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Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 18
ts principles before the 1st of July. Beside, when opiate speeches have dulled the Northern conscience, and kneeling speeches have let down its courage, who can be sure that even Seward's voice, if he retain the wish, can conjure up again such a North as stands face to face with Southern arrogance to-day? The Union, then, is a failure. What harm can come from disunion, and what good? The seceding States will form a Southern Confederacy. We may judge of its future from the history of Mexico. The Gulf States intend to reopen the slave-trade. If Kentucky and Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina secede, the opening of that trade will ruin them, and they will gravitate to us, free. Louisiana cannot secede, except on paper; the omnipotent West needs her territory, as the mouth of its river. She must stay with us as a State or a conquered province, and may have her choice. [Laughter.] Beside, she stands on sugar, and free-trade bankrupts her. Consider the rest of th
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
nation of Europe, and conquered. I think, therefore, we have no reason to be very nervously anxious now. Indeed, Mr. Seward's picture of the desolation and military weakness of the divided States, if intended for the North, is the emptiest lie in his speech. I said lie; I meant it. I will tell you why. Because one William H. Seward said, last fall, at Lansing: We are maintaining a standing army at the heavy cost of one thousand dollars per man, and a standing navy,--for what? to protect Michigan or Massachusetts, New York or Ohio? No; there is not a nation on the face of the earth which would dare to attack these Free States, or any of them, if they were even disunited. We are doing it in order that slaves may not escape from Slave States into the Free, and to secure those States from domestic insurrection; and because, if we provoke a foreign foe, slavery cries out that it is in danger. Surely the speaker of those words has no right to deny that our expenses and danger will be l
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
l in office the promises made in the canvass. Their motto is: The Chicago platform, every inch of it; not a hair's-breadth of the Territorien not likely to go beyond, even if he were able to keep, the whole Chicago platform. Accordingly, he said: I will give free rein to my naturon to a policy which I originate. He offers to postpone the whole Chicago platform, in order to save the Union,--though last October, at ChiChicago, he told us postponement never settles anything, whether it is a lawsuit or a national question; better be beat and try again than postppe understand clearly why we sever. They saw Mr. Seward paint, at Chicago, our utter demoralization, Church and State, government and peopleme, look at the picture of its effects which Mr. Seward painted at Chicago. Look at our history. Under it, 700,000 slaves have increased eech, this hour, throughout the North. Mr. Seward confessed, at Chicago, that neither free speech nor free suffrage existed in one half of
Austria (Austria) (search for this): chapter 18
; only the globe's convulsion can rive it! We are the rich mud of the Mississippi; every flood shifts it from one side to the other of the channel. Nations like Austria, victim states, held under the lock and key of despotism,--or like ourselves, a herd of States, hunting for their food together,--must expect that any quarrel maying to that Slave Power, and begging her to take all, but only consent to grant him such a Union, -Union with such a power! How, then, shall Kossuth answer, when Austria laughs him to scorn? Shall Europe see the slaveholder kick the reluctant and kneeling North out of such a Union? How, then, shall Garibaldi dare look in the fac therefore we separate, that is the case with the whole North, therefore we shall remain united. How strong shall we be? Our territory will be twice as large as Austria, three times as large as France, four times as large as Spain, six times as large as Italy, seven times as large as Great Britain. Those nations have proved, for
Golconda (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
t La Crosse), Mr. Seward himself said, What are they [the Southern States] in for but to have slavery saved for them by the Federal Union? Why would they go out, for they could not maintain and defend themselves against their own slaves? In this last speech, he tells us it is the Union which restricts the opposition to slavery within narrow limits, and prevents it from being, like that of Europe, a direct and uncompromising demand for abolition. Now, if the Union created for us a fresh Golconda every month, if it made every citizen wise as Solomon, blameless as St. John, and safe as an angel in the courts of Heaven, to cling to it would still be a damnable crime, hateful to God, while its cement was the blood of the negro,--while it, and it alone, made the crime of slaveholding possible in fifteen States. Mr. Seward is a power in the state. It is worth while to understand his course. It cannot be caprice. His position decides that of millions. The instinct which leads him
Japan (Japan) (search for this): chapter 18
army and navy. Disunion leaves God's natural laws to work their good results. God gives every animal means of self-protection. Under God's law, insurrection is the tyrant's check. Let us stand out of the path, and allow the Divine law to have free course. Next, Northern opinion is the opiate of Southern conscience. Disunion changes that. Public opinion forms governments, and again governments react to mould opinion. Here is a government just as much permeated by slavery as China or Japan is with idolatry. The Republican party take possession of this government. How are they to undermine the Slave Power? That power is composed, 1st, of the inevitable influence of wealth, $2,000,000,000,--the worth of the slaves in the Union,--so much capital drawing to it the sympathy of all other capital; 2d, of the artificial aristocracy created by the three-fifths slave basis of the Constitution; 3d, by the potent and baleful prejudice of color. The aristocracy of the Constitution!
