l. a - . i , i . aggrsBaa"" If AWV ii ii nw n n r 4M iava v a . . u . n Ay 0 i;i f) D. W. MOOUfi, Editor tuft Proprietor. PRINCIPLES, not MEH. TEEMS 50 Per Aaaum, if paid ta adrnnc VOL. XXXVr. WHOLE NO. 1830. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY' OCT. 26, 1861 NEW SERIES-VOL. V.-NO. IS. 1. i ..,. r . ... 'y WW ADDRESS OF TBI STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. (COKCLCDKD.) 3j the Citizens s( Pennsylvania : Oa the other hand, the African race Im never, anywhere, given any proof or Hi capacity for a self-sustained civility lion. Since the tun first shone on tbat continent it baa remained in the "iame ti cf menial gloom. Cruel, brutal, voluptuous, and Indolent by nature,- the African hat never advanced a single step bsyemi hie own savage orignat. Slavery ru ever oeen, ana in inn nour continues to tie t . i i-.- .i . .. .' ., mrmtl condition throv?hmt every dime hi . . " a mam onoortuniUe. if Imm.nr fdn can niM m i Ann vt. than haia ha. the inhabitants of Asia or cf K,,.. ,A! V. l turi,e' A'.oae the stores . j ywwnnfin - d the Literature and was once concentrated the Lit erutnrA Science of the world. Carthago, the rival of imperial Home in all the arts of civili- ntiOD, extstea lor many y?ars on the Af- rirau border, ine baracens. thA mr.ui . .. . . .... polished race of their tia. founded and maintained for centarlea a conn'emuaeru- pire. bull, for all thi. the African haa ' lha cml powr." It Ims tuj erffded in n(br,J?hter finite of devotwn to their in anlnued to prowl on lhrou.h hii lnn reign of lawlet-: foicu ih. ; tendeij victim : d t4i wm ld Mih I n it night of barhafim ; and thus, in all man probability, !w will continue forever. Tell ui i not that his want of progreat in ciiuiuuu ms rrtii 01 ion eaiaDiiaoed -m Biunug U!l KWKi Hia ot otli- 4 uo nuirrui siBieaman wuo tiaa been bondaga. So, fir cnturiei, wat our own ce t0 '''" our people und cat out theii nominated for tho1 ecnd place on our rtce bouod to .ih eatth under variout ,!lD8,n6ce-" an iniquitous Conscrifi-1 t'caet. iiat long been conspicuoua in the modifications of predial vassalage. Put ' ,ton 'aw. fcs distributed ii aet.tti , l-gtoliitive biancu of th Government, tie white soul expanded, and mounted wnong peojile, backed by tajonelt Kememberiug hu years few men in our tbove all itsburthena and tramniela, and 8nJ cl,,hd with discretionary powers couutry have ever leuched a higher poii finally, In this country, reached the full .Ter liherties, if tu.t the lives of our U10" 'n he renpect and conlidei ce cf the fruition of republican freedom. ;citizens. Jt "ha quart( rd huge armies 11 uUl'c- turn in the preceut 'Jougrees , We grant tins mental inferiority of lh ' troops amongn u." It has "impOK'd i'Oi!eitea to a greater extent ihc.-a gifis African (re forbear, in the spirit of ,M.xe lTon u ''hout our cnr.aein." yl o'atory nuJ acuouiplikluueiits of stateg- iDbneiy, any pbyncal contemplation or 1 1 A . x utiirj uoea noi give a uominant race lc" iamcrou mr a stronger the right to couvey him from his own Government, that "our charter may be Uoigh'ted land to a foreign bondage, even talen away, our most valuable laws abol tinder the forms of a purchaae from hie Bhed, and the powers o'f the Government African master. But this natural infer!- !ere(l fucdnmentally." Then e sub- erity must be considered by the statesman m'' lellovr-cttiaena, are all of tbem fra- in framine luwa and adontins Onsiiin. lures fairly exhibited of that "kttnM.