Year: 1863

that 1t was the nest ct the rebellion. If
it be true that it was the nest where the
eggs of rebellion were hatched. it is not
true that it was the nest where the eggs of
rebellion were laid That nest was situa-
ted considerably to the northeast of Charles
ton, in the region popularity known as New
England, and eggs of rebellion were laid
in it as long age as 1872, by men assem-
( bled at Hartford, in the State of Connec-
ticut. whose conclave is historical bv the
name of the Hartford Convention" 9th
er eggs were laid in 1914, when the Le-
gslature of Massachusetts, resolved that
the annexation of Texas would be cause OF
dissolution Of the Union. a great many
other eggs have since been laid in it by Il
great many men and Il great many public
meetings. both in and out of New England.
Here is one laid by Wendell Phillips:


"The Constitution of our fathers was a
mistake. Tear it in pieces and make Il
better. Don't say the machine is out of
order; it is in order; it does what its fra
mers intended-protect slavery: Our claim
is disunon, breaking up of the States. /
have shown you that our work cannot be
done under our Institutions


Here is one laid by VIM. Lloyd Garri-
son


This Union is lie The American
Union is an imposition, covenant with
death and an agreement with hell :
| am for its overthrow Up with the flag
of disunion, that we may have free and
glorious Republic of our own; and when
the hour shall come, the hour wi have ar
rived that shall witness the overthrow of
slavery


Here is another laid by Garrison:


No act of ours do we regard with more
CONSCIENTIOUS approval or higher satisfac-
ton, none do We submit more confidently to
the tribunal Of Heaven and the moral YER
diet of mankind than when several years
ago. on the 18th of July, i'll the presence of
Il great assembly, We committed to the
flames the Constitution Of the United
States


Here is one aid by Abraham Lincoln.
the ,amc who is now President of the Uni
ted States:


Any people, anywhere, being inclined
and having the power, have right to rise
up and shake off the existing Government,
and form IA new one that suits them better.
Nor is the right confined to classes where
the people OF an existing Government may
choose to exercise it. Any portion of such
people that can, may revolutionzc. putting
down Il minority intcrmingled with or near
about them, who may oppose them


Here is another laid by Lincoln:


Il believe this Government cannot en-
dure permanently, half slave and half free. =


Here are three laid by the American
Anti-Slavery Society at one Of its anniver
sary meetings:


Rcsolred. That secession from the Uni
ted States Government is the duty Of every
Abolitonist. since no one can take office.
or deposit his vote under its Constitution.
without violating his anti-slavery princi-
pies. and rendering himself an abettor to
the stakeholder in his sin.


RosolUed. That years of warfare against
the slave power have convinced us that
union rivets the chain of the slave - 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.


Resoiccd, That the Abolitionists of this |
country shall make it one of their primary
objects Of this agitation to dissolve the
American Union"


Here is one laid by the present Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury-Francis f.
Spinncr-during the Fremont campaign


. Should this (thc election of Fremont
fail, no true man would be any longer sale /
here from the assaults of the arrogant slave
who then would rule with an
iron hand For the free North would be
left the choice of peaceful dissolution of
the Union a civil war which would end in
the same, or an unconditional surrender of
every principle held dear by frccmen."


Here is one laid by James S. Pike, long
connected with the New York
Tribune, and now Minister to the Neither
lands


l have no doubt that the free and slave
States ought to separate. The Union is
not worth supporting in connection with
the South"


Here is one laid by Wendell Phillips
shortly after the organization of the Re
publican party. He was speaking of that
party:


No man has a right to be surprised at
this state If things 1t is just what We