The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-04-18

{ North have at last got to the wall, ant
will 60 no further. / hope so. The Sena
tor says there may be power that shoult
say, 'Thus far shalt thou 60 and no fur
ther." Good! Good Sir, | hope it will
!. come; and if it COMES to blood, let JLoot
come No Sir, if that issue must come, ie
il come; and it cannot come too soon
Sir, Puritan blood has not always shruhk
from even those encounters; and wher
the war has been proclaimed with the
knife; and the knife to the hili, tie stse
has sometimes gist.ned in Mer hands and
when the battle was over, they were not
always second best.
CARL suURZ.
In the same vein do we find Mr.. Carl
Shurz, delegate from Wisconsin to the
Chicago Convention that nominated Mr.
Lincoln, and recently Mr. Lincolhs Min
ister to Spain, speaking in st. Louis in
! 1860.
May the God in human mercy be
aroused and pierce the very souls of the
with the bcesoni Of destruc. ion this a6ou.-
ination from the land. You call this re-
volution. ltis. In this we need revolu-
| tion; We must, we will have it Let il
J
| come.
hohAc. GREELEY.
Now hear Horace Greeley thunder forth
his revolutionary advice to the Black Re-
| publicans in Congress, when the Kansas
Nebraska bill was pending:
We urge, therefore, unbending deter
mination on the part Of the Northern
members hostile to this intolerable out.
rage, and demand of them in behalf of
peace, in behalf Of freedom, in behalf of
justice and humanity, resistance 10 tie last
Better that confu shouH erlsue-Jctter that
discard shouM reign IN the nationoE conn
ciA-bettsr thai congress Shouii brsak up in rciM
oi.cord-nay better MatMe Capitol nseDShouM
tlaze by tie torch Of the inceadiury or fall and
6,Uy It's inmates beneath II; cyeunLiing ruins,
than that this perhdy and wrong shall be
finally accomplished.
REV. EDMUND II. SEARS.
Among the documents published in 1886,
aud circulated by the Republican National
Committee as a conpaign document, we
find sermon preached by the Rev. Ed
mund II. Sears, at Wayland, Massachu-
setts June ID, 1885, (t will be recollected
that the clergy were very active for !re-
mont) from which we quote:
Out of the present crisis there are two
paths that open before Us, and only two
One is through riolence and rcuot.tion When
the public organism has become possessed
with the spirit of evil, and is used chiefly
for its work, the last remedy is to trs1k II
an pieces, and let right and justice 20 free
Rsroiunon IL Gods Rsmely.
REV HExRY " oELLows
The Rev. Henry " Bellows, of New
" l. L. l..,. L h.
every election thro!,s off his clerical robes
and takes the stump ., the Black Repub-
fcans He delivered politics, sermon in
1856, which the Black Republican Nation
al Committee adopted and circulated as a
Republican document. We quote from it
Considered as a question Of policy it is
by no means certain, that the dissolution
Of the Union would be a political evil TO us.
The Union Is great, precious, sacred ! but
yes we must say it, t!-humanity, duty,
honor, religion, are greater hgfs The tnion.
This Ithen, is the unyie!ding ground ofthe
Republican party-tkere is no evil possible
to the couatry at this crisis as great as the
extension of slavery-Dreadful as dsunion
is, the extension of slavery is still more
dreadful. The dissolution of the Union,
however deplorable, is not primarily
question of conscience, but Of policy. We
made the Union, and We have right to
unmake 1t if we choose.
REv. DR. XIX.
Here is another political parson and
Black Republican stumper, the Rev. DR..
KIRK, Of Boston;
The doctrine that a negro is not 4 mar,
and the doctrine that q negro is a man,
have now come to the death struggle, and
the nation will heave with every conyulsve
struggle of the contest Neither will
yield until a continent ha. been swept
with the deluge Of clrA tcar.
JANIS S. PIKE
James S. Pike, the regular editorial
correspondent of the " T. IriJ,ne, and
Mr. .Lincoins Minister at the Netherlands,
thus pithily expressed his belief:
have no doubt that the free and slave
States ought 10 seperate. TIE Union IN not
,eOrM supporting i'll connection with the
South.
TX LiEurESANT GOVERNOR FopD.
Take another gem from the speech o.
ex Lieutenant Governor Ford, of Ohio, the
Black Republican printer OF the House Of
Representatives
love the Union, but the time has come
when we must declare we love freedom
better than the Union.
This is the same Ford who recently
surrendered Harpers Ferry.
JOSHUA R. GIDpiHGs
Wenow come to Joshua r. Giddings, who,
In letter to Hon. Ralph Plumb, dated
May 4. 1859, was IN favor Of overthrowing
the Government in case the Supreme
Court Of Ohio would not take out of the
custody of the United States band of
Black Republicans who had forcibly taken
some fugitive slaves out of the possession
of the marshal and ::his deputies. Gidd-
ings is now Mr.. Lincolns Consul General
to Canada Hear him:
have great confidence in the judges
composing that court But should they
prove unequal to the occasion, the case
will then be taken to that highest Of
earthly tribunals, the source of all politi-
cal power. The people finding this gov
eminent to have become destructive
of the lives, the liberties and happi-
ness Of its citizens, will alter or abolish 1t,
and organize its powers in such form as to
them sh.'! so.m most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.
This duty, so solemnly enjoined upon
us by the founders of our Government, in
that immortal charter of American
liberty to which, for almost century, we
have been accustomed to look for instruc
ton and direction in regard to our rights,
,ciN not be neglected
"Acts speak louder than words says
the old proverb. Let us see, then, how
their acts tally with their words. On
the LIST of February, 1850, Senator Hale
presented two petitions from Isaac Jeffries
and other citizens of Pennsylvania, and
T. Woodward and others. praying that
same plan might be devised for the DIS
solution of the American Union. Mr.
Webster of Massachusetts,, was unsparing
in his denunciation of the petitions, and
suggested that there should have been a
presmble to them in these words:
Gentlemen, members OF Congress, where
L. commencement of the sessiOn