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secession or revolution resists, what then? War! Civil war! Mr. President, let us not rush headlong into that unfathomable gulf. Let us not tempt this unutterable woe. We offer you a plain and honorable mode of adjusting all difficulties. It is a mode which, we believe, will receive the sanction of the people. We pledge ourselves here that we will do all in our power to obtain their sanction for it. Is it too much to ask you, gentlemen of the South, to meet us on this honorable and practicable ground? Will you not, at least, concede this to the country? The question on agreeing to said amendment resulted in the following vote: AYES.--Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont--9. NOES.--Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia--11. So the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. WILMOT:--I wish now to offer an amendment which embraces an unconditional proposition for the call of a Convention. Mr. BRONSON:--This has been voted down already. Mr. WICKLIFFE:--What changes do you gentlemen from Pennsylvania and Ohio wish to make in the report of the committee? Would you adopt that report in a General Convention? The PRESIDENT:--The Chair rules that the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania is not in order. Messrs. WILMOT, CHASE, CORNING, and BRONSON then entered their dissents from their respective States upon the substitute offered by Mr. TUCK. Mr. WICKLIFFE:--I hope now that we may be permitted to take the vote at once upon the report of the majority. Mr. REID:--Before this vote is taken, I deem it my duty to myself and my State to make a remark. I came here disposed to agree upon terms that would be mutually satisfactory to both sections of the Union. I would agree to any fair terms now, but the propositions contained in the report of the majority, as that report now stands, can never receive my assent. I cannot recommend them to Congress or to the people of my own State. They do not settle the material questions involved; they contain no sufficient guarantees for the rights of the South. Therefore, in good faith to the Conference and to the country, I here state that I cannot and will not agree to them. Mr. CLEVELAND:--If the gentlemen from the South, after we have yielded so much as we have, assert that these propositi
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