The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-30
Memorable words.

lmmeolateIy aAteT tue election OF Aora-
ham Lincoln to the Presidency, Senator
Wilson, Of Massachusetts, announced the
object Of the successful party in these
memorable words, on The 9th Of Novem.
Fber, 1850, in the loyal city Of Boston, and
his loyal hearers enthusiastically cheer
ed" him: "Republicans," said this loyal
mouth.piece of the incoming Administra.
tion, tive have at length triumphed; we
have got our feet upon the neck Of the
South, and we will now crush them out
yes, we will grind them to powder" His
z4s1igsaSat, S,...>.:: >..:sG, hS0POaGose tATsSs
was adopted and reiterated by the leaders
and organs of the Administration; and by
insult and outrage they drove the South
into hostile attitude towards the Gov,
ernment. triumphant in opposition to
the votes Of large majority Of the peo-
pie of the United States, they knew they
could not retain the power they obtained
by accident il the Union remained lone
and indivisible"; and they determined TO
force out Of the Union the slaveholding
States They had petitioned Congress to
dissolve the Union and declared that they
would "have no Union with slave-hold-
ers" that there was an "irrepEessible
conflict" between freedom and slavery,
and that the latter should be wiped out
Now that they were in the ascendant, and
had the power, the purse and the sword,
they resolved to plunge the country into
fratricidal war in order to place their
"fcet upon the neck of the South, crush
them out and grind them to POWDER
With this atrOcious object in view they
goaded the South to madness, rejected all
peace propositions, and boasted that "in
ninety days" they could "crush the re-
bellion." A peace Convention" was
proposed BY the Legislature Of the noble
old Commonwealth Of Virginia, then in
the Union, which assembled at Washing.
ton. Although many delegates were sent
to it from the Northern States, to defeat
its patriotic and holy purpose, which was
the preservation Of peace and the Union,
yet that Convention agreed upon propo-
sitions to be submitted to the people for
ratification, which were satisfactory to
the South and honorable to all the States.
But, when those propositions were sub
mitted to Congress for its action, which
was necessary, the Administration men,
bers holding majority, defeated them
1t was then that Horace Greeley declared
that their infamous sectional platform was
"worth fifty Unions; and Chandler, the
besotted Senator from Michigan, said a
little blood letting will do good" Their
advice prevailed, and in spite of the ap-
peals of Douglas the Republicans rejected
every proposition for a compromises
This same Horace Greely, this hypocriti-
cal Unionist, in the spring Of 1871, on
commencing the publication of the New
York Tribune, announced his purpose to
be ito educate generation at the North
to hate the South" In 1861, twenty
years after, that education had been com.
pleted; the party Of hate came into pow
er, and the present gigantic fratricidal
war was begun. Its followers everywhere
sneered at the national flag, erased the
stars from it and called it "a flaunting
ie." Henry Clay said, twenty years ago,
Of the Abolitonists:
with them, the rights Of property are no.
thing the deficiency Of the powers Of the Gen.
eral Government is nothing the acknowledged
and inconestible powers Of the States are no
thing the dissolution of the Union, and the
overthrow of Government in which are con
centrated the hopes of the civilized world. are
nothing A single idea has taken possession o
their minds, and onward they pursue il, over
looking all barriers, reckless and regardless Of
all consequences"
And what unprejudiced man does not
confess, after three years of Abolition ex-
travagance, recklessness and corruption,
that Henry Clay spoke truly Pity that
his warning was uRheeded by the people
in the last Presidential contest. Will il
be in the next?
Said General Jackson to friend at tn,
Hermitage, short time before his death
"The Abolition party is disloval organiza
tion. Its pretended love for the Union meant
nothing more or less than civil war and disso
luton Of the Union. Honest men Of all partie.
should unite to expose its intentions and arres
its progress"
Truly did Gen. Jackson say the Abo
ition party is disloyal organization. y
Its whole history, its platform, the peti
tions of its members, the language of it:
leaders, the policy Of its representatives ir
authority, prove it "a disloyal organiza
tion." 1t provoked civil war in order tC
dissolve the Union. 1t hated the South
ern States because they rejected its here
sy. 1t could have averted civil war;
With it and it alone rested the RESPONSE
bility of war or peace. On this point we
have the positive, unqualified, unimpeach
ed evidence of Senator Douglas. In q
speech in the United States Senate, Janu.
ary Sd, 1861, referring to this subject, he
said, "the only difficulty in the way'of an
amicable adjustment is with the Republi.
can party" He declared that all the Sen.
ators of the South, before leaving the
Senate, expressed their earnest desire to
remain in the Union declared their will
ingness to accept any fair compromise.