Year: 1864

covery. Then they stopped forbdding
Democrats to talk about the cause Of the
country's trouble and went TO discussing
it themselves. They made the grand dis
covery that SIdUery was the cause Of all
our troubles and attempted to ram it down
our throats. As | said before, the coun-
try got along very well, very peacefully,
very prosperously with slavery for many
years +; he had very little trouble until the
Republican party became aboltionized and
became, in fact, the abolition party Of the
country; for there is no Republican party
now. There arc but two parties the Dem
ocratic party and the Abolition party
and it is idle for the Republicans of 1856
and 1860 to claim any longer that they
are not abolitionists. They now declare
in favor Of carrying on this war against
slavery. Abraham Iincoln by his Emaci-
patton proclamation undertook to pledge
the whole military ard raval power of the
country against the institution Of slavery.
H,sparty sustain him and that proclamation
and are endeavorng to reflect him with
tn 1t avowed policy of his upon record
Is not that party, then an Abolition party -!
The OLD Abolition party was never in fa-
vor Of wagng war against this peculiar in


stiiutiou of the South, never tor involving
the country in bloody fratricidal war on
, it's account: at least it never 30 declared It.
self But the so-caled Rel ublican party
that only few years ago would have
deemed itself insulted if termed an Aboli-
ton party, now stands squarely upon Lin
coln's platform in favor Of employing the


whole military end naval power of the
country against this institution of the
South. I say therefore there are now but
two great parties in the country, the Dem
ccr.ic party and the Abolition party.


said that 10 1862 the Republicans dis
covered that St0Uery 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


If one Of you, having little money il


bis pocket, should happen to be robbed
on the way homo, you could say will


precisely the same propriety that money


was the cause OF your being robbed. l


you had not had the money, you wou.t


not have been robbed; and therefore mon


oy was the cause of robbery WerIf0r


,noncy $hoNlJe od0hsheh. III. were NO


for the love of money, which inheres i,


the human breast our list OF crimes wouI'


be very greatly reduced therefore, none.


is to very large extent the eau Of crime


Ii slavery had never existed, thero woalt


never have been an abolition party.
there had never been IN abolition party
I,t,, bn, hao lf,p


If the had been no secession, there woult


have been no war. But that is a strang


way to prove that slavery is the cause o


the war! Now 60 back a step. So lonl


as slavery was let alone, SO long as tn


constitutional principle that the fedora


government had no power or jursdicti OF
over any domestic institution of any Of tn
States was recognized and respected, ther
was no secession and no war, 1t was 10


until political organization was forme
. on the basis oI hostility to an institutio
of the South over which neither the fedora


government, nor the government Of an
State where it did not exist had any sol


OF power or authority, that there was an


trouble on this account ; and yet We ar
!


national troubles !


1t does hot require man of any gres
mental capacity to see through all thi


miserable attempt to disguise the true at


titude aud policy of the Republican part
Any man can rec it that UiH see 1t. An
man that WaH see can see that slavery wa
not tie cause OF the troubles which no.
nfict the country that ii slavery ha
been let alone, as the Constitution con
mandcd us to let it alone, there wouI
have been no trouble on account OF tn
southern system Of labor. L need NJ


at and here aud argue to you that we {
the North have no better right 10 interior
, with the system Of labor of the South tha


the people Of the South have to claim th


right to dictate to us what system of labo
, we shall adopt in the Northern States.
think we should not be long in getting OF
i, backs up if the people of the South shoul
, attempt to dictate TO us what system
labor we should adopt here. If the
, should undertake to say to US "you sha
, carry our system oflabor into your State


you shall implant it there, and you don
do it we will make you do it, | think "
should not submit to it very quietly.
not, why should We expect them to sui
:. init quietly to such dcta.ion from ii
North


= In 1900 tho people wanted chang
J, A great Ceal was said about tue virtue
/ a change. True, the country was pros
= ferrous, every thing was going on yer


we'll but it was SAID there was a gre


deal of virtue in change, there was n
g telling how much good might come fro
u it; and therefore many of the people wei
g for change. Well, they got chang


and now how do they li>e it tell yoV
u fellow citizens, that '"r want chang
" now, aud we mean to ave it. The Of
d portunity is now Afford / to us to effect
II change by choosing between Abraha
'e Lincoln and George b 'lcClellan. VIII
= sort of q record has NJ Lincoln made fl
l. hmselfl He declarc+ in lS4s in fav
= of secession. That wa' the first we b;
We ever heard of him. We heard nothil