The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-09
Northern Disunionists.

We were surprised 10 notice day OF two
since in a Northern Wing paper the assertion
that there is emo Disunion party in the
NORTH We read the paragraph with very
much the same admiration with which we
should have read the assertion that there is no
Disunion party in South Carolina. There is
a party at the North, who are not only com
bining and cooperating TO effect disunion by
the nature and tendency Of their measures and
doctrines, but who openly avow that such is
their immediate and direct object.
There is a party in the non-slaveholding
States which seeks the overthrow Of the Fede-
raj Government, Constitution, and Union. This
party is composed of the Aboitionists and anti
slavery men, We wish our friends of the Boston
,HlGs would consult the eighteenth annual report
presented 10 the Massachusetts, Anti-slayery
Society, BY its board of managers, on the ODD
Of January last, giving history Of the proceed
ing year Of abolition agitation. This report an
nounces the objects Of the AbolitOnists distinctly
and without reservation. "The lapse Of time. 4"
say the board Of managers, "and the progress Of
events. have but served to confirm our delibe
rate and o(ten-recorded opinion that the only
exodus for the slave from his bondage-ihe
only redemption Of ourselves from orr guilty
participation ia lilies orer the ruins Of The
american STATE and tie american Church.
- The work which the American Adolf
tionists have undertaken is no light one. They
aim at nothing less than a reformation in The
religion and reroiution IN the gOrernmeni
Of The country"
This report wa. printed in Boston by An
drews . Prentiss. No. II Devonshire street,
and is signed by EDNrND QrIscY as Core
spending Secretary. and FRANcIs JAcKsoN as
President. We believe that this is the same
Mr.. JAcEsoN who figured at the late meeting
at Faneuil Hall on the Fugitive Slave law.
and whose name is also signed 10 an advertise
ment which one Of our contemporaries styles a
manifesto Of the insurgents" Thus il seems
that those Of the good citizens u Boston who
are led away by the excitement on this subject
are directly ministering to the aid and comfort
Of that party in Massachusetts who avow that
their great work contemplates not only refor-
nation in the religion, but "rerOi'iflon IN He
government of the country" We do not say
fioN WIS paitl VI WI HhAt-bN ~ a hbuNE VI
numerous faction-but it is clearly enough
Distmion party, and, as such, however con
temptible. its existence cannot be entirely ig-
nored.
But again Among the resolutions present
cd at the annual meeting Of the American Anti
slavery Society. held at the Tabernacle in the
city Of Now York in May, lsi9, were the fol-
lowing.
"Resolred, That that which IL giving strength,
extension, and perpetuity TO slavery-io Wit THE
UsIos-on being overthrown bya peaceful with.
drawal from it by the non saveholding States,
for conscience. sake and for selfpresorvation
must necessarily weaken limit, and eKtrpate
slavery from the American soil. Therefore,
"Resolved, That the motto Of every christian and
every patriot should be, No union ,ciD ,ioooho,d.
eys eithsr religioi'iy politically"
In Ohio great Anti-slavety convention was
held at Berlin, Mahoning county, beginning on
the Dist and ending on Sunday the 23d Sep
tember. lSig 1t was held in the great tent
which is the anti slavery tabernacle Of Ohio,
and the attendance was estimated at from five
to six thousand. IT is represented as an en-
thusiastic and unanimous assemblage II was
addressed by numerous speakers, and the sense
Of the meeting was ultimately embodied in the
following terms: