The Logical Result of Black Republicism.-
...the pretense of containing the slavery issue to the Territories must be abandoned. In a pamlet expositoin of Lincoln's doctrine that "this Union cannot endure half slave, half free," the Massachusetts legislatians declare that the real quest.
Not whether slaves sall be carried from the States into the Territories but whether anywhere within the limits of the Union, one man shall be the property of another...
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Black Republican Southerner.- ...Col. Evans, of the Baltimore Patriot...owner of sixty slaves....[said in a speech] that there were thousands in the South who were in favor of the Republican nominees. Many were deterred form expressing their opinions, but if Mr. Lincoln was elected the waters would roll over the dam and we should be brothers again....
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*************************Hartford Weekly Times, Hartford Conn.******************************
"Forcing Slavery Upon An Unwilling People"- The Black Republicans laid great stress upon this sentence all through the "bloody Kansas" warefare. Senator Douglas has now taken it up, and adding a tail to it, makes it one of his own dear children. He says that the Breckinridge men "would force slavery upon a people who do not want it; whilst the friends of Lincoln would deprive a people of slavery who do want it."
Now, so far as the friends of Breckinridge are concerned, the charge is without foundation. It is bogus. They would force slavery upon no one, nor into any community. They would do no more in regard to slave property than any other property. They would not force slaves into a Territory- nor horses, mules, jewelry, or clocks. The demand will regulate all these.....
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The Two Systems of Labor.-
This country cannot endure half free and half slave- Abraham Lincoln.- But it has endured "half free and half slave" for a sufficient lenght of time to prove beyond controversy, that it may prosper and become rich and powerful under that condition of half free and half slave labor. It has prospered beyond any precendent. It is already a great and powerful nation. Slave labor produces cotton and rice. White labor cannot go South and cultivate those articles. Slave labor, then, produces that which sells abroad for two millions of dollars annually, and this pays for a large portion of the goods we purchase in Europe. Were it not for this surplus product, every Bank would be drained of its specie, and our monied corporations would soon be in trouble.
But this product of slave labor does more. It keeps hundreds of thousands of free white laborers in constant employment in the free States. It keeps our cotton mills running, and sustains the numerous villages in New England which cluster around those mills, alive with industry....
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Hear What Gen. Jackson Said.- Let the Republicans Apply The Test To Their Leaders and Stump Orators.- Black Republican orators and presses are constantly claiming to be the disciples of Gen. Jackson and the exponents of Jacksonian Democracy. Let them read the following words from the Old Hero's Farewell Message....
"Each state has the unquestionable right to regulate its own inlernal concerns according to its own pleasure; and while it does not interfere with the rights of the people of other states, or the rights of the union, every state must be the sole judge of that measure proper to secure the safety of its citizens and promote their happiness; and all efforts on the part of the people of other states to cast odium upon their institutions, and all measures calculated to disturb their rights of property, or to put in jeopardy their peace and internal tranquility, are in direct opposition to the spirit in which the union was formed, and must endanger its safety. Motives of philanthropy may be assigned for this unwarrantable interference; and weak men may persuade themselves for a moment that they are laboring in the cause of humanity, and asserting the rights of the human race ; but every one, upon sober reflection, will see that nothing but mischief can come from these improper assaults upon the feelings and rights of others. Rest assured, that the men found busy in this work of discord are not worthy of your confidence, and deserve your strongest reprobation."...
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David Upton