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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The "Peace Conference." (search)
p in the same North to oppose the first. Mr. Granger, of New York, followed in a speech, in which he descanted upon the fact that the last Presidential election was not an endorsement of Republican policy by a majority of the people of the North, and that were New York called upon now to speak, she would go for compromise by a hundred thousand majority. Mr. Noyes, of New York, (Republican,) replied, stating that he was not to be intimidated by speeches of preceding speakers. Mr. Ruffin, of North Carolina, made a conciliatory speech, deprecating remarks of a partizan character. He was older than the Constitution, and he hoped that he should not survive its wreck. Mr. Ewing made a speech against abolitionism. Senator Morrill, of Maine, who is represented by Maine democratic papers as a signer to a paper contributing money for running off fugitive slaves, put questions concerning the intentions of Virginia in standing between the Government and rebellious States.