Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-07-05
1861.

caused: for c~rippling cur trade with all parts
of the world fer imposing taxes on us with
out our consent for depriving us, in numer-
GUS instances, ofa trial by soberjury.
He has excited among us domestic insur-
~rections, mObs, riots, street fights, assassina-
tions and duels, and has let loose upon our
inhabitants an enemy more artful and merci-
less than Indian savages; whose known rule
Of warfare is an undistinguished destruction
of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns and DESTROYED the
lives of orr people.
He is at this time transporting large car
goes of foreign poison, to complete the works
of death, destruction and tyranny already
begun, with circumstances of cruelty and
perfdy unparalleled in the most barbarous
ages, and unworthy any potentate save the
| Prince of Darkness.
He has entered private families all over
the land he has separated husband and wife;
he has brought upon them and their children
poverty and shame he has made multitudes
of weeping widows and homeless orphans,
whose tears and lamentations have been his
delight.
lie has everywhere entered neighborhoods
and villages, and discussions, poverty, crime,
degradation and ruin have been showered
from his hand like summer hail or Egyptian
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plaques.
= He has entered all of our cities, and has
cursed them with iniouity, crime and woe
he moves like a destroying angel, whose
death-dealing weapon never tives: as a raging
conflagration, that aims at universal ruin as
, a sweeping pestilence, that refuses to depart
E till il has hushed the hustle of the city into
| the silence of the grave.
He has filed our city watch houses with
> ~loafers and vagabonds, our streets with beg
gars, our hospitals with the sick and suffering,
our poorhouses with paupers, our prisons
> with criminals, and cur burial places with
premature graves.
He has entered our jury rooms, and our
courts of Justice, and has secreted himself be-
hind the bar and the bench he has perverted
law, protected crime, fettered the hand of JUS
tice, punished innocence, and imposed upon
~ the people.
a. He has entered churches, and profaned the
sanctuary of God.
He has entered the army, and confused
their councils, produced INSTRUMENTATION and
e. palsied the arm Of war his influence in our
it camp has been of mOre service to our enemies
We than the shrewdest spies and largest brides.
a He has entered ouI navy, and has shown
to himself a powerful enemy upon water as
cd we'll as land.
in He has entered American vessels every
lid where, and has wrecked them on every sea,
the and stranded them on every coast, destroying
myriads of lives and merchandise, and treas
- ureS almost beyond computation.
are He has entered the steamers on all of our
ali lakes, bays and rivers he has fred the brains
IL of their officers he has rendered their COM
Sc manders, their pilots, and engineers reckless
ted of human life, and frantic with excitement
ON be is the monster criminal that is Justly char
yer geable with nearly all of the steamboat col
be- isions, explosions and CONGREGATIONS that Of
ght late years have sent such multitudes Of our
to citizens to untimely graves, the whole coun.
UGH try standing shocked at these wholesale and
ure atrocious murders.
in He has scattered his insidious agents along
ong all of our railroad lines, and all of our grea
and thOroughfares, from one end of the country Il
the other, that he may embrace every oppor
lore tunity that presents itself for letting fly tn
BILE, shafts of death and ruin.
the He has constrained our fellow citizens t
But, array themselves in hostility against eacl
ons, other, to become the executioners of thei
noes nelghbors, friends and brethren, or to fal
des- themselves by suicidal hands.
gov He makes war upon kings. potentates, an
heir republican rulers, and uses the same fatal wea
tent pons upon savage tribes and African slaves.
lie has proved himself equally heartless i
is us his attacks upon the rich and the poor, the wis
over and The ignorant, the ruler and the subject, III
,tlon master and his slave he is the common enem
ness. of all, plotting the destruction of all.
ry of He is the unchanging uncOmpromisinp ent
lg In my OF every honorable trade, profession an
hing calling in the land,
facts He is the Zoe ofeyery CITY. viIIaoa and boy
let in the land.
most He aims to destroy the health, happine
good and existence of the human race. to disorgan;
'com- all society, snhVert all governments, strength
has every vice, and crush every virtue.
vern- In every stage of our expressions we ha
'eSen- pettIoned for redress in tho p,oef bnpnb
tuna terms our repeated petitions have been a
only. swered only by repeated injury. A potenta
0 his whose character is thus marked by every 0
10 an that may define a tyrant and a monster, is un
TO be the ruler of a free people.
On OF Nor have we been wanting in attention
| that the king and his agents. We have uorn
q mas them, from time to time, of their attempts.
resort artfuI or other means. tn ertend a -.
open t'ble control over us. We have appeal
TO their native Justice and magnanimitv. n,
,aled have endeavored to induce them by the mo
ana earnest and persuasive arguments, to disayo
mar these usurpations, which would inevitably H.
ance- to the most powerful resistance. They Ia
d has been deaf to the voice of inst;ce and -
d on spurned these touching appeals. We thereto
a~cquiesce in the necessity which deman,
.odies our Separation, and hold them, hencefor
DEAD enemies in war, tyrants in peaee-frieu
S and never.
a INTO We therefore, appealing to the Supre,
40 OF Judge of the world for the rectitude of
AZURE intention, do solemnly publish and dpcla
that we are, and of right ought to be, free a
Pula- independent; that we are absolved from
lives allegiance to King Alcohol . and tba, ! E
itting and independent men. we have fuiI =
Iouses levy war AGAINST him avnoso
denounce his character. brand bin I'm
erved law. and show to the world ~. AZ =
that schemes for euslaving and crushing the hun
race, and to attark him by every means vb
r peo- nature or natures God hath nlaca5 !" - =
mess er: and TO do all other oc,s 49, - : y
necessary to do f. s. cnre lie rhnIn nay
pursuit Of hann;nass "A 80, anu
bring protection of Divine providan.a nn On
eedom pledoe to each other onr - We mu
and our sacred honor.
seve-
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g the "atlOnal DIVISION.