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

Q: That shareholders are nuisances, an
that it is our imperative duty 70 .bsts un
n sances; We propose, therefore, to abolis
: slavery, than which strychnine itself Is les
anuisance. Page l39
Z. That slaveholders are more cruel tha,
common murderers Page l49.
.. That Shareholders are under tn
shield of perpetual license to murder
Page l4l.
~ That if tho negroes had chance
. they would be delighted to cut their mas
! ters' throats. Page l5S
H. That we are welded to Our purpose
from which no earthly power can drive
u. We are determined to abolish slate.
~ At all hasarde. Page l49.
ii. That there il scarcely q spark o
honor or magnanimity among slavehold
srs. Page l53.
~. That now is the appropriate tine to
strike for freedom in the South Page
l53.
PROGRAMME RECOMMENDED
j l. Thorough organization and indspend.
eDe political action On the part Of non-
slaveholding whites of the South
2. Ineligibility of shareholders; never
another vote to the trafficker in human
flesh.
3. No cooperation with Shareholders in
politics, no fellowship with them in relig-
ion, no afiiliatlen with them in society
4 No patronage to slaveholding mer.
Chants; no guests to slave waiting no.
tells; no fees to slave holding lawyers; no
employment to slaveholding physicians;
no audience to slave holding parsons.
5. No recognition to pro slavery men,
except As rutiians, outlaws and criminals.
D. Thus, terror engenderers of the South,
have We fully and frankly defined our
position; We have no modif cations to
! propose, no compromises to offer, nothing
TO retract- Frown, sirs, fret, foam, pre-.
| pare your weapons; threat; strike. shoot,
stab, bring on civil war dissolve the Union,
nay annihIlat the solar system If you will
| do ali this, more, less, better, worse,
anything do what you will, sirs you can
neither foil nor intimidate us our purpose
| Is as firmly fixed as the eternal pillars Of
Heaven; we have determined to abolish
sLlvery and 50 help US God, a5ohsh Il zoe riW
Take this to bed with you to night sirs, q
think about it. dream over it, and let us
know how you feel to morrow morning
Page 60
Mr. sEwARD's ENDORSEMENT
Seward, Secretary Of State Of tho Lin.
coin Cabinet, endorsed the book contain
ing the above as follows:
AUBURN, June 2S, 1857.
GEyTLsxEN.-l have received from you
. copy Of your recent publication, entitled
the impending Crisis of the South. ana
have read 1t with deep attention 1t
seems to me a work of great ns.~it, rich,
yet accurate i'll statistical information and
l.. 4 \ 4 II -
will exert a great influence on the public
mind, in favor OF the cause Of Truth and
Justice.
am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your ob't servant,
w u. SEWARD
We now propose to show, from the
speeches and addresses OF lesser lights,
that all the teachings of this party and its
leaders have led to just the programme
laid down above As Garrison ssid. they
we're moulding public sentiment Tor
the dissolution OF the Union and abolition
Of slavery" We ask every candid man to
read the record and .hen say, if he can,
that they are not disunionists We will
commence with
GEN. n r. BANKS.
Governor Banks, Of Massachusetts,, who
re.entatiycs in 1856, by the Black Repub-
licans, nov one Of Mr.. Linceln's Major
Generals, in a speech, delivered in Maine,
in the preceding year, said
Although am not one of that class of
men who cry for the preservation Of the
Union; though l am willing, in certain
state Of circumstances, 10 let ii Side, ! have
no fear for Its perpetuation. But let me
say, if the chief object of the people of this
country be to maintain h propagate chattel
property in man-in 9th .r words, human
slavery-this Union cannot and ought not
to stand
Still later, in 1856, in a speech in Mass
achusetts, We find Mr. Banks turning
prophet, and predicting military dicta-
torial government" in this country. lie
had no faith in the stability of free insti-
tutions" He said:
can conceive Of time when this Con-
stitution shall not be in existence; when
we shall have an absolute military dictdtor,-
al government, remitted from age to age,
with men at It's head " no are made rulers
by military commission, or who claim an
whom they are placed.
SENATOR WADE OF OHIO.
In a speech at . mass meeting in Maine,
in 1855, the same at which Mr.. Banks
spoke, Senator Wade, of Ohio, gave utter
ance to the following reasonable senti-
ments:
There wasno freedom, al the south for either
riite or black and he would strive to pro-
tect the free soil Of the North from the
same blishting curse. There ,cas really
Union bet,ceen the North and the South and
he believed no t,co nations upon the earth en-
,.y fr~I ds
each other than these t,co sections Of the Repub.
Ge The only saludhon of tho onion, there-
fore, was to be found in dire,ting It entirely
from all faint Of slavery There was no Union
in the South. Let us have Union, or let
US ssceep a,Oay this remnant which zoe call
T'nioa. go for a Union, Where all msn are
equar, rr for no Union at all, and l 60 for
right
And, As if TO mark their approval of
such doctrine, the Black Republicans of
Ohio, the very next year, re elected this
disunionist to the Senate Of the United
States. His brother the Hon. Edward
Wade, has for a number of years, occupied
a seat IN the House of Representative. and
we find him, in speech delivered in the
House. August 2, 1856, indorsing the trsa
sonable doctrines Of his senatorial brother.
We quote:
Sir, if the Constitution and the Union
are to be used as instruments for propagat.
ing human bondage, they cannot be PRESCRIBED
neither is it desirable that they sh"uM. The
spirit which has taken possession Of the
shareholders, and their base tools, the
Democracy of the free States is the unclean
spirit of slavery propagandism and just
as sure as animal life perishss in mephitic
gases SO sure is it that the Constitution
and Union must perish when smothered in
the fond embraces of these allies of hu-
| man slavery.
"Allies of human slaveryr'-Washington,
jefferson, Madison. Jackson, Polk, DC, DC