Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-06-20
A CHAPTER OF HISTOR
Origin Of Secession---New England the
Mother of il.

"A O11h1 EN- We u1OIOh
Origin Of Secession---New England tn
Mother of it.
1t is said to be wise child who know
: his own father. She certainly is sn un
natural mother who denies her own off
spring New England. the prolific moth
er of SO many errors, heresies and isms
denounces with extreme bitterness po
litical dogma ofthe present period, whicl
is part of her numerous progeny, dog
ma conceived, incubated and sent out t
this breathing world by hers elf--secessio
She now disowns it, denies her maternity
and tries to fasten it upon South Carroll
ma as her pet and progeny. This unnat
ural conduct deserves exposure, and it be
comes our duty to make this exposure
AT three different periods has New En-.
gland maintained the the doctrine o.
secession: at the period of the pur
chase of Louisiana, at the period o.
the annexation of Texas, and at the
period Of the war of 1912. For the first
time, New England cnunciated the doc
trine in 1796-sixty-fve years ago. Il
our reader will patiently follow us we will
proceed to establish what we have here as.
serted-and establish, too, the additional
fact that the idea of sectionalism was first
injected into the Northern mind by the
public men of New England.
The late Matthew Carey in his Olive
Branch, states that the project of sepa-
ration OF the States was formed in New
England shortly after the adoption of the
Constitution and that in the year of IT,
96. most elaborate set of papers was
published in a newspaper at Hartford,
Conn, the joint production of on associ-
alton of men of the first talents and inhu-
ence in the State, the object of which was
to encourage the project of separation
and to foment the prejudices of the peo-
pie of New England against their brcth-
rem OF the South. An extract which he
quotes from one of these papers, is pre-.
cisely in the style and temper of an in.
cendiary Abolition address of the present
day.
| THE PURCHASE OF LOUISIANA.
In 1903 the following resolution was
passed by the Massachusetts Legislature
Resolved, That the annexation of Lou
isana to the Union transcends the consti.
tutional powers of the Government of
the United States. 1t forms new Con.
federacy, to which the States united by
the former COMPACT, are not bound tc
adhere.
Into this brief but comprehensive res
olution is crammel the whole States
Rights creed-the extreme State Rights
creed The Government is pronounced q
compact between the States, and from il
the right of secession or dithdrawal fol-
just cause, results as necessary logica
deduction.
The Federal clergy Of Massachusetts
were then also in the field, proclaimine
disunion, and some of them received til,
thanks of the Senate for their traitorou.
effusions.
In the Massachusetts Legislature of 1S.
05, member exclaimed "In a word ]
consider Louisiana the grave Of the Un.
ion."
In 1911, on the bill for admission ol
Louisiana as a State, Josiah Quincy, jr.,
said after being called to order, committed
his remarks to Writing.
"lf this bill pass it is my deliberat te
opinion that it is a virtual dissolution OF
the Union that it will free tie States
from their moral obligations, and as it will
be tie right Of all, SO it will be the duty
Of some definitely to prepare for a sepora-
ration. on'icadly # they can torcibiy If they
mast"
John Quincy Adams, in describing the
Federal disunionists of Massachutts says,
among othe reasons for dssolving on the
annexation of Louisiana was the follow
ing:
"That it is oppressive to the interests
and destructive to the influence of the
Northern section of the Coniederscy.
,Ohose right and duty ii aoas therefore to
secede from the main body polite, and to
constitute one of their own.'
Secession here appears in propria per-
soma and by name. But this is not all
The New England people meditated some
thing more monstrous and shocking
Says Mr. Adams:
"That project (that of the New Eng
land Confederacy) repeat, had gone the
length of fixing upon military leader for
its execution and although the crcum-
stances of the time never admitted of its
execution, nor even Of its full develop.
ment, yet had no doubt in 1908 and
1900, and have no doubt at this time, that
it is the key to all the great movements
Of these leaders of the Federal party in
New England from that time forward till
its final catastrophe in the Hartford Con-
vention."
In his celebrated letter upon the Hart
ford Convention of December 30th, 1928
while President of the United States, Mr..
Adams said:
"T'his design of certain leaders of the
Federal party Ito effect dissolution of
the Union and the establishment of a
Northern Confederaey) had been formed
in the winter of the winter of 1904,
Immediately after, and as a consequence
the acquisitions of Louisiana. Its JUS
tifcation causes to those who entertained
it were, that the annexation of Louisiana
to the Union transcended the constitu-
tional powers of the Government of the
United States that it formed, in fact a
new confederacy, to which the States uni