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 PKOFESSOR LABOULAYE, 
 
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 GREAT FRIEND OF AMERICA, 
 
 ON THE 
 
 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 
 
 [TRANSLATION] 
 Of a paper received at the Department of State from the American Consul at Paris. 
 
 THE ELECTION OP THE 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
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 Of a paper reoeived at the Department of State from the American Consul at Paris. 
 
 THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 In the life of Nations, there are supreme moments in which 
 the choice made is decisive of the future ; the greatness and 
 the freedom of the People are at stake ; an instant of weak- 
 ness, all is lost; an instant of energy, a last effort, and all is 
 saved. 
 
 It is in one of the secrisis that the United States are now in- 
 volved. The election of President may assure the triumph 
 or the ruin of the North, it will decide the question of Union 
 or Separation. According to the name which shall come 
 forth from the popular urn, America may regain peace and 
 become the model for free countries, or may fall into that in- 
 curable anarchy which has made the Spanish Republic the 
 prey of miserable despots, the laughing stock and jest of 
 Europe. 
 
 Two names are presented : that of Abraham Lincoln, and 
 that of McClellan. But in this case names are of little im- 
 portance. Mr. Lincoln, Mr. McClellan are two banners which 
 represent the opposing parties, and it is on the coming in of 
 one of these parties that the loss or the safety of the Union 
 depends. Let us set the men asicta. Their ability or their 
 patit mistakes will not* weigh iu the balance ; the qutis'tiou in 
 agitation is quite another thing iioin the success of a pergonal 
 
ambition. For the Union, for America, it is a question of 
 Life or Death. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln represents a policy the most compact. It is 
 comprised in two words : Maintenance of the Union, the abo- 
 tion of slavery, all the rest is merely accessory, and can 
 easily be modified according to circumstances. Mr. McClel- 
 lan protests his devotion to the Union, his desire to re-estab- 
 lish concord and peace ; but these are general phrases which 
 conceal the real thought of the party. At bottom, the policy 
 of McClellan is not less defined than that of his rival. To 
 him who knows how to construe the device on his banner, it 
 means — Re-establishment of Union such as may he, Slavery 
 continuing a domestic question^ that is slavery continuing. 
 To end a bloody strife and restore peace by replastering at 
 whatever cost the old edifice of the Union, such are the prom- 
 ises of the General ; they are not dazzling ; one must reckon 
 uptn the miseries of prolonged war; on the sufferings of trade j 
 on the weariness of men's spirits, to venture to propose to the 
 American People conditions so depressing. They would not 
 have been offered two years ago. But even these promises, 
 moderate as they may be, the General, become President, 
 will not be able to fulfill. • 
 
 The force of events will be more powerful than the dream 
 of a candidate. "Without the gift of phophecy it may be 
 affirmed that Mr. McClellan will not control the freshet lie 
 desires to let loose. The success of the General is the uphold- 
 ing of Slavery ; and the upholding of Slavery is the abdica- 
 tion of the North and the triumph of the South. There is 
 the danger that menaces the Union. For all friends of Amer- 
 ica and of freedom, it is a duty to point this out. 
 
 Why does the South secede ? Is it on a question of tariffs — 
 a difference of race, or of creed ? jSTo ; all these fine pretences 
 have been imagined to blind Europe, and those who invented 
 them have been the first to laugh at our credulity. 
 
 During thirty years or more the South has ruled the Union. 
 It is the policy of the South that has been trie policy of the 
 United States ; there have been no Presidents but those who 
 have had the support of the South. How is it that the South 
 has been able to wield this preponderant influence ? The 
 answer is easy. The South has strengthened itself through 
 one of the parties existing at the North. It has adopted th 
 
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 men on condition these men would become the auxiliaries and 
 accomplices of its desires and its interests ; never was a bar- 
 gain more faithfully kept. That party always ready to serve 
 a sectional policy, is that which styles itself democratic, in 
 opposition to the republican party — it is that which now puts 
 forward General McClellan ; what it desires is not difficult of 
 divination ; its past answers for its future. 
 
