The correct answer to this open question is the following.
What was happening at the same time that Crittenden was pushing a compromise to settle the slavery question was that the state of South Carolina was voting to secede.
Trying to resolve the secession problems that were affecting the southern states, Senator John J. Crittenden, from the state of Kentucky, created the Crittenden Compromise, legislation that aimed to eliminate the possibility of a Civil War due to the many differences between the Noth and the South. However, President Abraham Lincoln and other northern Republicans did not support the initiative.