Year: 1861




This old statesman aud patriot it will be rccol
lected, submitted certain propositions OF adjust
rnent in Congress, which the Black Republicans
promptly rejected. A Union man, anxious to pre-"
serve the Union If such thing were possible, he
came forward at the advanced age of nearly four
score, to save his country from dsunon and civil
war. What thanks he gets for it from Black Re-
publican sources may be judged of by the follow
ine, taken from the Washington correspondence OF
4SSse Chicago Tribune


~ II ii doubtful whether Crittenden will defend
Anderson He has grown very feeble umld, ana
imbecile II is almost worn out, and mas become
apoor slave of the ogarchy. lie dafe not c''ii
his soul his own in their presence. he IS styied a
fconserYatve,n p when in truth he is only pllant
instrument in their ipexorabc grasp HIS day is
past On Che lth Of March he retires forever from
tile political arena. His last Legislative effort was
To- force upon the country scheme to dVlde me
territories fixing the curse Of slavery, by consutu,
tionaI enactment upon all south of the line OF 50
deg. SO min. now belonging to the Government, or
hereafter to be acquired, clear down to Cape Horn
Aconseryatiye proposition truly


g There are a plenty Of people in the South, who
have always been opposed to Mr.. Crittenden pollt-
ically, who are even opposed to his late proposition
of compromise, but who have never doubted the
honesty and patriotism of the man. who will read
the above infamous attack upon him with feelings
Of the warmest indignation. The idea of dirty
Abolition dog speaking of the venerable Critten-
denas tiulid and imbecile, as poor slave of the
oligarehy, and as man who dare not call his soul
his own, is one of the most outrageous and scanda
loEss circumstances connected with the personal
aspects of this sectional controversy. The accusa-
ton Ii so grossly false in the aggregate and in the
detail, so mean so low, go unbecoming any man
with the slightest idea of the proprieties of life and
the ecaims Of Justice that we are not the less sur
prsed that it should have received publication in
paper claiming to be decent, as that it should have
emanated from the pen of a man entrusted with
Irresponsible duty of giving correct and honest
Information to the public, from Washington City.


The secret Of this thing may be detected in the
next sentence of the extract, where mention is
made Of " the curse Of slavery" This it is which
has stirred up this black Abolition bile with such
al offensive exhibition Of it, Mr.. Crttenden only
proposed that tlle South should have q chance to
make slave States out Of about one.thrd only of
the common territory. The notion Of such pro-
position being conservative y meets with ridcule
" aad contempt. The Abolition idea of conserya-
4 4 IN We suppose, means the exclusion Of the
sovath from all the territories, and war upon the
institution everywhere they can reach it. That is
Ilsts notion OF it!


We think il likely they will soon be graHfied in
one respect. They have proclaimed ''no more
4 slave States 2 as their creed; slave States we
presume, being especially offensive to them.
Fery well. In month or two they will not have
my. The slave States will be out of the Union,
lithen the North will be relieved of the mon
stFous sin Of being responsible for the existence OF
slavery in the Union. They ought to be grateful
tothe slave States, and we doubt not will be, for
putting them in a position where they will have
nothing to do with this terrible thing Of slavery.