 Why did the South seek to rule the Union ? For a single 
 reason : to maintain Slavery. It needed political domination 
 in order to secure its internal despotism. It needed to reign 
 at Washington in order to prevent a ray of freedom from pene- 
 trating the cabin of the negro. Each year the Union was ex- 
 extended ; each year some new free State came to add a star 
 without a stain to the federal banner ; the South, with its 
 slaves, could only follow with halting step the triumphal 
 march of freedom, and nevertheless it must at any 'cost 
 maintain the political equality of Slavery ; another free State, 
 and the scales were turned. The success of freedom was the 
 overthrow of the South. 
 
 Such is the policy the South has followed with a tenacity 
 worthy of a better cause. In Europe it is the fashion, in 
 good society, to admire the southern gentlemen, and have a 
 moderate estimation of the northern people. Europe is full of 
 ignorant marquises who disdain hands browned and hardened 
 by labor. The idleness of a nobleman is a noble thing, and 
 what finer noblemen than the rich planters of the South? 
 Brave, rash, intractable on a point of honor, rich, hospitable, 
 profuse ; is more wanting to enchant the fine people ? The re- 
 verse of the medal, no one cares to see with good reason, for 
 it is the ugliest and- saddest in the world, the taking advan- 
 tage of labor by idleness, of weakness by force, of wretched- 
 ness by riches. The Gospels are dishonored, humanity tram- 
 pled under foot, but what matters humanity and the Gospels? 
 In face of men so bold, and women of such fashion never dream 
 that all that elegance has been paid for by the sweat and 
 blood of a wretched negro basely down-trodden. 
 
 On the day when the people of the North and West se- 
 riously undertook their duty as men, as citizens, as christians, 
 the day when the cup of infamy overflowed, when there was 
 no longer willingness to act as the jailer and servitor of the 
 South — on that day, the South, with its chivalric audacity, 
 
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 proudly raised tho banner of civil war; it had made game of 
 the Union and the Constitution as a planter makes game of 
 his slaves or his dogs. Everything is allowable to noblemen ; 
 there are no duties, no native country for the chivalry. What 
 can be asked from a man who heroically kills his fellow citizens 
 or who dies bravely on a battle field? There is no crime so 
 great that temerity doe6 not grant it amnesty. 
 
 To this culpable attack the North replied by sending its 
 sons to defend the threatened fatherland. It is also the fash- 
 ion in Europe to pretend that the recruits of the northern 
 armies are mercenaries. There may now be a certain number 
 of foreigners in them. I do not deny it, but that the North 
 has not given its best and purest blood to the war is one of 
 those ingenious fictions with which our simplicity is played 
 upon. At Boston, at New York, at Philadelphia there is not a 
 workshop nor a counting-house without its vacant places, 
 there is scarcely a family not in mourning. In France in 
 1792, not more patriotism was shown, nor more courage, 
 more self-devotion. 
 
 The war was entered upon with this war cry only : To 
 maintain the Union, to save the country. But by degrees as 
 the contest went on, and all the strength of the resistance of 
 the power of the South began to be felt, eyes were opened. 
 The North had not provoked war ; the North had not violated 
 the Constitution, the North had not menaced the South, either 
 in its liberty, or its privileges, or in its interests, the right to 
 meddle with slavery had never been thought of, all had re- 
 coiled from the enormity of the question ; but when once the 
 struggle was commenced, it was asked what causes have 
 brought about the fratricide war, which costs the North so 
 much blood, so many sorrows, such sacrifices — one word re- 
 plies to all this: it is slavery; it is the sum of all infamies, 
 as the pious Wesley justly said, which has induced the South 
 to commit the greatest of crimes. To the profit of its ego- 
 tism and its ambition the South has destroyed without pity 
 the work of Washington, and raised its hands against the 
 country. 
 
 The evil once recognized, the remedy was sought for. Mr. 
 Lincoln has been the interpreter of the national will, when to 
 the upholding of the Union as the object of the war he added 
 the abolition of slavery. The two things hold together 
 
so long as there shall be a slave on the soil of free America. 
 The Union will be merely one word — things will be ever on 
 the eve of a new explosion. 
 
