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upon one of two conditions, either the South must put an end to slavery, or the North must adopt it ...
... But war has been made on freedom long enough, and defeats enough have been suffered, and please God the turn of slavery has now to come.
Carthago delenda est. And the first beginning should be the consumption, as with flaming fire, of the “dough-faces” and white slaves of the North....
... Gentlemen [of the South], you are too fast.
The storm has but just begun to rise.
Wait a little and you will know better than to undertake to breast it....
... We object to slave-hunting at the North at all. If we had the power to determine the point, there never should be another slave-hunt on the soil of a free State, no matter how great the cost.
If the slave States choose to separate from the free on that account, we should bid them go in peace, doing our best to preserve amity though the bonds of fraternity were severed.
The foregoing extracts are undoubtedly from the pen of
Greeley.
They indicate clearly the attitude which he is known to have held then and afterwards.
They foreshadow the position assumed later both by
Seward and
Lincoln, that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” that the
Union could not continue to exist “half free and half slave.”
They contain the first use of the word “dough-face” as the designation of a Northern man who truckled to the
South, also one of the earliest declarations in favor of letting the slave States “go in peace.”
But now comes an extract from an editorial bearing on the Know-nothing or Native-American movement, which was becoming active at that time.
It is conceived in a broad and liberal spirit, and, from both internal and external evidence, may be designated as
Dana's:
... We have no special regard for any country but this.
Our ancestors were all here long before the Revolution, and were all among its most earnest supporters.
When, however,
