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VOL. XXB M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894 Entered at the Portoffice in McMinnville, as Second-class matter. NO. 50. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE S2.00 PER YEAR- One Dollar if paid in advance, Single numbers five cents. I THE McMINN* IL1.E LOCAL NEWS. National Bank The End of the World —McMinnville, Oregon.— Is IN'ot Yet Paid up Capital, *50.000 And therefore its just as well that you should feel happy, and this you can best <io by trying to make others happy. Therefore go to Transacts a Geiieni Banking Biuineas. President, - - J. W COWLS. Vice President, - LEE LAUGHLIN. Cashier. - E. C. APPEKSON Aut. Cashier . - - W. S. LINK Board of Directors: C. Grissen’s J. W. COWL*. LEE LAUGHLIN, A. J. APPERSON. WM. CAMPBELL, J L. KOGERS. Sell Sight Exchange and Telegraphic Trans fer» on New York, San Franeuco and Portland. Deposits received subject to check. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Loans money on approved security Collections made on all accessible point». Santa Claus Headquarters, And decide upon a Christmas' gift for your friend or lowed one. That’s the way to do it. Hundreds of Beautiful things to Choose From. THE Handsome Books, cloth bound, from 15 cents upward. Bibles, Albums, Christmas Cards and Booklets. Dolls from 2 cents upward. Set of Dickens’ works, 15 volumes, $7.50. Musical Instruments bought in eastern markets at astonishingly low prices. Handsome Christmas Cards from 2 cents upward. COMMERCIAL LIVERY STABLE. JEWELRY GATES & HENRY, Props. DEPARTMENT. Special bargains in Silverware and Ladies’ Gold Watches. E Street, north of Third. Everything New and First elass Conveyance of Commercial Travel er» a «penalty Board and stabling by the day or month We solicit a fair share of tbe local pat ronage. Mail orders promptly attenced to. Come in or send in your orders. Special discount to teachers and Sunday schools. CHflS. GKlSSEfl, Matthies Brothers, 3d Street in bloek tuest of Gook Hotel. PROPRIETORS CITY MARKET NEW FURNITURE © FHESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS. Q) CH0ICE8T IN THE MARKET. South ride Third St. between H and C. large : invoices CITY BATHS We invite the attention of all —AND— Baths are new Aid first-class in every re spect. Ladles' Baths and shampooing a special ty. Employ none but first-class men. Don’t forget the place. Three doors west of Hotel Yamhill. ELSI A WRIGHT, Manufactures and Deals in :ARNESS ! Novelties. BURNS & DANIELS Upholstered TILE FACTORY, W. G. HENDERSON. S. WILSON. C ity S tables , (Third Street, between E and F.) Brushes and sells them cheaper than they can be bought any where else in the Willamette Valley. Our ail home made sets of harness are pronounced unsurpassable by those who buy them Proprietor of The McMinnville of Come and see them. SADDLES, BRIDLES, SPURS, JOHN F. DERBY, contem new goods in our line. Logan & Kutch, Prop’s. For a Clean Shave or Fashionable Hair Cut Give Us a Call. persons plating the purchase TOiiSORIAIi PAItLORN I just IN I WILSON & HENDERSON, Proprietors. S. WILiSOH, manager. ——-------- 1|*||------------------ -------- Everything first-class. Horses boarded by day, week or month. Commercial Travelers Conveyed to all points at most reasonable rates. Give us a call. A WINTER’S ENTERTAINMENT ! —------ Situated at th« South west corner of the Fair Grounds. AU sizes of first-claw Drain Tile kept constantly on hand at lowest living prices. GREAT VALUE OREGON MCMINNVILLE. WEEKLY NEWS FOR OF THE WORLD LITTLE MONEY. FOR A TRIFLE. E. J. Qualey & Co •! THE NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, QUINCY, MASS., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in « Twenty-page journal, is tbe leading; Republican family paper of the United States. It is a NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER. and gives all the general news of the United States. It gives the events of foreign lands in a nutshell. Its AG RICULTURAL department has no sup erior in the country. Its Market Reports are recognized auth >ritv. Separate depart ments for “T he FAMILY CIRCLE,”’ “OUR YOUNG FOLKS." and “SCIENCE AND MECH. INICS." Its “HOME AND SOCIETY" columns command th r admiration of wives and daughter«. Its general political news, editorials and discussions are comprehensive, brilliant azd exhaustive. GRANITE MONUMENTS AND ALL KINDS OF CEMETERY FURNISHINGS A SPECIAL CONTRACT enables us to offer this splendid journal and the REPORTER for ONE YEAR FOR ONL Y $1.25 All work Billy guaranteed to give perfect satis- Mc'tion. Refers by permission to Wm. Me Chris man. Mrs. L. E. Bewley, Mrs. E. D Fellows. CASH Holl's Old Jewelry Stand, 3d Street. IN ADVANCE. (The regular subscription for the two papers is $2 .00.) ^/yHITE’S^- Third St. 1 door W Subscriptions may begin at any time. Address all orders to