The "no compromise" policy of the Republican party, which at first had only a few ultramontane advocates, is now the watchword of that entire organization.
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"The 'no compromise' policy of the Republican party, which at first had only a few ultramontane advocates, is now the watchword of that entire organization."
Between the posts · the narrator, not the paper
While the states leave, Washington argues. The one plan still alive — Senator Crittenden's, to write slavery permanently into the territories below a line — is dying in the Senate, and the North cannot agree whether that is a tragedy or a duty.
The Northern Democratic complaint as the Crittenden Compromise — a plan to save the Union by writing slavery permanently into the territories below the old Missouri line — died in the Senate. To this Democratic paper the Republicans' refusal to concede, once a fringe view, is now the party's whole creed, and it is that rigidity, not the fire-eaters, that is breaking the country. The Republican reply is se-027. Verified verbatim against the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter."
Read it in the original — New York Daily News, Jan 9, 1861 ↗