Year: 1861

| du eAl5LeHceJ was DetWeeH tha' P"'V "N
the Douglas Democracy. Breckinridge Dem
ocrats in the North were furnished by Re-
publicans with money with which to carry
on the crusade against Douglas. A mean,
corrupt and dangerous combination was
made between Republicans and Secession
apologists in the North, to beat down our
party, between whose members and the Re-
publicans, we are now told there is no parti.
Gle of difference. We have not changed our
principle hairs breadth. The Appeal means
to say, probably, that we do not differ upon
the Union question. But if the campaign
was TO be conducted upon the issue of Union
and Disunion, there would have to be another
meeting of the Republican State Convention,
and distinct avowal would have to be
made that no endorsement of the Republican
nti-savery creed was to be labored for or
claimed. A Republican Convention, called
by Republican committee, has nominated a
Republican ticket, and let Republicans who
will not stop fighting slavery even to
strengthen the arm of the Government vote
it. We who followed Douglas have no part
nor lot in it. Nor have those who followed
Bell, nor yet those who, being sound patriot
ic men, yet voted for Breckenridge.


We are prone to believe that many of the
Republicans themselves-perhaps nearly all
of last falls recruits-are willing to fight
rebellion now, and let the slavery question
alone. But let us proceed to the " radical
difference"


We do believe that this nation can exist
part slave and part free, and that it cannot,
in the nature of things, ever become all
slave, nor, at least for many generations to
come, all free. The Republicans believe di-
rectly the opposite way. If the Government
is to be sustained, and peace to be restored at
all, either by the voluntary or compelled
submission OF the rebels, there must be some
slave States in :he Union. We are in favor
of the Union Of thirty-four States, including
those which choose to allow slavery. Can
the Republicans say that they are sincerely
in favor of this2 Would they be glad to
nave uuTuOu1 IcouOlCu DClOlC Wal ololi h"'N
more materially injured the slavery interest
We know that there is as great variety Of
opinions inside the Republican organization
as out of it. Inside Of that party, to which
we are invited because there is "no radical
difference between u.s." there are fanatical
Abolitionists, disunioDists peaceable-s -separa-
tionists anti-war submissionists, and
scofTers at the United States flag, who use it
now, only to fight under, against hated foes
as pirates do, and who love it as little. Let
it be understood that we do not say thai
the Republican party is represented by theso
wretches. 1t perhaps only tolerates them
That it does tolerate them, witness the ap
pointment of Joshua II. Giddings to office by
the President, and the nomination of Franz
Pixley in a Republican Convention in this
State The Republican party is an anti
slavery party. This Union is composed OF
nineteen free and fifteen slave States each
of which has a right to be represented in
Congress-


1t is unjust for majority Of the States to
use their numerical power to vote down an
interest which is important to the minority.
If slave States are fit to be a portion of the
Nation, then let us hear no more of anti
slavery. II tlrey are barbarous, let the anti
slavery men advocate the separation desired
by Davis, Stephens g. Co. We Union men
who are not and will not become members OF
the Republican party, say that the Federal
| Government representing slave and free
States, has no business to legislate slavery ur
or down. We utterly refuse to look at the
moral aspect of the question. Those of u'
even who look upon slavery as being in con-
| fict with the law of nature, have no scruples
whatever in strugglingto preserve the Union
although, in the Union, States may allow
and foster slavery. We want this great Ma
tion to be saved from destruction, and we de-
ny that there is such incompatibility of inter-
ests, habits and inclnations as to constitute
us two separate peoples. We are anxious, at
any rate, to try the experiment longer. We
are therefore in favor of fighting rebellion
only, and not slavery. We want the Consti-
tuition and not the Chicago platform guarded
by the bayonets of the Federal troops.


Thus far we believe that President Lin
coins Administration has confined its efforts
to the preservation of the Union, and the
protection Of the National honor We be-
| ieve that there is to be no other kind of O
war. We feel sure that this great Govern
ment will never fall to warning upon a local
interest which is recognized as a lawful one.
There has been no cause given for denounc-
ing the military operations of the Govern
ment as embracing anti-slavery designs
But there is large and powerful element in
the Republican party which will only be
contented when slavery is kicked out of the
slave States, or the slave States kicked out
of the Union. The latter plan is easiest, and
will be urged again, as it was by Greeley
and others last winter, as soon as there is a
little lull in the war-storm, or an impatient
disgust at the prudent deliberation of Gen.
Scott. We shall stand by President Lin
coin when he is trying to allay a disunion
storm in his own household. When the time
comes for him to tell the Abolition wing OF
his party that he will not advise or consent
to separation, then we shall see who of the
Republicans are Union men and who are not.
The Republicans who desire to save the
Union, are not SO ighteous that they