Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1862-06-24

              -7 ' . '. '. . -' .-;-i ' .V ":i""'?"".":?v:'l-.-..i- - -." . - -7 -' " ; .-. ''."- -7' ' --" .- '.- VOLtJME t.. . ; . t -.1 :; -"'. ' JUNE 24;. 1862 NTJiiBEIl-IO. it -7- : i' In TT ATIPEB OEJw inT7o4lwmrd Dlock, M Storjr. ' KltMS. Two Dollar pr annam, pya,t U d-mm; f3.ftt within ciz moatha; $3.00 after th azpi- 7. ,7 ' ,-T SDITEl) ?T L. HARPER. 7 Hepabllcanlsm and Abolitlon- Isn Precisely; the Same. A EECOED THAT SPEAKS SELF. FOE IT- . t"We hear' Bepublicans constantly denying that they are Abolitionists ; and some of them will even become angry when the charge is vigorously pressed home upon them by the - Democrats. . "We now propose to present a - record that cannot ; be gainsayed; proving beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Republicanism and Abolitionism are precisely the same ; that the object of this faction has always, been to make war upon Slavery, to array the North i against the South, and bring about the very state of affairs that now exists-a dissolution of the Union ! ; T -7 After the 011 National Whig party gave up the ghost, that miserable, bigoted, disgraceful - faction, .called Enow Nothingism, took .its place. 7 throughout the entire North the Ab- Tolitionist rushed into the dark lantern dens, and in a very short time Sambo had completely swallowed up Sam 1 Here in Onio, the first '"complete triumph of Abolitionism was on the I 13th of July, 1855, when the State Convention at Columbus nominated Salxox P. Chase for Governor, and Jacob Brinkekhoo? for the Supreme Court. ' Since then the Abolition ele-- roent has exercised entire control over the par ty, dictating all its nominations: and control- ing all its actions. Now, let us see' what was the next movement of this Abolition faction. At the great sectional Convention, held in JPhiladelpha, in 185C, at which Joi C. Fax-TMcitt was nominated for the " Presidency, a Platfr-n was adopted at the dictation of the Abolition st8 - Cue of the resolutions was in these memorable words: , ' ' ; ' "Raolved,- That with our Republican fath ers we bold it to be a self-evident truth, that : all men are endowed with the inalienable rights to life liberty and the pamuit of haDoiness. and that the primary object and ulterior design of our federal Uovernment were to teeure these right TO ALL PERSONS under its exclusive V jurisdiction, oc. ' "ALL PERSONS" here included the Afri- can race,' as the sequel of the platform evident ly shows. -" And again : "Jletolved That the Constitution confers np- r on Congress eovereign power over the Territo ries of the United States for their government. ana mat in ine exercise 01 tnis power it is both the right and the imperative duty of Con gress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of . barbarism Polygamy and Slavery. The above resolutions are nothing but Ab- 7 olitionism in its broadest and most offensive tense. ! They not only placed thtir candidate, Faxif oxt, upon a Sectional platform, but avow - the horrible doctrine of negro equality and universal "freedom." Although Fremont was beaten by the National Democracy, the Abolition spirit was only checked, not subdued. 7 Everywhere, throughout the. North, the Abolition faction became bold, daring and law-defying. Armed mobe were organized in various places to forcibly resist the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law ; officers of the law were mobbed by Abolition desperadoes, who gloried in their crime ; and a grand Conven tion was held in the City of Cleveland, the ob-ject of which was avowed by some of its getters . up, be to tear down the jail, and rescue the malefactors whp were imprisoned for resisting the execution of the laws. This Convention met on the 25th of Hay, 1859, was presided over by Jqsbvjl B. Qiopivas, Mr. Lincoln's. Minister to Canada Joseph Vance, and other leading Abolition Republicans participated in the proceedings. 7 To" thia convention Gov. Dexwi-sox addressed a letter, dated Columbus, May 20, 1859, in whichhe aaid t : ,'- ."Let me express :my ardent hope that the proceedings of your Convention may be each mm will permanently contribute to the ad vance- ment of the sac re principles Qf freedom, justice and humanity; which:. have been so vio- . lently assailed by : the. imprisonment in your . county jail of Plum and Peck, and their devo- ted.! coHeaguesr .( among, whom :were C. - H, Lajtostox. and .other vible admixture')' un-de? the. insulting provisions of the FagiUve-7; alav Act," . -7-::i,l ? ' ' . -These persons liad been guilty of instigating - inob to take by ' brute force some ' fagitive alaves from the.U. S. authorities. Thua.Gov. Dajrwisos eadoraedmobtlaw ia violatiag the - fugitive act, -and ia Tiolating the - Constitution : of the ebunfry; merely to insult the South' and ' to gratify the abolition sentiment of the North, 7 :.:lLkMiB03 'Q.LitAJLtt . leading f Bepubl wan 7 fBsmberof -'Congress from Ohio, on the 26th f 2Iarch; 18C2, ofiTere the following' pream-" He and resolutiona in the-TJ, B. Honso of72 JhThxxxas, The ehattelixioit of: humanitr. 