Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29
The Constituencies and Inconsisten-
ctes Of the Republican Party.

II
cies OF the Republican Party.
Below viii be found EXTRACTS from the speech
of the Hon. GAYLORD l. CLARk. of New York,
which, in the present uncture Of public affairs are
eminently worthy of attention and consideration
Mr. CLARK shows up in mastery style the con-
sistencies and inconsistencies OF the Republican
party, OF Its leaders, and proves most conclusivey
that the NEE who lead and control the Repub-
kcan organization, are self-proclaimed revolu-
tionists and that they sought, and now wage the
present civil war; not for the preservation of the
Union, but Tor the abolition Of slavery or the
permanent dissolution of the Union-that they
are the enemies both of the Constitution and the
Union We give the following extracts to show.
irst the
CONSISTENCY OF THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
Abraham Lincoln undoubtedly expressed the
fixed resolve of the leaders Of his party. in case
they came into power. when, years ago. he said:
4 81 believe this Government cannot endure
permarenty-half free and half slave"
Which. being stated in p,ain terms, means that
the Government of Washington. - J efFers0n and
the Fathers-and which gave US prosperity for
over seventy years-was to be destroyed, and
new one established on its ruins.
William H. Seward, in his celebrated Ohio
speech, said:
ished, and you and | must do it. You
will soon bring the parties of the country into an
effective aggression upon slavery"
In speech made in the Senate, March ii .
| 1880 Seward threatening the Southern States
with civil war, unless they emancipated their
slaves, said:
"When this answer shall be given. it will ap-
pear that the question of dissolving the Union is
Il complex question that embraces the fearful is
sue whether the Union shall stand-and slavery
under the steady, peaceful action of moral, social
and political causes, be removed By gradual
voluntary effort. and with compensation-or.
whether the Union shall be dissolved, and civil
wars ensue; bringing on violent. but complete
and immediate emancipation. We are now ar
rived at that stage when that crisis can be fore
seen-when we must foresee it. 1t is directly
/ before us. Its shadow is upon us"
/ In a speech made in Albany, Oct. -. 1855, he
/ said:
"Slavery is not, and can never be, perpetual.
1t will be overthrown peacefully and lawfully
urder this Constitution, or it will work the sub
version of the Constitution, together with its own
overthrow Then the shareholders would perish
( in the struggle"
In the same vein, he declared in a speech made
in the Senate. April 9, 1882 that rifles and can
non would soon take the place of words. He
said:
"The solemnty 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 ardenty, earnestly
and angrily than ever before. 1t employs now
not merely logic, reproach, menace. retort and
defiance, but sabres, rifles and cannon"
In the same SDeech. after declaring that the
agitation of the slavery question would lead to
a war between the North and South, he said:
Then the Free States and Slave States of the
Atlantic, divided, and warning with each other,
would disgust the Free States of the Pacific and
they would have abundant cause and justification
for Withdrawing from Union, productive no
longer Of peace, safety and liberty to themsees,
and no longer holding ap the cherished
hopes of mankind
n p Banks. formerly Governor of Massacbu-
sets Speaker of the House of Representatives
in 1856 and now a Major General in the Lincoln
army, in speeth delivered in Maine in 1855,
said:
although am not one of that class of meu
who cry for the preservation Of the Union; al
though l willing. in a certain state of crcum-
stances, TO let it slide, have fear for its per-
petuaton. But let me say, if the chief object of
the people of this country be to maintain and
words, human slavery-this Union cannot and
ought not to stand"
In speech made in Massachusetts, in 1856,
he said:
al cannot conceive of a time when this Consti
tuition shall not be in existence; when we shall
have an absolute Dictatorial Government, trans
mitted from age to age, with men at its head
who are made rulers by military commission, or
who claim an hereditary right to govern those
-bor, Al
Benjamin Wade. Senator from Ohio, in a
speech made in 1855, Said
"Phere is really no Union between the North
and South; and believe no two nations upon
the earth entertain feelings of more bitter rancor
towards each other than these two sections of the
Republic. The only salvation of the Union
therefore. Is to be found in divestiug it entirely
from all taint of slavery. There is no Union in
the South Let us have Union or let us sweep
away this remnant which call Union. l go
for Union where all men are equal or for no
Union at all.
John p. Hale, Senator from New Hamp-
shire, in a speech delivered on the 18th of
July. lS4S, used this language:
''Al the horrors of dissolution | can look stead
fastly in the face, before l could look to that
moral ruin which must fall upon us when we have
so far prostituted ourselves to become the
pioneers of slavery in the Territories"
1856. he said:
1.-The Senator says there may be power that
shall say, "Thus far shalt though 90, and no far
ther" Good Good Sir, hope it will come
and if it comes to blood. let blood come. No
sir if that issue must come, let it come, and it
cannot come too soon. Sir puritan blood
has not always shrank from even those encoun-
ters and when the war has been proclaimed with
the knife and the knife to the hilt, the steel has
nad in han hon
battle was over, they were not always second
best"
Charles Sumner Senator from Massachusetts,,
used this language in a speech delivered in Fam
uell Hall Boston, November Cd 1855:
mot that loved the Union less, but (negro)
freedom more, do now, in pleading this great
cause insist that negro freedom, at all hazards,
shall be preserved. God forbid, that for the sake
of the Union, should sacrifice the very thing
for which the Union was made"
In speech delivered in the Senate, on the
18th and Goth of May, 1856, Sumner said:
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 mutterngs of civil
war. The fury of the propagandist of slavery,
and the calm determination of their opponents,
are now disfused from the distant Territory over
widespread communities. and the whole country
is foreshadowng a strife, which, unless happily
averted by the triumph of freedom will become
war-fratricidal, paTrcidal war"
Horace Mann, in speech made in the House
of Representatives, said
81 have only to add. under full sense Of nv
responsibility to my country and my God, / de
lberately say, better disunion, better a servile
war, better anything that God in His Providence
shall send than an extension OF the bonds of