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The Northern Disunionists
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We hear a great deal from the Black Republicans in denunciation of the disunionists of the South. We think that reproof, like charity, ought to begin at home. And if our Black Republicans were to look at home for disunionists to reprove and condemn, their efforts would be rewarded by the discovery of a larger number of more malignant, more mischievous and more determined enemies of the union, as our fathers made it, than Yancey ever beheld in his most exaggerated dreams.
For many years a large number of persons at the North have made abuse of the South almost their sole occupation. Not content with the freedom they enjoyed, they have made constant war upon the institution of slavery. Their numbers have, at various times been swelled by accessions to their ranks from the disaffected elements of the great parties into which the country was generally divided. But it was not until the formidable old Whig Party lost its great and patriotic leaders CLAY and WEBSTER, and fell to pieces, that the Northern Disunion Party assumed proportions that filled the lover of his country with alarm.
For the last five years the air of the North has been surcharged with envenomed assaults upon the South. Every insulting epithet that malignant ingenuity could invent, has been applied to the Southern people. We need not repeat these epithets. They are seen in every Republican newspaper and they are heard whenever a Republican orator opens his mouth. They can be uttered but for one object, and that object must be to exasperate the South to the point of withdrawing from the Union.
Does it need an argument to prove that this must be the object of these constant declaimers against slavery? What else can be their object? They know very well that they can never set one single bondman free by all their furious declamation against slavery. They know that fierce denunciation will never induce the people of the Southern States to abolish slavery. They know that Congress cannot abolish it. They know that the Constitution of the United States, guarantees the Southern people the peaceable possession of their slaves, and they know that the South will never surrender her constitutional rights.
These Northern nigger-eaters are determined to break up the Union. But they wish to conceal their agency in the work of dissolution. Hence, instead of openly avowing their purpose, they go at it "behind the bush." They do not preach disunion openly, but they employ every means at their command to drive out the South and throw upon that section the odium of dissolving the Union. They want the damning work done, but they also want to escape the responsibility of doing it.
Their cunning will not serve them. Their purpose is apparent, and if they accomplish it they will have to answer to their names, when the roll of traitors is called. They cannot escape by the "stop thief" yell of "YANCEY! YANCEY!" for the impartial historian will record the fact that though Yancey may have lighted the funeral pile of the Union, it was them that built it and placed the blazing torch in his hand.
Why He Emigrated
Treason in the Camp
The Right Talk
Beware the Deception
Special Notice
What Next?
The Honorables
Mr. Welsh's Address
Douglas at Harrisburg
An Efficient "Organ"
Congressional Conferees
John W. Forney
Letter from Mercersburg
Union Meeting
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A UNITED DEMOCRACY.
A FULL MEETING
And an Undivided Support to our State
and County Ticket.
TURN OUT! TURN OUT!! Saturday, September 15th, 1860.
The undersigned, members of the Democratic party of Franklin County, would cordially invite all their brethren to meet them in County Meeting, to be held in the Court House, at Chambersburg, on Saturday, September 15th, at 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of reasserting their fealty to the time-honored principles of the Democratic Party. And further for the purpose of endorsing the action of the State Convention, held at Reading, and signifying our fixed determination to vote for and sustain the Electoral Ticket put in nomination by the Convention. And further for the purpose of endorsing the measures of harmony and compromise recommended by the State Committee at Cresson. And further, to express our confidence in the Democracy and integrity of HENRY D. FOSTER, the nominee of the Democratic party of Pa., for the office of Governor, and to pledge our united exertions to place him in that gubernatorial chair which his talents and accomplishments would so much adorn. And further, for the purpose of expr
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