Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

Such doctrine, nourilhed until it shall hine forth it's legitimate fruts interferes with the do nestle institutions, and with the social relations of the citizens of the several States strikes ia tai blow at State sovsregty, periis the interests and stability of the Union and must result in the overthrow of the liberties of the people.
 For the purpose of sustaining principles so di reetly at war with the recorded views oI the fra mers of the Constitution, and 0f glvlng permz nency to the system of human bondage, We have recently seen men arrested and imprisoned, fol holding and uttering different opinlons, their sc ] cial and business relations broken up and them selves expelled from their homes. Laws have I been enacted which drive free persons from thei, kindred and the places of their birth, or consigu them and their posterity to perpetual servitude A national code has been demanded which shall protect and extend the system. The leeislature of confederated state has affirmed the right to secede from the Union whenever she may think it expedient to do SO, and she has invited othe, states to meet by representatives in convent Uu to concert measures for united action thereunt IreasJnable sentiments have been openly pru! clalmed in the halls of the National Congress and on the floor of that body, it has been declar: ed that the election of President, representing opinions in opposition to the policy referred to Ia contingency which may arise under the pro. visions of the Constitution) will of itself be a sufficient cause for secession, or for dissolution of the Union.
 It is hardly necessary to say that the freemen Of Connecticut emphatlcaly repudiate such dan gerous and revolutionary sentiments, and all action SO utterly inconsistent with the first prin cples of Constitutional liberty. They hold that slavery exists by the arbitrary exercise of the re- served and assumed rights of the States, and as thus established, sister States and the edera Government are alike separated, as by an impass ible gulf, from any right, legally or forcibly, tc interfere herewith.
 While utterly condemning all armed fanatical invasiOns of States which interfere with their sovereignty, and disturb their domestic peace as acts meriting the just penalty of violated law, the people of this State believe that slave. ry "is an evil which has preyed upon the very vltals of the Union, and has been prejudicial to all the States in which it has existed;' that it "discourages arts and manufactures ;" "places ob stacles in the way of universal education :" "es- tablshes false estimates of virtue and vice, and taints the very source ofmoral principle"
 Entertaining these opinions they feel called upon by the magnitude of the interests already lnyolved-interests which are augmenting year by year as this nation presses on towards matu. rlty-to enter their solemn protest against the assumption and exercise of powers by the Gen. eral Government, for the protection of slavery in the common territories, or for perpetuating the system, and they feel justified in adopting all constitutional measures to protect the extension of an institution which can only be sustained by censorship of the press, by interrupting the le- gal channels of intelligence, and by enacting laws which are in conflict with the natural rights of men, and in violation of those principles of etern- al justice which are of universal application, and which reach back of, and are anterior to, any human code. They are, and ever have been, devotedly attached to the Federal Union, but believe that loyalty to the General Government cannot be maintained in any section of our coun- try unless the people can freely, fully and fear lessly, discuss the principles upon which it is founded, and on which it must be sustained. They will vindcate themselves before the world, in embracing every offered opportunity to inau- ence the administration of the Federal Govern ment 50 as to accomplish the mission which God designed this nation should fulfill-the estab- lshment and extension of the blessings of free dom, civilization and Christianity.
 VIM. A. BUCKINGHAM.
 New Haven, May 2d, 1860.