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The follotring ex trap ts from the writings
and speeches tof Abolition loaders and
representative men, from an earlj ilaj
dowo to tho present decade will show
readers who have been apd ae the real
advocates of secession and disunion.
Jan; 14,-1811, Jostah Quiocy of Mas
sachusetts, in a speech in Congress de-
ciareu . ,; ;
That the tmrehasa of Louisiana and
admission of the.State into the L'nion.
would be a " virtual dlssolotion of the
bonds of "the Union " ? rendering it
te right of all, as it would become the
duty of some, to prepare definitely for
separation amicably, if they wight
forcibly if they must.
On the 8th of October, 1814, a Com
mittee of the Massachusetts Legislature
submitted a report by Mr. Otis, chair
man i in favor of calling a Convention of
the ew Kngland btatss with te end
and object of forming aew England
Confederacy.; This iBeasre parked aud
the Hartford Convention was its progeny.
Those who startle at the danger of sep
aration tell us that the soil of New Eng
land is hard and sterile that-4eprived of
the productions of the bouth, we should
soon become a wretched race of cowherds
aad fishermen; that our. narrow territory
and diminished population would make
us an easy prey to foreign powers. Do
these men forget what national energy
can do for a people ? Have thev not
read of Holland ? Do they not teuieujbej:
that it grew m wealth and power anudst
combat and alarm ! That it threw off the
yota of fepain (our Virginia) aud its
chapels became churches and its poor
man s cottages prince 8 palaces.-Iioston
Centinel, Dec. 10, 1811.
It is said, that to make a treaty pf com
merce with the enemy is to violate the
Constitution, and to sever the Union.
Are thev not both alreadv virtuallv de-
stroyed f Or in what stage of existence
would they be should we declare a neu
trality, or even withhold taxes and men.
isoston tentinel, Dec. 14, let4.
By a commercial treatv with England
which shall provide for the admission of
such states as may wish to come into it,
and which bhali prohibit England from
leaking a treaty with the South cod West
which does not give usat lest eiual
privilege with herselfour commerce
will be secured to us ; our standing in the
nation raised to its proper level, and New
England feelings will no longer be sport
ed with, or her interest violated. Bos
ton Centinel, 1814.
You. ask my opinion on a-subject which
is much talfcea or, a dissolution oi the
Union. On this subject I differ from m?
fello-citiiens generally, and therefore 1
ought to speak, and write with dimdence
have for many years considered th
Union pf the Northern and Souther
States as not essential to the safety, an
Terr ? much opposed to the interest o
both sections. The extent of the territo
ry is too large to be harmoniously gov
erned by the same representative, body.
t ? That the Atlantic States do
not wasf the aid of the arrets 21 h. nor the
counseljAVfWesteni i$a&VcerUin.
and I bpi!v the public welfare would be
Detter consulted ana more promoted m i
separate than in a Federal Constitution
The . mountains form a natural line of!
division, and moral and commercial habits
would Unite the W estern people. In like
manner the moral and commercial habits
of the Northern and Middle States would
link them, together, as would the like
habits ot the slave-holding States. In
deed, the attemnt to anita thin vnnt tcrri
tory under one nead, has long appeared
to me absurd! -" I believe a peaceable
sepaTation would be for the happiness of
all sections, but as the citizens of this
country jf aye generally been of a different
opinion, it is best not to urge for a separa
tion, till they are conviaed of their error.
r-fCom. in, Boston Centinel, 1813. , '
The onae venerable Constitution has
expired by dissolution in the hands of
those wicked men who were sworn to pro
tect it. Its spirit, with the precious souls
of its first founders, has fled forever. Its
remains, with theirs, rests in the gilent
tomb! At your hands,' therefore, we de
mand deliverance. ; New England is
unanimous, and we announce our irrevoc
able, decree, that the tyrannical oppres
sion of those who at present usurp the
powers of the Constitution, is beyond en
durance and we will resist it. Boston
Centinel, Dec. 28th. 1814.
MASSACHUSETTS FOR DISSOLUTION, 1851.
