The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-04-18
set in nd,apery, crimsonei in its blood, ii
reaches a Century Of its eristenee

set in d,apery, crimsonei in its oecn blood, ere
reaches a century Of its eristenee
JUDGE RUFUS p sPAULDING
Now let us hear from Judge Rufus I
Spaulding, delegate from Ohio to Oh
Black Republ! !can National Convention @
1886 and 1860. He made speech in tn
Convention of 1856, which nominated
Fremont in which he said -
! In the case of the alternatives bein,
presented, Of the Continuance of slavery or
dissolution of the Union am for Dissoiu
lion and 1 care not ho1 quick i. comes.
HON HORACE MANN.
Hon. Horace Mann was once q membe
of Congress from Massachusetts,, and {:
favorite elder in the Black Republican
church. We quote from::hi speech in the
House of Representatives
have only to add, under a full sense
Of my responsibility to my country and
my God, deliberately say, better disunion
better serviie ,cor, better anything that
God in His Providence shall send, than an
extension OF the bonds of slavery.
SENATOR SUMNER
Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, in q
speech delivered in Faneuil Hall; Boston
November 2, 1855, said:-
Not that | love the Union less, but
(negro) freedom more, do | now, in plead
ing this great cause, insist that (negro)
freedom, al all hazards, shall be preserved.
God forbid, Mdt fer the sake Of tie Union, we
should sacrifice the very thitIg for which
the Union was made
Still later, on the 18th and 30 OF May,
1856, in speech delivered in the Senate,
Mr. Sumner held this reYolrt iorary Ian
guage
Already the master has begun. The
strife is Eo longer local, but national
Even now while speak !portents hang On
arches Of the horizon, threatening to dark
en- the broad land, which already ya,ons ,oith
The mattsrings Of ctuH war. The fury Of the
propagandists of slavery, and the calm
determination Of their opponents, are now
diffused from the distant Territory over
wide spread communities, and the whole
country in all its extent-marshalling
hostile divisions, and foreshadowiug a
strife, which, unless happily averted by
the triumph Of freedom, oiN Lcc0me ,oar-
fratricidai, parrieiial uar-with an accumu.
lated wickedness of any war in human
annals
HON. FRANCIS SPINNER.
we next quote from n speech delivered
in 1856. by the Hon. Franci. r. Spinner,
now Register Of the Treasury Department
under Mr.. Chase:
should the election of Fremont fail, no
true man would be any longer safe here
from the assaults Of the arrogant slave
oigarchy who would then rule with an
iron hand. FOR the free North would be
10th the choice of peaceful dissolution q
the Union, a ciriL rar which would cad in
the same or an unconditional surrender
of every principle held dear by freemen.
HENRY WARD BEECHEK
To the Same effect spoke that bright
and shining light of Black Republicanism,
the Rev Henry Ward Beecher, in that eel
ebrated speech OF hIs at New Haven, in
1856, where he proclaimed that "Sharp's
rifles was truly moral agency" Hear
him:
The people will not levy war, nor inau-
Gurato a revolution even TO relieve Kan
sas, until they have first tried what they
can do by voting. If this peaceful reme-
dy should fail to be applied this year, then
the people will count the cost wisely and
decide for themselves boldly and firmly.
which is the better way, 10 ri,e in arms ard
aro'o IF yorerHnent, worse than that OF
old King George, or endure it another
four years and then vote again.
In the speech Mr. B echer thus do
nounced the Constitution and the Union
The Constitution is the cause of every
division which this vexed question OF slave
ry has ever occasioned IN this country. 1t
has been tho fountain and father of the
troubles, bs attempting TO hold together,
as reccnciiee, two opposing principles,
which will not harmonic, nor agree
The only hope of the slave is over the ru-
ins of the Government and Of the Ameri
IAN Church. The dissolution Of tie Cnton is
the abolition Of slavery.
Gen. JAMES WATSON WEBB
Mr.. Lincoln's Minister to Brazil, was a
delegate to the convention that nominal
ed Fremont in lS56. and Lincoln in 1869.
In the former convention he made a
speech, which was loudly applauded, but
no sentence received more boisterous ap-
plau.e than the following:
Our people--loving order, loving law,
and willing to abide by the ballot box
come together from all parts Of the Union
and ask us to give a nomination which.
when fairly put before the people, will
unite public sentiments and then the bal
lot box will restrain aggression of slaveoc
racy. What else are they doing? They
tell you they are willing to abide by the
ballot box. and are willing to make that
last appeal If we fail there what then
We will drive it back, s,co,d IN hard, and
so help me God, believeing that to be
right, am with them Northern gem
tlemen, on your action depends the result.
You may, with Gods blessings, present to
this country a name, railyins around 1t all
the elements Of the opposition, and thus
We will become SO strong that, through
the ballot box we shall save the country.
But if a name be presented on which we
may not rally, and the consequence is cirH
,car-I ask then, what is our first duty?
HON. ERAsTUS HOPKINS.
In the same strain spoke the Hon. Eras
tus Hopkins, another member of the Con-
vention. lie said:
If peaceful means fail us, and We are
driven to the last extremity, when ballots
are useless, then We will moke tuliets et'ec-
hre.
HON. JOHN P. HALE.
Hon. John P Hale, of New Hampshire,
was also delegate to the Convention, and
addressed it in a long speech, in which he
said:
lie congratulated the Convention upon
the spirit of unanimity with which it had
done its work l believe (said hey that
this is not so much Convention to change
the administration of the Government, as
to say ,ohether there shall be any government to
be administered You have assembled, not
to saw whether this Union shall be pre-
served, but to say whether it shall be a
blessing or a scorn and hissiDg among ma
tions.
As this gentleman is one Of the main
pillars in the Black Republican edifice,
and has been twice electei by them to the
United States Senate, We have examined
hw record pretty closely, as developed in
his speeches in the Senate. On the 3lst
of May lS4S, ne said: f-f .'sI
Let the consequences be what they may,