The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-12-20
ABOLITION or D1sUNION,



cry body IS DiauniOnists who will not in.
: 17VHU al their ultra and revolutionary
measures. In the mean time they keep
their own record In the back ground,
which, il fully exposed, would show that
they have for years been endeavOring to
get the country In just such position q
It Is now, in order to carry out their dar.
ling object Of freeing the negroes. We
propose to show, by extracts from the
speeches and addresses of these leaders,
that they have long labOred With great
eaFnestness to bring on ci1I x.r end
even hAGe0 its prospect wi.h joy, in the
hopes either to destroy "negro slavery"
or the Union. II will be seen that the
sum and substance Of all these extracts
: - 81 =. s'hlI give, amount to just this /:
"DEsTRoY SLAvFKY OR BREAK Up TIE
UNIoS l"-that is, degrade white men cv.
erywheFe to level With negroes, or de-
strOy the Union. Now, to overthrow ne.
gro slavery" everybody knows, you
must destroy the Union and the COnstitu.
ton, As formed by George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, &C.,
for The right Of each State to manage and
control the negro race within its own
limits, as the citizens thereof deemed it to
their interests, was the very fundamental
spirit and law Of that Union. The man,
therefore, who strikes down that right of
the States, strikes down the Union. Let
this fact be borne in mind, while reading
the extracts, and let 1t also be remember
ed that wherever these men use the word
freedom" they mean negro freedom
In order to render the real meaning more
apparent, to a hasty reader, we have in
serted the word negro in pArenthesis
wherever the word freedom occurs. We
commence, first. with the great pioneers
OF the Abolition movement, Garrison and
Phillips. For years they did not join the
Republican patty, because it did not come
up to their ideas Of simon-pure anti
slavery organization. Still. they always
encouraged it, and PrOphesied that it
would eventually he all right-tbat il was
educating the people to the proper point
Abolition or disuniOn. Here is the
PLATFORM OF PHILLIPS AND GARRISON.
The Constitution Of our fathers was a
mistake. Tear it in pieces. and make
better. Don't say the machine is out of
order; it is in order; it does what its
trainers intended-protccts slavery. Our
claim is Disunion, breaking up Of the
States! have shown you that our work
cannot he done under our institutions.
Wendell Phillips.
This Union is = lie! The American
Union is an irnposturc, a covcnat with
death and an agreement with hell.
] AM for its overthrow Up
with the flag Of Disunion, that we may
have free and glorious Republic Of our
own; and when the hour shall come, the
hour will have arrived that shall witness
the overthrow Of slavery.-Wm. Lloyd
Garrison.
Such was the platform Of these two
bold but bad and honest men. They said
just what they wanted to accomplish
The Republican lea'lcrS were more eau
tious, but their doctrines always tended
to the same result, and hence the sympa.
thy between them. Here is what Phil.
li:S said Of the Republican party, when
it was organized as section:::.. party, and
it will be noticed how well and how truly
he pictured Il; 49,
No man has right 10 be surprised at
this state Of things. II is just what we
(AbOlitiOniStS and DiSuniOniSts) have at.
tempted to bring about. 1t is the firSt
sectional party ever organized in this
country. 1t does not know its own face,
and it calls itself national; but it is not
national-it is sectional. The Republican
party is . party Of the North pledged
against the South.-Wcndell PhillipG
MOULDING PUBLIC OPINION.
Again Garrison, in his Liberator, said
still more explicitly:
The Republican party is moulding pub
lie sentiment in the right direction for the
specific work the Abolitionists are striving
to accomplish, viz; The dissolution Of the
Union, and the abolition Of slavery
throughout the land.
All the while that the Abolitionists were
talking thus boldly, the Republican lead
ers pretended to the people that Garrison
and Phillips did not represent their cent?
ments; Lutle it be remembered that they
expressed almost substantially the same
sentiments, yet in more vague and uncer-
tain language. AS general rule, they
seemed to be pleased with, and in favor Of
the Constitution and the Union, but tried
to make the people believe that George
Washington formed a Union for negro
freedom and negro equality! or, in other
words, a Union that would have placed
him on level with his own niggers!-
People ought to have been too sensible to
have been humbugged with such stuff,
but many we're. -
We now proceed to notice the senti-
ments of So-called Republicans. First we
will see
WHAT MR.. LINCOLN SAYS.
believe this government cannot en-
dure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln.
That is, that it cannot endure as Wash
ington formed it, and as it existed for sew
enty years. Mr.. Garrison was of exactly
the same opinion, and though Mr.. Lincoln
does not say all that Mr.. Garrison does,
vet tho person must be q ninny who can
not see what Mr.. L;neoln's s reslmeaHiEg is
We will now see what Mr.. Seward says.