7 r. smdtha holiisr ofpersona as prbertyv.iaeonr . . tnxj to natural: justice and ' the iumtamentai xknnciDlea oirour. political eystesv end no- -toriouslr rrjToach to our country? throughr oat the eivilue l worU,",CL therefore! ,kv "Jielvedf That thecommittee on the Jo- 7 "dIcUry be and the same ;ii here by- instroeXed ; 7 report a till mvitj frecdSin t? e::ry hiaria&l - - a. wf&dxtiny- tuivenj: Iiercvcr. CdBress :& lae Conatitauoaal jxwcr to l;is!;tt;qpon 7; wUtT f-erscaa 'Oerabersf-the JUci -77V tc:Jf.rt..:.3 t?;-ok a::ty:rV3olctiSnai C. 7. Am: Alirlch; tlr-ha'r!.:; r..-r-r--. Ccxi:.-. r:::rtoa, CroGurl5y, .ZYK - -cr:.,., . , : :r; rv.:msa,,aaicl ttLtz wcin Crown toade his morderoaj raid into Virginia, h was lauded to the by leading Republicans ; called a "hero" and and a "saint,' and his execution was likened unto, the crucifixion of Our Savior I . The Ab olitionists all mourned for his death,-the Cleveland Leader, edited by Lincoln's Post master, was pot in mourning for the mighty dead ; the Court at Akron adjourned as a token of respect for his memory, and speeches were made by Judge Carpenter and-'C. P. Wolcott, the present 'Assistant Secretary of War.' - ' ' ' ' ' Again, Mr.. Gmsixas wrote "to his paper, the Atktalula Sentinel, after the hanging of Johx Baowx forattempting to create a servile insurrection, these words: v 7 L . "We have ourselves paid money to redeem Southern slaves until we have become disgusted with the practice, and 'prefer that our future donations shall be made in powder and balls, delivered to the Slaves, to be used as they deem proper." Mr. Giddings while in Congress, gave utter ance to the following infamous declaration : "I look forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South ; when the black man, armed'with British bayonets and led on by British officers, shall assert his free dom, and wage a war of extermination against his master : when the torch of the incendiary shall light up the towns and the cities of the South, and blot out the last vestiee of slavery; and though I may not mock at their calamity nor laugh when their .fear cometh, yet I will hail it as the dawn of a political milfeniura." Mark the words here printed in italics. These Abolitionists boasted that they labored to bring about the very state of affairs that now exists- a civil war and servile insurrec tion I '' ;, ':7." On the 28th of February, 1850, Mr. Gid- dings, or Uhio, presented-two petitions pray ing Congress, without delay, to devise and pro pose "some plan for the immediate, peaceful dissolution of the Union." . That the Abolition leaders have always la bored to destroy the Union, is made manifest by their writings, speeches and proceedings. We shall now" proceed to furnish proof of what we say : First, we insert the resolutions adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Socie ty -printed in the New York Observer of May 28th, 1844 : 7 : Resolved, That, a political Union in anv form between a slaveholding and a free com munity must necessarily involve the letter in the gulf of slavery,7 Therefore Resolved, That SECESSION from the 7t- ted States Government is the duty of every A B-OLITIONIST, since no one can take office, or deposit a vote under its Constitution with out violating biB anti-slavery principles, and rendering himself an abettor, to the slayehold- er in his sin ' ; Resolved, That "fourteen years of warfare against the slave power, have convinced Us that every act done in support of the Akxki- can Union rivets the chains of the slave-that the only exodus to the slave to freedom unless it be one of blood, must be over the re mains of the present American Church, and the present Untoni : Resolved, rhat the abouttomsts of this coun try, should make it one of the primary objects of thu agitation, to dissolve the American Uxiox. In the proceedings of the "Southern 'and Western Liberty Convention, which met in Cincinnati, June 11, 1845, as printed in the Cincinnati Morning Herald, we find the fol lowing:' 7 James G. Biaxxr, on the first day of the session, said : "We are not met to abolish the Union. I have no idolatrous veneration for the Union. If slavery could not be abolished without the dissolution of the Union, I, for one, would go for dissolution." . Mr. Bikxet was the Anti-Slavery candidate for President in 1844. V 77' Judge Stzvexs, of Indiana,' during the same session, said : ' "We are now a separate moral and political organization. We shall ever continue bo. The other parties may come to us. but we can not BO to them. They are destined to become one simple chemical snbstance, fuped into one by the Liberty pnnciple. We are ask ed how slavery is to be abolished ? Sir, r will tell you.