The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-07-07
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
selected by One of the People.

Why all this excitement? Why these
complaints! AS said before, this crisis
is all Artificial. II has no foundation in
fact. 1t was not argued up, as the say
ing is, and cannot. therefore. be argued
down. Let it alone, and it will 60 down
of itself-Abraham Lincoln. at Cleve-
land. Feb 1861
''This Union is lie! The American
Union is an imposture I am for its over
throw Upwith the Flag of disunion >
Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
''The Constitution of our fathers was a
mistake. Tear it in pieces aud make it
better. Don't say the machine is out cf or
der-it is in order--it does what its for
mers intended" 'sOur claim is DfsUN-
ION, breaking up of the States. l have
shown you that our work cannot be done
under our institutions (laws.) The Re-
publican party is the first sectional party
ever organized in this country. 1t does
not know its own face, and calls itself ma
tional, but it is sectional. 1t is party OF
the North pledged against the South. .
Wendell Philips.
At an anti-slavery meet in May 1912,
at New York
Resolved, THAT secession from the L.
S. Government is the duty Of every aboli-
tlonist.'
Resolved, That 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;"
Resolved, That the Abolitionists of
the country should make it one of the pri-
mary objects Of this ayitation to dissolpMe
1naertcan Jnton.'
In 1850, Senator Hale presented two
Petitions praying that some plan be de-
vised for the dissolution of the American
Union" This petition received three
votes-J p. Hale, W. Ii. Seward s. P
Chase
Rev. H. W. Bccchcr in 1886 says ''the
people will decide which is the better way
| to rise in arms and throw off Govern
ment worse than that OF Old King George
or wait another four years and vote
again" The Constitution is the foun
tain and father Of all cur trouble " The
only hope of the slaves is over the ruins o.
the Governments and of the American
Church.
The dissolution Of the Union is no
primarily a question of conscience but o.
policy We made the Union and We have
right to unmake it if we choose IL "
BeHoscs, 1856.
''Sir: hope it will come ( the issue) arc
! if it comes to soOn--and when the war ha.
been proclaimed with the knife, and til,
knife We will have it-iet it come
{. ,Schurz 1860.
The por:ents which darkcn our lant
fJreshadow a strife, which unless avertet
by the triumph Of freedom, will bccom,
war-iratricidal war-with an accumula
ted wickedncss. beyond the wickedncs:
of any war in human annals. &c Sun
asr 1856.
In 1860, ~. II. Seward tells the South
IF they will not emancipate their slave.
they shall have disunion, civil war anc
emancipation then the shareholders vii
perish in the struggle -
In 1889 he again speaks Of civil war 4.
the result of the agitation. and says
Then the free States and slave States OF
the Atlantic, divided and warning witt
each other, would disgust the free State.
OF the Pacific, and they would have abun
dant cause and justification for Withdraw
inc from Union, productive DO longer o
peace, safety and liberty to themselves"
Il have no doubt the free and slave
States ought TO be separate. The UnioI
is not worth supporting in connection will
the South u s. Pike.
can conceive Of time when this Con
stitution shall not be in eXistancc when We
shall have an absolute, military, dictatorla
Government transmitted from age, to a9'
with men at its head who are made ruler
by military commission or who claim al
hereditary right to govern those owe
whom they are placed. ". r. Banks
1886.
'If Buchanan is elected, don't believ,
the Union holds out three years. shall
90 for dissolution - Theodore Parke
1856.
do not believe that any permanent un
ion is possible between the North and tn
; South, The same, 1856.
On the evening of election day, afte
hearing of Fremont's defeat; he wrote
"0f course we shall fight, have expecte,
civil war for months"
A few day later
There are two constitutions for Ameri
cans, one writ on parchment, but on tn
head of drum 1t is to this we must ap
peal and before long"
: Not long after the defeat of Fremont
meeting Of traitors was called at Worces
ter and held: This was the language 0
the call:
I'VE, the undersigned citizens of Wor
cester, believing the result of the recen
Presidential election to involve four year
more of proslavory government, and a IA
5 pid increase in the hostility between tn
1 two sections Of the Union;
believing this hostility to be the of
5 spring not Of party excitement, but fun
damental difference in education, habit
: and laws;
believing the existing Union to be
failure, as being a hopeless attempt to unit
under one government two antagonist
systems of society, which diveree NOR