Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-11-05
DisuniOn Convention.


vention, now in session at Cleveland.
In September it was announced that th'
disunion Abolitionists to the number o
six thousand had signed a call for I
Convention to meet at Cleveland, to tak'
measures for the dissolution of the Anne
rican Union. With these traitors to the
country, the propriety of dissolving the
Union IS a foreign conclusion. While
theZcountry seemed distracted by the
financial pressure of the times, with
bankruptcy staring the business inter
ests into paralization, these Abolitionists
halted in their audacious movements
The Convention was attempted to be
postponed. But yesterday the leaders
of the advance guard-the "forlorn
hope" of the Black Republicans, arriv-
ed in this city, organized at Chapin's
hall, declaring the postponemont as an
unauthorized movement, leapcd into the
discussion Of its chief end, the dissolu-
ton of the Union, with all the charac-
~teristic fanaticism of last years cam
paign. Abbey Foster Parker Pillsbu-
ry, Remard and others were on hand.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison arrived to-day
C. C. Burleigh, of Connecticut, was also
there, all burning with the incendiary
passion and expression clarifying the
expediency, the practicability and the
duty of our immediate dissolution of the
American Union. But we cannot paint
the features of the Convention so vivid
" as the actors themselves have done in
their resolutions. Read them.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion the following resolutions we're of
fered by tho Business Committee, viz
Sd. Resolred, That Slavery and Lib
erty arc eternal antasonisms, aud can
never be peacefully united in the same
government. Fire and water, Christ
and Belise, are not more irreconcilable;
and of this fundamental truth the his
tory of the United States is a sad yet
clear and unmistakable illustration.
4th. Resotved, That in the formation
of the American Union, the Jesuitical
doctrine that the end sacrifices the means
was adopted and followed, and the eter-
nal law of right repudiatcd and set at
naught.
9Th. Resolr:d, That resistance to ty-
rauny is both a sacred right and an i'm
pe,ious duty, and revolutions in gov
ernment are no less so when they fail
to secure the rights of the humblcst OF
its people,
9Th. Resolred, That the whole histo-
ry of the United States Government is
a continued conspiracy against Liberty;
until not only the slaves of the planta-
ten, but the entire people of the NOM
inally Free States are subjected to a des-
potism wholly unknown to the Ameri-
can colonies before the revolution.
eth. Rcsolred, That however needful
the American Union might have been
at its formation as a protection against
British and other foreign despotisms, it
now exists only to protect and prolons
a despctism far more terrible than the
cd world ever knew; and consequently
every reason for its foundation is now
even more powerful for its destruction.
9Th. Resolred, That waving all qucs-
tions of expcdicncy and policy, and car
rying the whole subject upward in the
regions Of conscience and the Higher
Law, We declare this Union a crime and
a curse that should not exist a single
hour, and come to us what may we here
by proclaim our settled purpose in the
name of Freedom and of God, to seek
its destruction as the only means of ac-
quitting ourselves of all participation in
the guilt of Slavery, and of giving the
erauce from bondage.
9th. Rcsolccd, That it is the duty of
the slaves to strike down their tyrant
masters by force and arms whenever the
blow, however bloody, can be made eff
fective to that end, unless Washington
was a murderer and the Revolution a
crime against God and man.
10th. ResoEued, That whenever we
behold them in the battle field of Free
dom, we will give them every aid and
comfort in our power, in the same spir-
it which brought La Fayette and Kos
ciusko to the support of our Revolu-
tionary ancestors in their struggle to
achieve their rights.
It will be asked who there are who
sympathise with these men in their dam
nable treachery to the only bond which
holds in harmony the people of these
t~hirty-one States? A much larger bo-
dy of the people from Maine to the Mis-
sissippi than is generally suspected must
be counted in this category More than
six thousand have signed the call
They themselves count upon a vast
number of old Liberty men, and vast
numbers of the Black Republicans as
their supporters. All together in a So
lid phalanx, they voted for Fremont
last year, believing, and asserting that
it was precipitating the country upon
the verge of dissolution of the Union
They count with reason, upon gathering
hosts of men brought mp in the schoo
of Black Republicanism to the extreme
of this fanatical notion. They, Abbey