The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-12-26
Does Senator Wade tell the Truth ?

Senator WADE, in his great effort on Mon
day last. in defence of the Republican par
ty and lis President, boldly announced on
the floor of the Senate, that il the South be-
lieved that the President elect and the Re
publicans of the North were hostile TO the !
South and Southern institutions, it was be
cause sihey had been SiandereG by the |
Democratic Press"
Does he wilfully falsify, or is he wanionly !
ignorant Let him be judged by the re-
cord.
LINCOLN said that slavery must be placed |
in process of extinction He also said |
that the Declaration of independence de-
cared the negro equal 10 the white man.
Senator WILSON, of Massachusetts. said
at South Pennington, ''they were going TO
put the Government for all time on the side
OF freedom, and those who dared array
themselves against this Government, should
be held as traitors, and die the death OF
traitors ~ and in the same speech he said
s'Fhe republican party is TO lake possession
Of the Government, AID when possession
was taken, ee trusted that the party will oe
true to the principles professed when out OF
power. This potcer, he trusted, svould be er-
erciSed till no man on the continent should clam
property III another man."
Gov. SEWARD writes TINS -
"Genhemen-I have received from you
copy of your recent publication, entitled
! The Impendin ing Crisis of The South" aud
haze cad IL trith deep attention.
'.lt seems 10 me work oil great merit,
! rich yet accurate in statistical information,
! and logical in analysis. | do not doubt that
! il will exert great influence on the public
mind in favor of truth and justice.
81 am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
''Your obedient servant,
CIVILIAN H. SEWARD"
More than 5000 copies were sold 1t
and LINCoLN's Lie were the leading Re-
publican campaign documents. Sixty eight
! Republican members Of Congress endorsed
aud recommended it for General circulation
very anu Mem and HORACE GREELEY com
party. Gov. SEWARD read the book with
''deep attention." and Gov. MORGAN assured
SHERMAN that it was sail right"
II any thing can be dee med the sell ed
policy and principles of The Republican
party, i: is the extinction of slavery, and
The righl and power to accomplish it.
This HELPER Book, thus endorsed, speaks
thus -
"That it is a solemn duty TO abolish sla-
very in the South, or die ia the attempl u
See page 81.
That no man can become a true pat riot
without first becoming an abolitionist. u
Page 1I6.
d
Chat is, the Republican signers and endor-
sers:) wage an exterminatiug war" Page
! lz0.
THAT the present is the time to try the
strength of arms, and that now is the time
TO strike" Pages i2I, l22.
THAT Shareholders must emancipate the
negroes, or we will emaucipate them for
you.' Page log
THAT Shareholders are nuisances, and
that II is our Imperative duty Chat is, The
duty of Lincoln, Greedy, Bryant, Morgan,
et al, 10 abate the nuisances. We pro-
( pose, therefore, 10 abolish slavery, than
which strychnine itself is less nuisance"
Page l39.
That Shareholders are more cruel than
common murderers." Page l40
"That if negroes had a chance (which
Lincoln, Greedy g. Co., desire to give them),
they would be delighted 10 cut their mas
ters' throats." Page l4s.
/ "That we Lincon, Greedy & Co.. are
welded TO one purpose, from which no
earthly power can ever divorce us. We
are determined TO abolish slavery at all
hazards" Page l4O.
THAT there is scarcely spark of honor
or magnanimiiy among slaveholders."-
! Page 153.
"That now is the appropriate time TO
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Inelgibillly of acknowledgements an
other vote TO the trafficker in human flesh
''No CO operation with shareholders in
polItics-no fellowship with them in reli-
sion-no affiIation with them in socieiy--
No patronage to slaveholding merchants
no guests in slaveholding hotels-no fees
to slavehoding lawyers-no employment
10 slaveho'ding physicIans-no audience to
slaveholding parsons"
'No recognition OF pro-slavery men, ex-
cept as ruffiaHs, outlaws and criminals"
The foregoing were endorsed under their
own signatures by the following members
from Pennsylvania :-GALUsHA A. Gaow,
JOHN CoyoDE, WIN. STEWART
We could quote colum after colum of
such sentiments and avowels from Repub-
lican speakers, electioneering documents,
and their papers; we could swell the lis, OF
names OF men prominent in every free State
and in every county of the free States, who
have enforced these sentiments on the
stump: IN the pulpit, al the lecture board,
in the school room, at the hresde, on
change, in the street and in the grog shop
We could add, from Bible commentators from
compilers OF school books, from Northern
statistical works, and thousands of conven-
lion resolves, synod discussions, quarterly
meeting reports, and tract society wrang-
ings. In fact, there is evidence direct.
and indirect, positive and circnmsiantial,
conoboralive and cumulative, without limit,
in every form that human thought can
find expression, in every shape that human
the Democratic party? Does Senator WADE
speak the truth?
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