And the War Came: The Six Months That Tore America Apart by Jamie Malanowski

Author:Jamie Malanowski [Malanowski, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781614520009
Publisher: Byliner
Published: 2011-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

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Treason or Law?

From an editorial in the Boston Daily Atlas and Bee (Massachusetts), February 1, 1861

The people decided, three months ago, that slavery should be excluded from the Territories. The proposition is now to override the people forever in this matter. We are told that anything is better than disunion; but we deny the alternative. We assert that the government has power to preserve itself; we want that power tried. And, at any rate, we are not disposed to give up anything that is our right without an equivalent—value received. . . .

The issue is not disunion or concession, it is the triumph of treason or the triumph of law. Do not despair of the Republic. If the strong arm raised the sword against its sacred life, let the . . . assassin be punished by the attacked. In our opinion if we desire the flag which braved the cannon of Algiers in the cause of freedom to the slave, which flaunted proudly on the battle breeze above St. George’s cross for the rights of oppressed seamen, which waved over the National Palace in Mexico, proclaiming order in that turbulent city, to flutter as the emblem of a mighty nation on land and sea, we shall proclaim as our policy, the Union first, submission to traitors NEVER.

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