Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-24
THE DIsUNIoN CONVENTION.

THE DISUNION CONVENTION.
On the 18th inst. was held at Worcester Massa-
%chusetts, o Convention, called by a large number
Of the most respectable citizens of the common
wealth, to consider the necessity and ~propriety of
a dissolution Of the present Union of slave claim
ing and non-slave-claiming States. The originators
and managers of the movement and the greater
number of those whose names were attached to
the call, are not of the class Of non-voting aboli.
~tionists but are anti.slavery men who are becom-
ing so far convinced of the impossibility of
uniting slavery and freedom under the same gov
eminent, as to be willing to inquire into the pro-
priety and necessity of a dissolution of the present
Union which has proved SO eminently destructive
of the purposes for which the federal government
was avowed!y formed, viz: the establishment Of
justice, and the security of liberty to the people.
We dispense with matter previously prepared
for this number of the paper, to make room for a
part of the abbreviated account of the proceedings
which We find in the New York Tribune. We are
convinced we can give our readers no matter oil
more Importance to sll, or of deeper interest tc
them.
Letters were received and read in the Convsn
ton from Senator Wilson, Joshua II. Giddings
Charles Francis Adams, Hon. Amasa Walker
Hon. George Russell, Hon. O. w. Albee, Professor
Stowe, and Rev. DIR. Bellows of New York, The
following are such extracts from these letters OF
the Tribune has furnished US. Though they al
express opposition to disunion as a present expe
dient, they all treat the question and its advo
Gates most respectfully SO far as we mny jLdg,
from these extracts. A great change this. Herr,
Wilson alone seems in rather a bad humor, bu
time and discussion will perhaps help him.
Senator WILSON says:
al have read with sincere and profound regre
this call upon the people of Massachusetts to NEE
in Convention to consider the practicability, prob
ability and expediency Of a separa ton Of the Ere
and Slave States. 1 regret to find gentlemen
rushing into a movement, which can have no othe
' issues than to put a burden upon the cause t
s which they hare given so many years Of sell
, sacrificing toll, and to impair their influence il
the future. I%mpotent for good, this movement
!. can only be productive of evil. 1t may be seizeC
J. upon by adroit political leaders to alarm the timid
to deceive and mislead those who have alread,
been deluded and mislead by artful men into tn
i support of the interests of Slavery. Impruden
words or rash deeds on the part of the opponent
!, of Slavery, only add to the power of those in th
North and in the South who have used the peopl
!. to secure the asoendancy Of the Slave Propa
g%andists.
"The American people ae a patriotic people
They love their country--their whole country
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one people is with them a duty imposed alike b
interest and patriotism. If the movement a
% Worcester shall have any effect at all, it will onl
O serve to array against those who are battling {
q arrest the further extension Of Slavery and til
longer domination of the Slave-perpetualists, tbs
. intense, passionate and vehement spirit of nation
q atty which CLOVIS in the bosoms of the America
people.
81 avail myself, therefore. of your invitation
Of Communicate my to the Convention,
frankly announce to you and the signers of tn
is call, that i nave no sympathy for, nor can l ha,
IN any connection with any movement which conter
plates the dissolution Of the Union. The logic
$. the head and the logic of the heart teach me
is regard all such movements, either in the North
ne South, as crimes against Liberty. / denounce
&c during the late canvass, the unpatriotic and treaso
able language of Southern politicians and presse
TX | have denounced them here on the floor Of Il
Senate. l shall hold the incoming Administra,i
. responsible before the country, if it bestows
#. patronage upon the Richmond Enquirers, Charl
. ton Mercuries, and NeW Orleans Detas; and l sh,
Is, resist the confirmation of the Wises, the Floy(
o. and the Rhetts of the South, if they shall
he placed before us for official positions.
m. 81 cannot but indulge the hope that when I
Oh signers of this call shall assemble in the heart
our commonwealth, they will conclude to leave
ill the ~impotent and puerile threats against the Uni
and the Southern Slave Propogandists, and p
ir- claim their readiness to follow, in the conflict
he the future, the banner of Liberty and Unio
Use around which rallied, in the late canvass, nea
fourteen hundred thousand intelligent and pa
ma otto American Freemen. A firm and infexi
ves adherence to this constitutional and patri:
position win. l am confident secure the prohibit
of Slavery in all places under the exclus
sor authority of Congress, overthrow the Slave Po'
the il the National Government, and prepare the v
mr. for the peaceful emancipation of the bondmeu
ed. the consent of the Slaveholding States.
emit "Yours truly,
i'm "uENRY WILSON.
nd The letter of the venerable j. r. Giddings
to very eloquent, and earnest; but epacs