The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-04-18
ABOLITION OR D1sUN1oN,

ABOLITION OR DIsUNIOIa
A Ten Yexr's Record of the Republic,
Party--'. The Union a. It Was'' r,
Pudiated.
The principal elsctioneering cry of Il
Abolition party now is, to stigmatize ever
body as Disunionists who will not endors
all their ultra and revolutionary measure
In the meantime they kept their own r,
cord in the back:: ground, whicn il fully Q,
posed, would show that they have f
years been endeavoring to get tho countr
in just such position as 1t Is now, in ords
to carry out their darling object of freein
the negroes. We propose 70 show, BY o.
tracts from the speeches aud addresses &
these leaders, that they have long labore
with great earnestness to bring on civi
war, and have hailed its prospect with Joy
in the hopes either to destroy negr
slavery" or the Union. 1t will be seel
that the sum and substance of all thes
extracts which we shall give, afnotint I,
just this DESTROY SLAVERY OR BREAk VI
THE USIos that is, degrade white mer
everywhere to level with negroes, q
destroy the Union. Now, to overthrow
negro slavery. everybody knows, yo,
must destroy the Union and the Constitu
ton, as formed by George Washington
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, &c.
for the right of each State to manage and
control the negro race within its own
limits, as the citizens there might deem it tc
their interests, was the very Fundamental
spirit and law Of Mat Union. The man
therefore, who strikes down thst right o.
A.N- >N.,l.
this fact be borne in mind, while reading
the extracts, and let it also be remembered
that wherever these men use the word
" freedom, they mean negro freedom. In
order to render the real meaning more
apparent, to a hasty reader, we have IN
serted the word negro in parennhe. is
wherever the word freedom occurs We
commence, first, with the great pioneers OF
the Abolition movement, Garrison and
Phillips For years they did not come up
to their ideas of simon pure ant,-slavery
organizatian. Still, they always encourag.
ed it, and prophesied that it would even
tually be all right-that it was educating
the people to the proper point-ABoLrrlox
or DIsuSIoS Here is
THE fLArFoRx OF PHILLIPS AND GARRISON.
The Constitution of our fathers was .
mistake. Tear IL in pieces, aud make better
Don't say the machine is out of order it
i: n order it does what its trainers intend
ed-protect slavery. Our claim is Disunion,
5reaking UP Of the States have shown
you that our work cannot be done under
our institutions.-l Wendell Phillips.
This Union is Gei The Amer,ean Union
Is an Impo5turs, a Covenant ,cith Death and an
Agreement With He'll *# 1 am
for II. Orer.h-o,c Up with the flag
OF Disu"ion, that We may have free and
glorious Republic Of our own; and when
the hour shall come. the hour will have
arrived that shall witness the overthrow
of slavery-I W'u Lloyd Garrison.
Such was the platform of these two bold
but bad and honest men. They said just
what they wanted TO accomplish. The
Republican leaders we're more cautious,
but their doctrines al~ay. tended to tn e
same result, and hence the sympathy be-
tween them. Here is what Phillips said
of tho RapUbiiran party, ~hen il w-a or
ganized AS sectional party and il will be
noticed how we'll and how truly he pic.
tured it:
PLEDGED AGAINST THE SOUTH.
No man has right to be surprised at
this state of things 1t is just what we
(Aboliionistx and Disunionists) have at.
tempted to bring about. 1t is the first
So ctsondl party eer organized in his country. 1t
does rot know its own face, and it calls
itself national; but ii is not Nationalist is
sectional The Republican party is a party
Of the North pledged against the .South-
Wendell Phihips
MOULDING PUBLIC oPiNioy
Again Garrison in his LiGerator, said still
more explicitly:
The Republican party is moulding pub
lie sentiment in the right direction Tor tn e
specific work the Abolitionists are striving
to accomplish, VIZ z:-The Dissolution Of the
Union, and the AbsH.ion Of Slavery tiu uou3h bout
the land
All the while that the Abolitienists were
talking thus boldly, the Republican leaders
pretended to the people that Garrison and
Phillips did not represent their sentiments !;
but let it be- remembered that they ex-
pressed almost substantially the same
sentiments, yet in more vague and un.
certain language. As general rule, they
seemed to be pleased with, and in favor of
the Constitution and the Union, but tried
TO make the people believe that George
Washington formed Union for neors
freedom and negro equality! or in other
words, \ Union tha: would have plat ed
him on a level with his own niggers !!
People ought to have been too sensible 10
have been humbugged with such stuff, but
many were.
We now proceed to notice the sentiments
of SO called Republicans. First We will see
WHAT Mr.. LINCOLN SAYS.
81 believe this government cannot en-
dure halc slave and half free e"-A6rdham
kncoln
That is, that it cannot endure as Wash.
ington formed it, as j: existdi for seventy
years. Mr.. Garrison was d exactly tho
same opinion, and though Mr.. Lincoln
does not say all that Mr.. Garrison does,
yet the person must be nihny who cam
not see what Mr.. Lincoln's real meaning
Is.
We will now see what Mr. Seward says.
lie has been bolder, and yet has always
contrived to cover up his ideas in words,
words as much as possible. The follow
ing is an extract from hh celebrated
speech:
AGGRESSION l3 TIE WORD!
(Hrom sewaras Ohio Special
- It (slavery) can and must
be abolished, and you and l must 10 it
Correct your own erro that
slavery has constitutional guahntees
which may not be released, and ouiht not
to be relinquished YM will
soon bring the parties of the county into
an Effective aggrsssion upon slavery"
There it is again, aggression on slavery
that is, on the rights of the Staies-or
| the Union.
But We will notice the program nne OF
this party further. and see how FIR they
have aimed to bring about exactly the
present terrible civil war, rs neans to
accomplish their purposes. 1t viii be re-
membered that q man named Hinton
Bowen Helper, once on . time published
a book, called the Impending Crisis,
and that this same Helper is no~ one o,
Mr.. Lincoln OGeieb-a consul somewhere