St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-09-18

this not so, the charges of treason would
not be repeated against the membevs of
the Democrats: party for attempting to
restore the Union ms it was in 1889, nor
would all those be called traitors who will
not agree that the Union shall be DESTROY
cd On any Iretext whatever These
things would nit be if the Union had been
Suffered to remssn as is WAS formed BY the
fathers Of the Republic. But Abolition
poison has tainted tho fountain Of political
power i'm the Northern States, and the
country is tasting the bitter waters at
the present tiu,e. The only antiiote to
reach the case is that presented by the
Democratic party-a firm determination
to maintain the CONSTITUTION as it is
and restore the Union as it was" despite
the Vaccinations of Abolition traitors.
and in the teeth of all threats and menaces,
no matter from what quarter they may
emanate. The people are in favor of the
rising from the political horizon, aud men
are beginning to see who are the
true friends Of the Union, and who are
traitors; and the coming election will put
the seal of public approval upon the plat
form of principles on which the Democrat
ic party has acted during this whole con-
test for the perpetuity Of the Union and
the Constitution.
But, in bold and offensive contrast with
the tnion PLATFORM. as laid down 10y Mr..
Fallandig ham, stands the abolition Dis
"nto" PLATFORM, as enunciated BY MIR.
Bingham. the leader of the Abolition par
ty i'll the last Congress. MI. Bingham
said:
Who an the name of Hearen, wants
the lotion States, or any other Suites this
side Of perdtion. to remain IN tie Union,
u sotery IS to continue %
1t will be seen that the leading and on
ly idea i'll this announcement If Mr.. Bling
nam is the destruction Of the domestic
institution of slavery in the several States
lie regulates, almost uuler the ssnctity
OF an oath, any reconstruction Of the Uni
on that is not based upon this Abolition
dogma. TO him and his party the Union
for ~htte men is nothing. 1t is ,h'snion
for negroes that the Abolti III party, which
now rules and controls the country, is
contenling for. This is clearly announc-
ed by Mr.. Bingham in his speech; and
that speech, and the principles put forth
in it, have never to this day been CRITICS.
ed or rcpudiatcd in any one of the Adolf
ton journals Of the country. On the
contrary. it has been received by the rul-
ing faction in the nation As their basis Of
political action, aud upon it they are ap-
pealing to the people for support ut the
ballot-box. When, therefore, the Aboli-
ton party raises the cry Of traitor against
men who are in favor Of reconstruction
of the Union Of 1889, they must be held
to answer to their own declaration Of ill.,
tentions as published to the country by
such a leader as the Hon Mr.. Bin glan,
Of Ohio. Those intentions are plainly
against all attempts to restore the Union as
it was. And what else could DO expected
from party with such antccclents as
those Of the Abolition faction? They
have always been against the pcrpctui,y
of the Union. 1t was for this purpose that
the Abolition party was formed. All the
official acts Of tina. party point in the one
Observation-Disclosures. Aud now, when
the country is reaping in bloody harvest
the fruit of Abolition teachings. the SOW
ers of the seed not only insult and arrest
and imprisun the frieuds of the Union
the men who declare, with Mr.. Val
landigham, that they are for the Union of
1879 to the last hour of their lives--but
they openly declare that i. is not the I'm
ion they care for; It IS the negro. And
for the negro what rights, made sacred BY
the Revolution Of 1776, and guaranteed
by the Constitution of 1889, have these
Abolition traitors sacrificed? The right
of free speech; the right Of the trial by ju-
ny; the right of exemption from arrest.
save on due process of law; the right of
freedoms Of the elective franchise; the right
Of the writ of habeas corpus; in brief, all
those rights which separate Republic
from Despotism, and lift a man, in a
free country, from slave to freeman
All these rights. that belong to mhite men,
have been sacrificed ty a party which now
proclaims that all this contest is to be for
nothing; all these infractions of the Con-
stitution of no anvil, unless, in addition,
the programme of the higher law" party
is carried out, and slavery attacked and
abolished III the several States, where it is
protected by the Constitution.
One more step-the last in that
pathway of treason ard disunion which
commenced at Boston when the Abolition
party was formed under the leadership Of
the English Abolitionist. Thompson
must be taken, in accordance with the
instructions of Mr. Bingham, the leader
of the Abolition party in Congress, aud
that is. No Union without the discontinue.
ance of slavery in all the States! 1t is
not the Union first, and alseays. but Abo-
litionism before the Union, the Coustitu-
ton of 1889, or the rights of white men
under that instrument That is the plat
form of the Abolition party at the present
time, and the one which is to be made the
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