Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-04-21

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the States have shown you that work be dor
/ under institutions" aagf .asa
Again ne sadi No act Of ours do we regard with NOR
conscentious approval higher satisfaction, do
submit confidently to the tribunal of Heaven and th
verdict Of mankind than when several years ago.
the 4h Of July in the presence of great assemb
mllted to the flames the Constitution of the United States
Henry Ward Bee cher says: ,
grea. many people riss cry about The ONION and h'
oases .s Sss Is The Ssl sauss Of fes s.er %
dvson which this vexed question of slavery
troubles by attempting to hold together as rec ed two op
posing principles which will not harmonic agree
Salmon p. Chase says:
Slavery in the States world continue year after the
accession Of the antisavery party to power a
| Fred. Douglas says: s.a ats
"From this forth consecrae the labor Of INV life to
the dissolution OF the Uion whether the bolt
that rends it shall come from hea from hall"
The True American a Republican organ in Erie coun.
~ Pennsylvana, In commenting upon speech deli versd
az = democratic meeting, says;
This twadde about the Union and its preservation too
sly and sckening for good effect We think that ths
liberty q single saye worth than all the Unone
Goo universe can hold"
quote from the New York Tribune, which was laid
upon the members desks just before tho passage of the
Kansas Nebraska act:
We urge, therefore, anbendng determination on part
OF Northern hostile this intoerbe outrage aud
demand Of them in behalf peace ia behal of freedom
oi Justice and humanity resistance to the last Bet
reign in the national better that Congress sh
break up will disorder-nay better that the Ca, to
shoud baze by the torch If the incendary fail and
bury all ts inmates beneath its crumbng ruins than that
TINS perm iy and wrong should finally accomp mpsled."
Gen Banks said II am willing in certain contin-
gency to let the Union slide"
Mr. Burlingame present minister to the Celestial EN-
pire, said In speech in Indiana:
!, Ihat the time will come when have anti
slavery God
feV Dr Bellows President of the Sanitary Commission
10 one OF his public dscourses in the city of New York
disgraced the pulpit by utteriug the following
longer defence of the Un,on the Consti
tunon and the eforcement of the avs It is BE-
carried on no longer with the aim of re-esabsnng the
means not to let Us OIL with any halfway work ap, now
convinced and consider it the humane
nomcal and the statesmanlke take the most
radical ground possible that this the
on or determination of sl who wish 70
maintain the slave power; get rid of slavery and
SHAREHOLDERS, whether it be constitutional or not"
The American Antislavery Society passed the follow
ing resolutions:
" ResoiDed, That secession from the United States Gov
ernmens is the duty of every Abolition since can
take office or depote his under tuition with
out violating his antsavery principles and rendering him
self an ab-ttor to the stakeholder and committing sin
" Reso'oed, That years of warfare against the slave
power have convinced every at done in support
The American Union iiv he chain the slave that the
must be the remains Of present church
and 10 grave OF the present Union.
Resotced That the Abolionsts of this country should
make u one of the primary objects of this agitation too
solve the American Union.' esI
The present United States Treasurer (Mr Spinner
said during the Fremont campaign:
Should this the election Fremont fail no true man
Wou be any longer safe here from the of
giant slave ogarchy would rule with an iron md
io ne ee would De left the choice Of peaceful desc
luton OF the Union, civil war which would end in
or an surrender of every principle held dear by
frsemen." ea
james s. Pike, long editorialy connected with the
New York Tribune, and now Minister to Tho
said
have doubt that the free and slave States ought to
separate The Union aot worth supporting in
John w. Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Press,
over the nom de plume Of Occasional" !" writing to hs
paper SAID:
Let us unite The North by any means. When men no
that does speak with respect cause and the
a.g Do awav with politics. with uxurier with comforts
Let cease for the speak of laws restrictions
and what are called safeguards
Mr. Seward. at Boston, ioreshadowsd the purpose Of
the abolition party:
"What commentary upon the history of man the
that eighteen after the death of John Quincy Adams
conerring The obligations of the higher law which the
Of Quincy proclaimed and contendng for woe
and slavery desire only to say that we are the Las
of he conflict before the great triumphant naugu
ration Of this policy ino the Government of the United
states"
Mr. Seward in the Senate, threw this frebrand at the
South
fen the free States and slave States the Atlantic
divided and warning with each other would disgust the
free States Of the Pacific, and they would have a6uuda
cause and justification tor withdrawing from the Union
productive longer of peace safety and liberty them
selves, &C
In the Republican Convention of Chicago, 1860 at
which Mr. Lincoln nominated, the following occurred
among the proceedings published in the New York
Tribune of May, 1860:
Judge Jessnp said that he desired amend ver bal mis-
take the of the party IL printed in the resou
ton National Republican party He wished strike out
the word naonal that the name by which the
party properly known"
p Ranks, in speech in Massachusetts, in 1856 thus
predicts military dictstoral government"
I" conceive of time when this Constitution shall not
be in exteuce when shall have absolute military die
aiorial government, transmitted from age
head who made rulers by mi itary commission or
are placed
Mr.. Schurz, in 1860 said:
NAV the God human nature aroused pierce the
very soul Of nation with energy that shall
besom Of destruction this abomnaou slAverv)
the and call this revolution; 10 IT, In this need
evolution. We lst we will Lave il. Let it GOMEZ
Mr. woop continued will not detsin the House by
the readinp OF any extracts to prove the allegation
which | made, that the Republican party, which now
rules this country conceived and born in spirit OF
dsnnion and that whoever else may rebuks my friend
from OHIO (Mr LoNG) that side Of the House should
take no exception any language that may bs used look
| ine to disunion recognition
Sir am not in favor of recognition / have held but
one language and assumed but position since the
breaking out Of this unfortunate revolution am opposed
to recognising in any contingency until after the exhaus
ton OF peaceful negotiation tbs independence Of the South
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