 What is it that this word Union signifies? Is it merely 
 the juxta-position on the same territory of men separated in 
 feeling, in interests, in opinions? Is it, on the contrary, a 
 society of men holding the same faith, and the same will ? 
 To put the question is to solve it. Why does the resident of 
 Maine or Connecticut feel himself to be the fellow-country- 
 man and friend of the planter who dwells on the border of 
 Lake Superior, or on the shores of the Pacific ? It is because 
 both hold the same faith and the same love, and both ac- 
 knowledge liberty only. But can it be that the Yankee, in- 
 dustrious, economical, jealous of the common equality, will 
 ever agree with the planter who lives by domination, who de- 
 spises industry, and who acknowledges only the law of his 
 power and his passions ? It is impossible. Between the de- 
 mocracy of labor and aristocracy of idleness, between a free 
 society and a slave society there is an abyss that nothing can 
 bridge. The first, the sole condition upon which the Union 
 can be re-established in a durable manner, is that Slavery 
 must disappear, and that liberty may give to all the like in- 
 terests, the like duties, the same faith, and the same country. 
 
 Such is the policy that sustains Mr. Lincoln ; it is the only 
 rational one, because it is the only just one. It is not the 
 North that provoked the strife. For more than thirty years 
 it has bowed before the privileges of the South. Through 
 respect for the Constitution, it has borne with every thing, 
 and now that those privileges have given birth to civil war, the 
 North would be insane if it did not avail, even of its calamity, 
 to uproot and abolish slavery, and to destroy, with the same 
 blow, aristocracy by the establishing of liberty. 
 
 Let not the meaning of my words be mistaken. I do not 
 mean to assail the men of the South, it is that fatal institu- 
 tion which has blinded and destroyed them. I do not ap- 
 prove all the measures adopted at the North. I blame con- 
 fiscation, which does not belong to our times. I do not like 
 that people should talk of transforming into Territories States 
 which seek to come back into the Union ; I have no liking 
 tor violence, or for inequality. ..Treat considerately men and 
 property — have regard for interests, receive with open arms 
 
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 the prodigal son who returns to the parental home, offer to 
 every wanderer a sincere amnesty, there is nothing better ; 
 religion, humanity, self-interest well understood demand this ; 
 but no quarter to slavery. If you do not kill it, it will kill 
 you. 
 
 This policy, it will be said, is what the North has sought to 
 follow — it has not succeeded. The country is exhusted by 
 four years of bloodshed and wretchedness ; has any pro- 
 gress been made since the beginning of these events? I 
 avow it, this policy has not succeeded from the beginning ; 
 but, except on the stage, where have we seen injustice pun- 
 ished in an hour, or virtue rewarded as soon as it has suf- 
 fered ? It is otherwise in the affairs of the world. To ex- 
 tirpate a rooted injustice, to expel from society exclusive 
 privilege and violence, requires continued effort and painful 
 sacrifices. Such is the expiation which God inflicts on those 
 who, through weakness, have long tampered with wrong ; he 
 sometimes compels the offspring to suffer for the crimes 
 which their ancestors should have strangled at their outset. 
 
 If the North has not yet brought the war to a close, is it 
 true that it has made no progress ? Maryland, Upper Vir- 
 ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, are not these restored 
 to the Union ? Is it not master of Louisiana, Arkansas, the 
 stream of the Mississippi ? Is it nothing that the harbor of 
 Mobile has been taken ? Is .the capture of Atlanta nothing ? 
 Is it nothing that Grant's army hangs on Lee's flanks, hold- 
 ing him stationary about Richmond ? Notwithstanding the 
 valor of its soldiery, the energy and skill of its Generals, the 
 South is gasping ; it has no longer an army of reserve ; a 
 victory will not save it ; another campaign may bring mat- 
 ters to a close. All its expectations have been destroyed. 
 It had counted upon the wants of Europe, on the selfishness 
 of the manufacturers, on the jealousies of England. To com- 
 plete the work it had begun, to tear the country to pieces, it 
 needed help from abroad, but that failed it. King Cotton 
 was to place at the feet of the South, Europe needy and in- 
 terested. King Cotton has been dethroned, to the advantage 
 of India and Egypt. The cause of the humble, the weak, the 
 needy has carried the day against the political combinations 
 of European Cabinets. England would perhaps be gratified 
 by the disseverance of America, which would deliver her 
 
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 from the only rivalry she fears, would restore to her the do- 
 minion of the seas, and would give the South to her as a colony 
 and as a tete die pont ; but England is the country of Wilber- 
 force ; she has not dared to wage war for the maintenance of 
 slavery ; and what England has not dared to do, no other will 
 do. From the beginning, I announced to the South that it 
 could never surmount the moral reprobation of Europe, and 
 that not a single prince would venture to brave its opinion. 
 I will go farther now, and will add that each day brings 
 more clearly to light the interest which all the powers of 
 Europe, one alone excepted, have in the maintenance of the 
 Union. The traditions of 1781 are reawakened, and, with 
 exception of some subtle and chimeric policies, no man in 
 France questions that the true interest of the country is to 
 maintain the policy of Louis XVI. and Napoleon. Union is 
 the first necessity of America ; but, it is also one of the 
 greatest interests of France. The freedom of the seas is its 
 value ; and without the freedom of the seas, the independence 
 of France, and that of Europe, are equally endangered. 
 
