Gazette and sentinel., 1860-12-01
MEIER /. 1860. OLD SERIES-VOI- IS. NO. 10

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association with members Of a Confed-
cracy whose leaders avow such doc
trincS?
We toll to accumulate money, and
we 90 among them and spend it. We
furnish them with the material with
which TO keep their operatives employed,
and consequently from starvation
we purchase from them their manufac-
lures. They grow rich upon and ont
of their intercourse with us, and in re-
turn Of all these, they villify, deride,
abuse, insult, malign, calumniate and
plumber Us. They have passed laws
making it penal for their citizens to aid
you, "r |, in the attempt To reclaim Il
property, If it escapes from us into those
States. They have furnished meals to
John Brown, his predecessors and sue
ccSsOrS, TO travel through our territory,
and 10y poison, fire and murder, attempt
to dcsolatc and dcpopulate this, our
beautiful, our beloved country. They
were themselves the first to violate the
Constitution, by multiplying the Fugitive
Slave Law; the bond that held us to-
gctlcr has been broken by themselves.
Now. my friends, with all these injuries
hcapcd upon us, a we longer continue
with them! Is it not time to dissolve a
partnership, some of the members of
which have conducted themselves so
basrlv, and who have avowed their de-
termination to use the means and name
of the C~onfcdcracy to bring about the
ruin and destruction of the Southern
portion of its members?
have heard some person say, that
they are with us, if we determine upon
separation, (of course they are, for cv-
cry citizen owes his allegiance first t.
his State but that they preferred to
wait until we have demanded such
guarantees as will give us hereafter
unidentified protection, and ascertain
whether these demands will be granted.
70 all such, if they desire to remain in
the Union. Il, %foronc, do not, f~orreasonS
that ! hope to make clear before | have
finished TO all such permit M to say,
that III my opinion, the surest way of
keeping together is to present a united
front, to say to those people that their
agrcssions and injuries have been Of
such a nature, that they shall be 10
longer 1rih us, or Of us, and | do not
doubt, they will come forward with
their olive branch and promise all that
we my ask. But if we halt, if we hest
tate, il we f%altcr, ti.ey will have reason
to believe, what they have already as
serted, that we are divided amongst
| ourselves, and that w dare not attempt
TO part from them, for if we do, our OPP
poncnts in our midst would aid Mr.. Lin
coin and his Wide-Awake cohorts to
whip us in.
| do not doubt, Mr.. President, that
! Mr.. Lincoln will, within a short time,
issue an address to the Southern people,
conciliatory, soothing, and conservative
in its tone He will say or do anything
in order to secure his Inauguration, as
President of all the States of the Union;
but no man who knows, or has read his
past record, will believe him sincere.
| Admit, however, that he is all that his
conservative friends represent him to
be, do you believe, that with the out
side Influences that would be brought
t. bear by such of his friends as William
IL. Seward, Charles Sumner, and Fred
erIck Douglass, his administration can
b. a conservative one? Lincoln was
! elected as the embodiment of a senti-
ment, and if he fails to crafty the par
ty who placed him in power, the means
most frequently employed hy that party
in order to get rid of obnoxious or OBJ
~.jcctionable persons will be brought in
t. rCuuisition. Poison or the Knife will
put him ont of the way. And who sue
cccds him? Hannibal Hamlin," who
will bc Il very appropriate instrument
for their purposes, for he, it is said, is
Of HfriodR dcSceat.-that the blood of
the Ethiopian courses through his veins.
|, mysclf, Mr.. President, believe that
a partnership entered into for an indie
finite length of time can be dissolved to-
day or tomorrow, if any of the members
of the association determine, for reasons
satisfactory TO themselves, upon with
drawing. But admit, if you please, that
this is susceptible of doubt; we have
the inherent right guaranteed to every
mar in the civilized world, when he
knows that his acquired or inherited
rights have been violated, namely, yeuO-
i~niiOR; we have the right contended for
by Patric Henry when in one of his en-.
Unused appeals in the House Of Burgess
SEES, in Virginia, he said: lis life so dear,
or peace 50 sweet, as 10 be purchased
at the price Of chains and slavery? AS
fofme, give me liberty or give me deathp
And | say give me the right to own,
aud the power to protect my property IN