Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-31
Fremont and Disuni i0R-BuehanR aud


loving men, the following expressions of
opinions held by mon who took All active
part in securing the nomination of Col. FaE-
MONT, and who ere now zealOusly adyOcat.
ing his election. We copy them from the
Eastern Argus:
JOSHUA z. GIpDtNGs was at the Conven-
ton, leading spirit in all its acts, Iesking as
he is with twenty years Of Abolitionism.--
Hear him:
look forward 10 the day when there shall be
servile insunection ia the Sorth when the
black man, armed with British bayonets, and
led on by British officers, shalt assert his free
DOM and wage a war of determination against
his master; when the torch of the iucendfAry
shalt light mp the towns aud cities q the South
and blot out the last yestige of slavery. And
though may not mock at their calamity,
laugh when their tear eometh, yet will hail il
as the dawn Of political milenum.
JOHN P. HALE.
was there, the Abolition candidate for Presi-
dent against Scott and Pierce in 1852. What
is his record On the 9Th of February, 1850.
he presented, insisted upon, and along with
Chase and Seward alone, voted to receive refer,
and consider petition demanding of Congress
" an immediate dissolution of the Unon,' be
cause union with shareholders is vioaiive OF
divine law and human rights. Cass, Corwin,
Benton, Clay and Webster. with forty six other
Senators voted against it,
On the 23d of March 1913. he presented a
batch of eight petitions at once demanding the
same thing
WILLIAM Fl. SEWARD
was there frat as candidate, and afterwards
as one of FREMoNr's warmest supporters.-
Hear him:
There is higher law than the Constitutions,
which regulates our authority over the domain
Ii (slavery) can and must be
abolished. and yOu and must do Il.
BENJAMIN f. WADE
is suppoter of FRENoNFand leader of the
party. Hear him:
'He thought there was but one issue before
the people, aud that was the question of Amer
lean slavery. He said the Whig party is not
only dead but stinks 1t shows signs oceas
ionally of conyulsiye spasms, as is sometimes
exhibited in the dead snakes tail after the
head and the body have been buried.
''There is really no union now between the
North and the South, and he believed no two
nations upon the earth entertained feelings of
more bitter raneor towardseach other than these
Two natiOnS vi tfle frphbic
n. P. BANKS JR.,
the "Union slider" Speaker of the abolition
House Representatives, is a leader Of the Fre-
mont party, aud was withdrawn from the
candidacy Of the Know.N Nothing seceders'
convention to make way for Fremont. Here
him:
"Although am not one of that class of men
H. fox - l., III
though am willing in certain state OF cir
cumstancss To letit slide, have no fear for its
perpetuation. But let me say, II the chief OBJ
ject of tho people of this country be TO maintain
and propagate chattel property in man-in
other words, human slavery-this Union can
not and ought not to stand"
HORACE MANN
is supporter Of FREMONT Hear him.
"In conclusion, have only to add that such
is my solemn and abiding conviction of the
character OF slavery, that, under full sense OF
my country and my Cod, | deliberately saw,
better disunion-better civil or a servile war
better, anything that God in his Providence
shall send than an extension of the bonds Of
slavery"
CHARLES SUMNER
il leader aud a martyr Of the FREAIoHT party.
Hear him:
''The good citizen as he reads the require
ments OF this,act--the fugitive slaye-is filled
with horror. . Here the path of duty is
clear. AN BOUND 10 DIsoBEY THIS ACT.
"Sir, ] will not dishonor this home of the
Pilgrims and of the revolution by admitting
nay, cannot believe-that this will be execu-
RUFUS 2. sP4Lprna
was a member and leader of that Convention.
Hear him:
"In the case OF the alternative being present
ed OF the continuance Of slavery or dissolution
Of the Union, am for dissolution of the Union,
am for dissolution, and care not how quick it
come" ra
HON. ERAsTUs HOPKINS,
OF Massachusetts, was member of the Con-
vention. Hear him:
IF peaceful means fail us, and we are driven
TO the extremity where ballots are useless, then
we'll make bullets effective" IRENE ndous
applause-l
GEN. JAMES WATSON WEBB,
was leader Of that Convention. Hear him
in speech on the floor
''On the action of this Convention depends
the late OF the country; if the Republicans fail
at the ballot-box, we will be forced to drive
back the slaveoeracy with fire and sword"-
[cbeers.l
Just in the same spirit, and more boldly,
speaks WIN. LLOYD GARRISON Hear him:
"The Union is lie. The American Union
is az imposture, coYepant with death and an
agreement with hell. am for its
overthrow Upwith the flag Ofdisunion. that
we may have free aud glorious Republic of
our own, and when the hour shall come, the
hour will have arrived that shall witness the
overthrow of slavery"
Hear, also, Fl. M. ADDISON, of the Ameri-
can advertiser, in the same strain:
g L detest slavery, and say unhesitatingly
that | am in favor of lis abolition by some
means, if it should send all the party organi-
zations and the UNION ITSELF TO THE
DEVIL Ii it can only exist by holding mil
lions of human beings in the most abiect and
cruel system of slavery that ever cursed the
earth, IL is great pity it was ever formed, and
the sooner it is dissolved the better
ANsoN BURLINGAmF,
Massachusetts member of Congress, is also
leader of the FREmoNT party. Hear him
The times demand. and we must have, an
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Bible, and am Anti-Slavery God. ="
HENRY WILSON
Hon. HENRY WILSON, United States Sena-
tor from Massachusetts,, closed his speech At
the Philadelphia Convention by begging this
sectional Convention to "take for their mot
to'-
"Freemen of the NORTH have a RIGHT to GOV
ERN rHIs COUNTRY, for they are the party Of the
Union. Law and Liberty"
This is the grand summinguP of the whole
case The North is to govern, not cnly
Kansas aud the Territories, but the entire
country! Rally the North is the watch
word of the Black Republicans. Down with
the shareholders is the spirit Of all their
harangues Let this issue be fairly joined