-or lion for human ronrnmcnt. In P.nn. Ijflvsnis we have always aflirraed this feriority in fur fundamental laws: and the lame has been done in almost all the free Stales of the Union gereially ex - luding the African from the right of ufTrase. This necessity of duly tegarding the law of rrces is thus forcibly comment- d upon by Lamirtine, (a scholar and a statesman, always in favor cf man's largest liberty,) in a rrcent work : T im convinced that taea omrn'orm t fie great . . UtrH nf tnen and manners. Man is not so capable of education as philosopher ima gine. The influence of fovernment and fans has lrs power, radically, than i tuppo.ed, orer the manners and instincts of any people. While the primitive con ilitution acd blood of the race have always their influence. And manifest themselves thousands of years afterwards in I he ph) s ical formation and habits of a particular taiiilv or tribe. Human nature flows in rivers and streams in the vast ocean of linmanity j but ill waters mingle but ilowly-sometimes they never mingle. , ii,A iM,nn from tho Lake of Geneva, with its own taste and color. Here is, indeed, an abyss of thought and meditation, and at .3 . , . tho sama I me a arahd teeret lor Uaalators. ti Lng as they h ep the spirit of the met in ttVio ihry succeed; but they fail when they strive against this natural predisposition : naton is stronger than thiyare." Bu.nhytbus enlarge upn a lopvo which has uuJergone so much, aud well frequent discussion T Wby-because this idsa ofwoiking out nejro ejulitu on tho part of our opponeots is the viry basis of ovr iresent rouheal slruone. l.ei uo man oe ;..!,. Tl.i. U ,z.ll ii, land n snn it the present moment between the two psriiojts- To carryoutthi idea has corns at httobetheruUnv,ifnotthetolemiTostqfthe tear which is nu diluting the land with rater- afiiW; For this, tbe t'onttiiuiion ana the roierved richls of the States and the i k ,uil iramt.lo.l SnZ fnor. for this both mre ous an S Hock any monarch In England, hare been issued by the President, and sought to le tnforced; for this, Secretary Sesrard't bout to Lord Lyons -"I can touch my office bell at any moment, and order to K nToo f eq n, 'real 17 i m arrested any ctlutn ol tint country The extent lo which the party support ing the President are willing to go in ne gro affiliation, find a memoiable illustia tion ia the proposition made by Secretary Cameron, the first of the several orcu pants of the placeof Secretary of War I uDusr x resident j.incom, us ooonj iro- poiod in bit first and lastauoual comuiu-'of 6iction to free, and then to arm, the hole black population of tho South, nod tarn them asrairtit their white maateti in work of indisfciiininnte butchery I Thi - . . . a t.,,1-:r .v ...... i inn nn. urn snnntsn b tL PrMi.Jpnt when first r-roposed, but ft hm linen been acted oo in more In- t.itices than one W. v.-. ,'.! i,,.rlr at nresent in power, fellow-citiaens, with tyranny ad usurpation. We now go further, and roniyV-rt our belief, that there it a ; nlAf-A irrlr noweia asodi of the President ; and if tbeir ad- should be adopted by the people, in horttitn thecbaint will be firmly rlv 'Hand oue liberties completely aubvert The Philadelphia Aw not long remarked: ' v . ' 'Aooiher ptinqiple must certainly be -waiea in our reoogniieaioro or go patent. The men who shape the leg W00 Of thla nniin'H mhan th tr HZt.'a'jsf remcmlwe tb.t ht w anf IT SVs Kla' 4Tf-rfi "eni. Ah-.nl ik. ..n..!;. i . ti : .f P'?. ' lJ concert, I "' Ti i. i i Am.erKa: , . : j .i . . . """" "uj n wie ao- 7,7 a aenl with limited inwcrs ; iWeJiEI '"'.T P ? - mentovght to U and must to INmhited" Such dostrlites at these would have met w:th rebuke, even at the hands of the elder Adam. , but thcy .,,t.V Drecursora ct thu.;,n. i been made in ni.rr L .i7- L. f dnn.rin ,t .irV.J - U,U8. ,rl'"c" uoctrinet of the (Jonxtitutinn. T'm vw wronifa, in fact. coinuluMied i.f I . . r vi i uui and enumerated it, their decla.a- - - j iiufi airairiRL ilia Kn.ii.h 1. i Wn revived u no ft ""rT?ftI violated iu own ministration has iilf.,iiv i.. M - p.eH, a.ii .ouht "f.reiext innovation uuon the eNtal.n.h Ji ... ir.i. Ple of the Government ;' it bus fostered P"l of encroachment which tends to "r"a,4,e departments of the uoverument in one nml ii.niiu. .. 1.., , ever tlle 'r'n 'y be. u mil d.apotUui." l ',a foJered ' the u.jliiiiiv uiriot to .-w.iu.r, nlml. hu-,,cnbed bJ lw ajjiii.st aeuurend impii.s- 0D?,ent '"ith.mt due process of law." j h" verily "created a muliimdeof new inaiiy,-it chosen and purcha.-ed udvo - MU. An .. - I - Government" which our fniefxihoi.. un. in-'P6"'10 " ,n Supreme Judge of tue .world," eighty years ago. iledifd 'their ,1V"' "eir tortunes, nd their acred , bonf" " put aside former. ,w'e jVe lerre poken. lellow-citizens, J?.ulh dIreseed condition of the coun. ry. 