Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-08-29
For the Ellsworth Americana
From Our Bangor Correspondent.
BANGoR. Aug. is lS56

DANtua. 10 icco.
Mr.. EDITOR All the Democratic press
have raised the hue and cry that the Repub-
lican party is in favor of disunion. One
would suppose, if he were to believe all the
statements made upon the subject, that the
Republican party were all disunionists to a
man. This is false and foolish cry. and SO
every well informed mind will consider it
But it is very evident that the Democrats
are determined to make something out Of it
before election-rrohahly in hope of afFec-
ting Col p. Sneak Brooks assault on Sena-
tor Summer, which is well known to have fair
" opened the eyes of the people Of theNorth
to the wishes and designsof the slavery extern
tionists, and which the Democratic press
throughout the country cannot cover up and
conceal. But il is vain and futile attempt
The people Of the North are fully aroused.
and will not. when once thrust aside, allow
the curtain to be drawn between them and
the doings and designs of the Democratic
party.
This charge of disunionism against the Re-
puhiicins is made because few such men as
Wendell Phillips. Garrison. &c. who are
openly hostile to the conservative position of
Col. Fremont. have declared that ..if the
chief object of the people of this country be
to propagate and maintain ehattel property
in man, this Union cannot and ought not to
stand"
The political history of the country shows
that the cry of d,saa,oa has invariably been
raised in tle Democratic camp when some
great slavery iniquity was on foot. Hear
what David Moulton. Of Alabama said. in
1870. when the slavery extensionist> were
str'iining every nerve for the annexation Of
Texas Il am fully prepared to see this
Mon rent asunder. unless the Northern
States consent to let US have Texas ..Morc
ofthe same sort, might We gather from 9TH
er prominent men in the Border Rufian''
Democratic ranks, but time and SPACE alike
forbid it. Besides. it is not necessary. The
truth is air eady known. and the facts are
proclaimed by all thehonorablepress through
out the Union.
All this goes to show, and the facts cannot
be denied, that hosts of leading Democrats
prefer slavery to the Union and who. unless
the southern Interpretation of the word can
be allowed in violation of Freedoms dearest
rights. prefer to let the South rule. and her
lnhuman domestic institutions be carried
into the Free Territories even at the expense
of the glorious old Constitution.
This charge Of disunion-charsed AGAINST
the Republicans by the supporters of slavery,
with an uprising of hands in holy horror
falls harmless as a feather to the ground.
And why? Because. it is well known by the
people that there is no truth in the charge
that the orlginators of it are the ones to
which it would we'll and cuttngly apply,
and that it comes with an i'll grace from the
national Democracy, whose platform in Maine
''does not differ in the slightest pcrticular
/ from that of the SOUTH
But 1t was evidently raised to influence
those who were beginning to see the deform-
ity and wickedness of the Border Rufiian =
Democracy. and hesitating and wavcrng as
to their course. But, now that it has been
thoroughly exposed, We hope that the charge
| of disunionism may be thrown back with
ten fold force upon the Democratic party
from which it emanated, and the truth pro-
claimed far and wide. Let every man, who
loves freedom and opposes slavery, who loves
the mon as an agency in the hands of di-
vine Providence for promoting human free
dom and eevating the citizens of the Repub-
lie, hurl back int o their teeth this cry of dis
union upon their seryile tools in the North
Yours,