Every thing would have been postponed, and the crisis would have inevitably recurred.

So far as the Supreme Court could determine the questions at issue, it had already been done in the Dred Scott decision; and that decision, so far from being final, was a part of the current controversy.

There was, therefore, neither logic nor principle in the proposition of the Douglas minority.

The Southern delegates keenly realized this fact, and refused to accept the compromise.

They could not endure the thought of being placed in a position which was not only evasive, but might be deemed cowardly.