'P.9 mountain of dobt which ha been P''ed up so recklessly, cannot he lew inati three thousand millions of dollura. wht n r'.' f":rly counted. 01 this, i'ennsylva- mat share will be at least one tHiun uf !,,c wboI' or $300,OtK..000. The annual intftrA.t linntl tl.Iu li.... it....... ,..:t.. ... . . interest upon thi sum (more easily est i- maiea man paid) will tu about eighteen millions of dothrs. This, added to the annual interest of our former debt, make an eggregate of iniere-t now, aocl hnce' forth, to le torne by the people of tins , ... i I Commonwealth, stated in round num bers, of twenty millions of dollars ! Wo i cannot heighteu this picture ot tlie bturn reality, which an inexorable arithmetical calculation trivet, borne make even a deeper debt and a darker pi ot peel of the ,u'u,e- . , , . Taxation always falls heaviest upon labor; it will now crind the toor to the very earth. And ei the mock phiiati - - l"ropist ot the day are increasing tue taxation, and utging cm a sysiem of me. kilt nft h irtls tiniiA ' i n a iik.i ams.v .r ..i.. . " t"" ' lie ratine the coiiditioa of the Alrtcan. will, il carried on much longer, practically enslave the luboiing white man, and st.irve his family. And besides this, if tho foicible abolition of bondage at the South should succeed, it will cnly be to bring the whitewoiking men and 'women ot the Ki rth into competition in the same paths of labor wiili the Alncau they have been taxed and bectzaied '.obtinu Lute uuu fui'tioi i buiuiiksi u. I i vwed eapiulieie. who has money 'end to the Administration, get. hi b,ond. "P hush there u no laxahun ; and ' mcieaaed the burdensol the labor- '-"" '"V"1"' ,PUMue this melancholy train of fact rewoning. and turn to the more grateful consideration , of how we can do iome.hing for the ci,rcc.ion of these evils, It must le iilain. fe ow-citixeos. that the only hope that conservative men can have of saving the country from impend ing annrchv and ultimate ruin, ia ivy uni ting with the Democratic pail) the only 1-J Tlul? character and conservative in it aims; the only party in the country thai has ever been able to govern it, lor any lengtu of time, to the satitfuctioi. nf the people ( at Lrge. This parly las now presented for the i imumv; n,c irtiunnj ... men the most unspotted lives and tsnbleai- ished reputations every way unassailed and unasailable, except by the corrupt and mercenary creaiuies in the pay and promise Of the existing Adminisliaiiuii. . , . e. - II fa.l ll shall not iaue hero to write hit history, in rrirara 10 uoiirun u. niev eitan. we That is already engraved on the heart ana conscitices ot a grateiut peopie. vv e feel confident, also, that Lis admitted ability, Integrity, and independence, tho manly firmness he has alway. exhibited, ! and eecui. , and abovn a. . hi, herom He stand at the present, at he has al ways stood, wholly aloof from intrigue. He ia allied by no ties or contracts with mercenary adventurers in political- life, lie trek not lbs office for which be has been named I but bat all along held "the along held "tue i...,. r hi. ... r. rm ti. Jov.jembarraMment. which trammel the ac. Jgii-I live and ambitiog. candidate for office. .' v-n if HafMt.hnuld fall to his lot in this donlett. fwbicb we cannot believe,) he will f-Ki-r, ..i,ki K.iiai hnwill r r"1-, v::rv",z..-;r, v.- wj: jviv.u n ! i re mnnv....,, ... nif. ;r . . i .i . l . . . . . r.cLiru.unu inai inwewno ia espoused his cause even from the becin- ning. acted frotn sympathy with brain. persecuted, and patriotic man: uced from principle and love of count rv.se..;.. . - rrd nr future favors. .No ,, wl,o l.aa l-en named for the Presid. ,,.-v desires it leas; noon, certainly. U4 Courted it lea, and Out it an additional why' he 5SM Vvi lZ 'be ,ra,rA k n.-n.v,i..i...'