North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-08-20

that, with lew more similarly important
blows inflicted upon the rebellion, its force
would have been spent, and that the people
of the rebellious States, being assured that
the pledges of the President and Congress
would be faithfully observed, would have re-
taxed their efforts in behalf of their usurping
government, and that the Union men of the
South, and the returning sense of the ines
tmable value of the Union to all divisions of
population there, would complete the resto-
ration of respect and obedience to the Con-
stitution and laws of the Federal Govern
ment. These hopes have not been realized
and the explanation of this disappointment,
in great degree at least, is found in the ey-
idence afforded of the terrible fact that the
Abolitionists in the North are determined
that the white population Of the South shall
be exterminated or held in subjugatiol, and
that our government shall be overthrown,
aud the Union Of these States finally and
forever broken up. Yes! e.rtermindte the
whites of the South, or govern them as a
subjugated people, and ouerthrop the Gov
ernment and destroy the Union, is their pur-
pose. And we ask your candid considera-
tion for moment, until we present to you a
few points, from which you will see that the
sign of this most disoyal band
The Constitution and the Union were ear
ly regarded by the Abohtionists as the bar
riers that stood in the way Of negro emanci-
patton. Hence, such Constitution was de-
nounced by them as d covenant with death
and an agreement with hell" So late as the
18th Of June last, portion of the members
of this band, at a meeting in Massachusetts,
passed a formal resolution, viz:
Resolred That as Abolitionists, devot ed
to the great work of overthrowing slavery,
we renew and repeat our old pledge, g No
Union with Shareholders, ,"--no support to
any Administration or Government that per-
mits slavery on any portion Of its soil--and
we value this war only as We believe it must
lead to emanc patton by order of the Federal
authorities, OF 20 dissolution of the Union
which must speedily produce the same re,
suit.
1t is unnecessary to even specify the prom
inent evidence that, from time to time, have
been afforded that the Abolitionists had firm
ly resolved upon the destruction of this Gov
ernment. A few of them are found in the
unconstitutional, so called '' Personal Liberty
Bills" of several States; the repeated decla-
rations of prominent party leaders, even in
the last Presidential campaign, (see the
speech delivered by Frank P. Blair, a,
Franklin Hall in the city of Philadelphia, on
the ID of October, 1860, one week before the
eection,) in which he, quoting still higher
authority, declared that the object of the
Republican party was the ultimate extinc.
ton of slavery" In the avowed determine
ton to resist the decision of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, in the Dred
Scott case, and in such declarations as made
by Senator Wade, a Union where all meu
are equal, or no Union at ALL" Acting upon
this original purpose, and upon the convc.
tion that return to Congress of Senators
and Representatives from the Southern
States would result in their political over.
throw, the Abolitonists in the late Con
gress have pursued policy that has aarme
every loyal man in the North and forced the
conviction that our gallant armies in the
field, and the whole nation were to be
thwarted in their patriotic purposes. The
resolution above quoted, adopted by Con-
gress in July, 1861, Immediately after the
Bull Run disaster, it was sought to re-afIirn
in the present Congress, through ressolu
tion offered by Mr.. Holman, of Indlanna, in
the following terms =
ReSolred, That the unfortunate civil war
into which the Government of the United
States has been forced by the reasonable at
tempt of Southern Secessionists to DESTROY
the Union, should not be prosecuted for any
other purpose than the restoration of the
authority of the Constitution and welfare OF
the whole peop'e of the United States, who
are permanently involved in the preserva-
ton Of our present form of Government,
without modification or change.
This resolution was defeated by motion to
lay it upon the table, made by Mr.. Loveioy,
by the following vote, yeas 60, nays 5s. OF
those who voted to thus defeat the resolution
SO were Republicans, while every Democrat
excepting one, and every Border State repre-
sentative whose vote is recorded, voted in
the negative. -..
In CO. operation with this most significant
declaration, by the Federal House of repre-
sentatiVes, we had the military emancipation
proclamations of Generals Fremont and Hun
ter. Along with these we had the project of
MF. Sumner. in the Senate, to blot out the
State governments of the rebel States, reduce
them to a territorial condition, and to govern
them as such. Then followed various eman-
cipation schemes. and among them the project
of confscation of slaves aominaHy, but really
a bill to emancipate them. We cannot prob
ably better prove the operation of such meas
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