Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-20
WASHINGTON CRY, D. c., May 18th, 1855.

J. MORRISON HARRIS, of Md.
JACOB BROOM, Penn.
WASHINGTON Cry, D. O., May 18th, 1855.
The Real Object of the {" Republicans -
The Republican" orators and journals
carefully and Systematically deny that they
have any desire to interfere with the institu-
ton of slavery in the States where it exists,
and that their sole object is to prevent the ex-
tension of slavery into the new Territories.
Facts which are daily developing themselves
prove that the leaders of the so-called Republi-
can party are deceiving their followers in this
respect, and that their ultimate object is to
wage a CRUSADE against slavery in the States,
either directly or indirectly, if they shall sue.
coed in the coming Presidential election.
In the New York pribune's report of the
proceedings of the Radical Abolitionists' Con-
vention, in session at Syracuse on the 18th,
appeared the following paragraph:
"Mr. M. B. Williams then addressed the assem-
bly,. The main points of his remarks were direct
ed to the expression of the hope that Horace Gree
ley would not forget the good things that passed
through his mind on the 4th of April last but that
soon the world would have the full influence Of the
Tribune, spreading abroad through the land the
true principles of Freedom as advocated by the
Radical Abolitionists-a position he was now de-
TERED from taking By considerations of political
eapeaiency."
From the remarks of Mr. Williams, it would
appear, that on the 4th of April last, Mr..
Greeley avowed himself Radical A6olition-
ist, and that he is only deferred from hoist
ing the black flag of that party by consdera-
tons of political erpedieney.
Those considerations arise from the neces-
sity of concealing the real objects of the Ere
publicans" until after the Presidential election.
From the address of the Republican New York
State Convention held at Syracuse on the 18th
instant, we make the following extract from
that portion of it which alludes to the people
Of the South:
"Cursed by an affection which has been iasten-
ed upon them by the times which have passed
heirs to an Inheritance of evil which, unassisted,
they cannot shake off, and whose bondage weighs
even more heavily upon the master than upon the
bondman because it enslaves at once the mind
and the heart, they are the objects of our COM
passion rather than of our resentment. For them,
as well as for ourselvesfor their posterity well
as ours, will we struggle; and when the hour of
victory shall come, as most assuredly it will, we
will rejoice in it the more because of the emanci-
patton it viii bring to them-an emancipation
which will at length enable them to stand side by
side with us, an example OF such freedom among
men as the world has never known"
The meaning Of the above is perfectly evil
dent 1t does not refer to the extension Of
slavery, but to the present existence of slavery
in the Southern States. The New York Re-
publicans here declare to the people Of the
South that they will struggle in the cause
of emancipation, with full confidence that
the "hour Of 0ictory aOill come" Can there
be any doubt Of the precise purport of this
language. Does il not prove as plainly as
words can express an idea, that the ultimate
object of the Republicans" of the North is to
interfere with the peculiar institution of the
South in the States where it has existed for
many generations, and where its existence is
expressly guaranteed by the Federal compact
The whole address from which the above ex-
tract is taken, is an impeachment of the people
of the Union and of their history and Constitu-
ton. The existence Of slavery, is proclaimed
to be the issue OF the present contest, its
death" the end. The original compact Of
Union, and the Territorial acquisitions of the
Federal government, are the sins of the fathers
which are to be expiated, by the children, by
penitential ayowals, and reputation of the
past.
The Republican" party has apparently
united in one mass the existing remnant Of the
Old Federal party, now represented by Josiah
Quincy Of Massachusetts, (of whom Henry
Clay remarked that che soiled the carpet on
which he trod'D and few more ante-dcu-
vians--the Seward Wings, the Free soil Dem
ocrats, and the old-line Abolitionists "Black
spirits, and white, blue spirits and gray" min
gle in its ranks in admirable confusion. So
wondrous conglomeration Of dscordant ele-
ments has never been witnessed in this country
before. A motley crowd Of atheists, infdels
and negroes bring up the rear.
The nominal leader of this troop is John @.
Fremont who is claimed as Protestant by
one portion Of his party, and as Catholic by
another portion-whose whole Legislative ex-
perieRce is comprised within the brief term of
three weeks and whose military career termi-