THE REPORTER. Restaurant Silverware at Dielschneider’s B. F. Blood of Carlton was in town Wednesday. County warrants taken at their face by R. Jacobson. Rev. Lee Thompson is in Salem assist ing Rev. Shultz in revival meeting. Leave your subscriptions for any news paper or magazine at C. Grissen’s book store. tf Home made French candies formas at the social the 17th. Mrs. Kate Weber of Portland was the guest of Mrs. Wyatt Harris a number of days this week. For a nice lady’scloak see R. Jacobson. You can buy it at bed rock price. Assessor J. W. Bones attended the state meeting of assessors in Salem this week. New styles in jewelry and holiday goods arriving daily at Wm. F. Diel- uchueider’s, the jeweler. The stage of the river is such that the Toledo is enabled to make regular trips to this city. Fresh mince meat at Cook & Millsap’s until after Christmas. 49w2 M rs . M aris . Will Kuns and wife have been spend ing the week in Portland, taking in the exposition and buying goods for the hol iday trade. All persons indebted to R. Jacobson will please call and settle as we have waited patiently, and now are obliged to make collections to meet obligations. t Living pictures in full costume given by the Y P. S. C. E. of the C. P. church the 17th. Tbe consignment of ladies’ cloaks ex pected by Mr. Apperson was destroyed by fire while en route, and no new order will be made at present. Some fortunate person is going to get a fine French clock. For particulars see the window of Wm. F. Dielschneider, the jeweler. 49tf Charles Groening is doing the popular thing by planting a hedge about hie resi dence. Col. J. C. Cooper came dewn from In dependence and spent Sunday with his family. The most value for your money is what you want. F. Dielschneider is giv ing it in footwear. Big cut in prices. Arthur McPhillips has been issued a notarial commiseion. The postoffice building at North Yam hill was wrecked by the late gale so that the door would not open. The large windows in front were blown in. The Sabbath evening services at the Cumberland Presbyterian church will begin a half hour earlier from this Sab bath evening forward. Subject for this Sabbath evening “The Mind.” Arrangements have been made with Santa Claus to come down the chimney at the Christian church in the good old- fashioned way. A fireplace of genuine or imitation bricks ¡9 to be constructed for his convenience. No discount but prices below any of them in footwear. Everything in the store. Bring in your cash and see. F. Dielschneider’s is the place. Sign of the big boot. 49tf Senator J. F. Calbreath was in Salem the first of tbe week, looking up accom modations for himself during the coming legislative session. Peter Olson, aged 17 years, died near Carlton on the 9th inst., of consumption. Funeral services were conducted at his home by Rev. W. E. McCutcheon. I Mr. E. M. Croisan, ex-sheriff of Mari on county, was in the city Tuesday. He was looking up endorsements for the po sition of superintendent of the state pen itentiary. He secured a number of good ones here, and his chances are said to be the brightest in the lot for getting the place. The pupils of the high school have or ganized a literary and debating society, to meet every Friday evening in tbe Cook building. The officers are: Will Arnett, president; Irene Rummel, vice-presi dent; Ina Stilwell, secretary; Clifford Walker, treasurer; Alfred Weed, mar shal ; Edith Hogg, critic. A very enjoyable surprise was given Miss Green by about forty of her pupils on the evening of Dec. 6th, the occasion being her birthday. She was the recipi ent of several presents, and feels both gratified and honored at being thus re membered by her pupils. Miss Green has taught in the schools of this city for nine years, and her well-sustained popu larity with pupils and patrons is un doubtedly built upon merit In unloading the steamer Toledo’s car Write your vuui unuie name ami and num address cow uu on a a pumai postal rarj, carj, bciiu send iu it vu to Geo. W. . Best, ocbl , xvuum Room 2, go during her first trip this winter a tank Tribune Building, New York City, and a sample copy of The New York of coal oil consigned to Millsap & Cook Weeklj- Tribune will be mailed to you. MEALS AT ALL HOURS was accidentally dropped into the river in the darkness. The trucks, which also Beat 23c Real in City. went over, were recovered, hut it was NOTICE. Choice Fruits. Confections, Nnts and Cigars. thought the tank had sunk to the bot The fallowing general forms are always in stock tom. The next morning the boat’s crew OTICE is hereby given thist the undersigned, the duly appointed. qualified and acting and for sale at the Reporter office: were surprised when they overtook the administrator of tbe estate of Beniamin Antrim, Lemonade, Soda Pop, Etc. Real Estate Mortgage Warranty Deeds deceased. has filed his anal account tank gently