Mr.Seward, Mr.Fessenden, Mr.Collamer, and others among the weightiest Republican leaders are not recorded as voting.

As pairs were not announced, it may be presumed that they consented to the passage of the amendment.
Before the resolution could reach the States for concurrence, either by convention or Legislature, the evidences of Southern outbreak had so increased that all such efforts at conciliation were seen to be vain, and in the end they proved hurtful.

Only two States, Maryland and Ohio, gave their assent to the amendment.

In the New- England States it was rejected, and in many it was not acted upon.
Whoever reads the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution as it now stands, and compares it with the one which was proposed by the Thirty-sixth Congress, will be struck with the rapid revolution of public sentiment, and will not be at a loss to draw some useful lessons as to the course of public opinion and the conduct of public men in times of high excitement.
THE CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE.
The propositions of the committee of thirty-three to admit New Mexico as a slave State, and to amend the Fugitive-slave Law, were both passed by the House, but were defeated or not acted upon in the Senate.

In that body the efforts of the friends of conciliation were mainly confined to the Crittenden compromise which has already been outlined in the proceedings of the House.