The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
THE RECORD OF SLAVERY AGITATION

On the Goth of May, 1856, the ultra ABB
olitionists held Convention in Boston. =
Garrison then said that to quarrel with the
Republican party would be to quarrel with
causes and effect--'to quarrel aoith the ,cOrh
of their own hands"
Sister Abby Kelly Foster indorscd this
sentiment She said:
81 admit the party is our own progeny,
but as every child needs great deal of re-
proof and constant effort to bring it up in
the way it should go, this party which is the
necessary offspring Of our efforts, needs con
slant admonition aud robuke, and God Civ
ing me strength, / will not spare it an hour
until it is fully educated, reformed, and
brought up to the high position of truth and
duty"
The Boston Liberator, Garrison's paper,
in October, 1856, said
"The Black Republican Fremont party is
molding public sentiment in the right direc-
tion for the specific work the Abolitionsts
are striving to accomplish, viz: The DissOlW>
tion Of the Union and the Abolition q
Slavery Throughout the Land.
The Syracuse Journal, Fremont, paper
of October, 1885, contained the following:
ut is the object of the Republican party
to prevent the extenton of slavery. They
waive, for the present, the question of slavery
,chere Il aow exists. We do not know but
it might be we'll for them to beard the lion
in his den, to lay the axe at the root Of the
tree, but that is not tie point aow. 1t is
against the spread of slavery that they mou
contend" !"
Gerrit Smith, an Abolitionist and Repub-
lican, said in letter written in 1856:
"But the true question is not what is the
past of Mr. Fillmore and Col Fremont on
slavery, but what is their present on this
subject; and here we find that whilst COL
Fremont has outgrown his pro slavery edu,
cation, Mr.. Fillmore has apostatized from
his anti slavery education that whilst Col.
Fremont Is only ascending the anti-sloce,y
ladder, and aeiH ere long reach the abolition,
or top round, Mr.. Fillmore has descended
lit. e Not a single Abolitionist
will vote for Mr. Fillmore. Ninctymine an
a hundred of them a0W cote for Col. Ere
mont, and another hundredth will prefer his
election to that of Mr. Buchanan or Mr.
Fillmore"
DR.. Cutter, Republican orator, in 1856,
said at Montpelier.
"If you would carry the election next
November, keep bloody outrages in Kansas
before the eyes of the people. You have no
other plank. Settle this question, and you
are defeated"
Wendell Phillips, Republican
"We confess that we intend to trample
under foot the Constitution of this country
Daniel Webster says you are law adids
ing people, that the glory of New England
is that it is law abiding community -
Shame on it if this be true if even the re
ligion of New England sinks as low as lis
statue book. But l say we are not law
abiding community, God be thanked for
it."
"Amongst the Vice Presidents of the
Fremont meeting in this city, { Providence,
r. l., on the 10th inst, Sept. 1856, J was
the present Lieutenant Governor of the
State, who declared, short time since, that
be would give ten thousand dollars to dis
roJe the Union Of tie Stdtes.- Pyoctdeace
Post
Wendell Philips again:
'"Yhere is merit in the Republican party.
1t is this: 1t is the first sectional party
ever organized in this country. It is the
North aTvaycd against the South, The first
crack in the Iceberg is visible you will
yet hear it go with a crack through the cen
ter"
Gen. James Watson Webb, a Republi-
can leader, said, in the Philadelphia Convon
vention:
"If we (Tneauing the Abolitionists) fail
there, (at the ballot boz) )what then? We
will drive it (slavery) back sword in hand,
and so help me God believing that to be
right, I am with them"
horace Greeley, a Republican
81 have no doubt but the free and slave
States ought to be separated. The Union
is not worth supporting in connection with
the South"
Josiah Quincy, Republican of Boston:
"Hhe obligation incumbent on the free
States to deliver up fugitive Slaves is that
burden, and it must be obliterated from the
Constitution at every hazard"
Horace Mann, Republican of Massachu-
setts
II have only to add, under full sense
Of my responsibility to my country, and my
God, I deliberately say, better disunion,
better ciga or serv2e war, better anything
that God in his Providence shall send,
than an extention of the bounds of slave
ry."
Mr.. Banks, present Republican Governor
Of Massachusetts,;
If am not one of that class of men who
cry for the perpetuation of the Union, though
I am a0illing IN certain state Of circun,-
stances, to let 1t slide"
Joshua R. Giddings, Republican Con,
"I look forward to the day when there
shall be servile insu,Tection IN the South /;
when the black man, armed with the British
bayonets and led on by British officers, shall
assert his freedom, and mage a scar Of er.
termination against his master; when the
torch of the i,tcendiarv shall IigM ap the