The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-06
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bocexAiOn Irncen irOuuNNsMnglOhb AuhlulhuE
ton to the,lqie War,
y, b i. in Cineinnb tiEnqulrerI
gWithipthslength and breadth
.bonnd epublic has seces
taught tnd teached with more
asitysSt for longer time, than
ythS land Federalsts, and by
their i|,ts, who, now in every
contesl, 4e "bloody shirt" as the
bastle.lAa heir party. In Boston,
Where III 1alitution of the United
GkvtaB H flBlicly burned, because it
optnant witl6dsath and league
MIN recession was openly pro-
claibi he panaces for all the ills
thas dy polite was heir to.
n alme the Federal plan Of Sc.
ceAson fairly broached dates back
l7gJ ,fing the Administration of
shiq. The Hartford Conn.,
C6arani Zen the leading Federal jour
nalcfGe eW England, published series
Of articles over the signature of "Pel
ham," said at the time to have been
written by an association of Federal
eaders of the highest position and in
iluence, in which the writer argues that
The Northern States can subsist as a
lSapublic without any connection with
tho Southern. It cannot be contested
thstifthe Southern States were possessed
the same political ideas the Union
would be still more desirable than
separation. But when 1t becomes a
dnestion whether we give up our Gov
ernment or part with the States south
oR the Potomac, no man north Of that
river, whose heart is not thoroughly
Democratic, can hesitate what decision
70 make"
Ina future paper the writer promised
to Hprove the impossibility of an Union
for long period in future, both from
the moral and political habits of the citi.
zens of the Southern States, and finally
examine carefully to see whether we
have not already approached the era
when they must be divided"
The South at this time gave evidence
of soon being "solid" against the doc
trine of the Federal party, and hence
the anxiety to get rid of it.
THE election of the elder Adams as
a President gave the Federal leaders hopes
x ofsweRing the political ideas," which,
I. 1 Whea opposed to them, was sufficient to
CauA disruption Of the Union, and for
w a tiie accession was not named But
the Ieat of the elder Adams by Mr.,
Jeffeison, and with it the purchase of
Louisiana, again brought secessionism
to the 'front.' In power, the Federal
leaders were always Union men out oil
power and out of Office, they were dis
lnionists
M John Quincy Adams is authority for
Y the fact that the design" of secession
chad been formed in the winter of 1903
and 1904, Immediately after, and as a
consequence of the acquisition of Louis
lana" The plan, Mr.. Adams said, "was
so far matured that the proposal had
been made to an individual to permit
himself, at the proper time to be placed
at the head of the military movements
which it was foreseen would be neces-
sary for carrying it into execution"
In after years, when John Quincy
Adams made these designs of the Fed.
.eral leaders known to Mr.. Jefferson and
otber leaders OF the Democratic party,
and had become common talk, Timothy
4A9sPickering and twelve others of the Fed
Seral leaders of Massachusetts, united in
letter to Mr.. Adams, in which they de-
MED the allegations, for themselves and
their colleagues, and asked Mr.. dams,
then President, to furnish full and pre-
else statement of the facts and evidence
relating to this accusation, "solemnly
declaring that they had never known or
suspected" that the Federal party, to
which they had been attached, lever
entertained the design to produce a dis
solution of the Uuion or the establish.
ment of separate Confederation"
To this, while President, John Quincy
Adams replied, charging, as obove given,
the fact that secession had 30 far pro.
gressed that the leader who was to com.
mand the secession army had already
been selected. He said, in addition,
that this "dPsgn-secession and the
formation of Northern confederation
had been formed in the winter of 1903
and 1904, Immediately after, and as a
consequence of the admission of Louis.
lana" "That project again repeat, had
gone to tho length of fixing upon a mill.
tary leader for its execution and although
the circumstances of the times never
permitted of its execution, nor even of
ils full development, l had yet no doubt
in 1903 and 1809,.a have no doubt at
this time Q828), that it is the key to the
general movements Of these leaders of
the Federal party in New England, from
that time forward till its fual catastrophe
in the Hartford Convention"
Mr.. Adams, in letter to Governor
Plummer, of New Hampshire, dated De. =
Cember 80, 1920, on the authority of q
senator Tracy Of Connecticut, gives the
proposed boundaries of the Nation" the
conspirators proposed to make out of t
tnelr secession movement. There were 8
tnree alternatives of boundary; First G
the Potomac, If possible; second, the
9usquehsnna third, the Hudson. The /