- We must reach the abolition of sla very over the dead bodies of both the old poli tical parties ........In the second place, we must reach the abolition of slaverv through the doors of 20,000 churches But we are fold that our plan is sedicious aud factious ......that we shall divide the churches ! We are told, too, that we shall . divide th Union that we are disubionists. Wow, sir, I am for the Union--but I say, if the only Union we can have with the South, in Church and State, is to be, and must be, cemented by the blood of three millions of my brethren, say. in God's name, let it go down "J udge Stevens s Address produced a profound impression, and was received with ap plause.": ' ,It is painful to put upon record the- traitor ous .utterances against the Union which abounded ia the public demonstrations of the aboli tionists of this period. The disunion declara tion of Judge Stevens was received with applause instead of execration, as it should have been. - 7- :7:' " " ' ' We next invite' 'attention to the following mportant paragraphs,' because they throw a flood of light upon the schemes of -the New England "agitators.5; " We copy from5 the New York Anti-Slavery Standard, June 21, 1856: :: ; ."This Whig"party, 'fire years ago in power. and with a reasonable prospect of maintaining it, now dispersed, is demolished to powder .7.. The abolitionifita saw that this must 'come to pass ; but they did not dream of its accom plishing itselr id soon, That the pation- ji prwa snonia,-sooner or later, oi viae on the oniyreal toatterof dispute existirig itfthe country; was 1 ineviuble:..iiv Hut 'thelines aroWdrawniand thr hosts' are Encamped oWw each: other, The attempt to keep has been abandonedJ tf. '.X-"f ? -ttv kji lr ' The 'A hfvli'tL-inlaf. L Vli-T -n ; I 1 v. ' " veiling wicac things in the ears of the peoole; for- a quarter of a ntury.Tbey Tiave had VotttVtart in what has come io ixzs; hoth hypreparin-the taindj oflTG ; Ie f thV - Kortnd hr corapelling the pc.li cf the South to the verr t a tne very .North into atrcc.Ues which, tave startled the .-North into f tt!":tiQi.;....,w-t;ts lov. emce : this -pt per t:: r 0 -t :Jtr.st :ttv f ;e ..al, vrci t'.; f r--t'n eft It! CJ.:- ?-ii --if jr cf,r btZr&Z -fit t-t" ' a eyes i 7c' it' eod.". 'J Eer. AirDasir osa, of New ; Hampshire, at ! the New York. May, 1857. eaid st t - . . : -.' j. - I ."If the angel Gabrial had dona -what their fathers did, he would be a. scoundrel, for it. Their'fhthers placed within the Constitution a provision for the rendition 7 of fugitive slaves, and therein did a ; wicked thing ...... There never was an hour, when this blasphemous and infamous-Government should be made, and now the hour was to be prayed for when that disgrace to humanity should be daehed to pie ces forever." . '.'!- Rev. B. O. FaoTHixoHAH, of New Jersey," at the American Anti-slavery i Society . meeting, New York, May 1857, eaid ? . - . - " They demanded justice for the slave at any ?rice of Constitution, of Union, of Country; his was the principle of the: anti-eiavery . association...... He believed that this Union effectually prevented them from advancingJn the least deereethe work of the slave's redemp tion. ..... The Northern people were beginning to see that the Stuth was divided from it by its system of labor and by its ideas of human fights. They wan ted to make that gulf of di-" vision deeper. As to the word 'Union, they all knew it was but a political catch word." - , Wendell Phillips said : "I have labored nineteen years to take nineteen States out of the Union, and if I have spent any nineteen years to the satisfaction of my Puritan conscience, it was those nineteen years." - ' -: y: . " ; ' ' . " I am an Abolitionist. T have worked steadily for twenty years to rend this Union.- I thank God it has been accomplished. Never again may these States be re-united, unless the fast Slave shall have been freed. God forbid the reforming of the old Uni'Mi' . , . The last paragraph is from his Washington harangue. Vice-President Hamlin was pres ent, and cheered the infamous utterauces of the Abolition rebel. . Possibly some of our " Republican" " friends may say that the above extracts are taken from leading Abolitionists, and are not the opinion of the Republican party. : ; But as we propose to show that and "Republicanism axd ABOLITIONISM ARE ir BECISELT THE SAME," .We shall now make some extracts from gentlemen who enjoy the full confidence of the Republi can party. Hon. Houct Mann, while representing Maseachusetts in the 31st Congress, eaid In conclusion, I have only to add, that such is my solemn and abiding conviction of the character of slavery, that, ; under a full sense of my responsibility to my country and my God, I deliberately say, better disunion better a civil or servile war1 better anything that God in his providence shall send-; than an extension of the bounds of slavery." A Convention was held in the city of Boffa lo, in 1843, at which . the-; following resolution was unanimously adopted, with Uon. . S. P. Chase, now a member of President Lincoln's Cabinet, as chairman on resolutions ; " Resolved, That we hereby eive it distinctly to be. understood, by this .nation and the world, that, as abolitionists considering that the strength of our cause lies in'its righteous ness, and our hopes for it in our conformity to the laws of God and our. support of the rights of man we owe to the sovereign Ruler of the Universe, as a proof of our allegiance to Him, in all our civil relations and offices, whether as friends, citizens, citizens, or public func tionaries sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, to SS- regard and treat the third clause of the inetruroect, whenever ap plied to the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null and void, and consequently, as forming no part of the Constitution of the United States whenever we are called upon or sworn to support it. This expression of the Buffalo Convention, through Mr. Chase, a leading member, of the present Administration, in favor of repudiating the clause of the Constitution for the rendition of fugitive slaves, notwithstanding their oaths to support the Constitution, is to be taken as a fair index of the extent to which the rev olutionary sentiments of the North. had pro gressed. Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, ' Republican chair man of the Ways and Means committee, said in a debate in the House, in reply to ; a ques tion of Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky;' Jam xot in favor of restoring the Constitution and ' Union just as it was" I am for removing the cause Hon. John A. Bingham, . in a speech in Congressa on the 13th of May, said " Who in the -name of Heaven wants the Cotton States, or any other State this ' side o: perdition to remain in theUnjon, if slavery is 10 conuuus. . Senator Morrill," "of Maine, eaid in a speech delivered a few days since j - .;. ' .: ii fwi . . i ' 7 . - a nen is mere Bir, no limit on the power of Congress; but it is ia vested with the abso lute powers or war the civil functions - of the Government are,' for the time beirijr.-'m obey' anee when i conflict, and all State and Na tional authority subordinated to the extreme authority of Congress, as the supreme' power in the peril of external er internal- hostUKies. The ordinary provisions of the Constitution; peculiar to a state of peace, and all laws and municipal regulations must yield to the force of martial law, as resolved by Congress."- Senator Wasx, who now disgraces Ohio in Congress declared7in a,; public, speech which was printed ia the Boston Atlas thatw.;7-'.. .; ' " There was really1 no tTnion' between the North and theSonth and ne believed no two natiOM on the earth ehtertained -feelines ' of more bitter rancor- toward each Other,' than these two sections ofth'e'Bepublle, ' The: only salvation of the Union, therefore, was to be found in? divesting ; it ' en'Urefy of Slavery. vnx wo wfv, union wnu tne poutn, xei .us have a Union, or let BSxsweepKawaythe remnant we call aJJaiOitl ? teii& 'y?: vHentto beputon pp equality Tjrith the negro, or.he; wmjl.breaki up the i-Unioul ndge SFaw)urni;? Qhioutth Republican Rational Q9Tfotni4r:iiC Io the ase. of an alternative belsr present- ed or the continuance of slavery or, a diesolu-Vion of tve Unions X a'm7fcr;dl3oIiiIo'ftr;anti I caw pth6w.4uick: ik.cocea'-f .ry.; "-TZin'JI.Cewardths' rrc; f Cecretary cf CUteV' t-us ay'oed Lfa'L7crliw c'r. .'.bell.!ca . . c tat"on r "3 11 R V . ?3 C" 1 7 r"srt' - 1 - -t ! ..;C-"'- r.n 1 r t t t gaic--Ur:ttolix. soon bring the parties of the- coontry 5 into an I '.. - T.. T. !": W t. - . -. -. - xiauianiei r, Maw) fmcoi 1 Major General in the Federal arm, said r1 " l iun willpg in eertaln atatel of eircum stancea to tit turn Ukiobt' sxa.!. v-n -1:- James Watson Webb, long known : aaTedii-tor of the N. Y. Onaier and Enqwir; and7at present ilri Lincoln's Mibsteii7ti Braji said r77i;?f 'iv-7 - ."On the action -'of this iconvejiUonr denends the fate of. the country; if.tht ra6& oil hm. .1 .n.... ir rmp imni 8WORD ' - . v : -- y i-iil-. ..t-;-:---v J"'? -1 MX IBB -gUTWVMVl liHii 1'UMI AMJI . Anion Burlinnme, for many years a e- publican Congressman from Massachusetts; I and at present Hi. Lincoln's Hinlster. to Chi I naj said i f?A- I " The times demand and we must have an J a hi t SLATKKf cossixtUTioir, a.k AKTi-SLATixT 1 BlBLE, ARB AH AKTI-StATET Gop:7 7- 7 C I ; ABepuUican peUUon :to Congress., cqntainrj fi) (he fol1wino TNiniu rtonail ..:.' 1 WeearnywuMtCpngre ent session, to take such iniatiatory measures for the speedy, peaceful, and equitable dissolu- (ion 01 me exisuog uoiaa w uie exigencies 01 the case .may require." ". r ' 7 . ,;'---7 On the netition of John J. 'Woodward and others, praying that a plan might be devised ior a bihvwwh 0 ue unwn, iug yens were. I Salmok P. Chase, Johx P. Halx. WilUa I for a distotuttion of the Union, the yeas were. H. SewaEo. Senate Journal. 1st session 31st Congress, p. 129.) Horace GreelyV who edita the N. Y. TVtvas, the Republican bible of this country, said : V The Union is T not worth -au pportinir in connexion with the. oouth.. Mr. Fessenden a Bepublicaa U. S. Senator from Maine, in a speech, said ; " I much more desire the extermination of Slavery, if it can be Constitutionallv done as i oeiieve u can loan i ao to see tne u mon restored." Mr. Conway, 'a' Beputllcan Congressman from Kansas said : For one, I shall not vote another dollar or I VnPVe??T'AMjyi?M?tD di?srtnt standing, and tends directly to an anti-slavery result, : Millions for freedom, but not one cent for Slavery." 7- , . : 1 We might eo on and fill many columns with I similar extracts, hut have not room, all going Administration .