. In their State Convention of 1851, the
Radicals of Massachusetts, on whom the
mantle of the, Hartford Convention had
Jiiien, ana ammarea Dy-the; same pur
poses, ... , ".....;......,.
Resolved, Thattfce Constitution which
provides for a slave representation and a
slave oligarchy in Congress yhich wgaj
izes slave catching on erery--iEich of
American soil, which pledges the military;
and cava! power of the country to keep
four millions of hattle slaves in their
cliains, is to be troddeu under 'foot, and
pronounced accursed, however unexcep
tionable or valuable it may be in its other
isiccs. . .
r.Tluit tfae one- creat issue iefort the
country is the dissolution cf the Union,
in cotaparisoa whif h all other bsues
with $'ajaye powar are as dust in the
balance; therefore, we cave given our
selves to the work of "annullina 'this
cav&nWt with diath," as essential to our
lstiE? overthrow of the slave power. ;
In 1858 the same party passed tj.e fbl-
' Itawing in Ccnventioa:
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disunion ia written in the wliole existing
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character and condition of the two seo-
.J lioca ui me co Q.11 isj n in? it svciai ortraa-
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1 Lie cauTcrs cz our wnite citizens in ivan-
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the wounds of Charles Suiuner, and the
laurels of his assailants, and no Govern
ment on earth was ever strong enough to
hold together such opposing forces.
Kitolred, zd, 1 hat this movement docs
got merely seek .'- union, bu the more
por-(Wt union of free States by the eipul-
sion of the slafe States from the Confed
eration, iu which they have ever btmian
element of discord, danger, and disgrace.
Resolved. Sd, That tt is not probable
that the ultimate severance of the Union
will be an act of deliberation or discus
sion : but that a lonu period of delibera
tion and discussion must precede it, and
here we meet to begin the work.
Rrfolml, 4th, That henceforward, in
stead of regarding it as an objection to
any system of policy, that it will lead to
the separation of the Mates, we will pro
claim that to be the highest of all recom
mendations, and , the greatest proof of
statesmanship; an,d will support politi
cally, such men apd pleasures as appear
to tend most to this result.
BEK, WADE ON DISSOLUTION.
In 1855tSenator Wade, of Ohio, made
m-w a a
a speech intl'onland, iuaine, in which lie
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declared :
There is really no Union now between
the North and the South. 1 believe no
two nations on earth entertain feelings of
more bitter rancor towards each other
than these two portions of the Republic,
" THE VNIOX IS A LIE,"
Mr. Garrison made a sppegh in 1S50,
in which be declared :
I have said, and I say again, that in
proportion to the growth of disuniojjiejii,
will be the growth of hepubheanism.
The Union is aMie. The
American Union is an imposture, and a
coTeuant with death, and an agreement
with hall. I am for its over.
throw. i Up with the flag of
disunion, that we may have a free and
glorious Union of our own.
GREEN COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FOR REVO
LUTION. .
At a Republican Convention held a
Monroe, Green county, Wis., in 185G.
the following resolution was passed :
Rrolrt, That it is the dutv of the
North in case they fail in electing a Pres
ident and Congress that will restore free
dom to Kansas, tq revolvtionize the Gov
ernment !"
DAVID WILMOT ON DISSOLUTION.
The Montrose Democrat of May 10th,
1856, says:
We recollect a little over a year ago.
that we heard 31 r. Wilniot make the fol
lowing declaration :
1 anrctei niiued to
amuse tin; - people
to the importance of the slavery issue,
and gpt up an organisation through whicf
they can get poptrol of the u$rernnient
in 1856. And if 1 tpconio satisfied that
these efforts -f ill fail, and that tg people. L
will not assert their right3, then 1 11 be
d d if I dont join the par ty that I think
ndthe country to fj 1 ttye oj.ip kst.
MORE TREASONABLE EXTRACTS.
Jta conclusion I have only to add that
koth. is my solemn agd abiding conviction
Ot tlje caraptjjr of slavery, and under a
jfnll sense of my responsibility tp my
ountry and my God, I delibprateiy gay,
tter disunion oetter a civil or servile
... ... .- .
ar better anything fhat Upd in his
rovidence shall send than an extension
of the bonds of slavery. Horace Mann.
