The daily union., 1856-10-21
THE TRAITORS IN AMBUsoADE.

republican party IL on INC ouVei
WALL and proclaimed uncompromsing warfare upon the
rights guaranteed by the constitution to fifteen eo-equAl
and sovereign members of the coniederacy In every pre-
limnary convention whether by counties States hos
ity to ahe constitution as il Is and the Union is
the undisguised and revolving sentiment that per-
vaded and marked the reasonable proceedings of the
tonal conspator In the last convention which assem-
bIed at Philadelphia to consummate the work of the trail
by nominating standardbearers TO bear the flag of
sixteen States the feeling which gave enthusiasm its
lberaons that which proclaimed the purpose to RULE
THE UNION on TO LEAVE UNION When in that assembly
which denounced at the time dangerously trea
sonable than the Hartford Convention it proclaimed
with mpous appeal God for his sincerity by of
the chief consprators that if they failed at the baot-box
they would resort to the carridgebox, the infamous dec
araton was greeted with loud shouts of applause That
proclamation and that enthusiastic response went forth as
the voice of the convention 1t the voice of section
alism maddened by fanacism was the voice of fraer
hatred pronounced against the rights of fifteen States
of the conederacyit the voice of might announcing
its disregard of the voice Of rg-it the voice of
despotism proclaming the dominion OF the majority
the minority-t was the voice OF civil summoning
the weak base submission to for the horrors of
inernecine stt the voice of disunon pronouncing
tho uoWnla Ol anu Inc emu vi
This declaration of upon the southern States made
in June 1t responded to in two oratons delivered
on the 4th of July in way which distinctly shows the
issue it then understood. We quote first from
Grafton of William Lloyd Garrison, the acknowledged
gan Of the aboonss lie spoke of the republican party
follows:
"Ihaue said, and say again, that
GROWTH OF DIsUNIoNIsM WILL BE THE GROWTH OF
REPUBLICANISM, OF FREE-SOILISM. / think if you
will examine the map of Massachusetts, for example, you
would find this to hold true, with singular unformythd
IN those places tohere there the abolifion rho have
dsraaehised themselves for conscience and for the slaves
sake, the heaviest Is roon for the ee-so ticket. This
inevitable the law of gravation. The greater
the less. If you should begin your work rain,
and the experiment ten thousand times again,
and over should have the result the formation of
the party Why then, should any speak in tone
dependency feel that in imminent danger
obeng wreckedf Is this take philosophical view of the
subject Such, hen my Judgment Of the republican
party"
We quote single sentence from oraton on the
Fourth of July by Elisha P. Hurlburt formerly prom
black republican in Herkmer county. He responded to
the Philadelphia convention and its platform in this
phatic language:
Rather than admit another slave State the conedera
cy lsould dissore Il"
If any doubt the spirit which animated the
back-republcan consprators at Phiadelphia-f any
one hesitaes believe that they actuated by
timent Of hostility to the Union-we beg such increduous
person study the following bold and atrocious deela
ration Of Horace Greeley, and then whether this
champion of black republcansm did not openly counsel
treason Addressing himself the black republicans in
Congress, he said
awe urge therefore, unbending determination part
OF the northern members hostile outrage
and demand Of them in behalf Of peace-n behalf Of free
dom-in behalf justice and many-resAnce TO the last.
Better that confusion should ensuebeter that dscord should
reign in the national councis-Jeer that Congres. should
break up d disorder-ndy better that ss Copitol itse
should blaze BY the torch Of The ineendidry a and bury
bessath i crubng rnsthan that this perGdy and
wrong shall be finally accomplished"
But is not necessary to multiply evidences of black
republican hostility the Union they furnished by
the declarations of individual leaders in their organs and
in their passionate harangues The history Of the repre-
sentaves of this party during the late session Of Congress
exhibits succession of which speak the language of
faction and revolution more strongly than any words
The treason Of the Philadelphia convention reached its
eliminating point in the House Of Representatives when
the black cohorts Of know-nothngism and aboitonsm
in that body resolved TO usurp the government by
Withholding supplies for the support Of the army and
thereby enabling the invading army OF the North
to Kansas and overthrow it's government ri
the actors in this daring scheme OF revolution and
usurpaton had had tho courage to carry IL out, no
power on earth could have ayerted civil war which
would have drenched the country in blood and termi.
mated in the destruction OF the confederacy The prompt
and decided action Of President Pierce in refusing TO per-
init the consprato to dspese saved the country
from the terrible catastrophe But for the proclamation
which announced the country the bold deed Of sunion
ism the people of the North and the South would now
was that proclamation which aroused the people sense
of their danger and fixed their attention upon the
able purposes OF the blsckrepublcan leaders What had
before been regarded merely partisan faction and nat
icism was now to be revolution and treason in all
their frightul reality II then and felt for the
first time that the triumph Of the party which had dared
to overturn the by open Of unconsu
,ona usurpation by the House Of Representatives would
lead to the inevitable destruction Of the confederscy Mr.
Fillmore was so powerfully impressed with the danger that
he did not hesitate raise his warning voice His example
was responded TO by national and presses through
out the land until the Uuionloving sentiment Of the
try was thoroughly awakened.
The people who love the Union had begun TO
manifest their opposition the mad schemes Of the black
rpubcan dsunioniss than the cowardy leaders turned
their backs upon their platform upon their bold proclama
tons in the Philadelphia Convention upon the reckless