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The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Peace Congress. (search)
They move slowly and surely. Their sessions still incline to be, secret. At their meeting this morning, after adopting rules by which they are to be governed, Mr. Guthrie, of Kentucky, offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee--one from each State, to be selected by the delegates of each State --on whom is to devolve the important duty of reporting some plan of adjustment. Mr. Guthrie sustained his motion in a powerful and patriotic speech, in which he showed the great importance of a speedy settlement of the political differences now distracting the country. The great Mississippi Valley, he stated, had a right to be heard on this vita our glorious Union. Mr. William C. Rives, of Virginia, followed in the same strain, making a patriotic appeal to the conservatives, urging the adoption of Mr. Guthrie's resolution. Mr. Caleb B. Smith, of Indiana, also spoke in favor of the resolution. He was for doing everything that was honorable and just to bring abou