No man has a right to be surprised at
this state of things. It is just what we
Abolitionists and disunionists Lave at
tempted to bring about. There is merit
in the Republican party. It $3 thp first
sectional party ever organised in this
country. It docs not know its own face,
but calls itself national : but it is not na-
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tional it is sectional, lhe Kcpuuitpn
party is a party of the North pledged
against the South. Wendell Phillips.
Resolved, That the Union was estab
lished to secure the liberties pf Aerican
cairns. When it fails to do that, our
only voice can be, let the Unionbe dis
solved. Lowell llcpublipan Resolution.
The Boston Liberator, in an article
hpaded in, large type-rr"But oneissue
the dissolution of the. Union" reoom-
mends e
purpose,
spirit:
laturos to a petition for that
of wh ich. tha follqwing is the
We therefore believe tfc$J the time has
come for a new arrangement of elements
so hostile; of interests so irreconcilable ;
of institutions 80 incoBgruons; apd we
earnestly request Congress, &i its presetji
session, to' take fftUiatory 'meisurca (ot the
speedy, peaceful and quiet dissolution of
the existing Uniop, as te exigencies of
the case requijp.
The True Afcjcrican, a RepubUcan 6rga'n
in Erie county, Pa., in commenting upon
a speech delivered at a Democratic meet
ing; said :
V Tfris twaddle about the Union and its
preservation is too silly'and sickening for
any good elteet. e think the liberty of
Knions God's universe can hold. , -
The Hampshire (Mass.) Gazette of
August 23d, 1850, a Republican organ,
published a letter from a citizen . of
Northampton, yho was engaged in circu
lating thera $0 petition fop a dplution
of the : UjjioD, wherein he stated that,
"more than one hundred and fifty lega!
voUrs of that town have signed this peti-
uon.
sns, and our colored men in Uoston: in
Reolat!on adopted (n motion of WendcliThillips,! slaye systems f the Southern States. , -'yUtTs
l-" W7..?!!i:; The Elkhorn; (Wis.) Independent,' a
Retohed, Thrt
o as we do
with profound fciratd, the wonderful
progress Q&f Jfass has made during the
last eighteen years, and jet . considering
tha effort ;n'oy, making; to impress, the
comrflanity witjh. th.9 idea tiiat the ohurjch
nd.:r.e land wul abolish slavery dj Us
own virtueand "that the parties arc cjcjlet tho Union be dfsfved.
aud willing to grapple wb the evil, this
society deems it a duty to reiterate its
convictions that the ouly exodus for the
slave out of his present house of bondage
is over the ruins of the ptesent American
Church, and the present American Uniofl.
Resolution adopted by the American Anti-Slavery
Society, May !, 1858. J
Whereas, The dissolution of the pres
ent imperfect aflsi inglorious Union be
tween the free and slave States would re
sult in the overthrow of slavery and the
consequent foundation of a more perfect;
and glorious Uuion, without the tucubus
qf slavery, therefore
Rcohal, That we Invite a free corres
pondence with the dUunionists of the
South, in order to devise the most suitable
way and means to secures pun summa
tion so devoutly to be wi&hjc.-
From Redmond speech, Boston.
'- Remembering that he was a slaveholder,
he could spit upori Washington. j
Ho nuuK to Faneuii Hall and Bunker Hill.
was he not to be permitted to say thkt
scoundrel George Washington had
slaved his fellow men.
From Phillip's Speech, tame occasion.
Washington was a sinner. It became
an American to cover his face when be
placed his bust anions the creat men of
the world.
And again another time
I have labored nineteen years to take.
fifleeu States pi)t rF the I moq; apd if 1
have spent any nineteen years to the sat
isfaction of my Puritan conscience, it Was
those uineteen yuars. . j
From Parker Pillsbujy'j Speech, April, 186J
I do not wish tq fee this Government
prolonged another day in the preseut
form. I have been for twenty years
attempting to pYerthrow the present dy
nasty. The Conslitgtipn never was so
much an engine of cruelty and crime as
at the present hour. I am not rejoiced
at the tidings of victory to the northern
arms; I would far rather see defeat, Ac.
