slavery. The real point is could
not this Union have been made permanent by
timely settlement, instead of cemented by fra
ternal blood and military rule? BY an equita-
BILE partition of the territory this was possible
We had then ]. 200, 600 square miles. The Crit.
tendcn proposition would have given the North
900, 600 of these square miles, and applied to
Chicago doctrines to that quantity. It would
have left the remaining fourth, substantially,
to be carved out as free or slaye States, at the
option of the people when the States were adj
mitted. This proposition the radicals denounc-
ed. Notwithstanding the then President elect
was in minority of million of the popular
vote, they were determined, as Mr. Chase
wrote to Portsmouth, Ohio, from the Peace
Convention, to use the power while they had
it. and prevent settlement. 1t has been stat.
ed, to rid the Republicans of the odium of not
averting the war when that was possible, TIA.
the Northern members rendered the Southern
the Crittenden Compromise, which the South
rejected. This is untrue. It was rendered by
Southern Senators and Northern Democrats to
the Republicans They, in conjunction with
some half dozen recusant Southern Senators,
rejected it. 1t was voted upon but once in the
House, when 1t received eighty votes against
one hundred and thirteen. vfs|
These eighty votes were exclusively Demo
crats and Southern Americans, like Gilmer,
Vance and others Mr.. Briggs, of New York,
was the only one not Democrat who voted
Republican. The Republican roll, beginning
with Adams and ending with Woodruff, was
unit against It. Intermingied with them was
one Southern EXTREMIST, Gen. Hindman who
desired no settlement There were many
Southern men who did not vote, believing that
unless the Republicans who were Just acced-
ing 70 power, favored il, ito adoption would
be delusiou. t4e..
The plan adopted BY the Republican Senators
to defeat II, waS BY amendment and postpone.
ment On the 14sh and 18th of january they
cast IL their votes against it, being taken M