The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-26

is over the ruins of the present American
Church, aud the present American Union
Resolution adopted BY the Amsrican Auti-slaYsr!
Society, May 10, 1858.
Whereas, The dissolution of the pres
ent imperfect and inglorious Union be
tween the free and slave States would re
suit in the overthrow Of slavery aud thl
consequent foundation Of more perfec
and glorious Union, without the incubus
Of slavery, therefore
Re.oipea, That we invite free CORES
pondence with the disunionists of tn,
South. in order to devise the most suitabls
way and means to sseusehs ransnmma
ton so deyoutly TO be Wishad.
From ReamOnd's speech, Boston
Remembering that he vas STAKEHOLDER
he could spit upon Washington.
SO near to Fa4eHil Hallard Bunker Hill
was he not to be permitted to say tina
seoundrel George Washington had eH
shaved his fellow men.
From Phillips spcceh, samc occasion.
Washington was sinner. 1t beeamt
an American to cover his face when b,
placed his bust among the great men o
the world.
And again another time:
have labored nineteen years to takt
fifteen States out Of the Union; and if
have spent any nineteen years to the sat
isfaetion of my Puritan conscience, it wa
those nineteen pears.
From Parker piIlsbuy's Speech, april, 1850.
] do not wish to see this Governmen
lpFalonged another day in the preseh
form. | have been for twenty year
attempting to overthrow the present dy
nasty. The CONSTITUTION never was 5,
much an engine of cruelty and crimc a
at the present hour. | am not rejoice,
at the tidings of victory to the northern
arms; would far rather see defeat, &c
From Stephen F. Fosters Speech, Boston. 1862
/ have endeaTogad to dissuade ever
young man | could from snlisting, telling
them that they were going to fight fo
slavery.
On the 24th oe February, 1912. Johr
Quincy Adams presented petition il
the House of Representatives, signed b.
large number of citizens of Haverhill
Mass, for peaeeable dissolution Of tn,
Union. assigning as one of the reasons
the inequality of benefits conferred npoI
the different Sections"
On the 2Sth of February, 1912, Mr
Giddings presented a petition from q
large number of Abolitionists Of Austin
burg. in his district, praying for disso
luton of the Union, and separation 0
the slave from the free States.
In q speech By Wendell Phillips il
1862, he said:
SlaYeFy had suggested secession, apd
had right tp do 50, for he, lMF. Phil
flips,) being a saeessieRist. belieyed tha
those PEOPLE were the sole judges Of vha
causes they bad for revolution.
In 1852, ssFies Gf pamphlsts wer
issued for Massachusetts,, entitled, TIL
United States Constitution and its pro
slavery compromises From the aThiF,
edition, enlarged" of this treasonabl
publication, we take the following:
If, then, the people and the courts O
q country are to be allowed to determine
what their own laws mean, it follows tha
at this time, and for the last half century
the Constitution of the United States ha
been, and still is pro-slavery instrument
and that any one who swears to supper
lit, swears to do pro-slayery acts, aHd WIG
lates his duty both as man and an AbO
litionist.
j If, then, the Constitution bo what thes
debates (the Madison papers) show tha
our fathers intended to make it, and what
too, their descendants, this nation, sa
lthey did make it, and agfsed to uphold
than we affirm that it is q covenant wit
death, ard an agreement with holl," an
lought to be Immediately annulledl N
Abolitionist can consistently take ofic
under it. or swear to support it.
/ To continue this disastrous alliance 9Th
Federal Unionl longer, is madnessl Y
ldare pot proloRg the experiment, an
With double earnestness, we repent on
demand upon every honest man to join i
the outcrv Of the American Anti-Slayer
SocietyNo union with shareholders
/ Fidelity to the cause Of human free
, dom, and allegiance to God 1.-THE Highe
!; law which Mr.. Seyard borrowed from tn
PAritanieal fathersl require that the es
! istlRg National contact should be ii
staaQy dissolyed; that secession from th
E Government is religious and politics
f duty.
/ In letter to the Boston Liberato
July 81, 1868, Wendell Phillips max.
the following remarkably candid declar
: tons:
The disqpion We sought was one whic
5 should be begun by the North on prime
r pie. The agitation for such di
f union, based oa the idea that slavery is
) sic, to be Immediately repudiated at ever
cost, was the most direct and effecti,
RI way of educating the public to ster
apti-slavery principle. Abolitic
!, Of slavery was our object, disunion OF
I weapon. This reversed would accol
: more nearly with the general purpose
, kAbolitionists.l = The North hs
the right Of revolution-the right
!, break the Union, and that such disunie
would sooHer end slavery than continuir
under CONSTITUTION that forbade IL
North daring peace to interfere with Il
j. slays sSsteWs 6f the Southern States.
: The EikhOEn WIS. Independent,
violent Republican sheet, in 1859, saiG
II The Union may be dissolved, but sIav
elry must die, and If it can only die or
q restricted to its present limits, through
il dissolution Of the Union, then ii IL
j name Of the Ffa,neFs Of tie unioD, WI
> nader It to secure Me blessings Of Rert
! let the Union be dksQlxed. -