he Nation in that great crisis. He
held the States rights doctrines of Calhoun and Breckenridge, and
not the National principles of Washington and Jackson.

As to the treatment of rebels already in arms, and as to the
"demands" of the slave power, consider this advice which he gave to
Congress and the people:

"If these Southern States can not be conciliated; if you,
gentlemen, can not find it in your hearts to grant their demands;
if they must leave the family mansion, I would signalize their
departure by tokens of love; I would bid them farewell so tenderly
that they would be forever touched by the recollection of it; and
if in the vicissitudes of their separate existence they should
desire to come together with us again in one common government,
there should be no pride to be humiliated, there should be no wound
inflicted by my hand to be healed. They should come and be welcome
to the places they now occupy."

Thus we see there were those who, with honeyed phrases and soft
words, would have looked smilingly on, while the great
Republic--the pride of her children, the hope of the ages--built by
the fathers at such an expense of suffering, of treasure, and of
blood, was stricken by traitors' hands from the roll of living
Nations, and while an armed oligarchy should establish in its stead
a nation founded on a denial of human rights, and under whose sway
south of the Potomac more than half of the territory of the old
Thirteen Colonies--soil once fertilized by the best blood of the
Revolution--should, for generations to come, continue to be tilled
by the unrequited toil of slaves.

The best known, the boldest, and perhaps the ablest leader of the
peace Democracy in the North is Mr. Vallandigham. He was chairman
of the committee on resolutions in the last Democratic State
Convention in Ohio, and reported the present State platform of his
party. He, probably, still enjoys in a greater degree than any
other public man the affection and confidence of the positive men
of the Ohio Democracy, who, from beginning to end, opposed the war.
On the 20th of February, 1861, he delivered a speech in the House
of Representatives in support of certain amendments which he
proposed to the Constitution of the United States. In an appendix
to that speech,