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
dreamed that success would come so soon? South Carolina, bankrupt, alone, with a hundred thousand in the fury of the storm. The mistake of South Carolina is, she fancies there is more chance of sat Garrison still lives; and while he does, South Carolina hates and fears Massachusetts. [Applause.ght to his services, but how compel them? South Carolina may be punished for her fault in going outree or four such men as Governor Aikin, of South Carolina, riding leisurely to the polls, and throwies. Break up this Union, and the ideas of South Carolina will have no more influence on Seward than is this: I would make her, in relation to South Carolina, just what England is. I would that I coulchor her in mid-ocean! Severed from us, South Carolina must have a government. You see now a reid lays by about four per cent a year. And South Carolina, with one half idlers, and the other half lding community educating its slaves. But South Carolina must do it, in order to get the basis for
America (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ve to balk it of its purpose. The nation agonizes this hour to recognize man as man, forgetting color, condition, sex, and creed. Our Revolution earned us only independence. Whatever our fathers meant, the chief lesson of that hour was that America belongs to Americans. That generation learned it thoroughly; the second inherited it as a prejudice; we, the third, have our bones and blood made of it. When thought passes through purpose into character, it becomes the unchangeable basis of naen, Disunion! Beautiful on the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth. The sods of Bunker Hill shall be greener, now that their great purpose is accomplished. Sleep in peace, martyr of Harper's Ferry!--your life was not given in vain. Rejoice: spirits of Fayette and Kosciusko!--the only stain upon your swords is passing away. Soon, throughout all America. there shall be neither power nor wish to hold a slave
Lansing (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
fe survives the ages, and quietly gives birth to its successor. Mr. Seward's last speech, which he confesses does not express his real convictions, denies every principle but one that he proclaimed in his campaign addresses; that onewhich, at Lansing, he expressly said he was ashamed to confess --that one is this: Everything is to be sacrificed to save the Union. I am not aware that, on any public occasion, varied and wide as have been his discussions and topics, he has ever named the truthed, Mr. Seward's picture of the desolation and military weakness of the divided States, if intended for the North, is the emptiest lie in his speech. I said lie; I meant it. I will tell you why. Because one William H. Seward said, last fall, at Lansing: We are maintaining a standing army at the heavy cost of one thousand dollars per man, and a standing navy,--for what? to protect Michigan or Massachusetts, New York or Ohio? No; there is not a nation on the face of the earth which would dare
ery one confesses that the poison of our body politic is slavery. European critics, in view of it, have pronounced the existence of the Unionvery within narrow limits, and prevents it from being, like that of Europe, a direct and uncompromising demand for abolition. Now, if the Uto pieces, it is a shock to the hopes of the struggling millions of Europe. All lies bear bitter fruit. To-day is the inevitable fruit of ou 1787. For the sake of the future, in freedom's name, let thinking Europe understand clearly why we sever. They saw Mr. Seward paint, at Chiive Americans, and trusted to the hunted patriots and the refuse of Europe, which the emigrant-trains bore by his house, for the salvation of hen, shall Kossuth answer, when Austria laughs him to scorn? Shall Europe see the slaveholder kick the reluctant and kneeling North out of suhree million men only, we measured swords with the ablest nation of Europe, and conquered. I think, therefore, we have no reason to be very n
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