An Appeal to the People of the North (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Appeal to the People of the North That Resolution, the last to be adopted, was made the leading watch-word in an excited and heated political canvass, and it went forth as a vital principle in an ad cajUandum creed, to still further heat and excite the popular mind, and poison and alienate the popular feelings of the North against the Constitutional rights and the domestic institutions of the South. That Resolution declares, "that all men are created equal, and arc endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And what rights are these, which this Resolution contends for? The Northern Republicans surely do not mean that they themselves do not already possess and enjoy the rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness? For whom, then, do they demand these rights? The whole spirit of their platform, outside of the ordinary questions of political economy, relates solely to the j>rotcction of "Southern servants" against all control as property; and there is no meaning and no application in the Resolution, unless the Convention meant to say that the Southern bondman was created equal to his Southern master, and "HAD AN INALIENABLE RIGHT TO II1S LIBERTY AND HIS FREEDOM." This, at least, is the construction which the South placed upon the Resolution, and the North has never denied the correctness of that interpretation. Thus for month after month, has the South felt, and grieved in the heart under the painful convietion, that this noble aphorism, which inspired our Revolutionary fathers to assert their rights and to fight for them against the oppressions and tyranny of their mother country ivas wrested from the Declaration of Independence, to be thus used as a taunt and a threat against the South, solely, because the Southern people had preserved their Government and their Institutions JUST AS THEY HAD BEEN established by the signers themselves of that Declaration and the very authors of that aphorism. This declaration of open and avowed hostility, to their Constitutional rights, to their guarantees of protection, to their political equality, to their domestic institutions, to their external security, to their internal peace, to their social tranquility, to their lives, to their fortunes and to their very existence as a people and as individuals, caused the people of the South to stand aghast and think their Northern brethren were iudeed demented. But patience and good will still ruled the hour! It was for no idle cause, that this great and glorious Union should be destroyed; and with strong hopes that this tide of fanaticism, urged on by artful demagogues, would he rebuked by the masses in the late political conflict, they anxiously awaited the issue. Alas! how delusive were their faith and trust in man! The Anti-Slavery party - a mere seed dual party, that had not the audacity to call itself NATIONAL, triumphed; and that very triumph, by a domineering majority, thus voting to sustain a sectional hostility against the rights of the minority, was the overt act of the North, THAT CRUSHED TDK LAST HOPE OF TIIE SOUTH. I he political existence oj the South was ignored, and its Constitutional guarantees and its social rights henceforth are to he in the huj/ing of their avowed enemies and THE STRONG ARM OF TIIE FEDERAL I´OWER IS TO BE ALLIED TO ANTI-SLAVERY FANATICISM. The Union of the States was a Union for peace, a Union for mutna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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