North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-04-15
Communication. !.
EXETER, April 9Th, 1868.


Mr.. EDITOR -
Through the medium of
the Democrat desire to present few facte
with my sentiments concerning the war. its
origin, It's objects and the manner in which
it is prosecuted, being, of course personally
responsible formy communications, as write
my own views.
Judging by the popular speeches, re-
solutions and actions of Republicans, sim.
ce7ely believe the great objects of their party j;
were 10 Teroluttonize the Government or di
r'de the Union. | am aware that this CHARGE
is grave one against any great party. Itis
one that should not be lightly made. But
does not the following declarations Justify
the charge -? Wendell Phillips of Massachu-
chusetts has declared.
" We confess that we intend to tramnIe
under foot the Constitution of this country
Daniel Webster says: You are law-abidine
people that the glory of New England is
that 1t is law abiding community Shame
on IL II 1t is true; if the religion of New
England sinks as low as its statute-book
But say ne are not q ld1o-obldinq conaun-
lty. God be thanked for IT. :
When this was enunciated it was said that
Phillips had no public position-tbat he
spoke no representative voice. He was a
PLAIN single citizen, and to his opinion no
weight should be attached. But who is Mr.
Seward lie was Senator from New YORK
(now Secretary of State,) who openly pro-
claimed revolution, and created a party in
the free States, pledged to war on the me-
cullar institutions Of the South. He claimed
! that Congress had the power to regulate sla-
very IN the territories, and in his speech in
1890, said, " The Constitution regulates our
stewardship. The Constitution devotes the
domain to union. to justice, to defense, to
welfare, to liberty. Eat there is q hioher
Idt0 than The Constitution, which regulates
| our authority over the domain aad deyotes
it to the same noble purposes"
| When this was proclaimed from his high
place in the Senate, full unbrided license
was preached, and slavery was to be destroy.
ed at all hazards. The sentiment which
broke from Wendell Phillips was endorsed in
high places. The Whig party was at once
dissolved, and an organization at once Great
ed solely on the slavery question. But COM
ment is unnecessary. will give incontro-
Vertlble evidence from the declarations of their
most prominent leaders to substantiate nv
position.
Mr.. Mann who stood prominent in the par
ty deliberately declared:
81 have only to add, under a full sense of
my responsibility to my country and NV
God, deliberately say, better disunion. bet
Ter CIVIL or servile war, better anything that
God IN His Providence shall send, than an
extension of the bonds of Slavery"
Mr.. Burlingame, in the House of Repre-
sentatlVes, in speech in August, 1851, said
The times demand that we should have
an ANTI.SLAvERT CONSTITUTION. AN ANTI
SLAVERY BIBLE, AND AN ANTI-sLAvERY GOD"
These atrocous sentiments were endorsed
by the great body of the Republican party
by electing their authors to the highest hon
ors Of the country. Now, ask the purpose
aud objects of the party to be judged by no
other rule than their own declarations and
acts Judged by these their settled deter
minatlon was REVOLUTION, "to trauple nm
der foot the Constitution of this country. ;; and
the sWbrerSion of the Constitution is the over
throw of the Union. II is rcrolution because
1t changes IN fact our form of Government.
From the success Of such principles date
the commencement Of civil war. Here ia
where | see the origin, the primary cause of
our troubles. 1t was not simply the imposition
oil trltling tax on tea that caused the Am.
| erican Revolution, but it was the assertion of
Parliament to tax the colonies without their
consent. 1t was a controversy between the
Crown and Ministers on one side and the
| people on the other, in reference 20 powers of
government made under the British Consti-
| tuition. Now, do not believe that the raid
Of John Brown in Virginia or the election o
Abraham Lincoln as President was the cause
of this revolution but it was the assertion
of the right and duty of Congress to abolish
slavery. IL a1as tie assertion If TIE right to
abolish, accompanied by such acts aseridenc-
Ell the purpose TO abolish, thot ted to the Re-
rolut ion. The incontroyertible evidence OF
Republicans to strike down slavery "at all
hazards" and consequently State rights, may
be found in all their speeches, resolutions aud
political documents, and he who denies the
truth is either a fool or knave."
S. III. S.
Ill The following rich scene is said to
| hova lofa II,