From Stephen F. Foster's Speech, Boston, 1P62.
I have endeavored to dissuade every
young man I could from ulUting, telling
them that they were going to fight for
slavery.
On the 24th of Februarv, 1842, John
Quincy Adams presented a petition in
the House of Representatives, signed by
a large number of citizens of Haverhill.
Mass., for a peaceable dissolution of the
Union, " assigning as one of the reasons.
the inequality of benefits conferred upon
the different seeiioas."
On the 28th of February, 1842, 3Ir.
Giddings presented a petition from
large number of Abolitionists of Austin-
burg, in his district, praying for a disso-
ution of the tnion, and a separation of
the'elaVeTroru the free States
In a fppecli by Wendell Phillips in
1862, he said :
Slar ppj h,aJ enggjisted seccpgipr, apd it
iad a rijrht to do so, for he. fMr. Phil
ips.) buing a stpessionist, bfelitred that
thosfs pebple were the sole judges fjf fir hat
causes thjcy had for re rolutiop.
?R a BKfis qf. panjpfelets ere
issued fdr Massachusetts, entitled, " The
United States Constitution and its pro-
Ivery compronsiscs " Fropi tfee "Tifd
edition, eularged," of this treasonable
publication, we take the following:
If, then, the people and the courts of
a country are tq be allowed to determine
what their own laws mean, it follows that
at this time, and for the last half century,
nio vuustiiuiiuu vi iov uDiieu ciis iias
been, and still is a pro-slavery instrument,
and that any one who swears to support
it, swears to ao pro-siavery acts, apd vio
lates his duty both aa a man and an Abo
litionist. If, then, the Constitution bo what these
debates (the Madison papers) show that
our fathers intended to make it, and what,
too, their descendants, this nation, say
they did make it, and agreed to uphold,
thu'n wo a$rm tfjat it is " a covenant with
death, and an agreement with boll," and
ought to be immediately annulled! '$0
Abolitionist can consistently take oce
under it, or swpar to support it. H
xoconunuo iffisuisastrous alliance (tne
Federal Union longer, is madness! ti e
dare not prolong the experiment, end
J-it aoublo earnestness, we repeat dqr
emand upon every honest man to join m
me ouicry uf wie American Anw-oiavery
Society No ujjion with slaveholders'!'
Fidelity to the cause of human free
dom, and allegiance to God the Higher
1 v.:i. i ctj j l T-i p it.-
ay wuicu i'ir. oewaru uorroweu iruiu me
jruruamcat ratnersj, require tnai tne ex
latino National o.-iin:irt. ahnnld ru in
staij'fty jdiojyed ; that 'secession from the
Government ia a religious and political
duty. .
In a letter to the Boston Liberator,
July 21, 1863, Wendell Phillips mak8
the following remarkably candid declara
tions: .
The disunion we sought was one which
should be Dun by the North on princi
ple. 'J'he agitation for such dis
union, based 00 t)ie idea that slavery is a
feifl, to be immediately repudiated at every
cost, was the most direct and effective
vyy of educating the public to a stern
nnti.cl'ivorT ' nflnninlft " AKnlit.iAn
ot slavery was our otyect, uisunion out
a. .. . ..
Weapon. . fThis reverses . F0ttld accon
mors nearly with the general purpose 0:
Abolitionists. Th$ North had
the pght of revolution the right to
break tfie Union, and that such disunion
would sooner end slavery than continuing
under -a Constitution that forbade the
North during neace to interfere with the
violent xiepupiicau oiieei., in iciw, saiu :
The Union may be dissolved, but slave
rv must db, and if ' it can only du? or be
rsiiictedioiU pscnt IhnTt?', though a
di8S9lutaon oftte tjnion,' tfic in the
name "of tbeTrwsrs of' the Union' who
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uiado'it to secure Uie blessings ot liberty.
