The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-05-14
DANGERS OF DJSUNION.

gogues and few fanatics, who have beer
teaching them that slavery is the sole cause
Of disunion, and that if we destroy slavery
the land will have no other cause Of dsagree
ment. The idea is not only false in theory
but proved false by history. The danger
of disunion comes from radicalism. Radical
views adopted in any section of the ronntr,
will inevitably result in difficulties between
sections. Nor is slavery by any means the
only subject on which radical views are pos
sibe. The history Of our own times ough,
to prove the contrary There are plenty OF
men among US who remember the threats o
dissolution from other parts of the country
than the South-threa,s carried almost into
practical execution. 1t is worth while tc
recall some passages out of history. They
may do good IN the way of convincing the
people that after we have destroyed slavery
the millennium is not vet at hand, and if we
wish to preserve the Union we must still
watch the radical men of Massachusetts as
we'll as those of South Carolina, to ba sure
OF keeping the country from chronic attacks
of threatened dissolution. For as long as
we have among us such men as the fire. eaters
of Massachusetts and of South Carolina, lust
SO long as we shall have attempts at dissou"
ton of the Union whenever their tender
consciences or their pockets are affected by
the national policy. Just as long as sect
iona radicals refuse to adopt the doctrine OF
compromised for the unity of nation like
this, just SO Ing we shall have of disunion
and attempts at it.
In the year 1909 the people of Boston
Massachusetts,, and New ngland generally
were seriously exercised on national qnes
tons. Slavery bad nothing to do with it
On the contrary, up to the year 1903 an
immense fleet of New England vessels had
been actively engaged in the slave trade,
and the people of Rhode Island and Massa,
chusetts, in 1909, were dividing the enor-
nous profits of the business, which was start
ed by their Puritan athers in the l7th
century, and stopped in the 10Th century by
the votes Of Virginia and other States less
interested in the traffic than the New Eng,
landers.
The cause of the mental exercise to which
we now allule was the action of the General
Government in establishing the embargo
1t is not necessary to discuss The reason for
this action. Enough that the United States
ordered it, and the New England people did
not like it. We give now soms facts from
history, without much comment
The inhabitants of Boston memoralized
their State Legislature, January 25th, 1909
They held town meeting, and there was as
much treason then talked in Boston AS there
was in South Carolina when Anderson was
CALAMITY defending Sumter The following
is an extract from the memorial of the town
of Boston TO the Legislature of Massachusetts,
adopted in that town meeting:
THAT they are constrained to apply to
your honorable body as the immediate
guardians of their rights and liberties for
your interposition to procure tor them relief
from their grievances which they now suffer
under the operations of the laws of the
General Government abolishing foreign com.
merce, DC. Our hope and con
ISOLATION rest with the Legislation of our
State, to whom it is competent to devise
means of relief against the unconstitutional
measures Of the General Government; that
your power is adequate to this object is ev
dent from the organization of the comtede-
racy."
The town of Gloucester res lived, Jan. 70,
1909.
"That to our State Government we look
for counsel, protection and relief at this
awful period Of general calamity"
In Newburyport handbills were posted
calling on the people to "be resolute, act
like the sons of liberty, of God and your
country. Nerve your arm with vengeance
against the despot Jetfersonan,)" &c.
The Boston Continental said
Every man will presume that he is not
bound to regard it 0he embargo) but may
send his produce or his merchandise to for.
eign market in the same manner as if the
government had never undertaken to pro-
hbt."
The Boston Gazette spoke for disunon. 1t
said:
at is better to suffer the ampuiation of a
limb than to Lose the whole body. We
must prepare for the operation. Wherefore
then is New England asleep! Wherefore
does she submit to the oppression of enc
mics in the South? Have we no Moses who
is inspired by the God OF our Fathers and will
lead as out of Egypt"
We cite these few specimens to show
Young men and new politicians of our day a
page of history which perhaps they have
never opened. If they will 90 back to the
newspapers and pamphlets of that time they
will find hundreds and thousands of such
specimens as these extracts we have made.
The hatred to the government and the
coming war continued and increased in New
England. We pass on to the time when the
war became fixed fact. So intense was
the enmity that men were prevented from
subscribing to loans for government purpo-
ses, and the agents had TO advertise that they
would receive private bids and keep the
names of subscribers secret!
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4 ApriI IA, 1914.
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