Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-26
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND DIS
UNION.

lasl ne leAlS Ior tue discourse are, an
article in the Charleston Mercury, aud an ex-
tract ofan article in this paper, in which sug.
gestion was made, that il would be well for
Massachusetts, to carry out her off repeated
threats to quit the Union, saying as we did,
that she would then become beacon of warn.
ing through all time to come to the other
States of the disastrous results TO herself of the
consequences of separation, for no alleged
violation OF the rights or interests of her citi.
zens; the only causes Of offence alleged by her
self being, in one instance, the determination
Of the Federal Government to yindicate. bv war
against England, the rights and interests Of
American citizens--those interests aud rights
thus violated being mainly Of the citizens Of
Massachusetts the repulsioh Of the impress,
ment of seamen on board of American vessels,
having been necessarily urged by Massachusetts
herself, who was so indignant because war was
not instantly declared at her request, that she
denounced the Federal Government as so COW
ests Of America, that " it could not be kicked
into war" Profting by this hint of Massa-
chusetts, England pushed her insolence and
expressions to such ali extreme, that the Fed
eral Government could no longer endure such
outrages it was, according to Massachusetts,
literally kicked into war-wheu lol this same
Massachusetts, SO lately rampant for war with
England on account of her aggressions, now
that these aggressions had so increased in num-
Der and great aggravation, suddenly resolves
that :" it is unbecoming christian people to go
to war; upon provocation and outrage to the
last extreme, but that it was both becoming
and proper to have gone to war before the ag-
gressions had become SO frequent and aggra-
waited. The reasonable conduct Of Massachu.
sets in that war, and her parricidal efforts to
palsy the national arm, stand recorded black
page in history, a blasted monument of pre-.
JUDGE and malignity.
Again, she resolved that if against her de.
claration a neighboring nation should be an
nexed, peaceably, at its request and desire, to
enjoy common brotherhood and the advan
tages Of citizenship, the Union was, ipso facto
dissolved.
And again her desire to be absolved from
bonds with nation which should admit States
or Territories with slaves We might go on to
enumerate many similar instances, and, among
them, that nationality with even the present
slaveholding States is such plague spot upon
them as to call for their withdrawal from al
communication with such, that their skirts
might be freed from the plague spot
When we remember that the immediate an
cestors of these very people, many Of whom
indeed, lie buried in fresh.made graves, are
daily held up to admiration as the very salt Of
the earth, political and social saints, whose
bright particular stars are claimed as the
peerless galaxy which adorns the record Of
time when we remember, too, that these very
men, the immediate fathers OF the present
turbulent and reasonable population, were
the parties who formed the federal compact
acknowledging, legalizing, and authorizing
slavery in every form; some of them strug
Cling to render perpetual the African slave
trade, and giving to slave property sole emf
nence in the Constitution, is it not cause Of
offence that these should villify, Islander, and de-
nounce southern men, (who are in every attri
butte which gives worth to man their equals a,
least) declare them unworthy Of association
and express desire to separate from them
When, in addition TO this, a very generally
avowed purpose to aid, by all means in Their
power, the stealing Of the property Of the
southern people, and law is passed by al
overwhelming majority to secure this very
robbery, is it strange that we should express
willingness that she should retire. as she ha!
threatened, and should solitary and alone enjoy
the happiness Of communing exclusively with
her own superlative sanctity? This would NO
be disunion, but it would for all time to come
secure the remaining States from this danger
Let Massachusetts, 60 and thus enjoy herself
She would be to all future time beacon
which would prove wholesome caveat to al
other States of the folly Of over selfrighteous
ness-of a community worshipping Moloct
virtue which devours and turns into excre
ments all other virtues, and renders tolerable
all other vices, if covered with the mantle o.
abolition. 1t requires patience in disinter
ested party to look with unrufled temper upon
these fantastic, lunatic rawlings and outrageous
conduct Of community as learned in black
letter knowledge as it is deficient in sound
tutoring OF the heart and its best affections.
Does Massachusetts,, in Justification or .ex
tenuation, point to long list Of injuries in
ficted upon her prosperity and her rights by
the States and people towards whom she mani.
tests so rancorous and implacable disposition
None such is pretended but, on the contrary
it is manifest beyond a question, that if the
advantages she has derived from her inter.
course with these vilifed States were deducted
from the sum of her prosperity, she would be
reduced TO the point of lowest degree in wealth
and population while, on the other hand
nothing has ever been received by these States
from Massachusetts which they could not as