.i .. I .h. J . me op.. , -e ..! , , ' The yarnilied - - i i i;U iuvii 1 inn comu.iitee of Congie. ; the nUIUi.i i1Dft... j . . . ' X . u na drwidml hit pojrtitarity, Ute a...e.. a.ui .1,... a.a i... . "i. " i'ei m bUMing bu luilituiy reVnu. ' t on. lMilliirent i,n 11 ; 'every land nave read the l.bcU upon thU accomplished soldier, only nh u sicken - mg sense of their injustice and venality. In 1 n cmnirv thov 1 lUDd l.ui.al.ul..rt .1.. a - w civnirir kPtiheof tlieir injustice and venality. tli is ciunirv iticv liv hnivinii . ! hearta of oui aoidiery and the people at ' !"'(;, only to kindle there a biuader and - .j -vMinairu iue wit neat with approbatiou the reaaid j which they will mete out to a national W.tor. - maiiainp, that amply justify the wide pop. I . . I .... ...J . . I . I I . ulatiiy add esteem with which he iatvoiv where regarded in theeeciiun of the Union that gave him birth, lie, like our Presi dential candidate, emphatically belongs to the vofNu hen of .his cuuntiy. These nominations are essentialy mEta t ruinatious. 1'hi fact of vouth should 1 ive a U-ei.er iiiicre!. if iir,a,l,ln m it.;. " the airuggle now at hand. The whole 'ot active' lilts in before ihcru. with all its pursuit , liops. and enjoyments. Let i hem weigh well recent and passing events, and mai'k the rapid coiling of despotic power ;' lei them resolutely tee to it, that the wie nn t biieticenl institutions of their ow.n sure beii.age, and that of their children. Finally, felloH'-cilwen of Pennsylvania, j of all clasc and conditions, it is in your Iinirm If i II iwrtl t' A ilia tlitu-,1.. u V inl. nnua iiower to uisaoive the ciowds wttch now tnreaten to overwhelm ull our brightest hopes, and biing upon our country a long nijjJit cf slot in and darkness. Aaainst the usurjintions and eviln, which ae are conscious of having but too imperfectly .k.: t... ... . ...l depicted, lot us array ourselves in com- bined strength. Let our watchwards be Wir (if vie must have t) for the true, legitimate objects of such a war. and none other; for teack the first moment that peace can restore to us the common heritage of a united country: for tho imperishable glory of the old Union and the Constitution unim- paiied ; wltli sympathy for out 'soldiers in the Held under their trials and dangers ready ever to aid and to honor them which cannot ii'ioiblv be betler done, than in tivirc our best efforts in endeavor i" I" so modify the grounds of the slrug- gle they ure maititaintng as that it shall appear puiely just before men, and in the sight ut Gud J We implore, then, all who love peace ""J order; s'l who wish to see ioduvtry succeslul and property secure ; all who are willing to support wine leginliitinn, 1'ublic virtue, and constitutional liberty j an wnot wimi to ieu pro-perous iiveu tliemelve", and enjoy m quiet the I run of their oun indunry : all who widi to tratiM'tit their porjierty and (he blessing" of free institutions to their children, we Implore all thee to unite with us. We go tor the counity, the wnoi.a country for Union, LtncRTr, and Law. If a ma- joriiyof the people will thus be true to themselves, we ay hop, soon to see our country resuming wi'h renewed vigor her glorious career tree. rRo'PEROL-s, and uappv -the pride of her own citizens. and the admiration of the world ! lly order of the Democratic Slate Cen tra! C'oiriiiiiilre. C. I. WAItD. Chairman. R. J. Heiipuh.l Secretary. Deprecation's or RuDEnsts Maryland. Haiti more. Oct. 18 A letter from Ponies- v ill, Maryland, says: Medley district has not h.st less than 2,000 cattle and 100; raids, while those who came in contact wi'h the raiders were compelled torin - tribute their hats shoes and pocket book. There is no security for property, but little tianqniliiy of mind, and constant nli.nuii.n .f l.i.naa 'I'll A A s.w. . At. - l'l''-"'" i . i..-vjht..- ces following from these raids are thai the merchants will be necessitated either to iuthu i iruii ih vuimm unr, mu the farmers to reduce their business to a mere livelihood." ,di wjlh , Mr c Th j Ox J. to report at Atlanta, instanter, and join their regiments. The meanness of this btiinn is irreolaimably outrageous. Oltio Statesman. -A.oMier was .hot by the provoat PUirfl in w.hinrion. on Mondiv last. r: , .....j .m .j " u.: pookett. It was found that ho had already U.n discharged from aervioe. i3-Somethin 6f a wine out in Ohio &i nt- ihtw.Jata ic it- i.t vr.