Year: 1862

rights Of the human race; but every one, upon
sober reflection, will see that nothing but mis-
chief can come from these improper assaults
upon the feelings and rights OF others Rest
asured, that the men found busy in this work
of discord. are not worthy Of your confidence,
and deserve your strongest reprobation." -


So spoke one of the greatest and wisest
patriots of American history. Counsels so
sacred and warnings 50 solemn, were disre-
garded by the Aboiitionists; and the Abolition
party continued to teach its reasonable doc
trines, and to preach its crusade against the
South and its institutions.


The results so wisely foretod, necessarily
followed. The denunciation of the South at
the North, was met by denunciation Of the
North at the South. Hostility in the North
to the institutions of the South provoked hos
tility in the South to the people of the North
The great mass of the people of the South
were loyal to the Union; but class of pub
lie men in the South had for some time been
tainted with dsIoyalty, and aimed to separate
all the Southern States from the Union,
whenever an opportunity should arise to carry
the people of the South with them. These
men zealously contributed to foment the Alb
clifton excitement at the North, and cxagger-
ated its power and importance at the South.
Thus faction begot faction; and the Abolition
party at the North produced the dsunion
party at the South. The spirit of Northern
Abolition and of Southern disunion insensibly
grew together for years, until the period of
the last Presidential election, when a bitter
animosty existed between large and power
full factions in the North and in the South


In the meantime, In 1876, the Whig
party most unhappily abandoned its organiza-
tons, and the present Republican party was
founded on the basis of the old Abolition
party. The best and most enlightened pa
triots of the Wings refused all alliance with
the new sectional party; but the vast body of
the Wings surrendered their national politics
to its narrow and sectional bgotry. The
great leaders of the Wing party were gone
The mighty voice of Webster, which always
spoke for the whole country, and never utter
ed sectional dogma, was silent forever. The
great head and heart of Clay, whose states
manship had served to save the Union from
more than one peril, and was as broad as the
Union itself, lay low in death Had these
great lights of the Wing party survived, we
fully believe that they would have saved their
party from the shame of prostituting itself in
the unholy embraces of sectional and revo-
tionary organization. But they were gone /:
pigmies sat in the seats of giants; the Wing
party went out of being, and the Republican
party was ingrafted on the Abolition party.


1t is true that the Republican party avows
its abolition tendencies less manfully than the
old Abolition party. They assume to inter-
fere with slavery in the Territories and other
places subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States only, and not in the States. This thin
disguise of their real policy, is fully exposed
by the uniform tone of their discussion of
slavery, by their resistance of the fugitive
slave law, by their avowal of an irrepressible
conflict between the institutions of the North
and the South, and by the whole tenor of
their legislation wherever and whenever they
have been in power. That large and re-
spectacle body OF the party have no sympathy
with its abolition proclivities, is perhaps true
but there is no room for doubt that the aboli-
ton element in that party is its largest, most
energetic, and influential element.


With the strength and influence of the Re-
publican party, grew the strength and infu-
ence OF the party of secession. Both were
sectional; both were revolutionary.


1t would be idle to show the revolutionary
character of the secession party. Its revolu-
tlonary purposes were avowed. The Repub-
lican party Was no less revolutionary, though
itsrevolutionary tendencies were less manifest


ITO be Continued