floating down stream a little Boani by the Day or Week. Chattel Mortgage Quit claim Deeds in the county court for Yam Satisfaction ot Mort. Bond for Deed below Dayton. It was brought up the hill county, state of Oregon, and said court has Transfer of Mortgage Farm Lease set Saturday, the sth day of December, A. D. 18!M. Bill of Sale next trip. Notes and Receipts. at the hour of one o’clock p. m . of said day as the We cam- a large stock of stationery and are time to hear said final account, and of objections M c M innville Marvin Thurber gives the readers of prepared to do Job printing of every sort in the thereto, and to the settlement thereof. best style of the art and at low figures. Dated Nov. Cth. ISM. the R eporter the result of his experi J. R. FORREST. ence in feeding wheat to hogs. A year Administrator of the Estate of Benj. Antrim, deceased ago he bought six pigs, paying $9 for the same. They were run on grass with the T. ». GALBREATH. 1. H. OOCCH1B. B. E. COULTER, Prop. benefit of house slop until harvest and then turned on stubble until October 10. Goodfl of all descriptions moved and Calbreath & Goucher. They then weighed about 100 pounds careful handline guaranteed. Collections apiece and were put in pen and fed 57 will be made monthly. Hauling of all PHYSICIANS AND SÜRGEON8. days on cooked wheat and oats, consum kinds done cheap. tt 'MlNNTIL t.K - - . . OkZOOW ing 15 bushels of wheat and 25 of oats. Í December 10th they were slaughtered ( Office otmt Braly’s bank. ) and sold, making 905 pounds of meat, for which he received five cents a pound, ■ Always the best. Known The R eporter job department has J*™ of 2,1 acres, two and ■ everywhere. Ferry’s Seed or $45.05. It does not require a great *OU|.hwe’t of Ballston, in Polk just added another rapid press to its fa F Annual for ISOS tells you ,cu. lu cultivation, balance in 'what, how, and when to plant. deal of figuring to show that Mr. Thur Sent Free. Get It. Address «/j ir<xxl we“s- 0004 cilities. Its capacity for turning out fine ber received a better price for his grain *lbPer acre. One half cash D. M. FERRY & CO., ; d8p baiaSi» On on« J«“'» time to secure work is unexcelled outside of Portland. Detroit, Mich. than he could have got in the grain mar juiw^, jfr1 0Q “ address undersigned at Give us a trial and see what neat thing ket. I we can do for you. LEVI CONK ER. of Burn» A Daniels ICE CREAM! LEGAL BLANKS. N Truck and Dray Co. FARM FOR SALE! Hale of New Hampshire; Seward of New York; Wade of Ohio; Baker and Lane of Oregon; Simon Came- . ron of Pennsylvania; Andrew John son of Tennessee; Collamer and Foot i of Vermont; Hunter and Mason of Virginia, and Doolittle, of Wiscon sin, and Representatives Logan, Lovejoy and Washburne, of Illinois; Colfax, English and Holman of Indi- | ana; Henry Winter Davis of Mary- land; Burlingame, Dawes, Eli Thay- I er and Charles Francis Adams of I Massachusetts; Windom of Minneso- ity in the senate and the republicans i to; Lamar of Mississippi; Francis P. in the house. John C. Breckinridge Blair, Jr., and John S. Phelps of was vice-president, and Benjamin Missouri; Pennington of New Jersey; Fitzpatrick of Alabama was president Conkling, Fenton and Sickles, of pro tempore of the senate, while New York; Vance of North Carolina; William Pennington of New Jersey Allen. Corwin, Cox. Bingham, Pen was speaker. President Buchanan’s dleton, Sherman and Vallandigham annual message was awaited by con of Ohio; Covode, Grow and Stevens, gress and the country with the keen of Pennsylvania; Keitt of South est interest, but it was a disappoint Carolina; Etheridge and Maynard of ment to everybody. It was indecisive, Tennessee; Reagan of Texas; Mor contradictory and illogical. Senator rill of Vermont, and Millson and Hale of New Hampshire succinctly Pryor of Virginia. summed up Buchanan’s position in Committees to frame compromise these words: “If I understand the measures were at once formed—a meaning of the message it is this— committee of thirteen in the senate South Carolina has just cause for se to represent the original states, and ceding from the union. That is the one of thirty-three in the house to first proposition. The second is, she represent the number then in the has no right to secede. The third is, union. The senate committee, from we have no right to prevent her se which most was expected by the ceding." This is a tolerably fair country, was composed of five repub summary of Buchanan’s argument licans—Seward, Collamer, Wade, on the secession question. He had Doolittle and Grimes—all from the a scheme to prevent secession, how north; five members from the slave ever, and that was an “explanatory holding states—Crittenden, Powell, amendment” of the constitution, the Hunter, Toombs and Davis—all dem object of which, as he said, was to ocrats, except the old Whig, Critten “recognize the rights of the southern