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

wherejhave you known of one that has ever
favored dlsunicn or secessio on p What Dem
ocraticGonYention has ever by its resolution
endorsed or favored secession ? 3 Not ONE
Uponsthe other hand, how has it been with
our opponents cannot give you the Tdate,
bat you all remem ber as part OF the history
of the country the fact that some years agu
Senator Hale of New Hampshire, Mr.. Secre-
tary. Chase, recently of Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet
and Mr.. Seward TO day a Member of MI
Eincoln's Cabinet presented and sustained
a petition to Congress asking them todevise
some plan by which the Uniop might be
divided. .sls;ise) msr' a-f"t t-l .-"L
Nor need We stop here. In -848, Mr..
Lincoln, tue present President of the Unitsd
States, then menper of Congress from the
State Of Illinois, annou hced on the floor of
Congress his principle, that any people any,
where, being inclined, and having the power,
have right to Withdraw from the existing
goveTnnent and set up another to suit them
better. That look upon as ,prettie good
secession doctrine. Naughrer,) That is
just the doctrine that jeff Davis contends
Tor today. just the doctrine that he annpun5
ced at, the time of the secession of the Sou
thern States from this Union.-just the doc
trlne that the upholders of secession in the
South stand upon to day. You have the his,
toy Of Wendell Phillips before you. need
not repeat the hundreds of instances in which
that man, political preacher as he is, has de-
clared his hostility to the Union, has declaF-
ed himself to be in fovor for twenty years
past c{ dividing this Unioa. You have the
history Of Garrison before you, the man who
declared tina; the Constitution of the United
States was a league with death and cove
pent with hell" You have the history of
Mr. Greeley before ,--an old dis unio nlst.
What he has said or this subject On the
26th day OF November, 1860, Greeley said in
MS Tribune: 10 & ... -r.a .. ra1
If the cotton States uhitedly and earnest "
wish to withdraw peacefully from the Unoin
VIC think hey should and would be allowed
TO dose. Any attempt to compel them by
rec tn remain wonfd be contrary to the
principles enunciated'in the immortal Decla-
ra ton OF independence and contrary to the
fundamental ideas on which human liberty is
based" ...- r.., ....,...
On the 18th Of December following, white
South Carolina was in the very act of seced-
ng, Mr.. Greeley declared {: r37i lab
If the Declaration of Independence justi-
6ed d'the secession from the British Empire
Of three millions Of Colouists IN aIi7t..s,
do not sec why it would not justify the Sc
cession of five millions of Southerners from
the Unionia 1867
On the 23rd Of FEBRUARY 1861, after seven
States had already seeded, Mr.. Greeley
"Whcnever it shall be clear that the great
body of'the Southern people have become
alienot'd from the Union and
anxious to escape from tive will do our best
to forward their views" "".
1T were to announce such doctrines 10 Won
to-day from this stand, you would have rea-
son TO pronounce me .disloyal This man
Greeley very clearly defined his position at
subsequent time in the following language
At the Cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can DO better out of the Union than
n it, we insist on letting them 60 in peace
m pEacEi F'%.. B. ISIS" 4i3 @,. = =
Now, | believe, Mr.. Greeley is as violent a
war man as we can readily find. |
What right then, fclow-c citizens, has this
party to accuse as of sympathy with secession
Further,what right has this party to dsnouce
secession They have advocated in almost
tom the beginning: they are secession.
'arty. think may safely say that at one
ime or another ii the present leaders Of
ne Rnpublican party have Eeeu declared |
vowed secessionists. = ." Ec .t. ..~o7
'hen per'rit me to ask which of the two
reat parties is naturally the Union party of
he country. As was on my way here saw
t Scranton great bill in large letters posted
p against the wall Of one Of the hotel. there
headed Lincoln, johnson, and Union -
i'd you vii! recollect that last fall when il. in
diligence Of the defeat Of Judse Woodward
the ss22hernatorial contest in this State was
nnoppced. Secretary Stanton declared ina: iina: !
lat was great Un1on victory, that the elec.
on of Governor Curtia was great Union
luinph, Of more importance tn the couutry.
zen than great victory in the field. Aud
2u will reccolect tha: Wm. II. Seward in
'eent speech at Washington, made within
le past three weeks, used this lam
lage :" the issue is now fairly made I'D i
at issue ls Lincoln and Union or Mcclellan
I'd Dtsunion." (Laughter.) Here this old
7cess'on party, this party that has to day
pom tho statute. book of.he State of Massa.
luSetts secession statute uprepealed, th
eat Republican, party claims to be the In !