The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-15

Inc hrst national platform OF the
Abolition party, 1910, favored the aboli-
ton Of slayerg in the District Of Colum-
bia and 3fritories, the interstate
slave trade, and general opposition to
slavery to the full extent of constitu.
tional power.
In 1s4s, that portion of the party
which did not support the Buffalo nomi-
lnees affirmed the constitutional autho.
rity and duty of the General Govern
ment to abolish slavery in the States.-
The Buffalo Convention, which nomi-
mated Van Buren, for President, and G.
F. Adams (present United States Minis
ter in England) ~ Vice President, pro-
posed no interference by Congress with
slavery within the limits of any State,
but opposed its extension into the terri
tories, and declared that it was the set
tied policy of the nation to limit, local
ize and discourage slavery.
In 1852, the Independent Demo-
crats," who supported John P. Hale for
President, had for their motto: "No
more slave States, no slave territory, no
nationalized slavery, and no national
legislation for the extradition of slaves"
The National Anti~Slare1y Standard
of June 81, 1856, said of the then new
Republican party: "It has sprung from
the anti slavery movement, and whatever
Of strength and hope it has, lies in the
anti-slavery feeling of the Northern
mind. 1t is vain that servile men -pleasers
seek to separate this effect from it's anti :
slavery origin. The shareholders stamp
it with its real character, and describe it
better than it likes to do itself. It is
true that the differing sagacities of the
Shareholders and the Abolitionists both
discern that this must be the ultimate
result"
In debate in the New England Anti
Slavery Convention, May Goth, 1856,
Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison contended that
the Abolition party did not always ac-
cord to the Republican party all that
Justice demands. lie maintained that,
in its attitude towards 1.-THE slave
wer," it gave sign of progress which
ADolitionists had no cause to la ment.-
81 hope," he said, "to see many of
them take their position under the ban
ner of disunion. l have said, again and
again, that in proportion to the growth
of disunionism will be the growth of Re.
pubiicanism or Freesoilism."
On the 10th Janu~y, 1866, Rev. Mr..
Beecher advocated fight, for the pur-
pose of settling the question between
North and South. He believed that the
Sharpe rifle was truly moral agency.
Mr.. w. 0. Duval said: 81 sincerely
hope civil war may soon burst upon
the country. Iwant to see American
slavery abolished in my time" "When
the time arrives for the streets of our
cities to run with blood to the horses
brides, if the writer of this be living,
there will be one heart to rejoice at the
retributive justice of Heaven" We
have not heard whether this amiable
gentleman is living" If he is, like
most of his class, he keeps out of the
war, and contents himself with "re-
joicing at the rctrihutive justice"
At the American Anti-Slavery meet
ing, May 13, 1857, Rev. A. I. Foss
said: "If the Angel Gabriel had done
what tbcir fathers did (made a constitu-
tional provision for the rendition of fugi-
tive slaves, he would be scoundrel
for it. There never was an hour when
this blaSphemous and Infamous Govern.
ment should be made, and now the hour
was to be pra yed Tor when that disgrace
to humanity should be dashed to pieces
forever"
Rev. A. 3. rockingham, at some
meeting. demanded disunion: off We
would abolish the ignorance and gloom
in which the crime of slavery shadows
itself, we must withdraw from it. In nc
temper Of malignityner animosity to
ward the shareholders need this be
DONE"
$50 long as this blood-stained Unior
existed there was but little hope for thu
slave. ."-Garrison at some meeting.
MARX how stands Massachusetts,
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