Mr.Trumbull voted in the negative, because he did not like the form of expression.
The Crittenden Resolution, as it has always been termed, was thus adopted respectively, not jointly, by the two Houses of Congress.
Its declarations, contained in the concluding clauses, though made somewhat under the pressure of national adversity, were nevertheless a fair reflection of the popular sentiment throughout the North.
The public mind had been absorbed with the one thought of restoring the Union promptly and completely, and had not even contemplated interference with slavery as an instrumentality to that end.

Many wise and far-seeing men were convinced from the first that the Rebellion would result in the destruction of slavery, but for various reasons deemed it inexpedient to make a premature declaration of their belief.

Indeed, the wisest of them saw that a premature declaration would probably prove a hinderance and not a help to the conclusion they most desired.

In the Senate it was noted that Mr.Sumner withheld his vote, as did Thaddeus Stevens and Owen Lovejoy in the House.

But almost the entire Republican vote, including such men as Fessenden, Hale, Chandler, and Grimes, sustained the resolution.