- .,,-., - r.- .- .-. - - isx-uov. Hitler's Itei.lv r-. r- . T atepty to Cea Cameron. rnii,DLPHU, October 5th, 1864. jIok Simon tW ;Diar Sir- I have j.i-.i perused, for the first time, and with he. utmost eurpriae, to much of your late h.iura, hi Chairojan of the Republican Sime Committee at relate in the reiec. ; whi,tl i.w?h.?!!K . ..ware that the 0 , he Crittden Compromise, and Hon. C. L v and, aa Uhairman of our Couimittee. has already anawered your allegation oon, 1. atvelyonthe main poiuti, 1 must V.jin- uuiru w uilHl 4 call subject a little inorl in dJ.ii your attention to the - .M. I,1.? ""'"""S 10 ,h Treseni sad condition biliiiw resiini uuon tLo.t who n7 'u, ot',u"V' ",,a 10 ." grave lespons.. or refused to vei t t'1C-e calamitie rb fRir ' u.li . . . l ,c . Iani:,,ei u fHir and hnnoifll-ilM nrnm pi.!uA um. ...... "The question l,mKe upon the repon- 1 sibilitv of the reiee i,7r n, hi Vvi.." niuu 'Com : u.'. 'Compromise. It was rejected Bv ' wham ' II...'. . - . Iiricmil'B lO USCS 4U . tl I IS nno.u. n.,. al Globe of the second session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, will piuce the resjionsi bility for tho rejection of that compromise where it j.iopeily belong-. It will beseen I that the Crittenden Com'i.romisi I feated by the aubsiitution i PJ w,ml h ll0Wn M (, .c, fc was de- eot ) of Ameiulnu nt ' The record shows thai the vote on the mo. Hon to substitute wast yeas. 25, nays 30. 'J be vote on the adopl.on of the Clark proportion, taktn directly afterwards, . was t ) eas 45, nays 23. The presumj.tion would bp, naturally, that if the Vouth had; voles enough to lejuct the substitute, it j would also nave had enough lo reject tho proposition when olJ'ered independently. There was a falling oil" in the negative vote on the preposition, as compared with that on tho first mo.iou to substitute, of j?t'C votes. This is accounted for by the fact that Senators Benjamin and Siidell, of Louisiana; WLjfall and Hemphill, of Texas; Iveraon, of Georgia, and Johnson, of Arkansai six Southern benatorssat in their seats and refused lo vote. 'IJad these six Southern men voted ' no the Clark pro position would have been defeated by a majority of lour votes, and the 'Jrittenden Compromise could have been taken up ami carried by the samo majority, h ap pears of lecord, then that the Crittenden Compromise was njectod because six of me leading benator from the South vir- tunllj ioiubcu iu luir iui n iimiiun tv reconsider was carried sumo weeks later, and a direct vote upon the comj ramise was taken. Tho pronosition was lost by a single vote. But one of the six Senators referred to voted on that occasion, nearly all of them having withdrawn on the se cession of their respective States. Hail they remained to vote for tho compromise it aould have been adopted. "Tho chief object in alluding to this matter is 10 show that when. Wore the overt act of war was committed, the South had the election of compromise or vrar, she, through her highest dignitaries de liberately cUOjo war." You must pardon ran for the remark, that of the versions and perversions of this item of grave legislative hiitoiy which have lallen undor my notice, yours is the most illogical and untruthful. It looks very like one of your best efforts lo conceal rather than exhibit the truth. 1 am right glad, however, that you eem w.lling to stake tho claims of your party for continued confidence an 1 aupport, to some extent, upon their ctl'irts to avert dissolution and civil war by honorable concession and settlement, for you there, by invite full and free inquiry into the subject. Younay "the question hingeiupon the responsibility of the rejection of the Crit tenden Compromise." In a subsequent pan ol your a I J rein you define the Ques tion limbed, tobe peace or war, I am munli iinlt'b'ivl t' you for this coccession. ii i! e; j.i 1 -Atvl'.r and fairness marked in a leuiainder of the Address, I