 Abandoned by Europe, encircled and by degrees subdued 
 by the North, the South is condemned to self- exhaustion ; it 
 must give way ; and the moment cannot be far distant. Let 
 the North persist in the policy pursued by Mr. Lincoln, more 
 easy than all the rest, he maintains' at all hazards these two 
 conditions. lie- establishment of the Union, abandonment of 
 Slavery. The South must bow to necessity. Whatever the cour- 
 age of an army, or a people, a time arrives when hopeless resis- 
 tance is nothing but sanguinary folly. The Generals and the 
 soldiery of the South have fought with an obstinacy and 1 raver/ 
 to which their adversaries are the first to do justice, tttit 
 they have been deceived, their cause is a bad one, and they 
 cannot triumph. Lee, Beauregard have done enough for the 
 honor of the flag. It will soon be time for them to think of 
 that which humanity and their country demands. But there 
 is for the South a last chance of salvation : it is that which is 
 offered by General McClellan and his party ; it is a transac- 
 tion the cost of which will be borne by the wretched negro. 
 
 This transaction is disguised under fine phrases, for to dare 
 to state it plainly would cause men to shrink from it. It is 
 called, to provide for the security, in the future, of the Coir 
 stitutional rights of each State. Admirable mouthing for 
 
 
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 those who like to pay off in fine words ! In plain language 
 it means to say that the North renounces having anything to 
 do with Slavery ; and that Slavery shall be maintained at the 
 South as long as it shall please the South to maintain it. It is 
 to the privileged few that General McClellan remits the care 
 of abolishing the privilege : we may be well assured the 
 South will not abuse this permission. The South has made 
 war to maintain the supremacy of the pro-slavery policy, the 
 slave is delivered up to it to make peace. The North resigns 
 itself to this. For the love of peace it accepts complicity in 
 this infamy, which for four years it has rejected. Thus you 
 have in all its nakedness what the democratic party call a 
 transaction. 
 
 Perhaps a£ the North there may be people who, tired of 
 the war, and caring very little about the miseries of Slavery, 
 willingly yield to this arrangement. But I fear not to say 
 they greatly deceive themselves ; this arrangement is imprac- 
 ticable. To bargain ab»ut interests is most easy, and often 
 most just, but we cannot bargain about right and wrong, 
 between Slavery and Freedom. To sacrifice four millions of 
 human beings to a political interest, even for the safety of 
 the moment, is a crime, and like all crimes, is a blunder and 
 and a danger. 
 
 Let us suppose that General McClellan is elected President. 
 What will he do ? He will propose an armistice to the South ; 
 commissioners will be appointed, perhaps a convention, to 
 regulate the transaction wished for. But we know before- 
 hand what conditions the North proposes. Slavery is aban- 
 doned to the South, as an institution which concerns it only ; 
 all that is asked of the rebels is to be pleased to come back 
 into the Union. What is this transaction for the North? It 
 is the loss of four years of war — of ten thousand millions uf 
 disbursement; the idle sacrifice of blood poured out on 
 twenty battle-fields. The South will have insanely violated 
 the Constitution, ruined thousands of homes, after which it 
 will come back into the Union, more invulnerable, more 
 arrogant, and more insolent than ever. For the negroes, no 
 hope ; for the poor whites, eternal dependence, perpetual 
 debasement ; for the rich planters, the intoxication of power 
 and yf success. 
 
 And is it imagined that on such conditions the Union will 
 
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 be reestablished? That between a humiliated democracy, 
 after so many and such generous efforts, and a triumphant 
 aristocracy, a friendship will spring up which will soon heal 
 all the wounds of war? No! that is the dream of insanity, 
 no one can believe it, except he be blinded by a vain ambition. 
 