den, who was then classed as a states in the territories.” He ap Know-nothing or American, with pealed to the northern states to re three northern democrats—Douglas, peal their personal liberty laws and Bigler and Bright—as mediators be yield prompt obedience to the fugi tween the extremists. The commit tive slave act. “Unless this is done,” tee’s first work was the passage of a he said, “it is impossible for any resolution providing that no propo human being to save the union.” sition should be reported as adopted It was on December 3 that the unless it was sustained by a majority message was read in congress. On of each of the three classes into December 10 the veteran Lewis Cass, which the committee was divided. secretary of state, disgusted at Bu Its second task was to consider a chanan’s nervelessness and failure to joint resolution presented by Critten reinforce Maj. Anderson in Charles den, and known in political history ton ■ harbor, resigned. Attorney as the Crittenden compromise, which General Jeremiah S. Black was put proposed several amendments to the in his place, and Edwin M. Stanton, constitution. These amendments who was afterward to win imperish- extended the Missouri compromise able glory as the nation’s great war line—the 36 degrees 30 minutes par minister, was made attorney general. allel—onward to the Pacific ocean; Some of the other cabinet offices prohibited any interference by con were held by southern conspirators. gress with slavery south of that line; Howell Cobb, secretary of the treas prevented congress from abolishing ury, went to his home in Georgia and slavery in the District of Columbia afterward entered the confederate so long as it remained in existence service, Philip F. Thomas, and sub in Maryland and Virginia; declared sequently John A. Dix, being put at that no future amendment to the the head of the treasury. It was two constitution should ever be passed or three weeks after entering this affecting the amendments protecting office that Secretary Dix issued that slavery, and in other ways favored famous order about the flag which the slave holders and intrenched electrified the loyal states then and slavery in the organic law. All the later. The order was sent out on republican members of the committee January 29, 1861, and was tele and Davis and Toombs from the graphed to W H. Jones, a special south, rejected the Crittenden agent of the treasury department at scheme. Tbe republicans did this New Orleans. Jones had previously because it surrendered too much to been directed to tell Capt. Bresh- slavery, and the others because it wood, commander of the revenue surrendered too little. The commit cutter Robert McClellan, to obey any tee then reported a disagreement, orders he might receive from Jones and its labors ended. concerning the vessel, and directing The house committee, of which him to bring it to New York so as to Corwin was chairman, was more suc secure it from seizure by the seces cessful. A minority of the commit sionists. Breshwood, who designed tee favored the Crittenden compro to turn the boat over to the conspir mise, but the majority went farther ators, refused to obey the order. in the way of concession than even Jones informed Dix, and Dix wired that agreement demanded. The ma this command, the last fifteen words jority’s scheme provided, among oth of which became historic, to Jones: er things, for the abolition of all the Tell Lieut. Caldwell to arrest Capt. personal liberty laws of the northern Breshwood, assume command of the states; for the admission of New cutter, and obey the order I gave Mexico, which then included what is through you. If Capt. Breshwood, now Arizona, as a slave state,o for after arrest, undertakes to interfere the amendment of the fugitive slave with the command of the vessel, tell law so that the right to freedom of Lieut. Caldwell to consider him a an alleged fugitive should be deter mutineer, and treat him accordingly. mined by a court in the state from If any one attempts to haul down the which he was accused of fleeing, in American flag, shoot him on the stead of by a court in the free state, spot. where he was caught, and for an John B. Floyd, secretary of war, amendment to the constitution pro and Jacob Thompson, secretary of viding that no subsequent amend the interior, also stepped down and ment ‘ ’having for its object any in cast their fortunes with the confeder terference with slavery shall origi acy. Postmaster General Joseph nate with any state that does not Holt, whose death occurred recently, recognize that relation within its succeeded Floyd, Horatio King tak own limits, or shall be valid without ing Holt’s place, while Thompson’s the assent of every one of the states place was left unfilled until Lincoln composing the union.” went into power. All these cabinet The last-named proposition, that changes