Year: 1860

his services and caring not whether he fights against
the arpy of God or troops of Satan.


The Senator's fancy picture of this Government,
though seriously put forth as truth is as far from
being such as darkness is different from light. A
greater falsehood was never uttered. He asserts
that this government is "bound together by the
millions of contented human hearts beating in the
bosoms of the high and the low, the rich ard the
poor. the learned and the unearned," and affirms
that "the government takes equal heed of their
wants and their wishes, and opinions, and appeals
to them individually once at leastin four years for
their consent to its renewal" Is it not astonish


ing that such man can thus speak, standing in the
midst Of central rufianism at Washington, with
Summers blood hardly dry on the floor on which
he stood, with threats OF disunion falling from the
lips of almost every Southern member of the lower
House, with Northern members assaulted in the
streets of the Capitol, with citizens Of the free
States fleeing for their lives from the territory of
the slave States, with on-commercial intercourse
threatened by slave holders n measure of retail
alton for the anti slavery sentiment of the North,
with the colored men of his own State demanding
admission to the baot-box, with the colored men
of majority of the free States sorely complaining
of their legal and political disabilities, and with
the agonising cries of four millions of American
slaves ringing in his ears, utterly unable to
see how Senator Seward dare give utterance to
such faIsehood.


Let his speech be received and read, but not as
for freedom. It is good as Republican election
eerng document, sufficiently conservative to please
I.s 1.k.ro
and much for party success. 1t indicates no small
degree Of cool, calculating policy, which so far ig-
nores moral principle TO abstain from praying
'Sood Lord" when the devil is near by. The Re-
pubicans, or many of them at least, remind me of
the Judges of old. They greet liberty with a holy
kiss and then turn round and bow before the mo-
loch of slavery, or like Peter that denied his Lord
and Master. When they are with the anti slavery
men then they are for freedom, but when the enc
my comes they don't wait for the cock to
thrice. they will immediately deny and some of
them will deny with an oath they ever were with
the abolitionists and do not knew them.


But you say if all were to do as do the Demo
Gratis would pat you on the shoulders and they will
have good time of it, they will git all of the OFF,
ces and do they please. All, that is the trouble.
1t is Office you are after. Standing between right
and rong, sometimes preaching for liberty and at
other times aiding slavery; make the Declaration
Of independence your corner stone in your build
ing and then your house is on rock that win stand
Let the people know where you are. You say that
you had mind to turn the battery on me and
take my own weapon and demolish me. Well,
do not know. Very likely. / always willing
to exchange error for truth. But think your
party should feel very thankful to the antislavery
party. would like to know what other question
is before the nation but freedom or slavery.
would ask you or any other Republican which OF
the parties has the most of freedom adopted in its
platGorm' The Republicans say thcr have. Then
it is the abolionists that keep your party alive.
We keep the question before the people. Any
body with half an eye can see you are growing and
what is the reason, because you have one more
plank for freedom than the Democrats have, and
that is the freedom Of the territories, and that is
about all. Stop the agitation of the slavery ques
ton and see where you will be. Kill the antislave-
ry and you kill your party, or else the Democ-
racy has more freedom than you have.


The charge is made against the abolitionists
tlllt tueI iOr fRatH1uOil. u
more false. have known great many of them
and lived among them and never knew one; and as
far know they universally against it, and
for having some place located for them and go to
themselves, and lay strong inducements for them
to go. Butso FAR as the mixing the two races is
concerned that all belongs to slavery almost, or the
South, and every man of any information must see
at glance that is only got Up to humbug the North


But, must stop. am making this controversy
too long, and will close with due respect, and re-
turn you my thanks for holding your paper open for
free speech. If all Of the editors Of this land
would hold their papers open to free discussion, in
the words of Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, slavery
would be hcmmed in until it would sting itself to
death. ELISHA ERWIN.