 On the day which the North shall subscribe to such condi- 
 tions, it will be the abdication of her political and social posi- 
 tion which she will sign. At the bottom of this new bargain 
 may be witten : The End of America. The America of 
 Washington will have disappeared from ihe world, and 
 forever ! 
 
 Peace concluded, what will be the attitude of the North 
 towards the South ? That of powerlessness and resignation ; 
 for in fine, it cannot be glossed over, if the South is yielded 
 to, it is because it could not be overcome ; it is that, notwith- 
 standing fine sounding words, the North, in its inmost feel- 
 ings, acknowledges itself to be conquered. 
 
 If in this respect some illusion should exist at the North, 
 the first newspaper from Europe will suffice to dissipate ir. 
 For thirty years Europe has treated the American Democracy 
 disdainfully, because that democracy pattered with slavery. 
 To repel this unjust and interested disdain, the North excused 
 itself on the ground that from love of peace, from respect for 
 the constitution, it resigned itself to a condition it had 
 not made. The excuse was legitimate, it was accepted 
 by the world in good faith. But from the day when 
 slavery shall be triumphantly re-established with the ac- 
 quiesence of the North; when the chains of the negro shall 
 be ri vetted by the very hands which at this moment are 
 breaking them, the North will not escape the terrible accusa 
 tion of complicity ; and then — what joy for the enemies of. 
 America and of Liberty ! What grief ! what shame for all their 
 friends! The great Republic will be dishonored, what mat- 
 ters, it will be said, the opinion of Europe ; America re-united 
 cares little for the old continent, perhaps she will soon have 
 some accounts to settle with those who have mocked at her 
 quarrels. Beit so, let us put aside public opinion, although 
 it may be like justice: more easy to brave it in words than 
 to escape its blows. But there is a tribunal which none < in 
 fly from — it is conscience. The day when peace shall be signed, 
 what will the North think of itself, how judge itself? I 
 
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 say nothing of the avowal that will come from the South, 
 that will prove that if the North had made a supreme effort, 
 all resistance was at an end and the Union would be established 
 on the principles of Liberty and Equality ; but after the first 
 festivals and first rejoicings on peace, what will the falling buck 
 on the inward thought be; and then what sadness, what hu- 
 miliation. How will the truth be felt of that great saying of 
 Franklin : " Those who to obtain a mo/nent of security, sacri- 
 fice liberty, do not deserve to obtain either liberty or sciifitv. 
 Yes, it will be said, the war was severe, sufferings were e>£ 
 treme, a base currency swallowed up private fortunes, as well 
 as the public wealth, but, in the midst of these miseries, the 
 war was in a sacred cause, blood was offered up for liberty. 
 Religion, the country placed their hopes on us. The ills were 
 great without doubt, but these ills, victory has cured them ; 
 with that the Republic has recovered its greatness and its 
 prosperity. But that which a lame peace will never cure, is 
 the leprosy of slavery; that which it will never efface, is that 
 black stain which soils our continent. During four years we 
 rolled upward the rock of Sysiphus ; for want of a final effort 
 it has rolled* back upon us, and to overwhelm us. Hence- 
 forth we must live giving perpetually the lie to the Gospels, 
 by paltering with iniquity, and all this to leave to our children 
 what we received from our fathers, an incurable evil that 
 will destroy the Republic and liberty. 
 
 Disquiets, regrets, remorse, these are all that transaction 
 on which the democrats pride themselves in advance, will 
 give — that transaction which they present as a title to the 
 confidence of an abused people whose suffrages they lay 
 claim to. But that transaction; shameful as it may be for the 
 North, will the South accept it? I venture to say no. If 
 General McClellan gains, that will be his deception and 
 the first chastisement of his party. An aristocracy, not numer- 
 ous, which holds together, feels its force, and knows how to 
 choose the favorable moment. What would the election of 
 General McClellan show, except that the democracy is tired 
 out, that its efforts are thwarted, that it wishes for peace at 
 any price. All is extreme in democracy, feebleness as well 
 as energy, self-abandonment as well as heroism. A democracy 
 which no longer is willing to war, will accept any conditions 
 except to curse the next day those that lead it astray. It is 
 

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 certain the South will avail itself of this advantage, and will 
 again seize upon, at the first moment, that supremacy which 
 four years of warfare have caused it to lose ; or it will not re- 
 main in the Union; or, if it re-enter, it will only be to appear- 
 ance, and assuming there a position by itself, in proposing, 
 perhaps, the exclusion of New England, or the singular sys- 
 tem of two republics, internally independent, but represented 
 abroad by one President. In a word, that sovereignty which 
 is acknowledged by treating with it, the South will maintain, 
 and will make triumphant. The chief of the new Union es- 
 tablished on the ruins of the old, in sound justice should be 
 the conquerer. The true President of America, reconstituted 
 by the democrats, is not General McClellan, but is Jefferson 
 Davis. 
 
