Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-12
BLAINE.
What the Candidate. of any
Party got for Attacking
Blaine.
Poor Old C. T. Adams Cut up in Dish
Of Hash with Ben Hill, Tarbox
and Proctor Knott.
MIR. RiaIne made a Speech at Cincinnati Last
Week, and In the Course OF It Referred to
Charles FraEeis Adams as Follows:

tiers of Hon. Charles Francis Adams,
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of Massachusetts, are being dis
seminated through the Associated
Press, and circulated as campaign
tracts by bis brother Democrats OF
the West. In these letters Mr.. Adams
goes out of his way quite gratuitously
to speak of myself in tone that is
personally offensive. | have neither
the time nor desire TO exchange per-
sonalities with any one in this cam
paign, but there is very important
chapter in the
LIFE OF MR.. ADAMS
which at this time should be recalled.
| commend the facts which ! am
about to set forth TO those voters who
may be led by the sound of Mr..
Adams name, to give heed to his
counsel | speak from the records,
and by the record. After the Repub-
Iican victory in 1860, which resulted
in the election of Abraham Lincoln
for the presidency, Mr.. Adams, then
a representative in Congress from
Massachusetts, sought with all his in
fuence to deprive the country of
everything that had been gained in
the struggle. If anything had been
settled by that election, it was that
slavery should be put in the course
of extinction by prohibiting its intro
duction in free territory; and yet as
soon as Southern Democrats in Con-
gress began their threats of disunion,
Mr.. Adams knees smote with fear,
aud bis tongue became palsied for any
utterance except in support of slavery.
His whole course during the closing
session of the seth Congress interven-
ing between Mr.. Lincoln's election
and Inauguration was one of treason
to the cause of liberty, and desertlon
from the cause of the Union. He
offered every hum;liating concession
to the South agreed to abandon the
prohibition of slavery in the terrific
ries, and, as a climax of degrading
and dishonoring conditions, he offered
to amend the constitution of the Unit
ed States so as to render the abolition
of slavery impossible, so long as a
single slave State shall object. The
amendment go warmly urged by Mr..
Adams declare in effect that
NO AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
in any way interfering with slavery
in the States should ever be even SO
much as offered, except by one of the
slave States, and should not be adopt
ed except with the consent of every
slave State.
When, in 1888 Arkansas applied for
admission into the Union, with con-
stitution which forever prohibited the
Legislature from touching slavery ex-
cept with the consent of shareholders,
John Quincy Adams declared such a
provision to be Infamous beyond the
power of expression, and yet Charles
Francis Adams in 1861 offered, urged,
intreated and pleaded for an amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States which appealed to the whole
country far more Infamous principle
than was contained in the Arkansas
constitution OF 1888. Every fran
chise you enjoy under the constitution
of the United States, your right to
vote, your freedom of religious opin-
ion, your trial by jury, your right
even to representation, were left open
to change by the ordinary process OF
amending the constitution; but Mr..
Adams proposed to give slavery far
more
SACRED GUARANTEE.
than had ever been given to liberty,
and TO enshrine it as the sole thing OF
superior right, placing it beyond the
power of ninety.nine hundredths OF
the people of the United States to
abolish it, unless a slave State should
propose it, and every other slave
State vote for 1t. There is no paral-
lei to this in history /; 20 ukase OF
Russian despotism, in the darkest
days of Romanoff tyranny, ever SO
bound its own hands and placed it
beyond its own power to do mercy
and work righteousness in the future,
as Mr.. Adams proposed to bind the
hands of the United States, and de-
prive our own government for al
time of the power TO emancipato q
single tlave, so long as one slave
State should object and Mr.. Adams
has
NEVER FORGIVEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN
for defeating this atrocious measure
Fortunately by Mr.. Lincoln's silen,
influence, exerted from his Illinois
home, through Owen Lovejoy, Elihu
Washburne, and other representa-.
tive friend in Congress, the odiou:
proposition was stranged without
even coming to direct vote {; but
not until Mr.. Adams had made az
elaborate plea for it, and years after
Mr.. Lincoln had gone to the martyr:
grave, a grave believed with the
tears of millions, including those
emanoipated negroes whom Mr..
Adams had sought to keep in eterna
bondage.
Mr.. Adams took occasion,in a eulogy
on Mr.. Seward to depreciate belittle
and dishonor the grandest man that
has ever sat IN the presidential chair
since George Washington. Mr.. AID
ans, in this petty and paltry course,
was seeking an ignoble revenge over
the dead patriot, who, when living,
could never refer to the constitutions
al amendment hich Mr.. Adams ad-
vocated without chill of horror
Mr.. Lincoln, indeed, often declared
that no crisis of the war was so terri
bic, and no possible issue OF it SO de-
structiye, as the proposition OF Mr..
Adams to found the continuance Of
tho Jrpion on the remorseless, hone