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If the Cotton States shall become satis
fied that they can do better out of the
Union than, in, insist on letting
them gq ip peace. The right to secede
irjay bo a revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless. We must ever re
sist the right of any State to remain in
wie cnion aim iiuiqiy or upiy ije jaws
thereof. To withdraw from the L pion is
quite another matter. Whenever a con
siderable section of our Union shall de
liberately resolve to go out, we sqall re:
sist alj coercive measures designed to
keep them in. We hope never to live in
a Republic whereof one Bpptipn is pinneq
to another by bayonets. Npf York Tri
bune, Nov. 9, 1860. : '
If the Cotton States unitedly and parn-
slly wiah to withdraw peacefully from
the I nion, we think they should and
would be allowed to do so. Any attempt
tq f.qmpel them by force to remain, would
be contrary to the principles enunciated
in the immortal Declaration of Independ
ence contrary to the fundamental ideas
on which human liberty is based. New
York Tribune, Nov. W, 186".
If it (the Declaration of Independence)
justified the secession from the British
hmpire, of three millions of Colonists in
1776, we do not see why it should not
justify the secession of five millions of
Nmtherncrs, from the Lnion, in lsbl.
New Yorfc Tribune, Dec. 17, 1860.
Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Southern people have
become conclusively alienated from the
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Union and anxious to eseane from it. weltion. Annihilation. Extermination. Star
will do our best to forward their views
New York Tribune, Feb. 23, 1861.
Mr. Greeley was not the first to advo
cate the rigt of secession and dissolu
tion, nor was Mr. Lincoln, but Mr. Lin
coln did adfopate it as early as the 12th
of January, 1348, on a question of refer
ence of a pottipp of th,e President's mKS
sage. See Ap. on. Globe, "1st Session,
3th Congress, p. 94.
AnypeTeTtryhinTrbeiwg incKned
nd having the power, have the right tq
ise up and shake off thepxisting govern-
ent and totiu a new one that suits them
sbetter. Nor is this richt confined
to cases in which the peopleof an exist
ing government may choose to exercise it.
Any portion of such people that can,
may revolutionize, and may make their
own of so much territory as th,ey inhabit.
Mope tjjan this, a majority qf any portion
of such peopla may revolutionize,', putting
klown a minority,' intermingled with or
War about them, who mar oppose their
movements.
fcaid itufus P. Spauldinjr, a member of
the CouTpntion, that nominated Fremont
n the case of the alternative being
presented of the continuance, of slavery,
or a dissolution ' of ths Union, 1 am for
- 'j t' ': r1 i- ?i
Qipiution, ana a capo nqi now quica 1
comes.
In 1854, the Abolitionists of Massa
chusetts and other States sent petitions to
Cpfigtt;5, ftoui fc-hijih the followijjg is an
extract: :
We earnestly reqtlest Congress at its
present session to take such initiatory.
piaasjjrps lof tpe speedy, pcaceiui an
equitably dissolution of thp existing Unions
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as mo aigeui;i9 w UH ff fHMff'f.H-
Says Sator Wade, of Ohio 1
I say there is another thing and
put it as a question of casuistry if thg
condition on which the Union is to bp
permanent can consist alone in' trampling
down nearly four millions of your if hab
itants, (i. e. the existence of 'slayer,) I
ask honest and honorable men, dare you
wish that the Union should be continued
nnnn evan tnese neiarious conaiuons '
No, sir ; nor 1, for it would be the most
miserable selfishness that ought to damn
any man wishing to benefit himself from
such a sacrifice ot all the risruts belong-
mg to human nature as this. (Appfause.)
And aftef U this tatky of a Union !
Sir, I have said you have no Lnion
say you have no Union to-day worthy of
the name.
."Si'r'. 't am here a conservative man
knowing as I do that the only salvation
te your Union is that you divest it en-
tirp.lv from all tha taints of slaverv,
V If we canthave that, then I iro for no
aPblauserT If there is any man here pos
sessing a weaker spirit, let lim show him
self, lor I want to see hia jnek facg.1
' Says Horace (Jreelcy :
All nations haye their Sjapepl-ins,
ana mat 01 our popie is tne i,ousHiui.ion.
