Year: 1863

ifs, banks and improvements, they kept
aloof, cautiously and cunningy contriving
how they might engulf the whole nation in
a sea of blood. As tiger crouching at
the edge Of his jungle waits for the right
moment to spring upon his victim to
crunch his bones and lap his life-blood, so
Aboltionsm waited and watched for the
opportunity to make its fatal spring upon
the Federal Government.


The Constitution stood in their way ,and
they spurned it as an agreement with hell
The Gospel of God was opposed to them,
and their conventicles resouuded with RI
bald blasphemies against the Christian re-
ligion. Common honesty forbade the
gross breach Of faith they contemplated,
and they invented new system of moral
ity called "higher law," which, when it
came to be defined, meant nothing but the
impulse OF their own unregulated passions.
The Democracy saw through their de-
signs and warned the country against
them, and they slandered us with all the
brutal strength of criminals.


The adherents and sympathizers of this
party attempt to excuse their hostility to
the government oil the white man by ascrib
ing it to love for the negro. But of all
the cants that were ever canted in this
hypocritical age, the Abolition cant of
humanity to the negro is the most dis
gustingly hollow and false, The men who
have no drops Of mercy for their OWE
race cannot possibly have any human feel
ing for another. Besides, they know very
well that contest for negro equality in
this country must necessarily terminate in
making the negro's condition thousand
times worse, They cannot hope to sec the
Anglo Saxons Of America sink in their
own blood as the French inhabitants of
San Domingo did before the negroes ol
that island. No; they know that when
their policy is pushed to the last extremity,
the negro can have no ultimate chance
against the white man. Their object is
intensely and purely selfish. They de-
sired to kindlc the flames of civil war
throughout the country, reckless who might
suffer SO that they could but remain mas
tiers Of the burnt and blackened field.


| think there can be no mistake in say.
ing that these AboitionistS are opposed to
the Union, and that the measures they
sustain are intended to prevent its rcstora-
ton. Ask the man who is their undoub-
ted leader in this county and State-the
man whose talents entitle him to that bad
eminence-and he will tell you what he
has often said in pubIic-as well as in pri
vate, that it sickens him to hear of the
Cons tituton as it is and the Union as il
was. Think for moment of this mos
atrocious sentiment The "Constitutior
as it is is the fundamental law of the
land, which they swore to obey; and now
they would insult the God who was theil
witness by declaring that oath to be ,
sham, and their solemn covenant with tn,
country delusion and snare. The
Union as u ,CaS results from the C0nStHu
t3oR as IL is, and this nation, which has
bled for it at every pore, is TO be told tina
all their terrible sacrifices of life and prop
ety shall 60 fer nothing, because, for
sooth, tn cir rulers are sick Of the Union
The history Of the world gives no accoun
of any ether people who became the dupc'
Of such an awful imposture. The mer
who propose to perpetrate it are not only
treacherous and unfaithful to a sacre'
trust-they are rcmorseless to death ant
cruel as the grave.


But how came it that party so insight


fcant in numbers and so destitute of gen
eral confidence should acquire so com
plete an ascendeucy in the public coun
ellis Their own vote was probably NO
e-tenth OF the people, and the othe
nine-tenths would as soon have polled al
the mad houses OF the country, and selec
ted the widest lunatics they could find t.


rule over them, as 10 have given the Ney
England Abolitionists the reins Of thei
Government. 6 They got their power by


series of base frauds, They went into III
Chicago Convention declaring themselve
entirely satisfied with the exclusion @
slavery from the territories. Althoug
that would not make one slave more o
less, they averred that the pleasure of in
sulting and deiying the judicial authorities
by getting decision of the Suprem


Cont reversed by convention of Dos
politicians, would "wrap them up in mea
sureless conteutment" They agreed t.