Whether by the House or by the people, if an Abolitionist be chosen
President of the United States, you will have presented to you the
question of whether you will permit the government to pass into the
hands of your avowed and implacable enemies. Without pausing for your
answer, I will state my own position to be that such a result would be
a species of revolution by which the purposes of the Government would
be destroyed and the observance of its mere forms entitled to no
respect.

In that event, in such manner as should be most expedient, I should
deem it your duty to provide for your safety outside of a Union with
those who have already shown the will, and would have acquired the
power, to deprive you of your birthright and to reduce you to worse
than the colonial dependence of your fathers.

The master mind of the so-called Republican party, Senator Seward, has
in a. recent speech at Rochester, announced the purpose of his party
to dislodge the Democracy from the possession of the federal
Government, and assigns as a reason the friendship of that party for
what he denominates the slave system. He declares the Union between
the States having slave labor and free labor to be incompatible, and
announces that one or the other must disappear. He even asserts that
it was the purpose of the framers of the Government to destroy slave
property, and cites as evidence of it, the provision for an amendment
of the Constitution. He seeks to alarm his auditors by assuring them
of the purpose on the part of the South and the Democratic party to
force slavery upon all the States of the Union. Absurd as all this may
seem to you, and incredulous as you may be of its acceptance by any
intelligent portion of the citizens of the United States, I have