The Placer herald., 1862-08-02

cause OF my desire to see all our friends
stand firm together.
"lf write strongly, it is because feel
strongly for my constant and intimate inter-
course with the President, beginning with the
4th of March, not only binds me peculiarly to
his Administration, but gives me personal
AS well as a political interest in seeing that
justice is done him.
"Believe me, my dear sir,
with much regard,
Ever faithfully yours,
"CHARLEs SUMNER"
Nor is this the only evidence that can be
brought against Lincoln's abolitionism. His
political record is full Of it. If the people
elected him, with the idea that he was no
abolitonist, and conservative man, they
were terribly fooled. In speech which he
delivered at Chicago during the Presidential
election of 1856, he said:
THAT central IDEAL in our political opinion, at
the beginning was, and until recently continued
to be, the equality Of men. And, although it
WAS always submitted patiently to whatever in
equality there seemed to be as Il matter of actual
necessity, its constant working has been steady
progress toward the PRACTICAL EQUALITY or
ALL MEN"
LET past differences as nothing be; and. with
steady eye on the real issue, let reinau gurate
the good old central ideas of the Republic We
can do it. The human heart is with us; God is
with us. We shall again be able not to declare
that all the States, States, equal but re new
| the broader, better declaration, including both
these and much more, that all men are created
equal"
And again, in speech which Lincoln made
at Chicago on the 10th July, 1858, he ut.
tered this remarkable language:
81 should like to know if. taking the old Decla-
ration of Independence, which declares that all
men are equal upon principle, and making excep-
tions toit, where will it stop? If ONE MAN SAYS
1T DOES NOT MEAN A NEGRO, WHY NOT ANOTHER SAY
1T DOES NOT MEAN SOME OTHER MAN? IF that doc
trino is not the truth, let get the statute book
in which we find it and tear it out. Who is so
bold as to do it? If it is not true let us tear it
out! [Cries OF No, nol] Let us stick to it,,
then, let us stand firmly by it then. y
Let us discard all this quibbling about this man
and the other imam this race and that race
and the other race being INTERIOR and therefore
they must be placed in an inferior position
Disturbing the standard that we have left u.s.
Let US discard all these things, and unite rs one
people throughout this land until we shall once
more stand up declaring that ALL MEN are created
equal. l leave you, hoping that the
lamp Of liberty will burn in your bosoms until
there shall no longer BE A DOUBT THAT ALL MEN
ARE CREATED FREE AND EQUAL"
Here is the distinct announcement that he
regards negroes as the equals of white men.
"Discard,' he says "alI this talk about one
race or another race being iuferior"-aN are
eqnaI-the sooty negro with the highly or
ganlzed Caucasian! Such is the man who
is now President of the United States. And
we have even stronger evidence Of his abo'
Iitionsm Here is what he said May 9th,
l845, when some negroes in Ohio presented
Salmon p. Chase, (he present Secretary of
the United States Treasury "a silver pitcher
as a token of their personal regard
'We feel, therefore, that all legal distinction
between individuals of the same community,
founded in any such circumstances as color,
origin and the like are hostile to the genius of
our institutions, and Incompatible with the theory
of American liberty. Slavery and oppression
must cease, or American liberty must perish.
"lembrace with pleasure this opportunity of
declaring my disapprobation of that clause of the
Constitution which denies to a portion of the
coored people the right Of suffrage.
True Democracy makes no inquiry about the
color of the skin, or place of nativity Or any
other similar circumstance of condition. Iregard,
therefore, the exclusion of the cOOrcd people,
as u body, from the elective franchise as incom-
patible with true Democratic principles"
True democratic principles, according to
Lincoln, mean equality with negroes Shades
Of Jefferson and jackson! "True demo
cratic principles" then, according to Lincoln,
only exist on this continent in Mexico and
Central America. Comment is unnecessary,
and we need say no more upon the subject,
except this:-There is no meaner or more
contemptble abolitionst in the United
States than Abraham Lincoln