Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-21
The Constituencies and snconsisten-
cies OF the ncpu bIi can Party.

OF The Hon GAYLORD /. CLARK, Of New York,
which IN the present iuncture otpubIic affars.are
eminentiy worthy Of attention aud consideration.
Mr. CLARK shows up in mastery style the con-
sisrencies and Inconsistencies OF the Republican
party or iis leaders and proves most eouclusively
that the men who lead and control the Repub-
lican organization, are self-proclaimeJ revolu-
lionisls. and thAi they sought. ard NOW wage the
present civil var, aot for the preservation Of the
Union, but for the abolition Of slavery or the
permanent dissolution of the Uuion-that they
are the enemies both of the Constitution and the
Union. We give the following extracts to show.
first the
CONSISTENCY or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Abraham Lincoln undoubtedly EXPRESSED IN.
fixed resolve Of The lenders OF his party in case
they came into power. when years ago, he said
81 believe this Government cannDt endure
marently-haif free and half slave
Which, being stated in plain terms, means that
the Government Of Washington jefferson and
the Fathers-and which gave u prosperity for
over seventy years-was 10 be destroyed, aud a
new one established on its ruins
William II. Seward, in his celebrated Ohio
speech. said:
II slavery can and must be abol-
ished, aud YOU and must DO it, You
will soon bring the parties of the country into an
effective aggression upon slavery"
In a speech made IN the Senate, March ii
1880. Seward threatening the Southern States
with civil war, unless they emaneipated their
slaves. said
When this answer shall be given. it will APP
pear that the question OF dissolying the Union. is
complex question that embraces the fearful is
sue whether the Union shall standard slavery
under the steady. peaceful action OF moral. social
and political causes be removed by gradual,
voluntary effort, ana with compensatiOn-Or.
whether the Union shall be dissolved. and civil
wars ensue; bringing on violent. but complete
and immediate emancipation. We ave now ar
rived at that stage when that crisis can be fore
seen-when must fOresee it. IL is directly
before US Its shadow IS upon us .
In speech made in Albany, Oct ~, 1853, he
said:
"Slavery il not. and can never be, perpetual
IL will be Oyerthr0wn peacefully and lawfully
ur der this Constitution, or it viii work the sub
version of the Constitution, together with lis 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, $50. that rifles aud can
non would soon take the place of words. He
said
1.-The solemnity of the occasion draws over our
heads that cloud of disunion which always arises
whenever the subject of slavery i agitated.
Sull the debate goes on more ardently earnestly
and angrily than ever before. 1t employs now
not merely logic, reproach, menace. retort and
defiance, but sabres rifles aud cannon"
In the same speech, after declaring that the
agitation of the slavery question would lead to
a war betw cen the North and South he said:
th..E ra nd # f,a
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 "A Union. productive no
longer of peace, safety and liberty to themseles.
and no longer holding up the cherished
hopes OF mankind.
" p Banks formerly Governor of Massachu-
sets Speaker of the House of Representatives
in le56 aud now Major General in the Lincoln
army, in a speech deliv in Maine in lo55,
said:
although | am not one of that class OF men
who cry for the preservation of the Union; al
though am wiling in a certain state OF crcum
stances. TO let il 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
propagate chatiel property in man-in other
words. human slavery-this Union cannot and
ought not to stand
In speech made in Massachusetts,, in 1856,
he said:
Il cannot conceive of n time when this Consti-
tuition shall not be in existence; when We shall
have an absolute DictatOria Government, trans
mitted from age TO age, with men at its head
who are made rulers by military commission. or
who claim hereditary right to govern those
over whom they are placed"
Benjamin Wade, Senator from Ohio, in a
speech made in 1855, said:
iIx Tp,n ha,u h.
and South; and believe 10 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 divesting il entirely
from all tnint of slavery. There is no Union in
the South. Let us have a Union or let us sweep
away this remnant which we call Union | go
for Union where all men are equal or for no
Union at all
shire, in speech delivered on the 10Th Of
July. lS4S. used this language:
"AI the horrors of dissolution | can look stead
fastlv in the face, before | could look to that
moral ruin which must fall upon US when we have
so far prostituted ourselves as to become the
pioneers of slavery in the Territories
Again in speech in the Senate. February l6,
1856, he said:
The Senator says there may be power that
snhit say, nus IaT Snilt tnouHn 20, ana no lar
ther " Good Good Sir. hope il will come
and if il comes to blood. let blood come No
sIT If that sue must come. let il come, and il
cannot come too soon. - Sir puritan blood
has not always shrank from even those encoun-
tiers and when the war has been proclaimed with
the knife. and the kuile to the ht, the steel has
sometimes glistened in their hands: and when the
battle Was over, they not always second
best "
Charles Sumner Senator from Massachusetts
used this language in a speech delivered in Fan.
ue Hall Boston. n vent er ? lc.5:
Not that | loved the Union less but (necro)
freedom more. do NOW, in pleading this great
cause insist That tnegrol freedom, IT all hazards
shall be preserved. God forbid, that for the sake
of the Unin. We should sacrifice the very thing
tor which the Union made"
In a speech delivered in the Senate, on the
18Th and 9th of May. 1856 Sumner said:
Already the muster has begun. The strife
is no longer local. but national Even now while
| speak portents hang all the arches of the
horizon, threatening to daIken the broad land
which already yawns with the mutterngs of civil
war The fury of the propagandist of slavery.
All the calm determination of their opponents,
are now diifUSed from the distant Territory over
widespread communities. and the whole country
il foreShadowine strife. which, unless happily
averted By the triumph Of freedom will become
war-iratricdal parricida war
Horace Mann. in speech made in the House
of Representatives. said
81 have only 20 add. under full sense of my
responsibility to nv country and my God. | de
iberttelv say better disunion. better a servie