-in theprqsecution of to show a perfect similarity in sentiment jbe- the war for the preservation of OUT Con-tween the Republicans ahd Abolitionists. stitutional Union; an4I lender that to We shall make one moreextract ' before we close this record. 7 When the " Peace Con- J gress" .assembled at. iVashington .in 18C1, 1 when good men of all i parties were uniting to I save theeountry from the calamity of civil j war, the leading Republican members of that I body banded together for' the ptirixMe of! de I fcating every, propoeiUonUhat. . looked, like a cuoiprofniBc, wwr'witww wjuwewtg tCLOong aboutcivil "war and a dissolcrtion of the Union, I Whils this Cov'ention was' in session'r Senator I Chandler of Michigan ' wrote as follows to I uov. isiairc WAEHiNOToy , February 1 1. '1861. I " Mr Deae Governor ; Governor Bins-1 ham and myself telegraphed you on' Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and New xrk to send deleeates to the Peace or Comprise Congress. They admit that we are right, and they wrong: that no Republican State should does not seem to embarrass Republicans have sent delegates; but they are here," and wno are the open opponents of the pol-can't get away. Ohio, Indiana, and lload. Is- .AiwMK?tliA Praijnt ia'rMo-ed. land are caving in, and thero is danger of Illinois kn,i nnw thev h nfm. Oivi' kv to come to their rescue, and save the Renublican party from rupture. I; hope you will send etiff - Z z z Z V " j - j - s ' - j win n.t in -thSir rtinjc stilt - t , a a matter - or courtesy to some or our errms - : "1 I brethren, that you will send the delegates. - rr 1 T - , 7r ,-.:-- .;;7 z. Chandler. " His excellency, Austin Blaie. - " P. S. Some of the manufacturing States think that a fight would be 1 awful. Without a little blood-letting, this Union will not, in my estimauon, he worth a rush Mark the diabolical Words in the postscript to this infamous letter! Without a Koleblood letting,' says - Mr. Chandler , this; Union will not be worth arusk.". ly?eli, he and his Eepab bean friends are now having the- blood-letting to their heart's content 1 - ' ' 7-i-.. The Angel and Hagar... 7 The Abolitionists, who regard the 'Fugitive Slave Law -as the quinteseence of all that is barbarous wicked and horrible, Will probably one occasion at least, an: angel of the ;Lord acted in the capacity of a elavecatcher 4 Womenit appears even in thertime Aaai 'were oot gulltress- of harboring: in their hearts' the greenyed monster- and SAaaf; 'ABaan'a wife, become-hot without cause wecoafessousHioahowas .t.- . . a -t-,J .J Wm W.j thk ;.( Af and .Hioa iookrthe ondergrouad i railroad 1 ?e xrit q P al and fled froth the face of her. mistress. Welto subjugate the South,, nor to. change are not informed. whetlier?pr of there were AHoiuranuiia a wwoaj,: yna, aayisea ,uie fair ii.gypUan to thja course but of one thing we are certain, aniangel 7bf Mxi. Ird; ver- t6ok her. arid ordered hereto Teturn7and 7sub- mifc uenHui.jDMmiB cruei Jiasas.oi -mer mr WfcWA'xr Vitiv,w ijt iy'Z.l ordirom GnUyiV: 6. ButAbram eaid unto Sarai. Behold thv mam iu hi uanut i w.jueas ii,.pieasuB.i i fbuntain of water in the wilderness. bv the! founfain in the wv to J'liur. 7 : 7" .. , .V,- 7 comest, iooufana ,winner- wut-.thoai eol And he said, I ilee from the fa.es of my wis- rvw. . y&xvjiuukkuvuxti pu uia. poruou f i nder-Which tne warcommenceu ' - a r. wara at nm irw wa fna Fivni av i tniottirinivi ' j . : . - -ww w w vu ww wwi .Lta t ww iui. laiau aaua - h r nice. vwn uann -uau . uzra tDUAMnrJM I -. tHagarViA y,f n,ft'- n i Jr.. r. vite"riS'i I Rftnt lovaK y, Ana wstr-i ci t 9 i,o-l r n l cnto her, portion fto say th2 least) Of the liepUO- TTSkJ.y 7. inlrr.UHlerlond; -paJt.rept 'lata thesftpledges and r'r- . .7- -.. :"! -f.J: tranpla.'cniheir CMcagot'platfpna. i."-L':r:7--7Vf '-77777:: .'v'it They. are-tha c' lTccatca.of.the"tb- .;ri ;C "' -J ' -'V-;" -jn tllll::: tlaVw.-ia'lL.CUtaii'.cf ---- . , i v . 1 - ' - - " - ' ::i v ..vcr.rC'. ar--'-- - - , f fit AtlTOT TfiTn? tYS ft ' TTTTTn Sumner sund TXade Ijcsla the C-7 pstbUesuss) t IenetlsiBi aad the vreTiiiTsw er t&e ceasutauaa. . THE ITiniOCllACT DECijaEED TJLtS OIIX.Y .lXOfS 07 TIIS U2II02I. y Ecsd, ead hrSiH to totat lleigrlibor ! rr TytTiti Ttaw tv m Tr?U - . . - -f 5; .: - OSWBGQ, May 16, My Dear 7. Sir . I hare receiTed your letter inyitinelmo I to meet your- Self andtber; gentlemen instituting a committee appointed, by. certain mem- rera of the legislature. 5 designated as XCRarlU '-nil TTinTi mPtnm " -t)l .thoritv. after consultation with I committees of. other organizations, to ; i..: . C i ?lfi for holding a State cony ention for the nomination of State officers. I will give you the rea son why I think proper to decline this invitation. 7 . The members of the Legislature by - :-- ; a . , r whom'tnie coninuttee was appointed with which yoa mrite mo to consult, adopt ed an address an dresolations declaring certain principles and mriting to a con vention which thev recommend, All ReDublicans. Union . Democrats, and other loyal citizens, supporters of the policy of the Administration, and responding to the principles and policy" set forth in such address and resolu tions. I cannot call myself "a supporter of the policy of the Administration,", and i flo not respona to tne principles ana nolicv set forth in the address and reso- lutions,V and therefore, althoughr a , ' . i , . 