Year: 1860

letter received in that quarter


SEWARD AND Joua pRowS.


While upon this subject, le, vs. notice the con
nection attempted to be made between tho Repub-
lican organization as concerted With that raid oil
John Brown upon Virginia especially, perhaps,
as it applies to this dis,in guished Senator from
New York. Preliminary to this allow mo to state
that upon the subject of slavery there are three
distinct parties in the Uni,ed States. One that,
calls itself par excellence the Abolition party.
That began under William Lloyd Garrison, and il.
is still kept up, partly by hiuself and partly by
a greater than he. this great bug boo Wendell
Phillips. What arc the doctrines Of that party !?
IL Is fairly and squarcly acknowledged by them
that the Constitution is slavery document, inas-
much as it binds all the millions Of tho free States,
in case Of setvi'e instruction in the Southern
States. to stand by and defend the rights Of the
master against the slave. They come frankly and
squorely to the mark, and say that inasmuch as
from their education and the teachings OF their
consciences they are unwilling to carry out that
part Of the compact, that they 20 for dissolution
of the Union let the slave States go to them.
selves, and let US to ourselves. If the Southern
States choose TO hold sa7es let them do it, but,
nasmuch choose not to hold slaves we will
not ard will bear the responsibility oftheir
acts. lie. US depart in peace, the ono from the
other. They are, however, non resis,ants. But
let me say, while speaking Of Phillips, be is the
greatest man that ever listened to-I speak Of
his intellect. One dead he has been called
there is power and versatility and universally in
him that is possessed BY no orator, living or dead
That is my opinion. lie is q nou-resistant lie
stands responsible for his own opinions to man
and to God. 1t is not for me to defend him here
-. THE RADICAL ADoLITioNIsTs.
Next comes the radical abolition party. They
say tha, the idea of dissoving tho Union is too far
removed, they cannot walt for this moral influence
to exert itself. By the way, should mention
tha, the Garrison and Phillips party does not vote
! They think if they vote under the Constitution
and hvld Office under IT, they would be bound to
take the oath Of allegiance. and inasmucb. as they
cannot do that, they do not vote hold Officer but
SO with the radical abo,ionsts; they hold
that they have right not only 10 vote but to
abolish Slavery in the States They too have
higher law" and say that inasmuch as slavehol.
ders have proclaimed that Slavery is higher
lar .hcy make ISSUE and say that liberty is above
all constitutions and laws. and ihstths slave is
allowed entirely the use Of his own discretion as
to where and how he may liberate hin,se If if lber
alton is within his reach. 10 that party belonged
John Brown. To that party belonged Cook, and
to that party belonged. every decidedly and
ascersaineily implicated in that raid. Not one be-
longed to the Republican organization. No Sirs
Alter all attempts in every quarter to make cap-
tai ont OF the affair, there has not been proved to
be single Republican standing in alliance
with Seward and myself that they hate been able
to impicate remotely or directly in this raid Of
John Brown.


l rejoice that those resolutions Of investigation
have been passed in the Senate Of the United
States, that they may call for me- that they may
call for Gov. Seward, that they may call on any
other Republican,, North and South, and bring
shom before the proper committee Of the Senate of
the United States, and there mako them fairly
and fully disclose sll that they know upon the
subject. tell you, now, it will result in our vim
dcation, and in the modification of those who
have attempted to do Seward this signal Injustice


Abour INSTRUCTIONS.


While upon this subject, allow me to say n word
upon the subject of instructions. / believe i
have made more speeches in yindicatioh Of the
Republican party, than any man in the United
States, north or south. l believe from my cores
pondenCe with individuals, associations and other
mbnations IF that party, | am as intimately &C.
quainted with the purposes of that party as any
man in America, and / will tell you what be-
leve those purposes now to be, according to my
understanding. and their views with regard to
this whole suhject Of the Liberation cf slaves by
force, aud serVile insurrecton.


We now and always have regarded the poor AZ
rican as of an inferior race. and although we do
10. pretend to divine the nscru;ablc designs of
Dsity, although we cannot say what may be the
design Of the great i am whether they shall
cend in the scale of humanity. and We 60 down
or they 90 up still higher, we leave these ques-
tons entirely to the philosophical speculator, say
ing that is not subject of political action at all
but 80 far practcabil!ty is concerned, We say
that the black man is now an inferior race, and
although the poet says that tho worm feels
pang as great as when giant dies yet we be-
leve that is all poetry and not truth, The life of
man or woman is desirable as it is elevated and
removed from the condition Of the beast Of the
field that perishcth. Therefore it s, that when
ureat Brituin ueiu UoT uNCT tut
mense millions of india attempting by the des-
potic power of force, TO rule it by no amalgama-
ton of interests, taking it under common pro-
lection and into common glory those untold mil
lions of Eastern men, but ruling by force; and
when upon the abstract proposition, every man
was bound to CONFESS that the right on the
side Of the Indians. yet my sympathies were on
the side Of our common ancestors, and imagine,
that outside OF a few fanatics, that there were no
men among these thirty millions of people that
did no. sympshise with tho British. The white
race as against the red ard colored races Of India
although, as say, the right was on tho side Of
the East Indians. Why! Because there was this
development Of our race. making them little less
than godlike and divine, and because more espec.
tally these had proved by their brutality,