A Constitutional Manual For The National American Party In Which Is Examined The Question Of Negro Slavery In Connexion With The Constitution Of

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Download or read book A Constitutional Manual for the National American Party written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Constitutional Manual for the National American Party: In Which Is Examined the Question of Negro Slavery in Connexion With the Constitution of the United States I abominate the brutalizing, man-destroying monster. To free my country from the curse of negro slavery I would gladly contribute the half of all the worlds goods I possess: nay more - I feel that if the responsibility was cast upon me, - to ensure such a result, I would sacrifice All that I possess. - I would trust an infant-orphaned family to the protection of Divine Providence, and relying in His goodness, now in the decline of life, go forth homeless and penniless into a world which nearly sixty years experience has taught me to know full well. All this I feel that I could do. But yet to accomplish such a result I would not consent to sacrifice the union of these states. At this price even the boon of negro freedom would be purchased at too dear a rate. Faulty and imperfect as our national institutions may be, let them be overwhelmed or destroyed, and the cause of Universal Freedom will be thrown back for centuries of years. The bare thought of a dissolution of this Union, should never be permitted to rest in an American mind. It should be held a treasonable act to give it place there. Its momentary presence will work pollution. In the language of the immortal Washington, in that memorable and touching farewell address to his countrymen, already alluded to, - "As this is the point of our political fortress, against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though often covertly and insidiously directed, it is of infinite moment that every American should properly estimate the immense value of the National Union, to our collective and individual happiness: - he should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immoveable attachment to it; he should accustom himself to think and to speak of it as a palladium of our political safety and prosperity; he should Match for its preservation with jealous anxiety; he should discountenance whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frown upon the first dawning of every attempt to alieniate any portion of Ills country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties that now link together the various parts." Who that reflects on the present distracted condition of our country can doubt that Washington was in a degree; inspired when he thus poured out as It were all the affections and solicitude of his heart and soul in this memorable last warning to his countrymen. How tenderly, how earnestly does he beseech them to guard the privileges he had sacrificed the best portion of his life to secure to them. And will Americans turn a deaf ear to such an appeal from such a source?will they indeed rather heed the traitorous counsels of Anti or Pro Slavery incendiaries or that of any other "internal or external enemy" of our Union, than to be guided by the last words of Washington? Woe! Woe! indeed, awaits our country when Americans shall have become so perverted, so blind to their duties and their interests as to be led by such men as these, however "covertly and insidiously" they may approach the palladium of our political safety and prosperity." And yet, are we not threatened with this disgraceful fate? For one, I believe that nothing will preserve us from falling a prey to the snares that are spread in our midst by the emissaries of foreign potentates, but the formation of a great national American party. - Its motto should be "Our Union must be preserved" "Americans must rule America." It should know no North, - no South, - no East, - no west. If Americans were as patriotic now as they were In the early days of our republic, under present circumstances such a party would spring spontaneously into existence. They would one and all arise in that strength which concious virtue gives, and instead of l.