'uua Jz; loyal citizen, I am not embraced within this invitation. ; , .', . ' 7 7 I am ready; indeed, to support . the this policy tho Irresident lfl pledgea . by pumerous - acts and declarations, t the sincerityof .which Ldo not question.- Butr twhether lte.wilL adhere, to these pledges in iSpite. of tliat!p6WerFultiBau ezice in bis . own party .Which is seeking to convert the war into an abolitibn war, ia yet to bo proved, -He ' has ; already Ljecouiineuueu nu ' xuiyvi wui 'iunui which m my judgement is impolitic and unwarranted! - by . Cthe Constitution.' With respect to the vital questions that remain. l-rffara vtnepoucy oi tne-Aa- ministration" as somewhat unfixed and uncertain, -and until JL see morccieariy iwhat it is. l am unable to call myself its supporter But laying aside this question, wnicn I ; V- . v,-;, -r,. ? . Uet us consider the proposed Union up- on - its merits. 7 Is it - exnedient : and wjU It promote the public fc welfare j to f unite with the Republican party : upon I the PrinciDles of the legislative address t and resolutions, ior xne : purpoBo ot: de feating the Democratic party : of this State at the comine election x ihat is the question." 7r ' A year ago when the country was in imminent "danger," the ' Republicans of jNew x ork ana . otner . states mvitea Democrats and all other' loyal men to lay aside partizan controversy and unite with them in the support of the war fortA preservation of the Constitu tion and the Union. IN o otner motive or Dumose for the war was. then heard from-the leactera oi tne xvepuDucan par ty, or .; indeed in ; any quarter having I the : slightest Influence upon opinion. . . ; ; v The messages and speeches of the President.? the mations of his Generals pledging the public faith to the people of the invaded States, and Tal tna ' c?uuruiavr , ""I 4 V""" PVU88 IJ 1?? ??? Y P"' thelan2ruare of the press and of popu- I iarmeeunes--ix uuhw I Southern institutions: nor to i Rnthern men oi tneir properiy nguia, I . tiut, K antlinritvef Pi Whr."o7'7: the C'onstltuuon oyerau uiv oivc,.- i nnen 'irere ' iub auueat uu soivv. men in srmsr when- our1- armies were niiea wiui nil . - - - 1 1 fio-ht fOrtAl Cause: anfl notnor aDOU- tioh r when-Juaryiana.-xveiituca.jr-: tui -' - 1 - "v -m mm M. wm A M 0 A S " W SB I 'menltoZCon their' territories toi bur rOQPS and plat- 1 moW in niif nowir then first i "-rT: rl . y ,- f the war, slavery tnust oe destroyed. 11 O. UV J , . O - . Jt is notorious that at this day a large They adopt the doctimle "of eceision, attaching to it a conseduenee that en hances its absurdity : The States, they say, are gone as atates, but remain as territories, subject to absolute power. This is the ' theory of Mr. Sumner It is the theory adopted ' by a rgreaf meeting in the citjr of New' York, over which a son of Alexander Hamilton presided. Others derive power to abol- ran slavery trom a omerent source, it may be done, they say, by the war pow er, in otner wot as, oy tne despotic pow er. .Who can bound the war power! Ahd to what a miserable state must that eovntry be reduced, where it shall be thought a justification of, every uiolation of constttutumal law to say that may be done by the war power! 7 : I know that all these gentlemen claim ' to : be (prominently- ven) the friends of the Union. They would sooner abolish -slavery " than that the Union should perish. They would ex ert a military law m the oouth lor; the sake of the Union. They are so pas sionate m their love that they would sacrifice law, liberty, the Constitution itself, to save the Union. Well, ' the Union to which they are so devoted, is one for which I confess I have no res pect or attachment. . I know no Union but our Constitutional Union of free and eaual States.' It is 'an abuse 7 of words to call anything else "The Un- ion. u pon tne new piatiorm, jrnii lips, who declares that for twentyyears he has been the enemy of the- Union, and Garrison, who formerly . stigmati zed it a a compact with hell, are both Union men. It is the opinion of these gentlemen that the law of God and the Constitution of the United btates are at variance with each other, and there fore they have sought the overthrow of the Union, lut they; have become1 con verted since it has been discovered that one may be a friend of the Union and yet an enemy of the Constitution. So Vrerrit onutu, wuo eat tu iuo scab or honor at the New-York "meeting; ih- brms us in . his circular though : he hates - the Constitution , he laves the Union. ' .;. :-f 7 " -7: The lerislative address invites to-the proped.'Unionrdohventiott: ?altRe"pub lirk - TTniAn TlAmAt7'1a"hd 'iothfer loval cititens.' Thisi imnlieV that all Republicans are loyal ; - that disloyalty may be founds ajaonff Jipmocrats and fothet:citiiehs:btfw4rMlse?J Suchj I.- ..