Year: 1861

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Legislature progresses as fast as the OBJ
stacles thrown in the way of those re =
ally desirous of performing their duties
will permit. But no one, until he has
unfortunately been placed in the posi-
tion to feel the nuisance, can realize the
delay which can be effected by few
factious members. Whole days can be
consumed by frivolous motions, and
calling the yeas and nays upon them
But the trial must be endured, however
CALLING, and it may as well be endured
patiently, as the case is without remedy
so long as certain class Of persons are
elected by the people. 1t looks very
much like a part of the scheme Of dis
and anarchy which is being
inatgurated throughout the country
We do not care to be more specific.


The Commissioners have reached
Washington, and are in session, with
John Tyler, "of blessed memory" at
their head. From the character Of a
majority of those from Ohio, we have no
fears that our State will be disgraced;
but we confess to very little faith in any
good resulting from the Convention
The whole scheme of getting it up, by
Virginia, is so transparentlS political
trick by which it is hoped to frighten
the people into submission to demands
which will change our form of Govern
ment into a Despotism, that it seems
amazing that any one should fail to see
it. 1t is hoped, by appeals to the fears
of the people, to force upon them what
is called the Crittenden propositions
And to this end, all the machinery Of
"party" in the Free States, and the out
RACES of traitors in the South, are to be
brought to bear in their utmost force.
We intended to devote this letter chiefly
to an exposition of the Crittenden prop
ositions, which are evidently not under
stood, and were never seen by one out
of Ave of those who are clamoring for
their adoption. But, finding in the
Cincinnati Commercial of to-day, which
is just received, an article on the same
subject, we adopt it. The Commercial
says:


There is an incessant noise, by horde
of desperate partisans, who are attempt
ing to realize political capital out of the
passion and panic of the hour, in favor
of the Crittenden Compromise. 1t is
thrust forward as the only means by
which the nation can be saved. All
other plans of pacifcation are pro-
nounced inadequate or dishonest. He
who will not avow himself in favor of
this Compromise, which is held up as
the infallble extract of super party
patriotism, is denounced as provoking
all the calamities of dissolution and war.
And yet, so unacceptable to any honest
and intelligent citizen, who would stand
by the honor of his country, and so i'm
practicable is this proposition-so OBJ
jectionable the remedies proposed, and
so impossible their application-that if
II were not for the character of the au-
thor, we would be constrained to charge
that it was the worst feature of the
whole disunion conspiracy, and had been
brought forward and insisted upon as an
ultimatum, not to save the Union, but
to insure the secession Of all the slave
holding States.


AS the case stands, unquestionably,
the effect of the exclusive, violent and
intolerant advocacy of this "Compro-
mise" is not to heal, but to wound; not
to restore, but to destroy. We will
briefly enumerate the leading objections
to it:


It establishes protectorate over
slavery, by the Federal Government, in
the Territories of New Mexico and Ari-
zonia.


1t looks to the conquest of Mexico for
the establishment of slavery therein.


1t is absolutely impracticable, as it
cannot be recommended by two-thirds
of either House of Congress, and as the
silence or opposition of nine States,
even if it had the recommendation ne
cessary to carry it before them, would
defeat it. The six seeded States would
be silent, and more than three of the ad-
herring States would oppose it. Yet
there is a rub-a-dub and ding dong
throughout the North, of all the organs
and orators of those most demonstrative
in their attachment to the Union, that
if this thing is not instantaneously
crammed down the throats Of the peo-
Pile, the Union is lost. In this way the
public is perplexed in the extreme, and
the want Of common sense understanding
of the subject is wonderful.


We pronounce this so-called compro-
mise intolerable and impossible. The
insincerity and absurdity of those who
are crying aloud in its advocacy, can
only be fully illustrated by comparison
with the propositions of Mr.. Adams, of
Massachusetts, which are eminently just,
honorable and practicable. Mr.. Adams
proposes:


1. The admission of New Mexico, in
cluding Arizona, as a State, under ex-
isting laws. Slavery now exists in the
Territory and would be exclusively un-


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