Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-10-31
Bfack RepubIlcasa Doctrines.

Below we publish a few extracts from
speeches delivered by several prominent lead
ers of the Black Republican Party and friends
of Lincoln and Hamlin. They all embody
the doctrines ,cf genuine Aboltionism, and
forcshadow the policy Mr.. Lincoln would pur-
sue in the administration of the Government.
in the event of his election on next Tuesday.
Would not such principles if sanctioned and
encouraged by the National Government soon
result in a civil war between the Northern and
Southern States, and ultimately in the disso-
luton of the Union? Fellow citizens are-you
prepared for such calamity? We are GER
tain that you are not. and that therefore that
you Will oppose Lincoln, and vote the Reading
Electoral ticket.
liz bis speech in the Senate, March IL +,
1850. Mr.. Seward said:
s.There areconstftutions and statutes, codes
mercantile and codes civil; but when we are
legislating for States, especially when we are
! founding States, all these laws must be brougt
| to the standard of the laws of God, and must
be tried BY that standard and mus. stand or
1.-The constitution regulates our steward
ship; the Constitution devotes the domain to
union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and
to liberty. But there is higher lao than
the Constitution, which regulates our author.
ity over the domain, and devotes it to the
same noble purposes App. ty Cong. Globe
1st Sess. 31st Cong, pages 263, 265.
Again in speech in the Senate, March
1858, Mr. Seward said:
1.-The interests of the white race demand
the ultimate emancipation Of oil men. Wheth
er that consumation shall be allowed to tax,
effect, with ncedful and wise precaution agains
Sudden change and disaster, or Je hurried Oh
Ly UiOtence, is all that remains for you to de
! eide"
Still later, only few days ago, at Boatol
he boldly proclaimed:
"What commentary upon the history Q
man is the fact that eighteen years after th
death of John Quincy Adams, the peopl
have for their standard bearer Abraham Lin
} coin. confessinS the obligations of the highe
lat0 which the Sage of Quincy proclaimed
and contending for veal or woe, for life @
death, III the irrepressible conflict betwee
freedom and slavery desire only to sa
5 that we are in tho last stage of the confic
:, policy into the Government Of tho Unite
States"
Gov. Chase, of Ohio. in speech deli,
o cred in Cincinnati. SAID.
, For myself, am ready to renew N
q pledge, and L will venture to speak in beha
of my co-workers, that we will 90 straigl
on, without faltering o. wavering, until ever
vestige of oppression shall be erased from Il
r statute books-until the sun, in all his jou
u ney, from the utmost eastern horizon throug
n the mid heaven, till he sinks behind the we
tern bed, shall not behold the foot print Of
single Stare in all our broad and glorious land
: Senator Wilson. of Massachusetts,, in b
u Boston speech in 1855. said
d 'Scnd it abroad on the wings of the win
that an committed, fully committed, col
mitted to the fullest extent, in favor of inrnl
diate and unconditional abolition Of slarcr
IS wherever it exists under the authority of Il
N Constitution of the United States"