; Henry . W trd Beecher says
A great many people rai$a a cry about
. w -r a. a j- . . '
the Union ana the uon smut ion, as 11 tue.
two were perfectly identical ; but the
truth is, it is the Constitution itself that
is the cause of everv division which this
vexed question of slavery has ever occa
sioned in this country. It has been the
foundation of our troubles, bv attemntinsr
to hold together, as reconciled, two oppbs-
ing principles Wiicn win not uaruiouio
nor agree.
I
Saya Sal. P. Chase :
Slavery in the S ates would noj con-
nue a year alter tne accession 01 me
anti-slavery party to power, and it ought
to De aoousnea dy tpe consuiuiionai
power 01 vonpess
JredTjouglass:':
From this: time forth I consecrate the
labors of my life to the dissolution of the
v nion ; : ana a care not wnetner tne Doit
that rends it sjail come from Heaven or
from, Hell.. " ' j
, lledpath, the English Abolitionist, who
done the engineering for the Republicans
in the Kansas matter, has published a
book, in whic his purpose Tiji frankly
avowed. He says; t ,
'I believe thajt civil war between the
North and South' wovd ultimate in in
surrection, and tiai jtie Kansas troubles
woald probably, create a military coict
of fho- ijro .soctiodsJ';-vAoncJ?: J - t.c
1 h Trr
South and went to Kansas, and endeav
ored, personally and with my pen, to pre
cipitate a refoiHtipn.
Now, the aforenamed traitors are not
denounpe,d as "Copperheads," because
they vote the Republican ticket.
In the Wisconsin State Journal, (Rep.)
of Sppt. Jp, 18A4 we the following:
Last Saturday, Lfeut.-Gov. Willard, of
lpdiaua, attempted to convert the politi
cal heathens of Chicago to the sublime
doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, and
force theui into allegiance to the Prophet
of the New Dispensation.
The people listened to his remarks half
an hour in silence, when thinking he had
made a decided impression, he ventured
to stigmatixe Horace Greeley aa "the first
ipau who attempted opposition to the Ne
braska Bill, and recommended a dissolu
tion of the Union." This brought out
the crowd with three cheers for Greeley,
and three groans for Douglas! Again,
he tdrns and attacks Benton, and the
crowd answered with six cheers for Ben
ton, aud three groans for Douglas ! Then
he attacked the Know Nothings, and this
brought out three chaera for that party,
and as usua! three troans for D,ouglas 1
The .Republicans of Cadiz, Green
county, Wispoqaiu, held a meeting on the
26th of March, 1863, and from their res
olutions we select the followin
f Retolted, That we will hail any policy
fof our Government, be it the Proclama
vation, and even Damnation, cold that
lform a part of its policy, etc.
P' - Thfis is " loyalty" and piety combined.
Let us then, rest humbly in the hope,
authorized by thft Diyine tpachings, that
tlijj jpited ery ot the nation will be heard
on hi"h, and answered with blessings lib
less than the pardon of our national sins,
and the restoration of our now divided
and suffering eountry, to its forner con
dition of unity and peace.
Upon this, the Boston Commonwealth,
the home organ of Charles Sumner, fop?:
mQted as follpifs :
It is cool assumption of the President
that the pardon of our national sins has
any kind of connection with the. rgjtora
tion of our country to s'. its former happy
condition of unity and peace V Our own
opinion is, that if God had resolved not
to pardon us at ail, he would prove it by
allowing the restoration of that old "unity
of peace." That unity was crime: that
peace worse than war I
And the aforesaid sheet proceeds to in
voke a enrse on the President, and alj
who shall join ia praying for the "afore.
said " restoration, as follows
SI ,
iuav tne longuo te witnereu, ere it is
answered, that prays for a restoration pf
tnat 01a state ot things, trora which tiod
ip bjs merpy seenja'niipg to rescue is-r-thau
which his fiercest wrath eould find
no more terrible doom, for a blind nation,
led by blind rulers !
