Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-07
From the Dayton Daily Eagle.
The Abolition Disunion Ticket


The Abolition Disunion Ticket.
Such is the caption under which we publish
the ticket nominated at Philadephia-Fr
mont and Dayton. We did it deliberately:
and in spite OF the writings of our adverse.
ries, we mean that it shall so stand till the
close of the campaign. II is a true and lust
designation Of the ticket, and we proceed now
to prove it from the record
First, the platform upon which it stands is
Abolition and Disunion.
1t denies the great principle of popular
sovereignty, lying as it does at the foundation
of our institutions-their first principle
very breath they draw.
1t demands the Intervention of Congress in
the domestic institutions and concerns of the
people Of the Territories.
1t insists that Congress has and shall exer-
else sovereign power" over these Territories
in all cases whatsoever, just as the British
crown and Parliament set up like claim over
the Colonies in 1865, l776.
1t asserts the right and duty Of Congress, by
virtue of this sovereign power, to intermeddle
with the marriage relations in the Territories.
Great Britain never went half SO far.
1t declares that no more slave States shall
be admitted into the Union.
1t maintains the right of any faction IN a
State or Territory to set up, by voluntary
movement at any time, constitution and ma
chlnery OF government, in opposition to and
subversion of the Constitution and laws already
in force, and the officers already in power-a
claim utterly at war with every principle Of
law and order, and pregnant with anarchy and
bloodshed.
1t violates the Constitution of the United
States and the legal and moral obligations of
every citizen, by giving "ad and comfort" to
the treason and outrage and their perpetrators
in Kansas.
Such is its platform; full Of Abolitionism
and inevitably leading to dissolution of the
Union and civil war.
Who were the men who made, and who are
they who now support, this ticket?
JOSHUA r. GIDDINGS
was at the Convention, leading spirit in all
its acts, reeking as he is with the stencil of
twenty years of Abolitionism. Hear him:
~ look forward to the day when there shall
be a servile instruction in the South when
the black man, armed with British bayonets,
and led on by British officers, shall assert his
freedom, and wage a war of determination
against his master; when the torch of the in.
cendiary shall light up the towns and cities Of
the. South, and blot out the last vestige of
slavery. And though may not mock at their
calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh,
yet will hail it as the dawn Of political mil.
lenium."
JOHN p. HALE
was there, the Abolition candidate for Presi-
dent against Scott and Pierce, in 1852. What
is his record? On the 7th of February, 1850.
he presented, insisted upon, and along with
Chase and Seward alone, voted to receive, refer
and consider a petition demanding Of Con ress
On Ipnrs, Atata e IL Il
cause union with shareholders is violatiye of
divine law and human rights. Cass. Corwin.
Benton, Clay and Webster, with forty.six other
Senator's, voted against it. On the Odd of
March, l848, he presented batch of eight pc
titions at once, demanding the same thing.
SALMON p. CHASE
was there by letter; and originally as a candi-
date, afterwards jealous supporter of Ere.
mont for nomination. For his record let the
columns of the Dayton Journal last fall an
swer. lie is an. original old line Abolitionist,
in favor OF negro suffrage and negro equality
opposed to the constitutional provisions for the
rendition of fugitive slaves in favor of exclud
ing all shareholders from office believes that
Slavery in the States would not continue a wear
after the accession Of the anti-slavery party to
power, and thinks that it ought to be abolished
by the constitutional po,oer of Congress and
the State Legislatures"
WILLIAM II. SEWARD
was there, first as a candidate, and afterwards
as one OF Fremonts warmest supporters. In.
deed 1t is well known that to Chase, Seward
and Greeley, Fremont is mainly indebted for
his nomination-they defeated Mclean "When
Henry Wilson mentioned the name of Seward
says the correspondent of the Pittsburg Ga.
Nuh
gave the New York Senator three times three.
and would not have been warmer in their an
plause if he had just been nominated for Presi-
dent by reclamation" And now hear him on
sectional parties:
Slavery is not and never can be perpetual
1t will be overthrown either peacefully and law
fully under this Constitution, or it will work
the subversion Of the Constitution, together
with its own overthrow. The House of Repre-
sentatives is already yours as it always must
be when you choose to have it. The Senate of
the United States is equally within your power
if you only will persistently for two years have
it. Notwithstanding all the wrong that has
been done, not another Slave Estate can now
come into the Union. Make only one years
constant, decisive effort and you can determine
what States shall be admitted
:" 1t Is written in the Constitution of the
Ohiteu otateS mat HVe slaves Shall count equal
to three freemen, as basis Of representation
and IT IS written, also, in violation Of the divine
law, that we shall surrender the fugitive slave.
You blush not at these things, because they
are as familiar as household words
There is a higher law than the Constitution,
which regulates our authority over the domain.
It(Slavery) can be and must be abolished,
and you and 4 must do IL. Correct
your own error, that Slavery has anv const;tu
tional guarantees which may not be released
and ought not to be relinqnshed.
You will soon bring the parties of the
country into an effective aggression upon Sa.
very"
BENJAMIN L. WADE
is a supporter Of Fremont and leader of the
party. Hear him:
lie thought there was but one issue be.
fore the people, and that was the question of
American slavery. He said the Wing party
is not only dead, but stinks. 1t shows signs
occasionally of convulsiye spasms as is some.