Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-07-06

out our consent; for d~epriving us, in numer.
Gus instances, of a trial BY sober jury.
He has excited among US domestic insur-
~rection, mobs, riots, street fights, assassina-
tons and duels, and has let loose upon our
inhabitants an enemy more artful and merci-
less than Indian sayages, whose known mode
of warfare is an undistinguished destruction
of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts. burnt our towns and DESTROYED the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large car
goes of foreign poison, to complete the works
| Of death, destruction and tyranny already
begun with circumstances of cruelty and
perfdy unparalleled IN the most barbarous
ages, and unworthy any potentate save the
Prince of Darkness
He has entered private families all over
the land he has separated husband and wife;
he has brought upon them and their children
poverty and shame he has made multitudes
of weeping widows and homeless orphans,
whose tears and lamentations have been his
delight.
) He has everywhere entered neighborhoods
, and villages, and dissensions, poverty, crime,
, degradation and ruin have been showered
from his hand like summer hail or Egyptian
E plaques.
He has entered all of our cities, and has
cursed them with ~iniquity, crime and woe;
ne moves IKE u ucSlTO1luR Angel, hUOSC
deathdealing weapon never tires as a raging
conflagration, that aims at universal rum: as
a sweeping pestilence, that refuses to depart
II till it has hushed the hustle of the city into
!. the silence Of the grave.
10 He has filled our city watch-houses with
r loafers and vagabonds, our streets with beg
CARS, our hospitals, with the sick and suffer
m ing, our poor houses with paupers, our pris-
ons with criminals, and our burial places with
~ premature graves.
lal He has entered our jury rooms, and our
courts of Justice, and has secreted himself be-
hind the bar and the bench he has perverted
law, protected crime, fettered the hand of JUS
nd tice, punished innocence, and imposed upon
pa the people.
He has entered churches, and profaned the
sanctuary of God.
He has entered the army, and confused
ee. their councils, produced INSTRUMENTATION and
palsied the arm of war his influence in our
; - camp has been of more service to our enemies
than the shrewdest spies and largest brides.
He has entered our navy, and has shown
"a himself a powerful enemy upon water as
=" well as land.
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Wy and stranded them on every coast, destroying
myriads of lives and merchandise, and treas
o., ures almost beyond computation.
,ar He has entered the steamers ON all of our
T. lakes, bays and rivers he has fired the brains
, - of their officers ; he has rendered their COM
80 manders, their pilots, and engineers reckless
- of human life, and frantic with excitement;
ever - " &C 81
y. lisions, explosions and confagratiOns that of
s. late years have sent such multitudes of our
- citizens to untimely graves, the whole coun-
- try standing shocked at these wholesale and
- atrocious murders
He has scattered his iDsidious agents along
..onS all of our railroad lines, and all of our great
49, thoEoughfares, from one end Of the country to
the other, that he may embrace every oppor-
LII. tunity that presents itself for letting fly the
AZ, shafts of death and ruin
W He has constrained our fellow citizens to
~s' array themselves in hostility against each
80, other, to become the executioners of their
- neighbors, friends and brethren, or TO fall
COZ themselves by suicidal hands.
+So He makes war upon kings, potentates, ans
800 republican rulers, and uses the same fata
anas weapons upon savage tribes and African slaves
He has proved himself equally heartless il
rs go his attacks upon the rich and poor, the wis,
80 and the ignorant, the ruler and the subject
;noSs the master and his slave; he is the common
- enemy of all, plotting the destruction of al
10 in He is the unchanging, uncompromising enc
my of every honorable trade, profession an
esots calling in the land.
He is the foe of every city, village and han
let In the land.
c good nc aaas - usuoy ~ nealln' haPPnLe
II bss ize all society, subvert all g~Overnmen
80 strengthen every vice, andcrush every virtu
,roson. In every stage of our expressions we ha
'st;na petitioned for redress in the most humh
: IL terms our repeated petitions have been a
Is viii swered only by repeated injury. Apotenta
olarm whose character is thus marked by every
that may define a tyrant and a monster,
ION unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
"a tbo Nor have we been wanting in attention
nd bss the king and his agents. We have warT
naeo~t them, from time to time, Of their attempts,
onan artful or other means, to extend an UNIV
rantable control over as. We have appea
i, oouod to their native justice and m~agnanimity, q
"A .nd have endeavored to induce them by the IN
to har- alnos anu .oudsi'I arguments, = ma
ance. "Poio' Wilt "omu -,
and has Tau : ny 10 Poneriu /
have spurned these touching appeals.
hod;ac therefore acquiesce in the necessity which
10 Ill mands our separation, and hold them, her
los and forth, enemies in war, tyrants in peac
- friends never.
{ h,;ng. We therefore, appealing to The Supr'
oroyoS Judge of the world for the rectitude of
Son,,Ia intention, do solemnly publish and decl
bo - that we are, and of right ought to be, free
hutting am~Io-eS r. 80, o1S
houses aHSeldn0e 70 ming icohoi ahu tnat' as
sorgsd levy war against him, expose his eriI
On .hot denounce his character, brand him as an
law, and show to the ~erld his diabol
mr. moo. schemes for enslaying and crushing the
ltanpss man race, and to attack him by every M
nen : VI nueS uou haln pIlee
20 may be necessary to do TO secure life, lib
brinr and the pursuit of happiness. And for
}readoS support of this Declar alton, with a firm
ance on the protection Of Divine Provide
he seve we mutually pledge TO each other our
10 ba,s; our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
ring the
~ We would call attention to the
fling and merous Colleges, Seminaries, Schools,
sentative advertised in orr eol,mns Ssvar.I of =
wells, ap- &c h.vo go
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