The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-08-29
Republican Abolitionism

Casslus NJ. Clay, OF kyy came very near
being nominated for Vice President at the
Chicago Republican haIfNational Conyention.
Had Seward, or any man living in the East,
been moi. mated for President, Cassius would
certainly have been taken for Vice. He has
been semployed by the Republican party to
stump for them in Illinois, and other States.
He is one of the foremost and head men of
the Republican party. He made a speech
for Lincoln and Hahlin in Cincinnati, a few
nights since-He also recently spoke at Tifin,
Ohio. TIL whole Republican party endorse
this man Cassius NJ. Clay, and his principles:
He has long been known as a leading and
prominent Abolitionist. At Tifiu he gave
utterance to his sentiments on the negro ques-
ton; thus rT 4s.4
"They 1.-THE Democrats tell you we are for
liberating the slayesHfor, setting the negroes
free. 50 zoe are! We believe as you do, that
in ZIG all men were created free and equal,
endowed with certain inalienable rights!
They meant just what they said, and they re-
peatedly spoke of negroes as men, and as per-
sons. They meant the negroes aoere equal acith
the aohite man ~. -,.-= !,
|. That is the real sentiment, the true doctrine
of the Republican party These are the real
sentiments of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal
Hanlin. Mr.. Clay says it is true, that the Re-
publican party are laboring to set the negroes
free. Lincoln admits that, and says an ''irre-
pressible conflict" is now going on to accomplish
this object-to abolish slavery everywhere. It
was attempted at HarpeIs Ferry by John Brown,
under the auspicies of leading Republicans
1t is now being attempted in Texas, where the
telegraph informs us, there are taco thousand
Aboitlonists actively at work melting insur-
~rection among the slaves. This is the mode
by which slavery is to be abolishe - y send
ing emissaries into the South to iEcite insur-
~rection and to encourage the slaves to rise
spontaneously and murder their masters and
their families and all the white people who
oppose them. This is the legitimate working
of .'honest Abe's'' "irrepressible conflict
This is the mode and manner of carrying out
Cassius NJ. Clay's idea of liberating the slaves.
He says, emphatically, that it is the design of
the Republican party to "set the negroes free ?
Abraham Lincoln says they will be set free,
if at all, by an "irrepressible conflict"-by in
surrection. by a contest at arms, by an intern
al war. This war, Lincoln thinks, will soon
come, which is to decide whether all the States
of this Union will be free or all slave. And
his election to the Presidency will bring on
this war speedily-it will hasten the day when
the whole South will be Lit up by the incendi-
ary's torch, and the slaves, armed with British
bayonets, will go forth to the bloody work.
Those therefore, who desire all this to be
brought about-who desire to see the day
when the whole country will be enveloped in
one blaze of civil war, will of course vote for
Lincoln and Hamlin, and for the ''irrepressible
conflict" to be fastened upon the country
Their election will surely hasten. these dread
full scenes, as the working out of the tirre-
pressible conflict" problem believed in and
held by Abraham Lincoln and the leaders of
the Republican party-C lerm'ont Sun.