North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-12

communicated 10 Tue mousse, instead 0f put
opt the fire first AND then instIsstsng ipqui
as to its cause"-doublless a very familiar
instance to you all Of Republican logic We
were of opinion that while the soldiers of our
ARMIES wefeiengsged In putting down the
armed rebellion, ! was always proper for the
civilians to inquile into the cause of the
troubles and apply the proper remedy; for
we knew that we could never (ap ply that
remedy without FIRST ascertainipg the, cause
Of the difficulty.
But the Republicans then were remarkably
sensitive on that point they did not like to
hear the " causen talked about J Din 1862.
however, they made new discovery. IbgR
'heJ stopped f9Yrblddng Democrats to talk
about the cause of the country's trouble and
Went to discussing il themselves . They
made the grand. discovery that stdpurv was
the cause Of all our troubles, and rtelnp,ed
to ram 1t down our thFoats.) As saldlbe-
ioie' the country got along very well, very
peacefully, very prosperonsly with slavery
tor many years; We had very little trouble
until the Republican party became, aboll-
ilonlzed and became. in Tact, the abolition
party OF the country: for tnele is no Repuub
hcan party now. There are but two parues
the Democratic party and the Abolition par
ty; and,it is idle for-the Republicans OF 1866
and 1860 to claim any longer that they are
not abolitionsts. They now dec Iare in fa.
Vor OF carrying on this war against slavery
Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation proc
tamation undertook to pledge the whole mill
tary and naval power of the country against
the institutions of slavery. HIS party sus.
tam MN and that proclamation ani are en-
deaVorlng TO reelect him with that avo wed
policy of his upon record Is not thar mar.
~, then an Abolition party? The old Abo-
htton party was never in favor ofwaging- war
against this peculiar Institution Of the South
never for involving the country, in. bloody
iratrcIdal war on its account ; at least /,
never SO declared itself. But the so,cal,ed
republican party, that only few years ago
| would have deemed itself insnltsd il termed
an Abolition party now stand squarely upon
Lincoln's platform In favor of employing the
whole military and naval power of the coun.
try against this institution Of the South. I
say therefore there are now but two great
parties in the country, the Democratic party
and the Abolition party. .s .,sU ......-t
j said that in 1862 the Republicans discov
cred that Stacery was the cause of all our
| troubles. In what sense can slavery be
considered the cause Of secession and Of the,
evils which have followed secession 2 If one
| of you, having little money in his pocket
| should happen to be robbed on the wav
home, you could say with precisely the same
propriety that money was the cause of your
being robbed. If you had not had the money
You would not have been robbed aud there.
! tore money was the cause hf robbery
| Therefore money should be dbol,sted lit
were not for the love of money! which in
heres in the human breast, our list Of crimes
would be very greatly reduced; therefore.
money Is to very large ext ent9 The icailse IF
crime 7 IfsIavefy lhadSnever lesisteI .there
would never have been an abolition marty
v1fthere had nSver been an abolition party;
there would never have been any secession
If there had been no secession, there would
have been no war But that is strange
way TO provethat slaveay is the cause ofthe |
wa! Now go back STEP Sorlong as sla-
very was let alone, so long as the constitu |
tionai principle that the federal government |
had me- power or Jurisdiction tver anv dones,
nc institution'ef any offhei States was rec
oen'zed and respected there was no secession
and no war. twas not until a political nr
ganization was formed on the basis of hostility
toan institu'ien Of the South over which
neithe" tn" federal government, nnr the eov.
erDnentofanv State where, 1t did not exist
had any sort Of power or authority, that
there was any trouble on This account and
Yet we are told that sLduery is the cause Of
all our ma tional troubles D la gjs.. .... :. Il
1t does not require a man of any great
men'nl capacity to see through all this ma
erahe attempt to disguise the true attitn le.
and policy Of the RennhIican party. kny
man can see IT that 1oM see It Anv man
that wat see can see that slavery was not
the cause the troubles which now aAfict
;he country; that if slavery had been let I
alone, as the Constitution comm anded US to
let IL alone, there would have been no trouble
on account Of the southern system of labor.
I need not stand here and argue to you that
we of the North have no better right TO
interfere with the system Of the labor of the
South than the people of the South have to
claim tho right to dictate to us what system
Of labor we shall adopt, IN the Northern
States. I think we should not be long IN
getting our backs up If the people Of the
South should attempt to dictate to us what
system of labor we should adopt here If