Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-20
Abolition Treason.

organ Of the radical Abolitioniets, having Tor
its mottoes:--"No Union with Slaveholdes"-
"The Constitution is Covenant with Death
and an Agreement with He'll"
The LibvGtOr ia now published by lo'iety
Of which, the Journal Of Commerce says, lead
ing New York politicians are members, The
editors Of several New York papers are also
members of this society and responsible for its
uttsrsnces. The following persOns constitute
the financial committee for the publication of
che UbssatoS, but are not responsible for the
debts Of the concern, viz: WENDELL PHILLrPs,
EDWARD QUINCY, EDWARD JACKSON, and Will
LIAM l.. GARRIsoE, Jr.
The following article appeared in recent
number Of the Libs7atoy. It develops clearly
and explicitly the rise, spirit, intentions and
treason Of political Abolitiodism, and the OBJ.
jects for which all who cooperate with it are
engaged:
NO UNION WITH sLAvEHoLDERs-rHE COVENANT
WIFE DEATH"
Twenty years have elapsed since we submit
ted 10 an anh-slavery meeting In Faneul Hall
the following resolution :--"Rssolued, That the
Constitution of the United States Is a covenant
pih death, and an agreement pih hell, phieh
osgM to be immediately Gnnullsd." Except the
enunciation Of the doctrine of immediate and
universal emancipation, no utterance ever so
startled the Southern slave oligarchy In their
fancied security, or 90 excited to ungovern-
able rage and fury their guilty accomplices at
she North, as did that bold srrsignment Of an
idolized parchment. Ii Was inetintly caught
up and circulated by every p:o-slsvery press In
the country, and commented upon with hot In
digpation as most reasonable and blas-
phsmous language; and upon our naked
head innumsrable vials of wrath were
emptied, without any mixture OF mercy.
Every time we repeated it, the body polite
Was thrown into violent paroxysms unearthly
howlings as from the bottomless pic were heard;
mobocratic outbreaks followed, to suppress
freedom of speech and dhenceforward, till near
the period of secession, Union, saving meetings,
instigated and peremptorily insisted upon by
the tefror.stricken lorde of the lash, were held
in every direction, under the wealthiest, most
respectable and most potential auspices-em-
bracing all parties, scots, avocations and in
teFests-burning idolatrous incense airesh, Civ
ing renewed pledges of eternal fealty, repu-
dating abolitionism as deadly taint and fear.
ful abomination, and defsntly proclaiming,
"The Union must and shsll be preserved" q
Where, now, is the old Union And
did not the breaking thereof come Suddenly,
In an instant"
What 10 Southern slavery but death and
hell7'- death to mind and conscience, to moral
perception and genuine religious principle, to
human Relationship and God given rights and
prerogatives, to Liberty and equality, to justice
and humhnity--hell alike to she oppreasor and
the oppreseed-lurid with its flames, and fall of
torment!
In what manner was the Constitution of the
United States ga covenant with death, and an
agreement with hell?" By its pro slavery con- |
cessions and guarantees In regard to slave rep. |
resentation in Congress, the continuance of the |
foreign slave trade, the rendition of fugitive |
slaves, and the suppression of slave insurrec. |
tons. Lat John Quincy Adams testify;
Here follow sundry quotations going to prove
that the Constitution protects slavery in South
ern States.l
These statements as to the pro-slavery fea-
tures and purposes of the Constitution have
been indorsed, and carried out to the letter, by
the Government and people, ever since its sdOp-
tion; and If they fail to substantiste our accu-
eation against that instrument, then there never
was, and never can be, 90 covenant with death,
and an agreement with hell" Under it, slave
representation has been uniformly allowed in
Congress; fugitive slaves have been hunted and
recaptured In every State in the Union; the for
eign slave trade was carried on for twenty years,
under the national flag; and slave Instructions
have been quelled by the strong hand of the
National Governments. In pronouncing it "both
morally and politically vicious" Mr.. Adams sd
mitted ita organic corruption and iniquity; and
We amply reiterated his own fatal declarations.
No prsssuye or peril, ho,ueueT seueys or imminent
could Justly the adoption and enforcement OF such
CoRstitutiop. "The deadly venom of slave
~" having been infused into it at its forma-
tIon, 10 ought to have been rejected with hoI-
rorby the nation. But no regard was paid to
the rights of the despised colored race-hs a,o-
IuI deed was ratified in some instances - with
trembling hands and sverted faces "-and now
the fitting punishment and end are seen in the
bloody and peridious rebellion on the part of
that siaveholding section of the couptry, to pro-
pitlate which the uaholy compact was made in
the manner and form designated THANK GoD,
THAT HE GAVE % TIE STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO
n THE FIRST TO BRAND THAT POLLUTED CoNsTIrU.
TroN AZ IT DEaERvED, and to declare that when
Judgment should be laid to the line, and right
eousness TO the plumnet, the hall would sweep
away the refuge Of ies-the covenant of death
--.%---~s eA@ VIZ e3aOCAAAoAe Witu hStA Souie
not stand.
No condemnation Of the foregoing atrocious
and reasonable article has appeared in any Of
the leading papers that are so keen-scented
and keen-sighted to discover any, the least sign
Of something they may stigms.ize as disloyal-
~, among Democrats or Conservatives. The
reason is obvious. In the view of such Union
journals as the New York TribuaS, the Even-
ing Post, the Tines, the Columbus, o., Journal, |
the Cincinnati Gazstts, the Cleveland Leader,
sto., the editor Of tie Litvato1 is q loyal man,
and its contributors and supporters are all--all
loyal men. Many Of them are the peculiar
pets of the Administration, are placed in offices
Of trust and power. and made confidential ad- |
vissEs Of the President and Cabinet
This newspaper, the Libsyatoy, has large
and increasing circulation In New England and
all over the Northern States. II is eagerly
sought for BY the rebels in the South, and ex-
tracts from II are! published 10 the secession
jpurnals to sire the sonshern heart' and inten-
sify the rebellion. The Southern secession
tsaitors ayeEsady to embrace with iraternal
hing thess Northern Abolition traitors who are
engaged in the same nsfarious conspiracy