Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-02
Which is the Union Party?

: There is not known, in the Republican
ranks, one man who ever threatened or
advocated Di.union sentiments. i'reren-
dcd quotations from such, are base, bald,
wicked forgeries.
The few Abolitionis's, North, who de-
nounce the Union, either suPpor! Gerrlu
Smith, or DO not vote a, all.
Bu. tie Disunion, Secession, State
Action, and Mobilization men kuown,
South, are almost exclusively in the
BRECKINRIDGE ranks-iew supporting 2
Douylls, and fewer still supporting BE
Their speeches undoub,ed and uncontri-
dic'ed-may be found at length in the
Congressional Globe, and other authentic
records, last winter, this campaieG, aud
for 20 or so years past.
/ The Republican Platform is clear and
explicit on the point Of Union, and of
State and Territorial rights Read tie
following, adopted at Chicago:
| 3. That to the Union Of the States this
nation owes. lis Unprecedented increase Ia
I population; its Surprising development Of
material resources; lis rapid augmentation Of
wealth; It's happiness at home, and is honor
abroad; thai We mold IN adherence Gil
schemss JDr DfsuHiOn, come from Whatever
source they may; we congratulate the coun-
Try that no Republican member Of Congress
has uttered or cuunjendnced threat ui DI>u-
nIon, SO often made by Democratic mcn5ers
/ 0f Congress riiiDr.t reb!ks and ,c,fh GUIig,,ss
from their political associates ard We de-
J nounce those threats Of DIsuuiOn, IN case of
a popular overthrow of their aScendency, as
denying The vital principles Of free govern
menI, and as an ayOwai Of conf,mpiqfsf frea-
son, which II Is the imperative day Of an In-
dignanl people strongly 10 rebuke and forever
silence.
A. That the maintenance inviolate OF the
rights o. the States, and especially the right of
each State to order and control lis own dOmeS-
tic Institutions, according 10 IT'S own Judgment
exclusively, IS essential 10 that balance OF
power on which the perfection and endurance
OF our political ldIlh depends. We denounce
the lawless invasion, BY armed force, Of
any STATE or 7,rrfoTV, no matter under what
pretex;, as among the sravest OF crimes.
Now, look a. the Breckinridge and
Douglas Platforms, a. Charleston and
Baltimore, and there is not q word there
added on the subjec. Of Cnioa. There is
plenty Of Slavery Extension and Fugitive
Slave i.aw-plenty of submission to the
U. S. Supreme Court as above Congress
and the Peoplc-plenty of Cuba in them
but nowhere do they express Union
loving sentiment except in the Free Trade
platform of Cincinnati, and that substan-
tally declares that Union can be main.
tanned only by giving Slavery all lis inso-
len, and unconstitutional demands. The
Uuion Of the Democracy is all c2a3iiioaal
upon the snbjugl,iou Of Free SJil, Free
Speech, and Free Press.
Gen. JACKSON declared, without .eser-
yatiou, "The Uniou-it mus, and shall be
preserved" So says the Republican
Platform.
WEBSTER said: "Liber'y ard Union,
now and for ever, one and inseparable."
So say the Republicans.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, whils iu Kansas
last winter (long before he supposed him
self probable candidate for PresidenD
stated
You Democrats fear that the success of the
Republicans will destroy the Uulon. Why,
Do Republicans declare against the Union,
Nothing like 1t. Your own statement OF II Is,
that If the Black Republicans elect Presl-
dent, you won't stand II. loH ,oiH break up
The Union. That will be your act. not ours.
To justify 1t, you must show that our policy
gives you Just cause for such desperate ac-
tons. Can you do thatl When you attempt
it, you will ind our policy is exactly the pol
icy of the men who made the tnIon-no;hing
more, nor nothing less. Do you thlnk vou
are justified to break up the Government.
rather than TO have IL administered by Wash
ington, and other good and great men who
made II, and who first administered i'll Ii
you do you are very unreasonable, and more
reasonable men can not and tgH not submit to
pOu. While we elect a President, It will be
our duty 10 see ihatyou submit. John Brown
has been hung for treason against State.
We can not object, even though slavery Is
wrong; that can not excuse violence, blood.
shed. and treason. Ii could avail him moth
ing that he might think himself right. So, #
conStituIionally we elect a President, and
therefore you undertake 10 destroy the Union,
1t will be duty to deal with YOU as Old Brown !
has been dealt with. We hope and believe, !
that. in no section, will majority 50 act as 10
render such extreme measures necessary i
sy~Reader. the Republicans, with
their Platform and Leader, are incon,es-
tibly for Union. The Disunionists are
all opposed to Lincoln, and their Pist- !
forms nowhere avow true Union senti- :
men.s. We leave it to you to decidedly
your votes-which is the Union Party?
Senator Hammond, burning and shi,
ming light in the Democratic party, is the !
author of the following beautiful sen,i- ,
ment: Read it, workingm.n!
"Thc man who lives BY daily labor, and I
who has to put out bis labor IN the mar,
ket, aud take the best he can get for it, in
short, your whole class of manual laborers !
and operatives at the North are SLAVES"
Mr.. Johnson, Of Georgia, a candidate I
for the Vice Presidency, advises his friends
to "plant their feet on every mans neck