Year: 1864

ent issue. HOW Is IL upOu tne oluci siuO :
Mr.. Lincoln says in effort "oh, yes, l will
agree to.peaee upon the basis of the in
tegrity cf the entire Union, upon conds-
ti6n that you will first abolish lavery ia
the South, upon condition that the people
of the Southern States will abandon an in
stitution over which the Federal Govern
ment has no jurisdiction and for which
therefore, whether good or bad, 1t is IN no
sense responsible if they will aban-
don that institution, will listen to propo-
sails of peace" | think that if Mr.. lin
coin does not listen to proposals of peace
from the South until the happening of That
condition, be will never listen 10 such
proposals he will have chance to carry
on this war at least four years more. If be
should unfortunately be reelected What
he will listen to terms of peace on the ba-
sis of the Union, prOosded the people OF
the South will first abandon the Institution
Of slavery ! And this is Greeley's "Un-
conditional Union party /; imposing this
impossible condition in the way Of the res
toraton of the Union Fellow-citizens,
we do not want any such Unionism as this;


we will not have any such Unionism as
this and we do not think much of the
"Ioyaky" of the party that imposes this
impossible condition 10 the way of the res
toration of the Union and of peace.


have thus stated to you Mr.. Lincon's
avowed position, aud we Gnd his whole
party occupying it to day The New
York Times, the leading Lincoln organ
of the north shortly after Mr.. Lincoln's s
"to whom it may concert manifest, la
bored hard to convince the people that 1t
did not mean what it said that In saying
that he would listen to terms OF peace ba


sed upon the integrity of the Union and
the abandonment, of slavery he did not say
that be would not listen t. propos Is OF
peace upon any other basis That was
the argument which, doubtless, most OF
you saw in the leading kepubicaH papers
oil the day. They labored hard 90 prove
that Lincoln did not mean what ne said !;
but now they have given it up, aud since
Mr.. Greeley bas beer nominated as eiec-
tor at large Upon the Lincoln electoral
tick 10 the State of New York he has
abandoned the effort TO disguise Mr.. Lin
coins policy, to disguise the meaning of
his manifesto, and he comes out openly
and 1 give him credit for possessing lit
tie manhood IN this at least -aud declares
that Mr.. Lincoln and his party are op-
tposed to the restoration of the Union un-
til slavery Shall be first abolished. Why
What is the secret of this condition The
party has a motive in this, and L think We
can very readily see it. 1t is because they
know that the restoration of the Union as
it was is the end of Republican rule i'll this
country. They know that If the souther


erp States arc allowed to come back into
the Union with all their rights under the
Constitution as they were before the re-
bellion, the white people of those States
would be voters; would have the right and
the opportunity afforded TO them TO vote
against Mr.. hincoln and his sectional pol
icy Of course, the result would be an
end of Republican Dominion in this coun-
try; their pprty would go down forever f;
there would be nothing left of it. They
are unwilling to see the Lincoln dynasty
fail it must be perpetnated (; and hence
sthe Union as 1t was must be secuted /;


hence '.tbe Union as it was" must never
be allowed to return to as OF course,
however, they must disguise their real mo-
tive it would not do to avow it and 10
what way dc they disguise it! They dis
guise it by making false accusations against
Democrats, By falsifying the issue, b,
claiming that the issue is "Lincoln aud
Union, or Mcclellan and Disunion," by
calling Democrats "copperheads, "trai


tors and other bad names. They at
tempt to disguise it by false statements of
the cause of all our troubles by the mis-
erable pretext that slavery was tie cause
of the rebelion, and therefore slavery
must be put down. Ah Was slavery the
cause of secession This Union existed
happy and prosperous for many years
with slavery. Is there anything IN the
Institution Of slavery which renders it in-
compatible with the perpetuity of the
Union If so, is it not strange that the
discovery was never made until 1860 =
Indeed, they did not N axe it so soon, be-
cause you will reeollect that in 1861 when
we heard so much about Do-pai ty ism, /,
when they told Us that there should be no
more party now, that we should come up
TO the rescue OF the Union, they also told
US that we must not say anything ab out
the cause of the rebellion until the rebellion
should be put down. Why this sensitive
ness on the part of the Republican party
in reference TO the causes our national
troubles The Democrats were not afraid
to talk about those causes we were will
ling at any AID every time to discuss the
causes of the country's troubles /; but they
told us that when the rebellion was put
down it would be time enough to talk
abont its causes and you will remember
how they illustrated this idea


They said "if a man house is on fire.he
would be a great fool to stop and enquire
who set the house on fire or how the
fire was communicated to the house, in
stead of putting out the fire first and then
institutiDg inquiry as to its cause doubt