Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, And Rebel Ventilator

The Crittenden Compromise.

The soothsayers of the war in the North
have contended that it might have been
avoided by the adoption of the Crittenden
Compromise; but this has all the time been
a delusion, and the copperheads in sympathy
with the rebellion have known it well.
It was true some of the leaders of the rebellion
voted for that compromise; but the
history of subsequent events shows that
they were insincere, nay, were dishonest in
their support of the measure. Further, it
was necessary to defeat the measure in the Senate,
they boasted afterwards that ten more
votes could have been drummed up and
would have been.

We go further—though favorable to the
compromise and desirous of peace as we
were—there was nothing in that well-
meant plan that would have had the effect
to subdue the rebellion. Some of the
leaders of the rebellion boasted of this
fact at the time, and consoled themselves
that should it by hook or by crook, be
adopted, they could evade it, or override it,
or in some way consummate their nefarious
purposes. The destruction of the Union
was their purpose. The very devil was in
the Southern leaders and needed to be
driven out with fire and sword, and with
powder and ball. The thing is working
well at present. On to Richmond! On to
Atlanta! And on to the Gulf of Mexico
with the rebel army, is our watch-word
and ought to be the watch-word of all Union
men.