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called the principles of our forefathers, when our fore-fathers neither
advocated them, nor acted upon them? It is only after a lapse of three-
fourths of a century, that our Government is called ueon for the first
time, by a popular vote, to carry them into execution: stronger evi-
dence of the unconstitutionality of these assumptions, could not be
presented, even had not the South unanimously protested against them,
when they were first enunciated and has continued to this moment, to
denounce them as a treasonable suppression of their rights under the
Federal compact.
THE PEOPLE REPUDIATED THE CHICAGO PLATFORM, NOT.
WITHSTANDING MR. LINCOLN'S ACCIDENTAL ELECTION.
Now let us consider that Presidential triumph, and see what it is.
In eighteen Northern States, Lincoln received 1837 thousand votes,
and in fifteen Southern States he received only 27 thousand.
The figures seem prophetic, for 1837 was a year of disaster and ruin
to our country, and a repetition of these fatal figures in the vote for
Lincoln has brought upon us calamities, a thousand-fold greater. If
to 1837 we add 27, as indicating the Southern vote, we obtain 1864,
the year when Lincoln's successor will be elected, and at that election
let us hope will terminate forever, all discord and animosity between
the two great geographical sections of our country. But these 1864
thousand voters are not the people of the United States. With the
exception of the 27,000 Place-hunters in the South, who voted for Mr.
Lincoln and who have so annoyed him for appointments to office since
his election, the whole South voted against the assumptions of his
political platform, and in the Northern States that platform was oppos-
ed by one million six hundred thousand patriots who preferred their
whole country, and the principles of their fathers, to the disloyal plat-
form of a sectional party. Thus do we find sixteen hundred thousand
votes in the North and twelve hundred and sixty-six thousand in the
South, in all 2866 thousand votes, against the 1864 thousand which
elected Mr. Lincoln. Is this a triumph to boast of? With the entire
South and nearly one-half of the North opposed to it, the Republican
party truly should be cautious in attempting to force upon the people
of this country untried political principles which have been repudiated
by nearly two-thirds of the whole nation. With the certain knowledge
that two millions eight hundred thousand voters, and a majority of
more than one million of the people, are utterly opposed to these anti-
slavery principles, and to these revolutionary and unconstitutional doc-
trines, they should not trample in defiance upon the expressed will of
the people, North as well as South, and say "we have no concessions
to make but are determined to retract nothing, to yield not a single
inch, and to stand firm under every provocation and every threat, even
though the land be deluged with blood, and wasted and desolated with
fire and the sword."
With flippant tongues, these leaders who have led their deceived
followers away from the Constitution of our fathers, tell them "to stand
by the Constitution as it is,"-that is as their platform interprets it,-
"and to make no compromises that would involve them in the guilt of
moral treason and justly render them the scorn of mankind!" What
then is this moral treason, which is dreaded more than actual treason
against their country?
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Coleman, William L. An appeal to the people of the North., pamphlet, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth498127/m1/7/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schreiner University.