Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-04-01
HERALD.
BtoOnstngt0n, Friday, April 1, l642.

REPEAL OF THE UxIoT.-Whcn John Quincy
Adams rst presented petition fr the repeal Of the
Union, many were disposed to. consider it a mere
tribe, got up and signed for the purpose Of enabling
Mr.Adams to raise an excitement in the House, such
as was created by petitions for the abolishment Of
slavery in the District of Columbia and without the
petitioners really desiring the grant Of their prayer
Subsequent movements have shown the incorrect
ness Of such supposition. On the presentation o
the petition, many members were indignant az the
act expressing their abhoence Of it, and proposing
= reprimand to Mr.. Adams. Almost every press IN
the country spoke upon the subject, some advoca-
ting his expulsion from the House, others reprman-
ding the House for considering any proposition Of
censure against him. The manner in which Mr..
Adams escaped panishmet for the act, and the en-
couragement given him and the petitioners by that
portion Of the press which defended the reasonable
act has emboldened others Of the faith to the
commission Of similar acts. Others have since been
presented, and from the following extract Of letter
from Boston to the editor Of the New York National
Anti-Slavcry Standard, we presume they will be
continued:
We launch this campaign, the great question Of
repeal of the Union, and mean to carry 1t through
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES must no longer
be compromised We cannot conscientiously keep
the compact our fathers made; and therefore we
must ask for its peaceabe repeal!"
In commenting upon this, the editor Of that paper
remarks as follows:
"Our friends seem to think that this commuuica-
lion will take us BY surprise; but it is more than
1oO gears since came TO the conclusion that there
was no other acay for the free states to clear them
selves of being accomplices in Tremendous guilt
Moreover the proceedings of the SOUTH trampiing on
the right of petition, demanding of New York the re-
linquishment Of trial by jury, cndeavoring to ntm-
date John O. Adams, in the conscientious DISCHARGE
Of his duty, increasing the liability Of war by de-
nzunis which tf1r-y aSo"' ''e'
own iniquitous SYSTEM and their secret but determ-
ned efforts to annex Texas, all show plainly enough
that the very existence Of our civil liberty is endan-
gered by the continuance of slavery If the south is
determined, at all hazards to sustain her guilty sys-
tenn, and mplicate the free states therein, what can
the moth do to satisfy her own conscience and Sc
cure her own freedom, unless 1t be to take measures
for a peoceable sEpARAr1oS?!!
But though these have long been our deliberate
convictions, we trust petitions of this kind will be
most carefully worded not for the sake of policy or
disguise but that our REAL views and wishes may
b. distinctly understood!!"
We cannot better express feelings on this sub
ject than by adopting the language fthe Missouri
Reporter, in the hope that every repub!ican-every
man and woman who venerates the father OF his or
her country-every Jefersonian Democrat, will a.
dept as his or her sentiment-Our glorious Union :
may he who shall attempt to sever it, experience in
life, political death, and bequeah to posteritya name
damned to everlasting misery