Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-05-30
JAMES G.. BIRNEY

Passed through our city yesterday
When last among us, he was Iaborng, as
an Abolition candidate for President, to pro-
mote the election of Mr. Polk, so that Tex
as might be Annexed to the Union. He is
now, 1t is said, proceeding to a Convention
which contempIates the dissolution of the
Union. This certainly preserves the con-
sistency, while itcarries forward the prinC-
pies Of that patrioiic and pkiIGHfhropic Pres
idential aspIranl The plan OF Dissolution
is ioreshadowed in Letter from Judge
Jay, part Of which we subjoin:
vi, Dissolution must take place, and the
sooner the better.
/. We are not bound to maintain the u
nion, for The sake Of The siaUes. The NOR
ais and happiness of our children and pos
terty ought to have more weight with us,
than the vain hope Of Ijberating the slaves
who are hereafter to people Texas, CaIitor-
MIA, Yucatan, &c, &c.
2, 1t is far more probable that contln-
| uance of our present connection will eHstGUe
The north, than that it will free the south.
8. A separation will more easily be efec-
ted now than when relative strength OF
the south shall have been greatly augmen-
ted. Hereafter we shall he as seris rebel
ling against their lords. Now, if the north
pleases, we may dissolve the Union with
out spiIling drop of blood-who will haz,
ard the assertion forty years hence!
4. How a dissolution is TO be effected
how new contederacy is to be formed
what States shall compose lt--are questions
which time alone can solve. Letus avoid,
as wholly unnecessary and ineXcusable,
any resort to physical force.
5. The south has inundated the Consti.
tuition on the altar Of slavery, and was rea-
dy, if Necessary, to offer up the Union itseIt
to the same bloody fend. Remember Mr.
Rhet,'s "Texas with or ithout the Union
Remember the resolution passed at the mass
meeting at Beaufort, South Carolina, in
l844-"If we are not permitted to bring
Texas into our Union, peacefully and legIt-
inateIy, as now we may, then we solemn
" announce TO the world, that zoe wiV dis
sOLUe The Union sooner than abandon TerGS.
This certainly has been a very general fee
ling among the shareholders, and we are
warned that the Union can only be MAIN
tanned as an auxiliary to human bondage,
VII. Present duties of the north.
|. Toregard the Constitutional provisions
relative to fugitive slaves as utterly revo-
ked aud abolished.
Q. To punish every individual, whatever
may be his office, or condition, who may
have any agency whatever in the appre-
hension or surrender of fugitive.
8. To punish every person who within
our territory may exercise, by deed, mort
gage, or otherwise, any authority over slave
property.
A. Whenever any Of our colored citizens
are imprisoned at the south, on account Of
theircomplexion, toseze an adequate num-
bor of the citizens of the State committing
the outrage, who may be found on our soil,
and to hold them as hostages for the liberia
ton and full compensation of said coIored
citizens.
s. To petition Congress and the State
Legislatures to take measures for an AMIGA.
ble dissolution Of the Union.
Thus, sir, | have given you brief out.
line of my views on this momentous sub.
iect. Icould have fortified my assertions
by a numerous array Of facts and quota
tons, but have not time. On conversing
with others, | have been surprised to find