should have had no 'Ccaion to notice it. Mr. Greeley, und others of your friends have sought toe.tcape the responsibility by al leging that the proposed compromise would not have been effective. But you have assumed that il would, and you pro ceed to inquire who defeated it. You say the proceedings of Congress, rut recorded on page 409 of the Congressional Globe for th-ii session. " wi.l place the res ponsibility for the rejection ot that com promise where it belong." Bill you have fallen into grave errors about the vote. The vote of 26 to 30 was on a motion to I postpone, and there is no such vote av 45 J lrt 23 but that is not essential as I shall 'BWe the vote cortectly, and itshows that, 0n the motion or Mr. Clark, of New Hamp- n,,r, ,u .v,in. Uu, hhu.iii.h. ia.eri certain propositions of his own. ev- :ry Republican Senator present voted to trike out the compr.im te, and every southern Senator whi voted on the sub- jct. and every Democratio Senator from .1. V... I. ..a... I.. ! . . f.ll.M. . the Nirth voted to sustain it, as follows In favoi' ot striking it out, Messrs. A n the r?, Bker, Bingham. CAMERON. Chand le'r. Clark, Clark. Collamer. Dixon. Djo- liltle, Durkee, Fesscnden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale. Uarlan. King, Seward, Sim mons, Sumner. Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wadd, lt'ilkinton and Wil.on 25, Against striking out the compromise nui you proceed to show with seeming exuuation, that " six Southern &enatrssiH jf their sea fend refused to vote." and hence, ' iha defeat of the compromise. That it i hi.. 'LT"Ld .Si qm--, T tieentu-nvt jupmunsnamsmmuuir seats "frTiit il Vm !, hu.,l.? i h JJ,?" llJi?"t V 5S .X . all ,tbej were against It unitedly, and on ail occasiont. I - you n fesnonsib:tny far the . - .... . . mov.d . . 7s tf"r J. 1 . ua luin u; which the comorom a fll . H..s it. ti on your motion was taken not as you say, some weeks afterwards, but on the 18tb, two dayt thereafter, and that whilst Mes srs. Hemphill. Johnson, of Arkansas, and 'h "BOI1.w"T e te.r votes from wronT.Pnd 'TJV W9 f A !? . fW ,be;f:con'1"t'on. you, 10 the amazemen of the Senate, to - ed against ytur own motion to re-consider and rdCheh?tbv7r,Van " -.-r.,brf:lh;t.by thecompro- 1 " I'lwvimij 111a JMIB. I lull it occupied before the Clark amendment, and so it stood to the close of the session, ii. inn wi.m iiiBnnn in ii.Miiaiu . i. . . ...... . . ready at all limes for favorable action. On this vote, which can be found on page 413 of the 1st volume oS the Globe, Messrs. Bayard. Bragg. Clingman, Crittenden, Green, Hunter. Johnson, of Arkansas; Johnson, of Tennessee ; Kennedy, Mason, Nicholson, Pes ice. Polk. r)ell. Siulsbu ry, Sebastian, and Siidell, on the part of the South, sustained the compromise, whilst Messrs. Seward, Sumnor, Wade, yourselfand every other Itejuiblican voted against il. How preposterous it is then for you to pretend that the compromise was finally lost becwe six Southern Sen ators withheld their votj on one indirect question, which they helped to reverse forty-eight hours thereafter. But, Gener al, if it were a great wrong, in the Cotton State Senators, against whom vou com plain so much, to withhold their voles from the compromise, what are you to sav for yourselfand the remainder of the Re- wider of the Re - publican who voted invariably against it?. allure 01 me compromise on six Senators was necessary Ant mMi 1 whodid not vote at all, rather than on byowdE&l against it. 1 know you pride yourself cu the slaves in the rwr of he UI " did you not inform thVputlio that withiH by ti.m refe Un'0"' "ld llZZmf'rYi0' th Cm"i- ln conclus'"'.ro, say "the cl.i.f ob premise, on the 10 h of January, you, jeel in alluding to this matter ii to sW 11 "u.1" wnrat, ana you know itasiside, would unite with them' I kno T,..n. . u,uu uu yuur pany iricncsae-; ibis, tor 1 beard them make tho propo-i-feated the Crittenden Compromise, as you ! lion. You were present, in the Senate rejection of the comptomise as you con cede, then you may as well call for the rocks and the mountains to