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1860. Friday night there was a great flutter among the Republicans at Willard's Hotel. The cause of it was an article in the Tribune of the next morning, giving Lincoln's determined purpose not to yield one iota of the Chicago platform. This settles the business. It kills at one blow both of the Union-saving Committees. It accounts for the vote in the Committee of Thirteen on Crittenden's amendment. It proves the correctness of the position taken in my letter to the Dispatch of December 7th: That the best way to avert civil war was to get Maryland and Virginia out of the Union before the 4th of March, so as to make coercion madness. Its effect on Mr. Crittenden was to throw him into despair of the Union. Mr. Toombs yesterday telegraphed Georgia that compromise was impossible, and nothing was left but prompt, separate State action. I know this most positively. Why cannot Virginia rely on herself, in this great emergency? It is too late for co-operation. The crash is up