Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Crittenden or search for Crittenden in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], A deluded people. (search)
ing for it! Are the people stark mad? Are they crazy? Will they not pause and listen to reason? Let us recur to a few facts. Not long since, a Democratic Convention was held at Albany. It was just after our people had been frightened by "a big scare" gotten up by Judge Smalley. That Convention solemnly pledged the Democracy and Union men of this State to oppose coercion, and demanded that the Republicans should either grant some reasonable compromise to the South, or else that Mr. Crittenden's compromise amendments should be submitted to a vote of the people. If the Republicans failed to do this, that Convention solemnly pledged itself to resist, with all their influence, the coercive policy of Lincoln. Where are these men now? We trust the Convention will at once be called together, and let us see whether these men are now ready to join hands with the Abolitionists in tearing down this Government, or whether they still stand true to their pledges. Are they still rea