-.: .i ' . . rff - - - -l is not mT opinion. - vt e are in -arms aeainst the disloyal men' of the South:1 and -- none - here now - oppose : the war. I believe that individuals may be found : iri7 the North who 'sympathise with the rebels, and wish them success. But it would he absurd to organize political party against persons so few and insignificant, and. who only dare speak in whispers. '. The disloyal men of the North, from" whom . danger is to be apprehended, are they who seek to convert the war into a war for the emancipation Of 'the black race by means of the overthrow - of .' the Constitution. Where are these men to be found J Sumner is one of them; Wade another; Thaddeus Stevens a third. If there are Democrats or other citizens among them, I think, they wil be found to fraternize with the Republicans or to be in a transformation state. Is it not Dlain that if we need a Union party at the North, it ia in order to defeat the schemes of these men?. But how can that be if they are invited to take -part in the movement? ;: There w no resemblance between this movement and that which resulted in the nomination of the Union ticket in this State last fall, There was then a show of opposition to the war at the North, but no difference as to its purpose. We all then were, or proposed to be, constitutional Union "men. Now all opposition to the war has ceased, but a controversy has arisen as to the object for which the war shall be prosecuted; whether to establish the Constitution or to- overthrow it, and reduce the States to the condition "of. a conquered province.. Upon this question, the only political question that really divides the people of the North", a true Union party cannot be neutral or silent. "- " ;-; - : .. For twelve years; past, I have thougbtthere was a necessity for a true Union : party. I wishedLthat such a party might be formed in 1850. I hoped for it again in 1860, I think that loyal Democrats, loyal Republicans, and all other loyal men ought to unite and form such a party now. -The basis of such an t organization (which might be temporary; leaving present parties- to resume their former ; relations when the Union shall be restored, may be found in the. resolutions adopted by the committee of conservative members- of Congress, of which Crittenden was chairmanl But I look in -vain for any such declaration as the times demand in the address and resolutions adopted, by. the (so called) Union ; members of the State Legislature. ... There is much there about slavery, Jut little or nothing about the Constitution.- There is no declaration against abolition or general - confiscation ; no assurance to loyal Southern7-men that their rights' shall be- respected; jio recognition of any ngnia remaining 10 taepeopie-oi ne,.ae-ceded States y no condemnation of that . most absurd form of' secessionism 2 which converts States into territories and - erects '.. military despotism upon the ruins of ,the Coastituton. The plav of ;Uamlewitb thepartof Hamlet left oat Is iiot more ndiculousthafi a7.Union party that leaves but -.theT.fnsUtutua''y7v:: i'l eulertain the hope that the "conservative men -of the North will inaome way unite land act in concert with the. loyal citizens , of Ken tacky, Maryland, -and all 7 other Southern States that are ormsy become- free ;frora " the nsnrped -power of Je.Te.rson Davis. 7; I- trust there wHl beaiMaciovement for this purpose at VTtshicton befbre the adjonrnment ofCon-rre-3: Lat whether thiahall boaceoniprisbi I cr tot. I c-UiBly can enter itttey ecciti-r.!7;a caLIicana f overt Iiro-jr-tSs r:rcra'j; fithis fate -:X7l. - iver- fc.n tv.Vfm-y. Lavs' 'c?!2itt i. . tha rzzU'tl r'Aocrata of-" the North are iatie tl r I ritrictics they are the. chief. tsltr-r!: r "---tthe f.r':sc.f .ZTcrth-m 7ur7:r':; i..-;atu.3. i i a .t; -f-. i - c-.:y X.iuria". i-:rx .f-c'.'T-s.c .3 Cover--:srt, t t have cvea r sscrif 6es of ttartizan feelisr in its They haTe sustained the President when Eisj of his proeased partisans have assailed Lii .: and, if as I continue to hope and believe,, he " ahall prove true to himself and his country. ha may; perhaps Cad amoeg them soma or &ia-. oesi mepoe ana jinnev-aiipporei- - . : i --- I have written somewhat at length, becar-v havine no ODDortuairr of pefaonal cocsulia- tion,' it ia only in this way that I cafl fcreseal " to yoo, and through you to friends in tS cl:y 7 the reason? of ray.counu- lly opinions to t . my fueling on. the subject are both stro.7l 7 am, and have beeu from the begioning, ia . or of putting down the'rebellion by force cf arms But lam for mercy.' for humanity, izt , . constitutional law and-, liberty ; and I abhor '. the fanaUcal spirit that to - liberate . the A&h : cans would pU the whites in chaimt,- and con demn to misery and despair eight millions of . people ox our own race and Wood. -1 know inaeea .inu inia atrocioua scheme can. never be accomplished ; I ( know that, the Norta would not support a war for this purpose; - X, ' know that the South would resist it, so long-as the white race should survives I know- that all Christendom Would rise and forbid Itl The end reached at last would be - the disaolu tion of the Union, but after the most frightful expenditure and loss of life." "r . ' ' " 7" I am- confident, my dear sir, that after soma experiments, perhaps, you will nt last t reach the conclusion . at which I. have: arrived,- For myself, I see do use in meeting with gK tlemen with whom I am beforehand sura t disagree. The whole basis of the prpposed . organixaUon is wrong. : It wan,ta the- vitali principle of. a Union party, fidelity to the, . Constitution. - It imposes, a test Southern men will not admit. ' 7 .