The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Southern pisuuion.

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The Minnesota Republican. a spirited
young paper, which is deservedly making
its way in the world at st. Paul, has the
following with regard to southern threats
of disunion: - sF
eve have been eowed by this disunion
bluster long enough. If the South ZEAL
ly understands the constitution as giving
slavery the control of the government
for all coming time and IS ready to Sc
cede unless that control is granted, then
indeed is reconciliation impossibie. The
North may again yield, as she always has
done; but she viii never be reconciled.
There may be parley. but never peace,
so long as the freemen of the North are
asked to assume the responsibility of pro-
tecting, extending system against which
every righteous instinct of humanity
cries out.
"sDissolye the Union, fellow country
men of the South. if you will. We abide
steadfastly by the purpose ayowed by
millions of freemen, that We will no lon
ger be your instruments for enslaying our
brother man.
1--WE recognize no such obligation,
neither in nature nor in revelation, nor
the constitution of our common country,
nor vet in the code Of expedieney. Our
representatives will not, We trust, ever
consent to the reception of another slave
State.
".Dissolye the Union,' if you viii.
The North disclaims all responsibility for
such threat. We have done nothing to
provoke it. We shall do nothing to pro-
woke it. We shall treat slavery as sec
tional, freedom as national. We shall
regard it as wrong to hold men as prop
erty. and shall labor to spread that con-
Yiction throughoutthe Union and through
out the world. Asking only Of the fed
eral government to cease to abuse its
power, by helping to extend slavery, we
shall employ only moral and Christian
means to eradicate it from the land. Scru-
pulously regarding our allegiance to the
Union, and tenderly careful of your rights
as of our own, we nevertheless must re-
main freemen, and must be discharged
from all completely in the work of enslav-
ing others.
"Dissolvethe Union, if you will, breth-
rem of the sunny South. We shall mourn
and weep. and turn pale with horror, over
the suicide of that day. The prosperity
of fifty years will perish at blow. We
shall suffer in our commerce, in our agri
culture, in our manufactures, in every
. material interest, and perhaps in our In
ternal concord. But We hope not to suf
fer in our reputation, nor in our patriot
ism, nor in our morality, nor in our in
telligence. We shall recover from tht
shock of tkstsocial earthquake, and shal
walk onward to better day.
Dissolve the Union, but long curse
will follow that people who do it that they
may grow rich upon the unpaid toll Of
the oppressed. No nation under the
whole heavens will respect the confed-
eracy of Shareholders. No hand of pow
er from the North will repel the approach
of the invader. No longer our fellow
citizens and countrymen, but aliens and
foreigners. the people of the South could
appeal to no conservative feeling at the
North, to shield them from the influence
of a conterminous nation of Abolitionists.
"A line of fire. would then indeed blaze
around them; and that powder-house OF
which southern statesmen have spoken,
would ignite, and fearful would be the
ruin and desolation which would follow
the explosion. The dreams of a great
slaveholding confederacy, surrounding
the Gulf of Mexico and the Isles of the
West Indies, would never be realized.
The escaping fugitive would be irreclaim-
able the moment he crossed the border
While southern institutions would not
find single new safeguard, their present
security would vanish with the Federal
Government Loosed from all hold upon
the sympathy of the world, the Southern
Republic would be at the mercy of the
waves of ruin, such as never yet dashed
upon nation since time began.
"Better ceunsels we trust will prevail
the South will learn her true interest, and
many generations hence viii the noble as.
piraions of American patriotism find ex
preston in the langua se-' Liberty and
Union, mow and .foreUer ="