Year: 1860

for men Who Are content with and obedent to the
law Of heaven in respect to savory. increasingly
disgusted as am with the cant Of tho churches
about christianity, | rdu3t neYertheless continue to
go for christianity. have no knowledge Of Christ
If il is possible that in any Circumstances, votes
for rum-men or slavory.men can serve his cause
or do him honor. Ishanld te glad to vote at the
coming election for the names presented by q Tenn
peranco and Abolition Convention. But if there
arc not enough earnest Temperance men and A5o
litOnists left to get it up, will endeavor to
poso my ticket without tue help Of a CoIven-
ton.


trust that the stress, which lay on voting will
not be construed to imply a censure Of Mr.. Gar
rison and Mr.. Phillips and their noble associates
! / ill honor. as | always have dSne, the men who,
differing broadly from myself in their ihterpretas
tion Of the Constitution, have conscience against
voting under It.


! Should any one Of the five Presidential candi-
dates be elected and ] should see him applying
his official po Sers to give back his brothers and
sisters to the horrors and bell of slavery, should
be distressed. But had voted for him, | should
die of remorse For should feel that his superb
atively guilty work was my work. having made
it such 10 advance By my vote to give him the
Office, which well knew he stood ready to use for
this most diabolical purpose. In that case the
summons of the President fer military or naval
aid to the Lidnappers would be my summons, and
the guilt of it would crimson my soul ms well as
his For the stripes and tortures that would
awOit the returning captives, l. as we'll as he,
would be responsible. Responsible / as well
he for their doom of compelled and unrequit-
ed lifelong toll. And the thought, that they were
no more to have right to husband or wife, e,parent
or child; and no more to lie permitted to read the
Bible spell the name Of Jesus would be the ex
cru,iaring thought that to this possible and even
| probable end did cast my vote, when l cast it
for one whom knew to be in favor of consigning
them TO this fate. No, must not vote for such
an one. If others with their views can. | viii my
views cannot If there are others who afford
| it, nevertheless cannot. Some there may be
whose stock of righteousness is go large, that
balance would be left them even after voting las
does every voter for slave catching Presidential
candidate) to set the whole army and navy of the
United States against the innocent fugitive. But
| have such surplus goodness to vote upon:
and therefore for me to cast such unriShteous
vote would be to reduce myself to utter and immc
diae moral insolvency.


| Christian! were Jesus again on earth: would you
gOte to have him lead Inc forces for returning the
poor slave to the disabilities and tortures from
which he had escaped? The bare proposition is
most abhorrent to you. How then can you con-
sent to vote for Mr.. DJuglas or Mr.. Lincoln, or
any other man, who virtually tells you that he is
willing to lead them? Hes not party spirit b!in-
ded you. Nay has it not corrupted you? What
s too abomiuable for Christ to DO is to abomina
bic for any man to do: and thus would you your
self decide in every where the spirit of Christ
and not the spirit Of party prompted the decision.


| sad that must not vote for slave catcher.
My profession Of deep and tender interest in the
slave is life long cno. TO turn now and vote
against hm-to vote that if he escape from chat.
,elhood to manhood, he shall be thrown down
again from manhood to chattlehood- not
that lie giving an emphatic lie to this professioni
Again. when men got to be as old as am, they
have an especial reason for not adding to the num-
Der Of their sins particularly of their great sins.
Their space for repentance is reduced to a mar
row ope-too narrow to supply all the penitential
tears, which such enormous sin. vot-
ing man back into slavery, calls for,


But | am asked whether l would withhold ny
vote from candidate because foresec one official
wrong 10 him, and yet feel assured that he will be
guilty Of no other. Certainly, if that wrong is the
numbering or, what is worse, the enslaving of his
fellow men. The wrong done to one man is not
concealed by right dealing toward even all
other men. Moreover, | am not at liberty to feel
assured, that he who is pledged to commit the
most lagrant injustice against one man viii! not,
when strong temptation calls for it, DO guilty
of as fagrant injustice toward other men.


Don't complain, gentlemen. You have always
been treated thus by the South, who, finding that
you bear it With good degree of endurance. and
while smartng from the blow, bless the hand that
wieds the rod and shout God save this glorious
Union = will be very apt to continue the applica
ton.


From the Cleveland Leader.


PRO-SLAyERY WAR ON LIBERTY POLES I


The intolerance of pro-s!avery Democracy has
bean freshly illustrated in Washington City and