The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-11-13
Important From " ort., Carolina
UNION MEN DECLARING AGAINST
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A New Declaration of Independence.


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A New Declaration of Independence.
correspondence of the Indianapolis Journall
Our correspondent at Halterss sends us
to- day, the most important news that we
have yet received from any of the Confede.
rate States, The Union men of North Caro-
lima are beginning to act openly against the
Confederates. They held Convention re-
Gently, in Hyde county, and published the
following Declaration ofIndependence, of which
our correspondent has furnished US from the
original manuscript
UNION MEN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Union men Of North Carolina are mo-
wing in earnest. Convention was held in
Hyde county, the largest county in the State,
en- the 18th ofOctober, in the year 1861, and
nu merously attended. After passing reso-
lutions declaring that they would not be
bound by the action of the Confederate States
and deciding that they still formed a part of
the Union, they put forth the following:
STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCES.
Appealing to that sacred right Of protest
and resistance which is inherent in all op-
pressed communities, and with firm trust
in the Almighty Ruler of mankind, whose
good providence is declared in history, and
who can never tolerate the permanent ascen-
dency of wrong, we do hereby, on behalf Of
the loyal people of North Carolina, delibe-
rately and solemnly proclaim our independ-
ence of the spurious Government designating
itself the Confederate States of America" f"
and of the revolutionary and reasonable di.
nasty which now usurps the governing power
of our own State.
We repudiate the unwarranted arrogatlon
of authority asserted by these bold, bad men
traitors alike to the Federal Union and to
the people of North Carolina. We disclaim
and disavow all participation or oracquescence
in their two fold treachery, and we now and
hereby reaffirm our inalienable allegiance to
the Government of the United States, and
resume all those elements and parts Of sove-
reignty which belong, in subordination to
the National Constitution, to the freemen Of
this Commonwealth.
In vindication of the justice Of our cause,
and in Difference to the judgment of the world
we proceed to set forth some of the conside-
rations which impel us to this declaration.
The tyrants, whom we now arraign before
the tribune of public conscience, have sought
to deprive US Of the precious heritage of our
American citizenship, won for us by the
heroic tolls and sacrifices of our sires of the
revolution, and handed down to US to be
transmitted to our children.
They have not only attempted the abroga-
ton of the Constitution ofthe United States,
but have addressed themselves to the sweep
ing mutiatlon of our municipal statutory
law as embodied in the Code putin operation
on the 1st of January, 1856. .... F..
They have violated nearly every section
of that venerable work Of our fathers, the
Bill Of Rights, which the-Statc Constitution
solemnly declares to be an integral port on
of itself, and never to be violated on any pre-
tense whatever.
They have placed US in the false attitude
Of revolt against a benifficent and protecting
Government which had never done us an in
Justice, and which was full of blessings to
us ALL
They have made loyalty crime, and be-
trayed many Of our people into active rebel
lion, by false pretenses and intimidation.
They have endeavored, by the grossest
falsehoods, presistently repeated, and by ex-
aggerated appeals to prejudice and passion,
to influence our minds against fellow citizens
whose intercourse with US had been produc-
tive only of benefits.
They have destroyed commerce with
our Northern brethren which afforded a
means of livelihood to no small portion Of
our people, and thereby brought the horrors
of starvation to our doors.
They have inaugurated a ncighborhood
warfare of most cruel and IMPLYING ferocity,
which spares neither age sex, nor conditions;
but which arrays brother against brother,
father against son, and substitutes for the
kindly intercourse of friend with friend, a
fendish hatred, espionage and persecution,
They have invaded the sacred precincts of
the household and sundered the dearest ties
ofhuman nature. They have torn husbands
and fathers from their homes, and robbed
families of their natural protectors. M
They have perpetrated the most shocking
barbarities, and established reign ofterror
and alarm without precedent in civilized
history.
They have countenanced outrages and
bloodshed, and encouraged mobs and riots ;
they have sanctioned the proceedings of ir-
responsible and selfconstituted Vigilance
/ Committees, and other, bodies utterly un,
known to the laws; tolerated with compla-
cency their rprescription and indiscriminate
| violence, and applauded their atrocious
4 deeds.
They have brutally murdered inofensiye
and harmless persons, some Of them of great
i age. y
j They have offered rewards for the lives Of
freemen guilty Of no ciime, and put prices
upon their heads.
They have organized fraud and falsehood
i and made system Of robbery and theft,