Pioneer And Democrat

The Plea of Insanity.
Most of the Black Republican prints endeavor to prove that Ossawatomie Brown, the leader of the Harper's Ferry insurrection, was insane, thereby hoping to escape the opprobrium naturally cast upon them by the premature exposure of the plot. If, however, Brown was a madman, all his abettors, sympathizers and backers, in general, are either insane themselves, or accept as their political faith the ravings of insanity. The views of Ossawatomie Brown have been exactly expressed by all the leaders of the Black Republican party, as we shall show below. The unavoidable inference is that the Republicans and Abolitionists are all lunatics. Read and judge:
"There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. SLAVERY MUST BE ABOLISHED. AND WE MUST DO IT."—W. H. Seward.
"The time is fast approaching when the cry will become too overpowering to resist. Rather than tolerate national slavery as it now exists, LET THE UNION BE DISSOLVED AT ONCE, and then the sin of slavery will rest where it belongs."—N. Y. Tribune.
"This Union is a lie! The American Union is an imposture, a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell. We are for its overthrow! Up with the flag of disunion, that we may have a free and glorious Republic of our own."—William Lloyd Garrison.
"I look forward to the day when there shall be an insurrection in the South; when the black man, armed with British bayonets, and led on by British officers, shall assert his freedom, and wage a war of extermination against his master. And though we may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh. YET WE WILL HAIL IT AS THE DAWN OF A POLITICAL MILLENNIUM."—Joshua R. Giddings.
"In the alternative being presented of the continuance of slavery or a dissolution of the Union, we are for a dissolution, and we care not how quick it comes."—Rufus P. Spaulding
"The fugitive slave act is filled with horror—we are bound to disobey this act.—Charles Sumner.
"I have no doubt but the free and slave States ought to be separated. * * * * The Union is not worth supporting in connexion with the South."—Horace Greeley
"The Times demand and we must have an anti-slavery Constitution, anti-slavery Bible and an anti-slavery God."—Anson P. Burlingame.
"There is merit in the Republican party It is this: It is the first sectional party ever organized in this country. It is not national, it is sectional. It is the North arrayed against the South. * * * The first crack in the iceberg is visible; you will yet hear it go with a crack through the centre."—Wendell Phillips.
"The cure for slavery prescribed by Redpath is the only infallible remedy, and MEN MUST FOMENT INSURRECTION AMONG THE SLAVES! in order to cure the evils. It can never be done by concessions and compromises. It is an evil and must be extinguished by still greater ones. It is positive and imperious in its approaches, and must be overcome with equally positive forces. You must commit an assault to arrest a burglar, and slavery is not arrested without a violation of law and the cry of fire."—Independent Democrat—a leading Black Republican paper in New Hampshire.
"I more than agree with the disunion abolitionists. They are in favor of a free northern republic. So am I. But as to boundary lines we differ. While they would fix the southern boundary at the dividing line between Ohio and Kentucky, Virginia and the Keystone State. I would wish it with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.—"But what shall we do with the slaves? Make freemen of them. "And with the slaveholding class?"—Abolish them. "And with the Legrees of the plantations?"—Them annihilate, Drive them into the sea as Christ once drove the swine; or chase them into the dismal swamps and black morasses of the South. Anywhere, anywhere out of the world!"—Redpath, correspondent of N. Y. Tribune during Fremont campaign.