occurred in periods ranging for the constitutional amendment, from a week to four or five weeks af which made the most amazing con ter the meeting of congress on De cession to the slave power ever cember 3, 1860, and tbe receipt of heard of in the halls of congress from President Buchanan’s message on the beginning of the government on the same day. The work of compromise which to that time, was not made by a the president suggested became the slaveholder, or even by a citizen of a chief task of congress at the outset slave state. It was made by the in the session. It was a mighty distinguished republican, Charles problem which presented itself, but Francis Adams, an old Free Soil that body, in ability, experience and leader, a life-long foe of slavery, and character, was worthy cf the work a representative of a district of the submitted to it. Let us take a glance state which had always been the at some of the more notable names head and front of tbe hostility to on its roll. Among its members who slavery—the state of Massachusetts. were then or who afterward became The Adams proposition was not re known to fame were Senators James jected unanimously by the commit A. Bayard, and Willard Saulsbury tee, or rejected at all. It actually of Delaware; Toombs of Georgia; received the votes of thirty members Douglas and Trumbull of Illinois; of that body. The only members Grimes and Harlan, of Iowa; Bright who voted against it were William of Indiana; Crittenden and Powell of Kellogg of Illinois; M. W. Tappan Kentucky; Benjamin and Slidell, of of New Hampshire, and C. C. Wash Louisiana; Fessenden and Hamlin, burne of Wisconsin, all republicans. But below this depth of northern of Maine; Sumner and Wilson, of abasement there was a lower deep Massachusetts; Chandler, of Michi gan; Jefferson Davis of Mississippi; yet to be touched, and another dis- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE SECESSION DAYS STIRRING EVENTS OF OF WINTER 1861-8. The period between December 3, 1860, and March 4, 1861, is a dark episode in American political histo ry. The time between those two dates covers the second session of the thirty-sixth congress. The pop ular branch of this congress was chosen in 1858, around the middle of Buchanan’s term in the presidency, and this session covered the last three months of his service. It be gan about a month after Lincoln’s election and ended on the eve of his accession to power. The designation dark episode in political history that we apply to this period is given for several reasons. It is dark because the period, though one of the most trying and critical in all American history, has never received intelli gent and adequate treatment from historians, and also because the rec ord of the period, so far as it has been written, has been effaced, as it were, from the popular knowledge by the mighty and dramatic events of the next few years. Finally, and in a totally different sense, is is a dark period because of the abject and hu miliating concessions and surrenders of principle proposed by anti-slavery men in congress in the vain hope of conciliating the secessionists and averting war. Frederic Bancroft, in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly, has an article entitled “Seward's Attitude Toward Compro mise and Secession in 1861-2,” but be touches on only a minor episode in the chronicle of the period. Of the half a score or more distinct propo sitions in senate and house to disarm secession by conceding everything that the secession element demanded, and, in some cases, more than it ever thought of demanding, lie makes no mention. An attempt will be made here to tell the story briefly of the attitude of the executive aud legislative de partments of the government toward secession from the opening to the close of the short session of the 36th congress, as this record is revealed by the Congressional Globe and the files of some of the ¡leading newspa- pers of the time, supplemented by the side lights which may be obtained from the histories dealing with that epoch. In order that the story may be clearly intelligible, a few events of the preceding half year will have to be mentioned. The democratic par ty was split into two factions in na tional conventions held in April and May, I860, the northern end of the party nominating Stephen A. Doug las for president and Herschell V. Johnson for vice-president, and the southern end putting up John C. Breckinridge for president and Jo- seph Lane for vice-president, An element calling itself the Constitu tional Union party, and consistingof the remains of the old Know-nothing party, and of the debris of the de funct Whig organization, which had not yet allied itself with either the republican or democratic parties, nominated John Bell and Edward Everett for first and second places, Respectively, on its ticket. Lincoln and Hamlin