Year: 1864




countrys trouble and went to discussi ng
it themselves. They made the gra nd dis
covery that SlaUery 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 abolitionized and
became, in fact, the abolition party OF the
country; for there is no Republican party
now. There are but two parties, the Dem
ocratic party and the Abolition party; !;
and it is idle for the Republicans of 1886
and / 500 to claim any longer that they
are not abolitionists. They now declare
in favor of carrying on this war against
slavery Abraham Lincoln by his Emacl-
patton procla m alton undertook to pledge
the whole military and naval power Of the
country against the Institution oil slavery.
Hisparty sustain him and that proclamation
aud are endeavoriDg to reflect him with
thlt avowed policy of his upjn record
Is not that party, then an Abolition party
The old Abolition party was never IN Ia
vor of waging war against this peculiar In
stitution of tie South, never ior involving
the country 10 bloody fratrlcidal war on
its account: at least II never so declared It
self But the su-calIrd Re ub'ican party,
that on, a few years ago would have
deemed Itself lnsnlted if termrG an Aholi-
ton patty uois stands sqGarely upon LIN
coins platform in favor of employing the
whole military End naval power of the
country against this institution of the
South. l say therefore there are now but
two great parties in the country, the Dem
craIlc party and the Abolition party.


said that in s62 the Republicans dis
covered that Stdrery was the cause of all


our troubles. In what sense can slavery
be considered the cause of secession aud
of the evils which have followed secession I
If one of you, having little money IN
bis pocket, should happen to be robbed
on the way home, you could say with
precisely the same -propriety that money
was the cause of your being robbed. 1t
you had not had the money, you would
not have been robbed; and therefore mon
ey was the cause of robbery. Therefore
rnoneu sh0uLdbe abolished. If it were not
/ for the love of money, which inheres In
/ the human breast, our list of crimes would
/ be very greatly reduced therefore money
I is to a very large extent the cau7e of crime !!
J If slavery had never existed, there would
/ never have been an abolition party. If
there had never been an abolition party
there never would have been any secess ion.
/ If there had been no secession, there would


have been no war. But that is strange
way to prove that slavery is the cause OF
the war Now 90 back step. So long
as slavery was let alone, so long as the
constitutional principle that the federal
government had no power or jurisdicti on
over any domestic Institution of any of the
States was recognized and respected there
was no secession and no war, 1t was not
until political organization was formed
on the basis OF hostility to an institution
of the South over which neither the federal
government nor the government of any
State where it did not exist had any sort
of power or authority, that there was any
trouble on this account and yet we are
told that SLnUe<y is the cause of all our
national troubles !


1t does not require a man of any great
mental capacity to see through all this
miserable attempt to Disguise the true at
titude and policy of the Republican party
Any map can see it that tCaLl see 1t. Anv
man that sCtH see can see that slavery was
not the cause OF the troubles which now
affiIct the country that il slavery bad
been let alone, as the Constitution com
manded US to let it alone, there would
have been no trouble on account oil the
southern system ofs labor. | need not
st nd here and argue to you that We OF
the North have DO better right 10 interfere
with the system Of labor of the South than
the people of the South have to claim the
right TO dictate to Us what system OF labor
we shall adopt in the Northern States. [
think we should not be long in getting our
backs up if the people of the S,uth should
attempt to dictate TO Us what system of
labor we should adopt here. If they
should undertake to say to us ''you shall
carry our system of flabor into your States,
you shall implant it there, aud if you DON {
do it we will make you do it, l think we
should not submit to it very quietly. Ii
not, why should we expect them to sub
NIT quietly to such dictation from the
North


In 1860 the people wanted a change.
A great deal was said about the virtue of
change. True, the country was pros
erous. every thing was going on very
well but it was said there was a great
deal of virtue in change, there was o
telling how much good might come from
it; and therefore many of the people were
for change. Well. they got change,
and now how do they like it ! L tell you,
fellow citizens, that zoe want a change
now, and we mean to have it. The OPP
.poItunty is now afforded TO US t. effect
change by choosing between Abraham
Lincoln and George B. Mcclellan. What
sort of record has Mr. Lincoln made for
himselfi He declared in 1S46 in favor
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