Year: 1859

Nrhct, ulu not tntehu 70 prohlpt slavery, ana sec
o ondly and much more important for US to remem
. ber no man possesses moral right to con
: net himself with governments, the writer
constitution OF which s 90 loosely recorded as l.
permit if it did not intend such construction to
. lgiven, and use TO be made as has been SO unver
sally adopted and SO wickedly employed, as tha
uniting this confederacy. Will it be asked wha
is our duty in the premisesY The answer come


to us through inspiration. First cease to do evif'
You cannot until then "learn to do wel". You


earliest effort in the right must be to withdraw tn,


supper. you give Individually, to the slaveholdins


power. Then look around you for the meant


while you can innocently, yea righteously, employ


to overthrow the system. The answer also comes to


us from that most lucid exposition of human rights


and human duties the Declaration of Independt nee.
I'VE hold these truths to DO selfsvident that all


men are created equal, and endowed with certain


nalienatle rghts that to these rights gov


ernmenss ore instituted among men, deriving their


just powers from the consent of the governed that


whenever any form Of government becomes destru :,


tive Of these ends the right the people to alter


or abolish it, and to institute new government


1t is their right it is their duty, to throw off such


governme ent, provide new guarls for their future


security. If authority be needed, 10 convince


you of what is not only your right, but your duty


to do, here it lie in form, and from source, you


viii! scarcely undertake to dispute. Give your in,


fuencc ihen at once, and in every possible way,


to take the state in which you reside out of this


diabolical cOnfederacy. Do not be deceived By the


delusive thought, 80 often ignoranily advanced,


that to cease TO vote under tie government is to


throw away your whole political power, and con.


denim you to occupy the seat of the do nothing


The widest forecast the most comprehensive states
mGnship, retdes with those who have not only
planned, but in the process of achieving
revolution, their FIRST step having been the with


drawal of their own allegiance to the government
Two States, Wisconsin and Vermont, have in point
Of fact dissolved the Union, by defiance Of and re.
sistance to the Fugitive Slave Law, though ncon.
sistently, and mischievously, they still continue
a connection which assists to supply the physical
and pecuniary power, which must be used in the
attempt to coerce them into submission, if the
slave power which is .he government, should ever
muster the courage to employ it for that purpose.
Other states are preparing to follow the example.


Whilst bypocriticaly pretending to Establish
justice ensure domestic tranquility, and promo tie


the general welfare" the confederacy is gigantic


conspiracy against the rights Of man, which pro-
vides the means to strip every seventh person in
the nation of all liberty, the enjoyment of oil per.
sonal rights, and insurss whilst it.may continue,
that al! the outrages may perpetuated.


And what does the Union give you in return for
thus perlling your souls, by completely and agree
ment and CO operation, in this astounding wicked
ness? What benefit does the national govern.
ment confer upon you as citizens Of Ohio? Leay.
ing out of sight the fact that i. hunts down the
fugitive slave, and ;nficts upon you penalty in
person, and property, for the performance Of
simple Christian duty, whilst utterly refusing to
protect the citizen OF free State when he goes
South-om omtting reference to all maladministration
Of it By the different parties W no under the rule
of the slave oligarchy, have had possessiol of it;
and to the inroads it has made upon your own per
sonal liberties what can it do to bene-
fit you when administered strictly in &C.
cor6ance with the constitution The object of
popular government, is to protect person and prop
erty to secure the weak against the eyily dspos.
ed strong and the simple against the cunning
This, your state institutions are amply com petent
to secure as far as it is possible to accomplish it.
by political means, AID from these only do you de-
rive any such protection at present.


But it may be said this withdrawal from the
Union to avoid completely with the sin of slavery
is merely selfish consideration which leaves
the slave hopelessly in his chains. Not go how,
ever 1t ia the very policy and the only. which is
sure peacefully TO break his bonds Let Ohio,
alone, withdraw from the Union, rather than bo
guilty Of upholding slavery, and let her spread
the agis Of her sovereignty over every person who
may be found upon her soil, and one year will
scarcely elapse before Kentucky, and other States
will have taken steps initatory to emancipation.


They dare not try to hold slaves without tho as.
sistanco of the free states.


The millions of nonslaveowners, in the slave
states are ivolved in the same danger from insur.
recions as though they held slaves, and they lave
the power il their hands to compel emancipation
which they would not be slow to exercise under
sufficient inducement History is again our
teacher upon this point. When in 1881, a partial.
ly insane black, known in the annals OF the tines
as Nat Turner, influenced fow ignorant and
unpre pared negroes to unite with him in the at
tenn pt to achieve their liberties, although perAa ps
less than one hundred in number, and unarmed
except with rude instruments Of agriculture, they
succeeded in producing panic sufficient to parayze
the energies Of the whole state Of Virginia. With.
out any we'll defined plan, or organization, or any
attempt to excite general insurrection. they kept
the field long enough to massacre 62 whites aud to
spread terror and dismay through the whole slave
region. Virginia with her population Of nearly
three fourths of a million whites, found herself
incompetent to check the ravagss of the insurgents
Each man. whatever his personal courage, was
aware a deadly foe breathed in his immediate vi.
Unity. ready at any favorable moment to strike
the fatal blow in his own household. 1t therefore
became necessary in subduing them to march the t
troops of the United States then stationed at Fort
ress Monroe. to the scene Of action, and to exhibit
10 the world the spectacle Of the hired soldiory of
This professedly free government, employed in the I
outchery of men struggling for their liberties. or