IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: Proceedings of the Peace Conference; Editorials-The Crittenden Compromise, The Virginia Election (2/6/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 2/6/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 5.

The Peace Convention was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. GURLEY, when the Committee on Organization reported as follows:

For President of the Convention -- Ex-President JOHN TYLER.

For Secretary -- Mr. J.C. WRIGHT, of Ohio.

The report was unanimously adopted, and Mr. TYLER, on taking the chair, made the following address:

GENTLEMEN: I fear you have committed a great error in appointing me to the honorable position you have assigned me. A long separation from all deliberate bodies has rendered the rules of their proceedings unfamiliar to me, while I should find in my own state of health, variable and fickle as it is, sufficient reason to decline the honor of being your presiding officer; but, in times like these, one has but little option left him -- personal considerations should weigh but lightly in the balance. The country is in danger -- it is enough -- one must take the place assigned him in the great work of reconciliation and adjustment. The voice of Virginia has invited her co States to meet her in council. In the invitation of this Government that same voice was heard and complied with, and the results of seventy odd years have fully attested the wisdom of the decisions then adopted. Is the urgency of her call now less great than it was then? Our godlike fathers created -- we have to preserve. They built up, through their wisdom and patriotism, monuments which have eternalized their names. You have before you, gentlemen, a task equally grand, equally sublime, quite as full of glory and immortality. You have to snatch from ruin a great and glorious Confederation, to preserve the Government, and to renew and invigorate the Constitution.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Important from Washington: Proceedings of the Peace Conference – 2-5
General Political Intelligence – 5
Editorial: The Crittenden Compromise – 5-6
Gov. Seward’s Views on Saving the Union – 6
Editorial: The Virginia Election – 6-7
England and the Cotton Supply – 7
Editorial: Tragedy off the Stage – 7

[deport]

1861 price of the paper 2 cents....... Now, $2.50 daily and
$5 for Sunday.

[Steven Scharf]

The bottom of page 4 and top of page 5 talks about a Portland, ME gentleman who was “lynched”, but lived to tell about it. This is the first time I have ever heard the term used in a non lethal way. The gentleman was also probably white as he was a civil engineer.

[BroJoeK]

"England and the Cotton Supply – 7"

This editorial warns Southerners against using King Cotton as a weapon to force the British to support their cause and even reopen the international slave trade.

The article predicts that can't happen because John Bull has many other potential sources for cotton and so will refuse to bend to Confederate demands.

It calls those demands "arrogant", "visionary" and "ill considered".

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen “visionary” used in a derogatory sense. I’ll link to the item below. The NYT has it as part of the other editorial.

https://www.nytimes.com/1861/02/06/archives/tragedy-off-the-stage.html?searchResultPosition=1