Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-16

Rev. 7. W. Higginson, from the Committee
on Resolutions, reported the following, which
were adopted at the evening session:

Rev. l. W. Higginson, from the Committee
on Resolutions, reported the following, which
were adopted at the evening session;
RESOLUTIONS
RESOLVED, That the meeting of State Disunion
Convention, attended by men of various parties
and athnities gives occasion for a new statement
Of principles and new platform of action.
heSofved That the cardinal American prineis
pie is now, as always, liberty whle-tha promi-
nent fact is now, as always slavery
Feso.red, That the~conhfct between this priu-
clPle OF loeLlS-Snd this fact OF slavery has been
tne w194e history of the nation for fifty years :;
Mlf1e the only result of this conflict has thus far
been to strengthen both parties and prepare the
way for yet more desperate struggle.
hes0tUe6, That in this emergency we can expect
little or nothing from the South itself because it is
sinking deeper into barbariSm, every year.
Nor from Supreme Court which is always ready
TO invent new securities for Shareholders.
Nor from President, elected almost solely by
Southern voters
Nor from Senate, which is permanently con-
troiled by the slave power.
Nor from new House of Representatives,
which. in spite of our agitation will be more pro-
slavery than the present one, though the present
one has at length granted all which slavery asked.
Nor from political action as now conducted.
For the Republican leaders and presses freely ad-
mltted IN public and private, that the election of
Fremont was, pol ticaliy speaking, "the last hope
OF freedom And even could the North cast an
united vote in 1860, the South has before it four
years of annexation, previous to that time,
hesot0ed, That the fundamental difference be-
tween mere political agitation and the action
we propose, is this that the one requires the ac-
quieseence of the slave power, and the other only
its opposition.
ReSoioea, That the necessity of disunion is
written IN the whole existing character and con-
diton OF the two sections otthe country-in their
social organization, education, habits and laws
In the dangers Of cur white citizens in Kanzas
and OF our colored ones in Boston--n the wounds
OF Charles Sumner and the laurels of his assail
ant-and no government on earth was ever strong
enough to hold together such opposing forces.
ReSotDed That this movement does not seek
merely dsnnlon, but the more perfect union of
the tree States by the expulsion the slave States
from the confederation, in which they have ever
been an element of discord, danger and disgrace
Resotoed, hat it is not probable that the ulti-
mate severance OF the Union will be act Of de-
liberation or discussion, but that a long period
OF deliberation and discussion must precede it:
and this we meet to begin
heSOfoed, That henceforward, instead of re-
gardns it as an objection to any system ofpocy,
that 1t will lead to he separation of the States
we y i'll proclaim that to be the highest of all
recommendations, and the grateful proof states
manship; and will support, politically, or other
wise, such men and measures as appear to tend
most to this result
ResofUed, That by the repeated confession OF
Northern and southern statesmen, g the exis-
tence cf the Union is the chief guarantee of
slavery" and that the despots OF the whole
world have everything o fear, AID the slaves of
the whole world everything to hope, from its de-
struc ion, and the rise of a Free Northern Re.
public.
ReSotUsd, That the sooner the separation takes
place, the more peaceful it will be; bat that peace
or war Is secondary consideration in view of our
present perlls. Slavery must be conquered,
peace&oly II we can, forcibly if we must"