Pill on you and hide you from the ind gnation of an outraged people, now as at any other time, for the responsibility of the war, with all its attendant horrors and afflictions, will be laid at your door by the impartial histo rian. You filled tho Peace Conference with impracticable men, for the avowed pur poie ol deleating thi patriotic and hu mane purpose for 'which it hsd been call ed; and when the proceedings of that bo dy came to the Senate, Mr. Seward moved lo strike out the entire series of proposi tions and insert others of his own produc tion, fur no other purpose, that any on could perceive, than Icrmanifest bis con tempi lor every effort at compromise and adjustment, lie seemed to Imagine him self equal, in dignity and power, to a con vention of States, and was, evidently, bo- side, exulting in the delusion of a sixty dsy wrangle, and nobody hurt. I don't mean, by anything I sav. to mil igate the folly and wickedness of tho se cessionists in this or any other matter, for' I denounced their doctrines and coose- i ouences at the lime in the strongest terms, I could command; tut Mr. Siidell told me the only otject of withholding their, votes was to bring up the crisis - to disco - ver what was intended on your sido, for be said, what was very true, that we coull continue to debate and votedo'.vn amend ments to the end of the session ; and when three of the ix voted to reo insider. I taw no reason io aoiini tne Bincerny ot wnat the basis on whlcu sue invited ine as hesaid. But I kooiv in addition, that Mr.lsembling of a peace Conference. It was Hemphill, one of the Senaton who with-' endorsed by the Legislature of Ken held his vote, was an open advocate of the' tucky i.nd Maryland, and I think by oornpfomi.se. that of Tennesoe also. It was petitioned In referring to the final vote which was for by a larger number of cititiiens, from taken on the third of March, you say the all sections of the country and of alt par proposition was lost by a single vote. How ties, than any proposition ercr before absurd. It is true one vote more would Congress. have given il a majority, but it would have I It is nol necesrary to nay present puf required twelve or fifteen to have given it pose to di cuts the proposition itself, as two-thirds, the constitutional vote. j you concede to it all the virtue I could Speaking of tho Cotton States men. you claim hr it, but the reason the Southern say, ' had they remained and voted for men preferred it to any other of the many the compromise it would h ive been adopt-: pending propositions, was because it ed " It Hies one's patience. General, to ' took the common territory from ut der seriously notice tuch flagrant perversions, the nprratiod of the dogma on which Tuere i notaman, of either party, who Mr. Lnoln had been elected, excluding served with you in the Senate at that time tie eho tlert f.cm tLe common territory who will sanction t a, as er: on. Yu unless ihy Icfi slaves behind. Tbo kuow perfectly well that the Constitution ' Sui rcme Ccurt hsd decided against the requires a vote of two-third in both hou-' rifcht of Congress, to interdict slavory ses of Congress to submit arueodmenti for. from the common territory ; but th the ratification of the Stale, as you also incoming party were pledged to exercise do, that the vote of every Sanator from the su horny, notwithstanding. Mr. Lin the South, of whatever party, uniting with co'.n h d repeatedly made known bis de tbe vote of every Democratic Senator from terminat oa to stand by that position, the North, it x would still have required The Sojih htld ihattuch a decreeor doc eight or nine Republican votes to have trine rendered tho Southern Status passed it by the constitutiaual majority, less than equal in the Union, and that and at no Republican Senator ever voted ihey could submit to no such bumilta for it, of declared his intention to do to, tion. One of the great merits of the Crit with wnat thow of fairness or truth csn teeden propositions was that it waived you say that it would bava been adopted ' the force of that deoree by an