Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-09-10
Plauks from the Black Republican Platform

annex some of the planks which compose it.
Read them, and then say whether the object
of the leaders of the Republican party is to
dissolve the Union or not.
1st Plank ,-''If peaceful means fail us,
and we are driven to the last extremity where
ballots are useless. then well make bullets eff
fectivc." Tremendous applause. Hon.
Erastus Hopkins.
ID Plank, Il detest slavery, and say I'M
hesitatingly that am in favor of its aboli-
ton by some means, if it sends all the party
organizations in the Union and the Union At
sclf to tie DerH. Ifit can only exist by hold
ing millions of human beings in the most alb
ject and cruel system of slavery that ever
cursed the earth, it was great pity that 1t
was ever formed, and the sooner it is dissol-
ved the better. IL IT. 1ddisoa
3d Plank -''Was it not that the only
hope of the slave was over the ruins OF this
government, and of the American church
lhe dissolution of the Union was the abolition
of ry?"-4Stcphem G. Foster.
4h Plunk,- great many people raise
a cry about the Union and Constitution, as if
the two were identical but the truth is, it is
the constitution That has been the foun-
tain and father of our troubles Sherpes RI
1es are better than Bibles" "-ZLenyy Ward
| Beecher
9th PLANK, - Remembering he was a
Shareholder, he could spit upon Washington,
(hisses and applause.) The hissers. he said.
are shareholders in spirit, and every one of
them wonld enslave him if they had the coar-
rye to do it So near to Faneuil Hall and
Bunker Hill, was he not PERMITTED to say
that that sCoUNDREL, Geo. Washington, had
enslaved his fellow melI?"-C. Il. Remond,
Black Republican Orator at Faneua HaH.
6tA Plank ,-'sItis is the duty of the North,
in case they fail in electing President and
Congress that will restore freedom to Kan
sas, to revolutionize the government. "-Res-
OlutiOn eta Black RepnJlican aseeting IN
| Wisconsin
7th I'sanh, h,-'.I pray daily that this accur-
sed Union may be dissolved, even if blood
have to be split -BlacA; Republican clergy
man at Poughkeepsie
Sh Plank Eve are northern men, and
we have Senator in Congress l am for
having every man go armed and if he is as
sailed. shoot down his opponent. ."-IM. Bre,o-
ster's speech at FaneuH Hail.
| 9th Plank The following resolution was
adopted at a meeting of Black Republicans at
| Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin, on the
! 3lst.
"Aesolred, That it is the duty of the North,
in case they fail in electing President, and
Congress that will restore freedom to Kan
! sas, to rerotUtionize tie government
| 10th Plank, II have said, and take this
occasion to repeat, that rather than consent
that the curse of human chattIedom should be
taken into Kansas and Nebraska, would pre-
fer to see the political elements crumble into
/ dissolution --Geareland Leader.
1lh Pta"k,-''We earnestly request that
! Congress, at its present session, do take such
initiatory measures for the speedy, peaceful
and equitable dissolution of the Union, as the
exlgencies in the case may require "-Wack
Republican,.
12h Pfnnk, alta recent Black Repub-
lican meeting in Auburn, Fred. Douglas SAID,
among other things, that it was the duty of
every slave to cut his masters throat"
13h P1onh,-''I almost hope to hear that
some of their lives (emigrants to Kansas)
have been sacrificed, for it seems as if moth
ing but that would rouse the Eastern States
to act Cor. Of N Y. Tribune.
14th Plank, II sincerely hope civil war
may soon burst upon the country. l want to
see American slavery abolished in my day
it is legacy have no wish to leave to my
children; then my most fervcnt prayer is that
England, France and Spain may speedily tako
! this slavery accursed nation into their special
consideration; and when the time arrives. for
the streets of the cities of this land of the free
and the home of the brave to run with blood
| to the horses brides '-W. O. DaraU
! 18th Plaak, I'll look forward to the day
when there shall be sereile insa,lrection in
the South-when the black man, armed with
British Coyonets, and led on by British off
Gers, shall assert his freedom, and wage war
of determination against his master-when the
torch Of the ancendiusy shall light ~, tie to,cas
md cities Of tile South, and blot out the last
vestlge of slavery; and though 1 may not
mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their
! fear cometh, yet will hail it as the dawn of
political millennium Joshua R. Giddinqs.
1914 Ptank mo man has a right to be
surprised at this state of things. 1t is just
what we (Abolitionists and Disunionists) have