Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-10

is to quarrel with cause and efrect-with
the work of our own hands"
Again he says:
II think if you will examine the map
of Massachusetts, for example, you find
this to hold true, with singular uniform
ity, that in those places where there are
the most abolitionists who have disfran-
chised themselves for conscience and
the slaves sake, the heaviest vote is
thrown for the free-soil ticket. This is
as inevitable as the law of gravitation.
The greater includes the less. If we
should begin our work over again, and
try the same experiment ten thousand
times over, we should have the same re-
suit in the formation of the same party"
Is it not notorious that the ultra abo-
litionists of the North are supporting
Fremont precisely because they Justly
regard his party as the advance guard
of the abolition army, which is soon to
take the lead in the attack on the hated
institutions and people of the South p
They have listened to the willy counsels
of Garrison, and have rallied around the
flag with sixteen stars
Then | say, in brief reply to the first
question, that this sectional party of the
North comes from the loins of abolition
ism; and the election of Fremont would
be but the first in a series OF future abo-
lition triumphs leading inevitably to the
permanent dominion of that relentless
enemy of the South or ending in a
speedy and violent disruption of our
confederate nationality.
Secondly. Who are its leaders?
Seward, Hale, Sumner, Giddings,
Wilson, and host of able men, who
have announced themselves as Gfe-mis-
sionaricS for the extirpation of slavery
They are the men who buried the whiq
party; who dissolved the know-nothing
order, and absorbed it into the black re-
publican organization and who now
seek to crush out the national democra-
cy, so that there may be no barrier
henceforth between them and their south
ern victim.
Thirdly. What are their purposes?
Let Seward answer:
Slavery is not and never can be per-
petual. 1t will be overthrow either
peacefully and lawfully under this Con-
stitution, or it will work the subversion
of the Constitution, together with it,
own overthrow. Then the slave holders
would perish in the struggle"
How shall the Shareholders perish ii
the struggle? Let Giddings answer:
-" L look forward to the day when there
shall be a servile insurrection in tn,
South; when the black man, armed will
British bayonets and led on by British
officers. shall assert his freedom anC
wage war Of determination against his
master; when the torch of the incendi
airy shall light up the towns and cities Of
the South, and blot out the last vestige
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 political millennium"
Hear Senator Wade, of Ohio:
"There is really no union now be-
tween the North and the South, and he
believed no two nations upon the earth
entertained feelings of more bitter ran
cor towards each other than these two
nations of the Republic. The only sal
walton of the Union therefore was to be
found in divesting it entirely from all
faint of slavery"
Hear Mann:
In conclusion I have only to add
that such is my solemn and abiding con-
viction Of the character of slavery, that,
under full sense of my responsibility
to my country and my God, | deliberate
ly say, better disunien-bottcr a civil OF
servile war--better anything that God
in his providence shall send-than an
extension of the bounds Of slavery"
Hear Spaulding:
/" In the case of the alternative being
presented Of the continuance of slavery
or the dissolution of the Union, ] am for
dissolution, and ! care not how quick il
comes"
Hear Wilson:
A." tell you here tonight that the agi-
tation of this question of human slavery
will continue while the foot Of slave
presses the soil of the American Repuh-
lie"
Hear Parson Beecher:
Two great powers that will not live
together are in our midst and Juggling at
each others throats. They will search
each other out though you separate them
a hundred times. And if by an insane
blindness you shall contrive to put of
the issue and send this unsettled dispute
down to your children, it will 90 down,
gathering volume and strength at every
step, TO waste and desolate their heritage.
Let it be settled now"
| cannot pretend to vouch for the en-
tire accuracy Of each Of these quotations
which | find going the rounds of the
press, uncontradicted as far as ! know
yet ] have not tho slightest doubt bu'
that they are given with sufficient cor
rectnoss to do those gentlemen no injus-
tice, and 10 prove conciusiveIy, what thu
whole South has long asserted, that the
aim Of these Fremont leaders is, not q
restore the Missouri Compromise nor t.
prevent the extension Of slavery into The
territories, Int 10 abolish IL IN he Statcs
PEACEFULLY, II THEY CAN, AND RoRcIBLYt
IL THEY MUST.
There may be individual men amongst
those leaders and followers, who would
not mock at our calamity nor laugh when
our fear cometh but who can doubt that,
if their Goddess agitation were once armed
with the power Of the Federal Govern