Postponement.
Two months of debate in Congress--six weeks of the great Crittenden quilting party and of doing and undoing the patch work of the peace-makers — and yet we seem no nearer the settlement of the national troubles. Virginia appoints Commissioners to a National Convention in which she invites the States to meet her. Twelve States have responded, and Ohio instructs her representatives to move a postponement of the body until the 4th of April, (the 1st would have been better!) Delay, the policy of Seward, is consuming the most precious time in the history of the nation. If the period for saving the country has not already passed, is it not rapidly passing away? Thus is the grand jubilee of the Republicans on the 4th of March to be turned into a National wake: ‘ "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.--
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