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Editorial
June 3, 1863
North Branch Democrat
Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
Editorial criticizes the Republican Party's embrace of abolitionists Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, and William Lloyd Garrison as popular leaders, citing their disunionist histories and anti-Constitution views as alarming to conservatives.
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At a meeting of the "Sixth Ward Republican Association," of New York city, the speakers were Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley and Wm. Lloyd Garrison, each of whom, the accounts say, were received with "tremendous applause." It is one of the most alarming signs of the times, that these three men, who only two years ago were not acknowledged as leaders by a large portion of the Republicans, have become their accepted most popular ones now.
Wendell Phillips boasted at the commencement of the war that he had been a disunionist for twenty years. Horace Greeley is the editor who said that if the South wished to secede he would help them go; and Mr. Garrison's paper still keeps at its head the atrocious sentiment that our noble Constitution, made by Washington, Madison, Hamilton and their patriot compeers is a "league with death and a covenant with hell." Is it any wonder that conservative citizens distrust the Unionism of a party which accepts these men as the expounders of its faith, and the pilots of its course?
At a meeting of the "Sixth Ward Republican Association," of New York city, the speakers were Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley and Wm. Lloyd Garrison, each of whom, the accounts say, were received with "tremendous applause." It is one of the most alarming signs of the times, that these three men, who only two years ago were not acknowledged as leaders by a large portion of the Republicans, have become their accepted most popular ones now.
Wendell Phillips boasted at the commencement of the war that he had been a disunionist for twenty years. Horace Greeley is the editor who said that if the South wished to secede he would help them go; and Mr. Garrison's paper still keeps at its head the atrocious sentiment that our noble Constitution, made by Washington, Madison, Hamilton and their patriot compeers is a "league with death and a covenant with hell." Is it any wonder that conservative citizens distrust the Unionism of a party which accepts these men as the expounders of its faith, and the pilots of its course?
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Slavery Abolition
What keywords are associated?
Republican Leaders
Abolitionists
Disunionism
Conservative Distrust
Civil War Unionism
What entities or persons were involved?
Wendell Phillips
Horace Greeley
Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Sixth Ward Republican Association
Republicans
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Republican Acceptance Of Abolitionist Leaders
Stance / Tone
Strongly Critical Of Republicans' Unionism
Key Figures
Wendell Phillips
Horace Greeley
Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Sixth Ward Republican Association
Republicans
Key Arguments
These Men Were Not Acknowledged As Republican Leaders Two Years Ago But Now Receive Tremendous Applause
Wendell Phillips Boasted Of Being A Disunionist For Twenty Years
Horace Greeley Offered To Help The South Secede
William Lloyd Garrison's Paper Calls The Constitution A 'League With Death And A Covenant With Hell'
Conservative Citizens Distrust The Party's Unionism Due To These Leaders