The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-05-06
From The Boston Courier
Facts for the People.
SELECTED BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

4 "This Union is a lie The American
Union is an imposture. am for its
overthrow! Up with the Flag Of Dis
union. - I'm. LhQyd Garrison.
"The Constitution of our fathers was
mistake. Tear it in pieces and make a
better. Don't say the machine is out of
order--it is in order-it does what its fra
me intended "Our claim is disunion,
breaking up Of the States! have shown
you that our work cannot be done under
our institutions Oaws.) The Republican
party is the first sectional party ever or
ganized in this country. 1t dues not
know its.own face, and calls itself nation
al, but it is sectional. 1t is party of
the North, pledged against the South -
Wendell Philips.
At an anti-slavery meeting in May,
1874, at New York
Resolued, "That secession from the Uni
ted States Government is the duty of
every Aboli;ionist.
ReSotyed, "Thut the only exodus of the
slave to freedom, unless it be one of blood,
must be over the remains of the present
American Church, and the grave of the
present Union"
Resofreel, "That the Abolitiouists of
this country should make it one of the
primary objects Of this agitation to dissolve
the American Union"
In 1850, Senator Hale presented two
Notwithstanding that seine plan be
devised for the dissolution of the Ameri-
can Union.' "This petition received
three votes-J. p. Hale, w. II, Seward,
S. P. Chase"
Rev. II. W. Beecher in 1856 says "the
people will decide which is the better way,
to rise III arms and throw off a Govern
ment worse than that of Old King George,
or wait another four years and vote again.
The Constitution is the foundation and
father of all our troubles" "The onlv
hope of the slave is over the ruins Of the
Government and of the American church -
'"The disso luton of the Union is not
primarily question of conscience but of
policy. We made the Union, and we
have right to unmake it if we choose"
H W, Bcilovs, 1856.
SIR: hope it will come (the issue),
and if it comes to blood, let it come, it
cannot come too soou-and when the war
has been proclaimed, with the knife, and
the knife to the hilt ,"-J p. Hale, 1856.
You call this revolutiop-it is-we
must, we will have it-lct it come" &C.
lSchurz, 1860.
1.-THE portents which darken our land
foreshadow strife, which, unless averted
by the triumph of freeeom, will become
war--fratricidaI, parricdal WARMTH an
accumulated wickedness beyond the wick
edness of any war in human annals"
Sumner, 1856.
In 1850, W. Fl. Seward tells the South
off they will not emancipate their slaves,
they shall have disunion, civil war and
enrancipa,ion-then the shareholders will
perish in the struggle"
In 1856 he again speaks of civil war as
the result of the agitation, and says:
''Then the free States and St ties of the
Atlantic, divided and warning with each
other would disgust the free States Of
the Pacific, and they would have abun.
dant cause and justification for withdraw
ing from uniou productive 10 longer Of
peace, safety and liberty to themselves"
81 have no doubt tie free and slave
States ought to separate. The Union is
not worth supporting in connection with
the South "-J. s. Pike.
~ can conceive of time when this
Constitution shall not. be in existence,
when we shall have an absolute, military,
dictatorlal government, transmitted from
age to age, with men at its head who are
made rulers by military commission, or
who claim an hereditary right to govern
those over whom they are placed. IN
r. Banhs, 1856.
If Buchanan is elected, I don't believe
the Union holds out three years. l shall
60 for dissolution. - Theodore Parker.
IL do not believe that any permanent
Union is possible between the North and
the South. "-Te Same, 1856
On the evening of election day.. after
hearing of Fremont's defeat, he wrote
"Of course we shall fight have ex-
pected civil war for mouths"
A few days later
''There are two Constitutions for Anne
ricans, one writ on parchment and laid up
at Washington, the other also on parch-
ment, but on the head of drum. 1t is
TO this we Must appeal and before long"
Not long after the defeat of Fremont,
meeting of traitors was called at Wurces-
ter and held there. This was the Ian.
guage Of the call
We, the undersigned, citizens of'Wor-
cester, believing the result of the recent
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