Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-10-08


Hale of New Hampshire, Mr.. Secretary
Chase, recently of Mr.. Lincoln Cabinet,
and Mr.. Sew ard, at this moment part Of
Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet, presented and sus.
tanned petition to Congress asking them
to devise some plan by which the Union
might be divided.
Nor need we stop here, In lS4S, Mr..
Lincoln, the present President Of the
United States, then member of Congress
from the State OF Illinois, announced on
the floor Of Congress this principle, that
any people, anywhere, being Inclined, and
having the power, have the right to with
draw from the existing government and sot
up another to suit them better, That look
upon as pretty good secession doctrine,
(Laughter.) That is just the doctrine that
Jeff Davis contends for 10 day, just the
doctrine that be announced at the time Of
tho secession Of the Southern States from
this Union Just the doctrine that the up
holders OF secession in the South stand
upon to day. You have the history of
Wendell Phillips before you naed not
repeat tho hundreds of instances in which
that man, political preacher as he is, has
declared his hostility to this Union, has
declared himself to have been in favor for
twenty years past Of dividing this Union,
You have the history of Garrison before
you, the man who dec ared that the Con-
stituton of the United States was "league
with death and a covenant with hell. -
lou have the history of Mr.. Grecy be-
fore you,-an old Disunionist What
has lie said on this subject! On the 26th
day of November 1860, Greeley said in
his Tribune
: "If the cotton States unitcdly and earn
estly wish to withdraw peacefully from
the Union, we think they .hould and would
be allowed 10 do SO. Any attompt to
compel them by force to remain would be
contrary to the principles enunciated in
the immortal Declaration OF 1nde pendence
and contrary to the fund am eutal ideas oD
which human liberty is based
On HE l7lh of December following,
while South Carolina was in the very act
OF secc4ing, Mr.. Greeley DECLARED
"If the Declaration oil Independence
pire Of three millions Of Coloni.ts in l776
We do not see why it would not justify
the secession Of five millions Of S)uhern
ers from the Union in 1851
On the 23rd of February lsdl, after
ssven States had air eady seeded, Mr.
Greeley sid
/ "Whcnever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Southern people have
become conclusiycly aiienated from the
Union and anxious to escape from il, VI
wall do our best to forward their views
If I were 10 announce such doctrines
to you today from this stand. YOU wouIl
have rctsjn to pronounce III" disioyal -
This man Greeley very CLEARLY defined hi
position at Il subsequent tim. IN the follow
ing language;
''Tf tue Cotton Stats shall seome 'ots
fed that they can dc better out Of the Uni
on than in il, we insist on letting them g
IN pe0cc." lN PEACE.
Now, believe, Mr. Greeley is a' vio en-
d war man as we can readily fnd.
What right then, fellow-citiz'ns, ha
this party to accus US Of sympathy nith Sc
ceasion Further, what right has this par
ty to denounce secession They have ad
vocated i; almos, from the beginning: the
are secession party. | think | ma
safely say that at one time or another a.
the present leaders of the Republican par
ty have been declared, avowed secession
lists.
Then permit me to ask which of tn
two great parties is natur0Iiy The Uno
party of the country As | was on m.
way here, saw at Scranton great bjl
in large letters posted up against the va
of one of the hotels there "headcd s Lin
oo'n, Johnson, and Union )" and you wi
recolleci thai last fall when Intelligence c
the defeat cf Judge Woodward in the GU
bernatorial contest in this State was an
. nounccd, Secretary Stanton declared tina
, that was a great Union victory, that th
election of Governor Curtin was grea
: Union triumph, Of more Importance 10 tn
| country even than great victory in tn
field And you will recollect that Wu
Ii. Seward in a recent speech at Washing
ington, made within the past three week:
: used this language "the Issue is now fail
, ly made up that issue is Lincoln an
Union or Mcclellan and DiSun,on.
Iaughter( Here this old Secession pal
; ty, this party that has to-day upon lh
statute book of the State of Mass acht
setts a secession statute unrepealed, tn
great Republican party claims to be tn
Iinion party and Mcclellan, who dc
. clares for the Union as the one and onl
, condition Of peace, is said to be the Dis
union candidate Isit not pretty pal
: ty to claim to be the Union party Al
, and it is not long since Mr.. Greeley called
, the Unconditional Unionparty (Laugh
: teri
What is the present issue : Is there a
Unconditional Union party in this countr.
Q and if SO which is it Mcclellan says th
f the Union is the only condition of peace
and he says more be says that with
0 view TO the restoration Of the Union he
}, in favor Of exhausting all the resources
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