Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-12

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From the Pennsylvania.
Disunion and Treason ii-Biack Republic
Sentiments.
1 "Let US remember that more than three
/ millions Of bondmen, grooming under nameess
| woes demand that we shall reprove each other
| and that we labor for their deliverance.
| II tell you here tonight, that the agitation
/ OF this question of human slavery will continue
! while the foot Of slave presses the soil OF the
| American Republic Senator Wilson, Of Mas
sdchusetts.
lin conclusion, have only 10 add that such
| is my solemn and abiding convection 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 a servie war-better anything that God
| in his Providence shall send-than an exten-
sion of the bounds of slavery. Hon. Horace
Mann.
sThe good citizen as he reads the require
ments of this act--the Fugitive Slave---is filled
with horror. Here the path Of duty
is clear lam bound to disobey the act. 4 =
Hon. Charles Summer.
"If peaceful means fails us, and we are
driven to the last extremity where ballots are
useless, then we'll make bullets effective
| Tremendous applause. Hon. Erastus Hop
kins.
81 detest slavery, and say unhesitatingly that
| am in favor Of its abolition by some MEANS
if it sends all the party organizations in the
Union, and the Union aselfto the deUa. If il
| Ex,l L. .,G h,,,,,
beings in the most abject and cruel system OF
slavery that ever cursed the earth, it was a
| great pity that it was ever formed, and the
sooner it isslissolved the better.'--H NJ Id.
dissa.
Twas it not that the only hope Of the slave
was over the ruins of this government, and of
( the American church,--the dissolution of the
| Union was the abolition of slavery Stephen
| C. Foster.
| "A great many people raise cry about the
| Union and Constitution, as if the two we're
Identical but the truth is it is the Constitu-
ton. That has been the fountain and father
of our troubles."-Rev. Capt. Henry Hard
| Kiilen Beecher, Pastor Of the Church Of the
Holy Rifles.
Remembering he was Shareholder he could
| spit upon Washington, misses and applause
The hssers, he said, we're shareholders in spirit,
and every one of them would enslave him if
they had the courage TO do it. So near to Fa-
neuil Hall and Bunker HILL was he not per-
mitted to say that that scoUNDREL, George
| Washington, had enslaved his fellow men,
c. L. Remond, Black Republican Orator at
| Fanueu Hall.
| Men of Ohio, rush TO the rescue. Leave
candidate making to those who have time for
| such things; your duty is to fght--to fight as
your fathers fought--for freedom Ohio paper.
Rcsolred, That God helping US, we will live
| and labor-not only for the prevention of
slavery upon the soil of Kansas, but also for
| its destruction from the length and breadth of
| the land.
Resolred, That the Union was established
| to secure the liberties of American citizens.
When it fails to do that, our only voice can be,
let the Union be dissolved. -LotoeN Resolutions.
We are northern men, and we have sena-
| tor in Congress. ! am for having every man
| go armed, and if he is assailed, to shoot down
his opponent.-IMr. Bre,este,'s Speech at Fd-
| neatI Hall.
The events of the last few years and months
| and days have Taught as the lessons of centu-
| ries. / do not see how a barbarous community
and civilized community can constitute one
State. think we must get rid of slavery or
we must get rid of freedom."-R. ~ Emerson
at Concord.
| The following resolution was adopted at a
meeting of Black Republicans at Monroe,
| Green county, Wisconsin, on the 32nd ut:
| "Resotrcd, That it is the duty of the North,
in case they fail in electing President, and
a Congress that will restore freedom to Kansas,
to rerolutionize The Government"
| 81 have said, and take this occasion to re-
| peat that rather than consent that the curse OF
human chattledom should be taken into Kansas
and Nebraska, would prefer to see the politi-
| cal elements crumble into dissolution. p CleUe-
land Leader.
IL have no doubt but that the free and
slave States ought to be separated. "-Neao FORK;
| Tribune.
"There is higher law than the Constitution
which regulates our authority over the domain.
1t slavery can and must be abolish
ed and you and | must do it. Correct
| your error that slavery has constitutional guar
antees which may not be released, and ought
not TO be relnquished. You will soon
bring the parties of the country into an effec-
tive aggression upon slavery Wm. IL.
| Se,cdrd.
II have great hopes Of the overthrow Of the
Union."-Rev. r. FOSS.
"The North must separate from the South
and organize her own institutions on sure
basis. HIM. Lloyd Garrison.
Resolred, That the repeated aggressions of
the slave power upon freedom, and the recent
outrages upon our. brethren. in Kansas, are
only skirmshes before the great battle threat
ened for the subjugation of the northern free
man to do the behests of the southern task
master.
Resoloed, That the time has come when it
becomes the North to stand a unit, and to the
question, Frecmen or SiaresP return the EN-.
phatic answer Of Patrick Henry, Give me
liberty or give me death Heading Mass
Resolves
"The Union is not worth supporting in con-
nection with the South. Horace Greeley.
ain the Pittsburg Convention, few months