Show A comparison BETWEEN SLAVE POWER AND MONEY POWER I 1 doubt if any reform will ever be had of our oar present evils and feel sure that the mighty power of I 1 money now ruling our country will only build itself stronger and irresistible and serve to own nearly all the lands as well as railways and mines and factories if it ever comes it will be by some act of its own a felo de se why do I 1 believe so because ours is the last country in the world to put an a n end to abuses based on avarice its vast extent and the absorption of its ita people in fortune hunting will prevent for generations any special attention to government abuses save as these abuses are used as capital by the party out of power I 1 judge by bj our slavery question already the new generation are as ignorant as fish ot the real facts in that issue they dont know I 1 that the slave power diled itself by suicide they dont know that I 1 the republican party was already deeply imbued with pro slavery leanings and in a few months must have become just as the old wh whig 19 party for which it was the substitute and of which over half of its voters was constituted the true story of lincoln Lincol ns first year in in office ought to prove this as well as his messages letters speeches and daily conversation he was a true exponent of northern republicanism lican ism being an old whig g an and a firm trend to slavery in the states and to fugitive slave laws so was his whole party such sac h 10 old id abolitionists as myself still lingering here know all this but too well we have no hope but in the desperation and inherent reck leikness leis lees ness and wickedness of slavery just reflect suppose the south had not rebelled but bat submitted aud and made the fight in congress how long with a solid south and a divided north must it have been ere the policy of no more slave states must have hare gone the way of missouri compromises four years must have rotted the republicans into submission for the sake isake of a new lease of power no the slave power deliberately cut its own throat and but for that our great starry banner must have now been floating over a slave holding republic with cuba and mexico absorbed and divided up into slave states and the money power of the world must h have be been its best of friend and supporters for cotton and sugar sakes the mighty power ahat hat has developed here since 1862 is a hundred fold more formidable than was the southern oligarchy nor is is it moved by and rage but bat by a cold icy policy it will never commit the folly of begin ning mug violence but holding purse and sword will act defensively until appearances justify it in making such a slaughter among the rebels as shall strike a terror in every heart and forever end all resistance A few thousand disciplined men commanding com commanding mandin g au all the opportunities of railways ames mmes mines lands etc can overcome all resistance 0 si stance and whole nations are a re easily terrified into zU submission bulliss under such ancho G laws a already every leader imler obnoxious to g government can be e arrested in one di day Z carried ed hundreds V 34 e ado r t C 1 r 3 aki e i 3 5 S arf sr T S |