equitable bad the Southern Senator voted for it f. partition of the territory on the line of 3b lnolhser words, as tbo Republican Sena-'deg. 50 min North latitude, giving us tors numbered more than one-third of a about 900.000 iquere Euileaofthe territory. full Senate, bow could a vote of two-lhird be oast againtt tbeir con sen if tw ..V... is,rn.iitu!lon did not require a vote of two-third, and the plied your principle to three-fourth oi Southern Senators, uniting with the the territory acquired by a common Hood Northern Democratic Senators, bad and treasure, but you were not content, adonted it of what ervlce could tuch a, But you know we went father and prs measure hive been ? That would, truly, 1 posed to take a vote of the people for lh. have been the play of Hamlet with Ham- direction of the member of CvUgrest it. let Out. It was a compromise and settle- aubuitiini the propositions for the rau ruaot between the two tectiont, and tbe.iScstion of tbeSUtea. But the Rcpubi; raJical men of the two sections, which cne-"o'ild toawpt tba taujpT-ami-.. "M tbe South hadtheelec iidd o Compromise Or war sh llimiioli ' 1 .. u:-u..r.V .. , r 7 l".,18" her highest dignitaries, deliberately choie war.1 I am again indebted ta you for tho a 1- mission that the adoption of the compro mise would have averted v.ir. But. to concede the truth of what you alle-a " b Southern memben pray teU us what the Republican members, dfd to ! .,ert disolution and war by a j 1st r.nd V,nnr.l.u ..,.1 . :. " i . create. When did they vote for the Grit- i . i xi ' touueu uuiprumitvo, 0f gavocate it, or any other effective measure. In what way did they attempt to assuage popular passion and prejudice If what you allege against the Southern members l o true, it only proves what often happened, thai the radicals of both sections autod in concert together to prevent concession and compromise it would only hoiv thaV the secession members acted as bad as you and your parly. But how is that ai-gumau t to avail you in a contest with the Northern Democracy, whose representatives in both branches exerted luemselvos to the utmost to avert dissolution and war, by proper adjustment, in the same spirit in which tit Union bad been formed. But' you know as well as I do that your alle gation, as against the Southern" members generally, i unjust. You know that Messrs. Crittenden, Huntor ami Powell, of the South, voted for the compromise ia the committee of thirteen, and I knotv that Mr. Davis and Mr. Toombs urn. lnnnml Wade, auJthoir followers, on the other every member from the iiouth, including those from the coltvu Sta'es, (Metiis linns ana toombs) expressea their rsad, ness to accept the proposition of my ven erable friend from Kentucky, a; a fan', settlement of the controversy , if teuddied and sustained by the Kepublican p:;i: -hers Hence the sola responsibility :if ojv disagreement, and the only ii;. r the way of amicable adju .t'ner ., 's .. Uie Republican party. Nov, u.. if these ullegaiioo were untrue fhy u-.i you not rise in y. lr pluea n-.l diet them? ' Why waj 11 h-' n Ue; -lican member of tha Comuii'.lr.j - teen did so? Why was not t!,e Hap. i can party promptly vindica'od njrtir.? these sweeping alle,.ii n.i ? T.t answer is, ihal no detVnso ce'.I 'l i n made. Mr. Pugh subsequently 4'ftad thoSjnate floor, that Mr. Divn !r u i . him that he was willing to "iuniti!:ii: : -. Union if that bronosition cmld rec:i v I the vote it ought to teceive from otbertideof the clianiber." Why you neglect to deny that staletuont ...i i mintaiu thai it was the Rep ublic.sti, ani not the Southern cuembet who weru willing to compromise and settle f Mr. D wis said the same thing in substance to mo as did Messrs. Hunter, B.-ajrir. Mai- , lory and others : iodeed, they all seemo i willing lo accept it from the dominant party, except lverson, Wigfall, aud Johnson of Arkansas, and many vt ttietu were its daily auvocstes. it was en- jdorsed by the State of Virginia and was and tbo Koutti about, aiHyjuu, our share being more than any impartial umpir could bare awarded u. and il thusap-