The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14
The nlack Rep.bIIean creod.

The Riack RepubIican Greed. I
We have gathered together few Of the
many extracts from speeches, letters and
resolutions which are floating about the cOun-
try, as expressions Of sentiment BY leading
men in the Black Republican ranks. We
know of no fairer mode Of judging the real
motives of political party than the opinions
and views expressed BY itsleaders.
That the present Republican party is a
DIsUEIoE party there cannot be Doubt
True the rank and file Of that party mOy not
intend or desire such result; but their lead-
ers do and are laboring with all their powers
to bring it upon US. We call the candid at
teution of our readers to the following:
Hear BEuAMIH F. WADE, the Black Re-
publican Senator of Ohio:
"There is really no union now between
! the North and South, and no two nations
upon the earth entertain feelings of more
bitter rancor towards each other than these
two sections Of the republic"
Hear NATHASIEL P. BANKS, the Black
Republican Speaker of the U. s. House of
Representatives.
al am not one of that class of men who
cry for the perpeiuation OF the Union i am
! willing in certain state circumstances to
let it slide. And let me say, if the chief
object Of the people of this country be to
maintain and propagate chattel property in
man, in other words, human slavery, this
i Union cannot and ought not to stand"
Hear HORACE MANN, prominent Black
Republican
"Iu conclusion, have only to add that
such is my solemn and abiding conviction OF
the character of slavery, that, under full
sense of my responsibility to my country and
my God, deliberately say, better disunion
better a civil or servile war-better any
thing that God in his providence shall send
than an extension of the bounds of slave.
ry."
Hear RUFUS P. SPAUIDIEG, member o.
the Black Republican Convention at Phila
delphia:
"In the case of the alternative being pre-.
sented of the continuance of slavery or dis
solution of the Union, am for dissolution
and care not how soon it comes"
Hear ERAsTUs HOPKINS, another membel
of the same Convention
eff peaceful means fails us, and we are
driven to the last extremity, where ballot
are useless, then We'll make bullets effec
tive. Tremendous applause. ]"
Hear JAMES WATSON WEBB, still anothe
member of the Convention /:
son the action of this Convention de
pends the fate of the country if the Repub
r licans fail at the bnllot-box, we will b
: forced to drive back the slaveocracy wit
. fire and sword. Cheers. ]"
, If our nominee is not elected, it will b
the duty of the Republicans to take up arm
and resist the government Of the country"
i, Hear II. NJ ADDISON. of the America
! Advertiser, Black Republican print
D 81 detest slavery, and say unhestatingl
= that am in favor Of its abolition by som
:, means. if it send all the party organization
y in the Union, and the Union itself, to tn
II devil. If it can only exist by holding mi
l. lions of human beings in the most able,
l. and cruel system ofslavery that ever curse
,. the earth, it is great pity that it was eve
formed, and the"sooner it is dissolved III
g better"
Hear ANsoE BURLINGAMB, Black Repul
'i can member of the U. S. House OF Reprt
IL sentatives:
"Thc times demand, and we must hav
IS an anti slavery constitution, an anti-slaver
d Bible, and an anti-slavery God"
y Hear joshua r. GIDpINGs:
81 look forward to the day when thei
shall be servile nsurrection in the South
l. when the black man, armed with Britt.
IF bayonets, and led on British officers, sha
3. assert his freedom, and wage war Of exte
+ mination against his master; when the tore
u of the incendiary shall light up the town
Z and cities OF the South, and blot out the la
= vestge of slavery. And though mag n,
"a mock at their calamity nor laugh when the
fear cometb, yet will hail it as the dawn
: political millennium.
Hear J. s. p" the Washington CORES
pondent of the N. Y. Tribune, the leadin
Black Republican paper
!. 81 have no doubt but that the free or
n slave States ought to separate"
j. Hear Black Republican clergyman
Poughkeepsie
is 81 pray daily that this accursed Union ms
10 be dissolved, even if blood have to be split
l. Hear the resolution of Black RepubI
l. can meeting in Wisconsin
lg lis the duty of the North, in cnse tht
fail in electing President and Congre
n that will restore freedom to Kansas, to re
olutionize the government"
n. Hear Black Republican petition to Co
Oh gress, now being circulated in New York
We earnestly request Congress, at
present session, 10 take such initatory mea
e. ures for the speedy, peaceful and equitab
en- dissolution of the existing Union, as the e1
10 gencies of the case may require"
of Hear HORACE GREELEY, the most prom
de Lent Black Republican editor in the cou
1t try:
la The Union is not worth supporting
lis connection with the South"
llg Hear THOMAS FORD, member of I