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

J ally no Union between the North and the
South: and he believed no two nations
upon the earth entertained feeling Of more
bitter rancOr towards each other than
these two sections Of the Republic. The
only salvation Ofth Union, therefore, was
-. r..r- =, -seEs ehdiirely from
all taint OF slavery. There was no Union
in the South. Let US have . Union, or
let us sweep away this remnant which
We call Union. I go for Union, where
ell men are equal, or for no Union at all,
and 60 for right.
And, As If to mark their approval Of
such doctrines, the Black Republicans Of
Ohio, the very next year, reelected this
disuniOnist to the Senate of the United
States HIS brother, the Hon. Edward
Wade, has, for = number Of years. occu.
pied = seat in the House of Representa-
tives, and we find him, i1. = speech de-
livered in the House, August 2, 1856, in
dorsing the reasonable doctrines of his
senatorial brother. We quote:
Sir, If the Constitution and the Union
are to be used as instruments for prOpa.
eating human bondage, they cannot be
preserved-neithcr is it desirable that
they should. The spirit which has taken
possession Of the Shareholders, and their
base tools, the Democracy Of the free
States, is the unclean spirit of slavery
propagandism and just as sure as animal
life perishes in mephitic gases, so sure
is 1t that the Constitution and the Union
must perish when smothered in the fond
embraces Of these allies Of human slavery.
"Allies of human slavery !"-Washing.
ton, Jefferson, Madison, jackson, Polk,
&C., &c.
hon. SIDNEY DEAN.
The Hon. Sidney Dean, of Connecticut,
is in favor of dissolviHg the Union, unless
freedom-that is, the freedom of the
black race-shall be inauguratcd in the
country. We quote from speech Of his
delivered in the House Of Representatives,
July %, 1866
The issue of all, the reason Of ali, the
basis Of all this lies in the simple ques-
ton, shall freedom or slavery be the
ruling predominant feature Of the model
republic Of the worldr That question
can be answered in one way. Freedom,
human, personal freedom, the fultillment
ofthe great sentiment, THAT all men are
created free and equal, and endowed by
their Creator with the inalicnable rights
to life, liberty, and the pursust Of happ-
ness" will be the national ruling of this
country for future centuries, or the sun of
its pastsg will set in drapery, Grim.
soned in its own blood, ere it reaches q
century ofits existence.
JUDGE RUFUS sPAULDING.
Now let US hear from Judge Rufus P.
i.Spaulding, q delegate from Ohio to the
Black Republican National Conventions
of1S56 and 1860. He made speech in
the Convention of 1856, which nominated
Fremont, in which he said: -
In the case Of the alternatives being
presented, Of tho continuance of slavery
or dissolution Of the Union, | am for
dissolution; and care not how quick it
comes.
nOS. HORACE MANN.
Hon. Horace Mann was once member
of Congress from Massachusetts,, and a
favoritc elder in the Republican church.
We quote f. ON his speech in the House
Of Representatives: -"'.'.
| have only to add, under a full Sense Of
my responsibility 10 my Country and my
Eod' deliberately say, better disunion,
! Eetter sorvlle war, better anything that
GGI III His Providence shall send, than an
extension Of the bonds OF slavery.
SENATOR SUMNER.
Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts,, in a
speech delivered in FaneuiI Hall, Boston,
November 2, 1856, said
Not that love the Union less, but inc.
gro) freedom more, do l now, in pleading
this great cause, insist that (negro) free
dom, at all hazards, shall be preserved.
God foi bid, that for the sake Of the Union,
we should sacrifice the very thing for
which the Union was made.
Still later, on the 10th and goth of May,
1856, in speech delivered in the Senate,
Mr.. Sumner held this revolutionary Ian
guage:
Already the muster has begun. The
strife is no longer local, but national. -
Even now while speak, portents hang on
all the arches Of the horizon, threatening
to darken the broad land, which already
yawns with the mutterings of civil war.
The fury Of the propagandists of slavery,
and the calm determination of their oppo.
nents, are now diffused from the distant
Territory over wide spread communities,
and the whole country in all it's extent
marshaiiing hostile divisions, and FORE
shadOwing = strife, which, unless happily
aVerted by the triumph of freedom, will
become war-fratricidal, parricidal war
with an accumulated wickednesS beyond
the wickedness of any war in human an
nails.
wN. II. SEWARD.
Following In the same strain, Mr.. Sew
ard, in his speech in the Senate, April 0,
1856, jccred the South with the t0unting
menace that she should have no reposc,
but that rifles and cannon would take the
place Of words. Hear him:
The solemnity of the occasion draws
over our heads that cloud of disuniOn,
which always arises whenever the subject
Of slavery is agitated. Still the debate
goes on more ardently, earnestly, and an
grily than over before. 1t employs now
| L. Il.
and defiance, but sabreS, rifles, and can.
non. Do you look through this incipient
war quite to the end, and see there peace,
quiet, and harmony ON the subject oi
slavery? If so, pray, enlighten me, and
show me how long the way is which leads
TO that repose. He
who found a river in his path, and sat
down to wait for the flood to pass away,
was not more unwise than he who expects
the agitation Of slavery to cease, while the