I J J uosion jjineraior :
If Th'e Republican party is moulding
public sentiment in the rigt direction for
the specific work the Abojitibpists are
striving to accomplish, yiz; th di&solq-
tion of the Union, and the abolition of
slaverv throughout the land.
In thp Republican Convention of Chi-
cagof I860, at which Mr. Lincoln was
nominated, we fiu,d the following among
the proceedings, as pubjjbhed in the New I
York Tribune of May 18, 1860 :
Judge' Jessup said that he desired to
amend a verbal mistake in the name of
the party. It was printed in the resolu
tions " National Republican party. He
wished to strike out the word "National,"
as that was not tha aauie by which the
party jjas property Known.
The correction was made. And does
not this, of itself, sliow the 1 sectional, dis
uuioa aims of tW leaders? They jcojfld
not bear to be called National, because
that implied fealty to the Union.
On the 12th of July, 1848, John P.
Hale said ;
" AH the'terrora of disolntinn Tfi.in look
steadfastly in the face, before I could
look to that moral Union which must fall
upon us f when we can so far prostitqte
ourselves as to become the pioneers of
jiiaverv in no ierriiories.
From a speech by Wendell Ppulips, at
an .Emancipation Anniversary meeting, in
Abingtoa, Mass., Aug. 1, 1862, we select
the follocing, which was applauded to the
echo by the largo crowd of Republicans
- j- 1 ( . til 1
present: '
We shall YBT have peace until slave
ry is destroyed. As long as you keep the
present turtle ' Lincoln at the head of
the Government you make a pit with one1
hand and fill it with the other.
If any man present believes he has light
enough to allow him, let him pray that
Davis may bo permitted to maea'p. Jttack
on . Washington City within a wee
Tjhe" speaker knew Mr. Lincoln! He had,
while in Washington, taken 1'is measure.
He is a first rate second rate ma. That
is all. A mere convenience, and he is
honestly waiting, like any other broom-
siicK, lor the people to tate hold ot him
and 'sweeri slavery out of the nation.
Democracy (a lifting up its fangs, and
another Congress will not have tj same
amount of Republican and honest senti
ment in it . that the last had. Nothing
less than a baptism of blood, to cry in
anguish for a corporate idea, that , the
head of the army, can save us. . Jioeoln
is as good a the people of the North want
him. Ijj "years gone by in yonder grove
,te "Whig fired cannons to smather the
voices fvop' the stand then occupiod by
the speaker, Phillips, and what is the
result ? . , The sons of those Whigs now
fill" grayes' ' in ' 'Chickahominy swanipsl
Let tis Union 'be 'dissolved, in God's
name,' and' the corner stone of a new one
be laid, in which shall be organized for
ever equality in a politicalsense for every
man j?ho is born into the world I
OSE Ill.VDIlKt) niXLIOXtt OK
POLLAUS STOLE LAST TEA if.
Every one remembers how prodigiously
and by the wholesale, Republicans stole,
robbed and plundered the Government
during the early portion of the war ; the
millions of dollars of frauds, peculation
and swindles, brought to light by Con
gressional committees; how men in high
places became rich by the most unblush
ing rascalities in contracts, supplies,
ships, -Ac., furnished to the Government
rascalities so enormous and wide-spread,
of g collossal and gigantic a character is
to r,Wiken in the minds of many a donlt
whether the rebels iu army were more to
be dreaded by the American people than
the horde of sharks and laad-pirates who,
in the name pf loyalty, were growing Vfch
by taking advantage of the necessities an i
misfortunes cf a -country suffering ths
pangs of the mot terril'Q civil war tha;
world ever sawi The newspapers teemed '
with columns of figures, statistics, anl
facts' of t!h2 most startling nature, and"
even the corrupt and mercenary" . men,
composing the majority cf Congress were
compelled to investigate certain matters,
and find a few scape-goats for popular rep
robation. The war went on and perpetucj stealing
and thieving marked its progress. It re
ally seemed as though Government select
e'd'for. its opcials, its trusted agents, its'
cpansciUor and soldiers, all the knaves
and rascals m the land. Uabmet othcersr
generals, treasury agents, collectors, tide-
waiters, an piqngea tneir arms to the el
bows ip tljSe Government treasury, "and
fattened on their ill-gotten plunder. Tho
war was the very carnival-time of roguery.
