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UulUu IICuy butsuN AiSiA SAaSA
The Abolition President of what wore onee
.honorably known as the United States, has at
last displayed the cloven foot of Disun'on which
he has so long successfully concealed from the
view of tho public. He has issued q proclana-
lion to the people Of the revolted states impos-
ing upon them an oath which he knows they
cannot and will not take; an oath which, if
taken by them, binds them to yield up their
property, their institutions, nay, their very lib
erty itself and the taking Of this oath he
: makes the condition Of their return to their
allegiance to the Federal Government. They
must either swear that they viii surrender their
property, their state institutions, and by SO do
ing, sell themselves into political slavery, or
+. they cannot be permitted to return to their re-.
nouuccd citizenship, no matter how penitent Of
the sin Of Secession or how strong tho love for
the old Union which has been rekindlsd in their
regenerated hearts The President looks upon
them as aliens who must be NATuRALizEo-aye,
naturalized or hanged !--nataralized by taking
the cath which he has prescribed for the pur-
pose of taking from them their property, or
hanged as rebels because they will not take it.
: It isinot enough for him that those who are in
rebellion, shall lay down their arms, seek tho
shelter of the oil flag and acknowledge the
supremacy of the Constitution and the laws
made ia conformity thereto; he must have
more than this ,hey must yield into his hands
their liberty and their property. shyock, des-
picable as he was, demanded only what his
creditor had stipulated to give him; but Lin
coin, not satisfied with ''the pound of flesh
nearest the heart" demands more than is ''nom-
mated in the bond'--hc must have the heart,
the very soul, itself, Of Southern institutions
and prosperity. .,......, n.
Now, this unreasonable, unconstitutional and
tyrannical edict Of the President means Disuni-
on. 1t cannot mean anything else. Mr. Lin
coins three years. experience in the Presidential
chair, has certainly taught bim that whilst there
still remain in the rcvolted States some who are
willing 10 swear allegiance to the Constitution
and the constitutional Laws Of the country,
there are nonewho win swear away their own
property and institutions for tho p,qrilegc of be-
ing governed by Federal Abolition satrap!
Hence the. President, in making his procIama-
ton with the fu'lknowlejgs of this fact, did so
for tho purpose of cansrming disunon and
forever preventing TIC restoration of the repub-
lie lie has become conver. to tho doctrines
Of Garrison, and Phillips, who maintain that
the constitution and the Union are but "syno-
nyms of slavery" Hc now argues, thus: To
restore the Union il to save negro slavery;
therefore, /, Abraham Lincoln, preferring the
freedom Of the negro to the restoration of the
Union, will impose such conditions upon those
persons in the revolieil states who may be will
ling to return to their allegiance, as will send
them back into the arms of Secession and
though this will destroy the Union, by prolong-
ing The war, it will, also, destroy negro slavery.
Friends Of the Union! Can you, will you,
dare you support such infamous devilishness as
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