were the republican nom inees, and were elected. Lincoln got 180 electoral votes, Breckinridge 72, Bell 39 and Douglas 12. In the pop ular vote, however, this was the or der of the candidates: Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell. All of Lincoln’s electoral vote was from the north, and all of Breckinridge’s from the south. The whole north declared for Lincoln except New Jersey, which gave him four of her electoral votes and cast the other three for Douglas. In addition to these three votes Douglas got Missouri’s nine votes. Bell carried Virginia, Ken tucky, and Tennessee. Although Lincoln had 1,866,352 popular votes, a large plurality, tbe two democratic factions combined had nearly 400,- 000 more than him, and then there were 589,581 which were cast for Bell and Everett. The fact that Lin coln was, in a certain sense, a “mi nority” president prompted some of the secessionist leaders to call him a “usurper,” and helped them to carry on their propaganda. Immediately after his election was assured a con vention was calledoin South Carolina to pass an ordinance of secession. There was intense excitement throughout the country. Everybody felt that a crisis was at hand. That was the situation of affairs when congress met on December 3, 1860. The democrats were a major- “As old »8 the hills” aud never excell ed. “ Tried and proven ” t rlrfdll id ’F is the verdict- jjj 0 f millions. 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When the house, in considering the majority report of Corwin’s committee, came to the Adams amendment Corwin proposed a sub stitute declaring that ‘ no amend ment shall be made to the constitu tion which will authorize or give to congress the power to abolish or in terfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, includ ing that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state.” This was to be the thirteenth amend ment to the constitution. To see this humiliating abjuration of prin ciple in all its hideousness, and at the same time to realize how far the pendulum of the popular courage and conscience swung in a little more than four years we have to contrast this shameful surrender with the grand declaration—“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris diction”—which was put in the na tional charter in 1865 as the thir teenth amendment. The Corwin proposition passed both branches of congress—the house by a vote of 133 to 65, and the senate by a vote of 24 to 12. Of course had it been rati fied by a sufficient number of states slavery would be buttressed in the constitution so securely that it could never be dislodged save by each slave state by itself, except by a rev olution which would subvert the con stitution. The sixty-five members of the house who voted against the Corwin proposition were all republicans, but many members of that party, including Colfax, Adams, Sherman and Windom, were among the 33 who declared in favor of it. Among the republicans who voted against it were Conkling, Love joy, Burlingame, Grow, Bingham and Thaddeus Stevens. Almost all the twelve votes cast against the propo sition in the senate were by republi cans, but some republicans voted for it, and others who remained silent without being paired, consented to its adoption. Maryland and Ohio were the only states which ratified the proposed amendment. Some of the other states rejected it, and oth ers still took no notice of it, the war quickly destroying all concession sentiment. Yet the republicans who were so vigilant and courageous when the compromise questions were up were strangely destitute of these qualities on another occasion in the congress ional session in that fateful winter of 1860-61, when the acts were passed organizing the territories of Colora do, Dakota and Nevada. The ques tion of slavery in the territories had been the subject of violent discussion ever since the Mexican war had add ed to our western domain, and oppo sition to slavery extension in the territories was the corner-stone of the edifice on which the republican party was built. In the laws, how ever, organizing Colorado, Dakota and Nevada into territories there was no prohibition of slavery, yet the republicans quietly allowed the acts, which had been introduced by a democrat, to pass without any slav ery restriction. Surrenders more extended and abject than Webster made in 1850 in his celebrated “Sev enth of March’’ speech- were made eleven years later by many men who had been most vigorous and eloquent in denouncing him. But, of course, it would be grossly unfair to judge the conduct of con gressmen in the winter of 1860-61 by standards set up in our own day. The situation was new and the outlook appalling. Allowance must be mad« for the horrors of civil war, which all men naturally desired to avert, even at some temporary sacrifice of A Concluded on Second Page. A *