But the"war'' ia over. For almost a
year he shock of armed hosts, the noise
and tumult and strife, of tattle-fields red
dened with the life-blood cf Americans
sied by Americans have not been heard
in the lar4d, and returning peace bad re
stored, it was hoped, the old order of
things when men were honest, or, at least,
not dishonest by wholesale. Therefore,
though knowing the rascals to be thor
oughly dishonest, we thought they would
"assume a virtue if they bad it' not," and
strive to forego their " pickings and steal-
ings Torn lear 01 detection, now that
public attention was no longer engrossed
with the absorbing interest of "grim-vis-
aged war." Judge, then, of our surprise,
on reading, a few days since, the startling
announcement thatinTestigations had dis
closed the fact, that the ireasury of the
United States has" been defrauded of more
than one hundred millions of dollars par
ing the past year! and further, that these T
frauds had been pjpstlv perpetrated at the
South by the military and civil officials
of the Federal Government, petty Massa
chusetts and New England Radical poli-
Ji'P'ans wao bad been placed ia positions
of emolument and profit ia consideration
of services rendered the Administration
loyal pap-suckers who could take the
test oath and domineer over the conquer
ed citizens of "the South pensioned
hounds, every one of whom is to-day an
opponent of reconstruction, atir? in fawnr
of retaining tie States of theSouth ia
position of vassalage and inequality, the
better to enable them tojsontinue their I
careers of shameless robbery.
It is high times these rascals and tie
party which upholds them .was driveli
from power. The Republican party was
conceived in corruption, grew up in infa
my and crime, and its course has been
one continued scene of usurpation, rob
bery and tourder.
One Hundred Millions of Dol
lars ! Think of it. workiDgmen, mechan
ics, farmers and laborers, groaning and
sweating under the burdens of a galling
and grievous "system of taxation strug
gling 'and toiling ip and out of. season
giving up so large a portion of your earn
ings to ' the tax-gatherer you are fur
nishing, by your muscle and labor, your
taxes, the material or money for these
knaves to riot with. Pleasant, isn't it,
hard banded, hard working man ? Nice
to 'think of, in your humble Home, at your
forge or work-bench, in your place of
business or about the labor of your farm ?
Pne hundred pailliocs of dollars ! There
was' a time, reasoning, ' thinking man,
when you enjoyed the blessings of .4 gov
ernment where hard, metallic currency
was the circulating medium ; jthen you
were free from stamp-duties, and the visit
of Federal tax-gatherers, and there was
no national debt--when you possessed
peace, prosperity, "and brotherly love at a
cost of many millions less a year than is
now stolen from the Government admin
istered by 'Republican hands! That,
however was in the good old Democratic
days, before shoddy loyalty and Abo'litibn
patriotism were the controlling influences.
Shall' we ever see'ihe fef-urn of that bless
ed, that truly good time t fLa Crosse
democrat.
: The London Patriot 'says, the Roman
Catholics have nearly doubled their
firiests and chapels in England and Scot
dnd, tinea 1851. There are nearly four
limes as many converts as there were fif
teen yeajs ago, and there are more than
fifteed hundred priests in England alone.
" I wish'vou ould not give me such
short height for my money, said a cus
tomer to a grocer who had an outstand
ing bill against him. And I wish you
wouldn't give me such a long wait for
minj" Replied the grocer.
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A pretty girl says : " If our Maker
thought it. was wrong; for Adam to live
sintflc when there . was not a woman up-
orrearth, ho)V criminally guilty are the
old bachelors,
pretty girls?"
with tlie world full of
Spiritualism Impant. The Sau
Josa Patriot Sa'jrs spiritdalism is "rampant
in that'piaee-i'-several weak minded' peo
ple having gone stark , mad ; ove j ' the
abominable humbug. '. ' v"
Congress has decided that the soldier
vote in Michigan was Constitutional, not
withstanding the Supreme Court of that
State had held tho reverse. :
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