, 1861-01-15
Cbieago Grib!tttte,
TUEsDAY:,:JANuARY Is 1851:


The most painful part Of this miserable
secession business, is the attitude Of certain
Of the professedly: Democratic journals Of
the North Having, BY their. baselcss, care
less, eenseless, witless misrepresentation
d purposes and policy Of the Republi-.
can party been more largely instrumental
than any other agency whatever in poison
ing the public mind, stirring up the baser
passions and exciting the sectional hate Of
the South, they arc now calling upon the
Republicans to make "great concession" f"
aud thereby confess that Ill they have
charged is true-that negro equality has
been a part Of the Republican platform
that interference with Slavery in the
States has been d fundamental article in
our party creed, and that invasion and
revolution for the propagation Of RepubI-
can doctrines, for the punishment Of an
who deny them, are abandoned upon COM
pulsion alone, If not this, what do
these demands for concession mean ?
No, gentlemen, this will not do.
The dispute Will not be adjusted
upon lasting basis, by the nostruns
that you would employ. The first and in
dispensible prerequisite for the attainment
OF peace is, that Tou STOP LYING! Go now
honestly and zealously at work 10 correct
the falsehoods that you have scattered
abroad. TIL the people Of the South that
you have played an unmauly part; that
your talk shout Republican intentions and
Republican agencies was for partisan effect
at home; TINT your allegations that Phil
lips and Garrison are the leaders Of the
party and Osawatamie Brown its evaugel,
were FLANDERS, and that you knew them TO
be snch when you said it; that your inter-
probation Of the " irzepressible contlic4"
was knowingly wicked and reasonable;
that your theories regarding Eincoln's in
tentions were never sincerely entertained;
and that in all the management Of the two
last Presidential campaigns you never told
the truth when q lie could be invented
Do that, and at the same time declare that
Republican policy eontemp1ates no inter
ference with State institutions; no avoid
ance Of the constitutional rights of any
section; that it looks ouly to obedience to
the Constitution and the laws; that Mr..
Lincoln is wise, moderate, conservative
and patriotic man; that the rights
Of the South will be safe in his
hands, and that under lis rule the country
may have prosperity and peace, and if
your many gross fa1sehoods hive not IT,
ined your reputation for veracity, the har-
. 1nony Of the jarring sections will be re-
stored.
Wemabc no unreasonable demand. We
require nothing that the danger Of the sit.
uation does not suggest, We ask for moth
ing but justice to the Republican party and
the President whom it has elevated to pew
cr; and until that demand is complied
with, that justice rendered, and the South
err rcople are made to know that their
confidence has been abused, that their
properly is not to be wrested out OF their
hands, that their wives are not to be given
up to the lust Of slaves in revolt, that their
children are not 10 be Drained against the
door-posts Of their homes, and thatall their
: rights under the Constitution are TO be sa-
c7cd1y respected, discomfort will not cease,
aad revolutionary effort will not be ar
rested.
Let the so-cal1cd Democratic papers be
gin. There is little time left them to effect
the change which will save the shedding
Of blood Their stories-idle tales at home,
which not even the ignorant belieye-are
the causes Of Southern hate and fear; and
the preparations for 4 fight show how
widely they have been believed. There is
no time to lose. Let the Chicago Tines
lead of!