Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-09-10


"Allics Of human slaveryl'-Wash.
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson,
Polk, &c.
HON. SIDNEY DEAN.
The Hon Sidney Dean, Of Connecticut,
is in favor of dissolving the Union, unless
freedom-that is. the freedom Of the
black race hall be inaugnratcd in this
country. We quote from speech Of his,
delivered in the House of Representatives,
July 80, 1856:
The is, ne Of all, the reason Of all, the
basis of all This lies 10 the simple quos-
ton, shall freedom or slavery be the
model Republic of the world. That ques-
tion can be answered in one way. Free
dom, human, personal freedom, the full
flment of the great sentimedt. "that all
men are created free and equal, and en-
dowed by their Creator with the inalien-
able rig hts to life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness, will lie the national ruling
OF this country for future centuries, or
the sun Of its past glory will set in
draperv crimsoned in its own blood, GRE
it reaches century Of its existence.
Now let us hear from Judge Rufus P
Spaulding, del gate from Ohio to the
Black Republican National Conventions
Of 1856 and 1860. He made a speech in
the Convention OF 1856. which notnira.
ted Fremont, in which he said:
In the case OF the alternatives being
presented. of the continuance of slavery
or a dissolution of the Union, | am
for dissolution; and | care not how quick
it comes.
Hon. Horace Mann was once mem
Der of Congress from Massachusetts, and
svorite elder in the Black Republican
church. We quote from his speech in
the House of Representatives:
have ouly to add, under full sense
Of my responsibility to my country and
my Cod, | deliberately say, better dis.
union, better servle war, better any
thing that God iu His Providence shall
send, than an extension of the bonds of
slavery.
SENATOR SUMNER
Senator sumner. of Massachusetts,, in
speech delivered IN Fanuel Hall, Novem
Der ,, 1855. said:
Not that | love the Union less, but
! (negro) freedom more, do | now, IL
pleading this great cause, insist that (no
glo) freedom. at all hazards, shall be
preserved. God forbid. that for the sake
of the Union, we should sacrifice the
very thing for which the Union wa.
made.
Still later, on the 10Th of May 1856;
in a speech delivered in the Senate, Mr..
Sumner held this revolutionary language:
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, threat
ening to darken the broad land, which
already yawns with the mutteriugs of
civil war. The fury of the progagandists
of slavery, and The calm determination of
their opponents, now diffused from the
distant Territory over wide sprea COM
munities, and the whole country in all its
extent-marshalling hostile divisions,
au foreshadowing o strife, which, unless
happily averted by the triumph of free
dom ViH become war-,frdtricidal, parrici-
dql scar-with an accumulated wicked
ness beyond the wickedness of any war
in human annals.
WIN. II. SEWARD.
Following in the same strain, Mr..
Seward, in his speech in the Senate,
April 8, 1856, jeered the South with the
taunting menace that she should have no
repose, 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 disunon
which always arises whenever the sub,
ject of slavery is agitated. Still the de-
bate goes on more arlently, earnestly and
angrily than ever befure. 1t employs
now not merely logic. reproach, MANAGE,
retort and defiance, BUT SABRES, RI,
FILES AND CANNON. Do you look
through this incipient war quite to the
end, and see there peace quiet and har
mony on the uliect of slavery? If so
pray, enlighten me, and show me how
long the way is which leads to that 10
pose. Il He who found river
in hi, path, and sat down to wait for the
food to pass away, was not more unwise
than he who expects the agitation o.
slavery to cease. while the love of Tree
dom animates the bosoms Of mankind.
MR.. SEWARD RECOMMENDS DIsUNIoN.
After showing that this agitation vii
lead to war between the North and South
3 Mr., Seward suggests to the Pacific State
that then would be their time to will
= draw from the Union. He continues:
0 Then the free States and slave State
of the Atlantic. divided and wsrrin
f against each other, would disgust Il
free States of the Pacific, and they woul
. have abundant cause and justification fC
s WITHDRAWING FROM A UNION product,
no longer of peace. safety and liberty
4 themselves, and no niger holding up II
cherished hope of mankind.
Again. in his speech at Albany, DC
!. II, 1855, Mr.. Seward said:
Slavery is not, and never can be, PEI