- - It embraces men who" ought to be excluded; and excludes those whose co-operation -is : es--sential. It is but the Republican party without the Republican name; and I fear ita ten dency may be to strengthen the radical branch' of that party, and to weaken that .portion which is best disposed to support the Preai- dentin a conservative and constitutional poll - cyv;--:. ' : ------ - ; If 1 am not mistaken, .the Executive eomm mittee of the " Constitutional Union party1of sou stul .survives and you and tcyselC are both members of it. - Tndeed, I'suppOse that-it is in that capacity your letter was addressed to me. v I'.t .' ' -7-..'; i ;.?.' 57-jj 5-'-- Be ao s-ood aa toommunicale mv answer. to the other gentlemen of- the committee, as I - suppose the question to which it relates taay . come before - thetn ;' and believe me "sincerely; ; your friend and, servant, . ; - - -. r ---"i. f; " E. J. Baowx, Esq., New York. x ' .- JETo Qnarter.for" Butlex.-, This appears to be the sworn intention of the Confederates. . But " to cook a hare yen must first catch him." A writer ia the Jack-" . wn Jfississippian, thinks old Ben's .bead is ; worth $10,000. -Here is his offer i '77 .';.7-. 7 "To the Editor, of the ILssiseivvtan ; As the' modern Nero, the brutal, beastly and sangui n- ary savage, General B.-F. Butler, haaby-viW tae ofhia general order o. zs, dated at ii ew Orleans, on.the 15th of Hay, violated the p rio-i gpiesr-wBJfaret a ad aa be-propoee o out rage tne enasuty oi toe women - oi toe owu. who by the misfortunes or war tau into hia hands," it is our plain duty to rid our. country and the world of the horrid, hideous monster by any means that can be commanded. When a man turns to be an - enemy to the human' race he forfeits . his - right to "a habitation on the face of the world; and he who; relieve the world of such an unnatural creature is entitled to a monument in the memory' of man kind. Let there be a purse of JIU.UUO collected together and offered for the head of thia man Butler, or to any one who will take hi life by any means whatsoever,; If Uie person who kills, bim should lose his own' life by doing so, let the money go to hi heirs, or who ever he may designate : I would suggest that-: this money be male up in sums of; not' lesa than $100, v . ' '. ' ' The Liberty of the ZTegro Iaeonpattble " with that of the "v7hite Sace. ; In his speech on the abolition of slavery ia the District of Columbia, in the Senate, Thura-; day, February , 1839, Uxkar Clxt aaidt "I am, Mr. President,nrfriendbf slavery. The Searcher of all hearts knowsr that every' Pulsation of mine beats" high and strong Tin the cause of civil liberty. . Wherever' it ia safe and practicable,7I desire1 tor see every portion of the human family in the enjoyment of it. But I prefer the liberty of my ownC race to that of "any other race.' ' The. liberty e the descendants qf'Africa in the, Uniled, Stales' U incompatible with the safety and Ulc?iy ef the Eu ropean aescenaants. i neit slavery Krms - an exception,1 resulting from a stern and tnerorablm i :i -- - .1. . . T"T - I necessity, o ioc Eenmu uuenj m us -vnnc States Wa did not originate, nor are we responsible for, this necessitr. "Their - liberty, t it it were possible, could only be established by violating the incontestable powers of the States, and in subverting the -Union. ' And beneath. the ruius of the Union would be buried,. soon er or, later, the liberty of both races, I ' : 'e' Ilajcrityillttrt Say some of .the sticklers for. -the doings of this . Administration. In saying' this they' think, of 'course, the abolition party in power represent the-majority of thje peopleT' It ug see. In 1800 the popular'.Toie. on'TTrettiieot was aa: follows; .iV?$-;',tvij.H' -3. '" Douglas....t.it...CCCl) ) Breckinridge .&59,CS2, Bell. - - ---- , 'i Lincoln mmmmm -.'176 10, : r' :Pojmtar tnaj. against Linboln, " 5,515' " TThe above shows how it stood in 10CJ ti shows that Mr. Lincoln is (a minority- "Presi dent a President by accUent IIa and liia party carry a high hand wader all eifcumsUn-ces 1 It is a stronger abolition hand than eveu indicated. Let them go before tts r:' bow with tbeir-abolition record and e:e "l -a thev would land T'llemember, the r-- y should rule I The will of lie ra-jc.-:. t-culi be obeyed!2-: 7" ....a -It seems, however. t e r"-l. c f t . - "r.crity led on by the New r n f " i 1 - V. i i - - t driving their tyrant la r-j .."i & L!j'- Lz. .. Webope an! lv'7 T3t.-f cie U J. by ani.ljs. 1 7 ;;;r7"7 "TTT'.'A.- v :.iy ii f 1 1' h - i t -- 7jk; :tc::,-:r ; - i C 9 ;A'Yca.TT. 7-:l--7s C . Vv 4. i .i . " .. - . . . J