 Will the American Democracy let itself be again deceived 
 by a party which for thirty years has always led it astray? 
 Has it to such degree desire and thirst for peace that it is 
 ready to sacrifice to it honor, interest, the future of the coun- 
 try ? Among this people that for four years has achieved 
 such great things, will the democrats succeed in recruiting a 
 majority to break away from a glorious past, and accept the 
 shame of a bargain? Will it disown those noble soldiers, 
 who, in the midst of their sufferings only ask a continuance of 
 the war ? Are they going to turn off Grant, Meade, Sherman, 
 Faragut. to offer to the admiration of America the patriotism 
 of a people resigned in anticipation to the supremacy, of the 
 South, or to separation ? If that be America, how has she 
 degenerated! In her history she will find other examples 
 and other memories. From 1776 to 1781 what misery did 
 not the insurgents undergo, soldiers without bread and .with- 
 out shoes, a paper curi-cucy without value, towns burned, 
 country' places set on fire ; arid still, except a handful of loy- 
 alists whom disgrace has followed even to the tomb, who ever 
 proposed to treat with the enemy? The armies of 1864 are 
 neither less brave nor less patriotic than the armies of the 
 war of Independence. Success is almost certain, the victory 
 sure, and in fine we are on the verge of a glorious peace. Is 
 this the moment for the American to listen to men who would 
 propose to them to abdicate their rights? 
 
 No, I will never believe that a generous spirited nation, 
 which already has more than once astonished Europe by its 
 
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 energy and perseverance, should yield miserably to discour- 
 agement, when with a last effort it can crush the rebellion. 
 The hope of the enemies of the great Republic shall be foiled. 
 Rejuvenated by victory, refreshed by trials, America will 
 banish slavery from the world, and will set an example still 
 greater than that of the war of Independence. Twice will 
 she have established liberty ; political liberty in 1776, civil 
 liberty in 1864. Neither Greece nor Rome have left behind 
 them such great memories. 
 
 An old friend of the United States, the vivacity of my ex- 
 pressions, should not cause surprise. The world is a solidarity, 
 and the cause of America is the cause of Liberty. So long 
 as there shall be across the Atlantic a society of thirty mil- 
 lions of men, living happily and peacefully under a govern- 
 ment of their choice, with laws made by themselves, liberty 
 will cast her rays over Europe like an illuminating pharos. 
 America disencumbered of slavery, will be the country of all 
 ardent spirits, of all generous hearts. But should liberty be- 
 come eclipsed in the new world, it would become night in 
 Europe, and we shall see the work of Washington, of the 
 Franklins, of the Hamiltons, spit upon and trampled under 
 foot by the whole school which believes only in violence and* 
 in success. 
 
 Therefore we wait with impatience the result of the presi- 
 dential election, praying God that the name which shall stand 
 first on the ballot shall be that of honest and upright Abra- 
 ham Lincoln ; for that name will be a presage of victory, the 
 triumph of Justice and of Law. ' To vote for McClellan is to 
 vote for the humiliation of the North, the perpetual uphold- 
 ing of slavery, the severance of the great republic. To vote 
 for Lincoln, is to vote for Union and for Liberty. 
 
 EDWARD LABOULAYE. 
 
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 WtOtl CONGBESStONat COMMITTEE, 
 
 Hon. E. D. MORGAN, of New York, 
 " JAS. HARLAN, of Iowa. 
 " L. M. MORRILL, of Maine. 
 
 {Senate.) 
 
 Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. 
 " R. B. VAN VALKENBURG, N. Y. 
 " J. A. GARFIELD, of Ohio. 
 " J. G. BLAINE, of Maine. 
 (House of Representatives.) 
 
 E. D. MORGAN, Chairman. JAS. HARLAN, Treasurer. I). N. COOLEY, Sec'y. 
 
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