Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-01
The Republican Party.


party? VIM. H. Seward Is he an Abol-
ZIONIST and an Ineendiary2 He is. How dc
you prove it? asks Republican. By hi.
speeches, but more particularly by his en-
dorsement Of the celebrated Helper book, in
which the most incendiary and the strongest
Abolition sentiments are avowed. Sixty
eight Republican members of Congress recon
mended the same work
/ Let every man, who has the remotest idea
Of voting the Republican ticket, look at the
contents of that Helper Book. We append
few extracts from it as sample:
1--WE contend, moreover that Shareholders
are more criminal than common murderers." q"
page no.
1--WE mean precisely what our words ex-
press, when we say, we believe thieves are as
a general rule, less amenable TO the moral law
than SHAREHOLDERS "-p. l39.
Down with the olgarchyl Ineligibility
of lavehoders-never another vote to the
trafficer in human flesh l"-p SOL.
Compensation to shareholders for the ne
groes now in their possession The idea is
preposterous. The suggestion is criminal.
The demand is unjust, wicked, monstrous.
damnable. Shall we pat the blood-hounds of
slavery for the sake of doing them favor .?
Shall we feed the ours of slavery in order to
make them rich at our expense? Shall we
pay the whelPs of slavery for the privilege of
conv verting them into decent, honest. upright
menG No, never l-p. 32S.
"lhe oligarchy saw that we cannot abolish
slavery without infringing on the rights of
property. Again we tell them, we do not
recognize property in man. "--p. 1913.
"Impelled by a sense of duty to others, we
would be fully warranted in emancipating all
the slaves at once, without any compensation
whatever to those who claim to be their ali
solnte owners"-p. l23.
at is for you to decide whether we are to
have justice peaceably or by violence, for
whatever consequences may follow, we are
determined to have it one way or the other
Do you aspire to become the victims of white
non slaveholding vengeance by day, and by
barbarous massacre by the negroes at night
Sirs, you must emancipate them-speedily
emaneipate them, or, we will emancipate
them for you."-p. 12s, l29.
Even that system, however, the worst
which seems to have been practced to con-
siderable extent by those venerable old fogies
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, was one of the
monstrous inventions of Satan that God
winked at"-p. l75.
Then we are an Abolitionistl YES
NOT merely free soiler, but an ABOL1-
ZIONIST, in the fullest sense of the term
We are not only in favor of keeping slavery
out of the Territories, but carrying our oppo
sition to the institution step farther, we her
| unhesitatingly declare ourself in favor of it
; immediate and unconditional abolition il
every State in this Confederacy, wherei it nov
exists. '-p. 25, &c.
"Hitherto, as mere free-soilers, you hav
approached but halfway to the line of you
duty; now for your own sakes and for ours
and for the purpose of perpetuating thi
glorious Republic, which your fathers ant
our fathers founded in septennial streams o
blood, we ask you, in all seriousness, to or
ganize yourselves as one man under the ban
ners OF Liberty, and to aid us in extermna
ting slavery which is the only thing that
initiates against our complete aggrandize-
ment as a nation.
"ln this extraordinary crisis of affairs, nc
man can be true patriot without first be-
coming an Aboltionist.
"Abolitionism is but another name for pa
triotism, and its other pecial synonym:
are generosity, magnanimity, reason, pru-
denee, wisdom, religion, progress, justice ant
humanity."-p. llS.
''For its trucking concessions to the slave
power, the Wing party merited defeat, anC
defeated it was, and that, too in the most de
cisive and overwhelming manner.-Impend-
ing Crisis, page ia.
Here is insult to every honorable man who
upholds the Constitution of his country, sine,
that Constitution recognizes slavery in the
States where it exists. Here is also a threat
of forcible emancipation of the slaves in the
South. Here is also an infidel sneer against
the Holy Scriptures, and open blasphemy
against God. Here is the quintessence of
every thing that may be defined by the words
treason and blasphemy.
Yet, This is the work endorsed by VIM. II.
Seward, sixty-eight Republican members of
Congress, and the leaders generally of the
Republican party.
Is it safe for any lover of his country to
vote for any man upon any ticket put for.
ward by such an organization? Certainly
not.