The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-08-18
The Great Repubifcan Sham.

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| ern mind. The party is made up chiefly
! of the debris of the old Wing party, which
+ in its palmy days was the most intensely
proslavery Of all parties; but has seized
upon this autislavery feeling as an element
/ of popularity, and has hired their Cod
dings, Loycjoys, Chases, and other renegade
old line abolitionists, to traverse the coun-
! try to propagate the idea that it is truly
/ autislavery and seriously proposes to aG-
complish the overthrow of that institu
I ton
/ There never was q greater sham and
cheat than this pretence.
The old Liberty party. in their Conven-
ton at Buffalo in 1913, at Syracuse IN
1852, tIc, uniformly proposed these mea-
sures: ]. The abolition of slavery i'll the
District of Columbia. > The repeal Of the
Fugitive Slave Law; 3. The abolition Of
the interstate slave trade; T. The removal
of al! the disabilities the black man inl-
posed by the Constitutions and laws OF the
Northern as well as Southern States.
Dare modern Republicanism avow itself
in favor of one OF these measures? EX-
anime the Chicago platform-scrutuniz
Lincoln's record At Ottawa, Freeport,
and other places, Lincoln distinctly assert
ed his belief that the South was entitled
to Congressional Fugitive Slave Law,
and he was unable to say in what particu
lars, or whether at all, he would amend
the present law when in Congress he op-
posed abolition of slavery in the District
Of Columbia, except on conditions odious
10 every anti-slayery instinct; he is ''un-
prepared to say anything about the inter
state slave trade: and he thinks the black
laws OF Illinois about right.
Why. then. n hundred will ask us at
once d, the Democracy denounce the
Ranubiicans ~ soct;onalists-as promoters
Gill faa1inr hatwean the North and South
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essential 70 success m,st do something 70
enlist the oid Of the ahoIitiouists In y
nriva+o way therefore Of CONGRESS
and ont of National Conven+ions-thc
1ao,lars arc moro r,,riors and roJic,I than
thu honest eorGa.t old ,loIitioni.t. Thorn
selves. To keen them in confidence, these
leaders raodiIv nroiact and lend material
aid IN t1,a most dasnerata rroiects They
will Ja,-;.o and ,rsI, forward Holm BROWN
mil, ~, tho c;ortl-ino-.a i,cenIfarisr,
and wholesale murder in Texas or Ken
tucIly. and help to steal and run Oil ne
c-roes al ;afatt,qt. Thus how fiercelv in
OTTAWA did not these leaders last fall To-
u,ent the nero excitement until they i'm.
,,o,,aI , f.v, bo,cs+ aboIitioDi.ts 10 i,ou,
I,,,,-,. 1,,1 ,.o,,1-,e. s..-.ir.- tn. Jpi+aI
, c.o+c. Io,rs ut doG,nca :, flo rasops n
: the nero Jim, Oh how lovingly thew
hug,ae,I these Door fellows and commended
their act until-ah, es-UHr:L-they were
indicted in a United States Court, and
were about to be punished But this pre-
Ranuiliconi.m aims IT rattfn,- possession
of the National Government and wer,
they preoarc.l. with snch objects in view.
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