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WiJAT THE NORTH SAID TO THE SOUTH. 
 
 You people of the South own and use slaves of the African 
 race, and seek to perpetuate this relationship of master towards 
 all persons of color of African extraction, though as an excep- 
 tion some of you occasionally grant a few of the servile race 
 their freedom. Now, we of the North, are convinced that in 
 thus using your colored population as slaves and forcing them 
 to remain so, you are committing a great sin before God, and 
 that thereby you bring us of the North, Avho compose a majori- 
 ty of the nation of the United States, to stand before the civi- 
 lized world suffering with mortification and shame, whereas 
 our true position towards the rest of mankind is that of a na- 
 tion occupying the position of living under a government 
 which gives its citizens a larger amount of liberty than any 
 other known to the world's history, and which acknowledges 
 the great principle " that all men are born free and equal." 
 
 Now to vindicate our position as the formost of nations in 
 the march of civilization, we have preached to you, argued 
 with and advised you for the last thirty years to rid yourselves 
 of this institution of slavery, that is before the civilization of 
 the 19th century, so burning a shame to the nation ; but in- 
 stead of coming into our views, you Southern people, who have 
 been accustomed to this relationship between master and dark 
 complexioued slaves for now more than a century, say that 
 you do not need or desire our sermons, arguments, or advice 
 about your peculiar institution, and that you are determined 
 to manage it as heretofore according to your ov*n views, which 
 now more than ever, tend to increase the area of slavery, and 
 
make it a permanent institution ot' tlie counti-y i)y your main- 
 taining that thereby you will best insure tlie welfare of tlie 
 uution at large. Now however true it is that you will rai)iJly 
 increase the wealth nrul thereby the power of the nation 
 through slave labor, we of the Xorth, reject with great repug- 
 nance this source of the nation's prosperity, being assured that 
 througli the well known energy and vigor of the white po{)U- 
 lation alone the same prosperity can be attained, if less rapid- 
 ly, yet more surely, even if you have to suffer for it. Your 
 consolation for which is, that, although the path of virtue is 
 always one of pain and luud.ship, you will by abolishing sla- 
 very be acting virtuously. 
 
 As this is undeniably the state of the case as regards the 
 origin of the trouble now existing between our two sections, 
 we of the North have determined, already thirty years ago, to 
 go systematically to work and make you see as we see, as well 
 as feel, the disadvantages of African slavery as practised by 
 you of the South in our nation, wdiich we glory in calling the 
 nation of the United States, although it has not yet become 
 customary to say the " United States nation'' in the same sense 
 as we use the phrase, the " English nation," the " French na- 
 tion," or the " German nation." (The South asks why? North 
 don't answer.) The South, as if sjieaking to itself, says with 
 a sig'i : The Constitution, tliat embodiment of fundamental 
 laws, ordained and formed by compromises of the diversified 
 interests of the widely differing sections of the country, carries 
 on its tare, and expresses in plain unmistakeable language the 
 groat truth : tliat it can only remain the Constitution of the 
 Uniteil State>, as long as these compromises are regarded and 
 roiiiplied with in good faith by all sections of the country. 
 For tlie C-mstitution says:" We the people of the United 
 "States iu order to form a more perfect Union, establish jus- 
 
" tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for tlie coinnion de- 
 " fence, promote general welfare and secure the blessings of 
 " liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish 
 " the Constitution for the United States of America." Mow 
 therefore when this Constitution ceases to be a bond of union 
 by 7iot insuring domestic tranquility, by not promoting general 
 welfare it ceases to be that for which it was intended for and 
 therefore ceases to he the Constitution at all. 
 
 The North continues : We of course will do nothing illegal 
 or unlawful, but we will teach our children in their schools, 
 colleges and at home, as well as all other of our people, who 
 need to be taught from the pulpit and in the lecture-room to 
 abhor, hate and loathe slavery wherever found, therefore also 
 African slavery as it exists at the South, as one of the most 
 enormous of sins, and thereby teach them to hate slave-hold- 
 ers ; — we will send teachers among your slaves, be it in the 
 guise of religious instructor or pedlar, to show them their 
 rights, and how by escaping from a bondage, in which they 
 are obliged to come and go at the beck and call of their master, 
 they will be able to come or go as they please ; Ave will show 
 them how and wdien to escape, and where they can find an 
 abode in which they at least have the choice to work or starve 
 instead of while in a state of slavery being fed that they may 
 be able to work. We will introduce them into a state of so- 
 ciety in which they that can get work as well as own and be se- 
 cure in the right of possession of all they earn ; although it is 
 true be they ever so opulent, which all experience however has 
 so far show^n there is not much chance of, we would not con- 
 sent to amalgamate with this colored race by intermarriage. 
 
 On the contrary some of the States at the North have found 
 necessary to restrict their colored fellow citizens in many of 
 their rights which the white man enjoys, especially as it could 
 
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 tutt be tolerated tluit tliey sljuulJ hold any puhlic ofiice of im- 
 ]>()rt;iDce wlieieby they could dictate laws to the white raan. For 
 this reasoa as well as to escape the responsibility of" oppos- 
 ing the fugitive slave law, we recommend to and desire all col- 
 ored fellow citizens to remove to Canada. 
 
 It is thus in this legal way that we of the North will make, 
 what is called, slave property so precarious aud uncertain to 
 liold to you people of the South by bitter experiences, by which 
 you will gradually become so much better j)leased with white 
 labor, that the emancipation of your slaves will be a desirable 
 riddance to you. 
 
 The South, although mantaiuing tha't slavery as it exists 
 with them is not a sin, replies : 
 
 Whether slavery is right or wrong it is sanctioned and pro- 
 tected by the Constitution of the United States, and if you of 
 the North will nevertheless continue, as you say you will and 
 actually are doing, to depreciate the value of all our property 
 by depreciating the value of our slaves, we of the South do, 
 will and must consider ourselves, as a matter of necessity for 
 the protection of our prosperity, no longer bound by the Con- 
 stitution of the United States, and through the action of your 
 people of the North it has ceased to be a " bond of union," 
 ceased to " insure our domestic tranquility," and ceased " to 
 promote our general welfare." 
 
 We therefore, must certainly decide to separate from you 
 people of the North, forming a goverment for ourselves to 
 regulate our " peculiar institution" as we best think fit, there- 
 by relieving you of all participation in the shame you supj)Ose 
 it brings upon the nation, and also relieving you of all respon- 
 sibility of its sin. 
 
 If the North does not say the above to the South, theu why 
 
in the name of reason will not the North agree to the Critten- 
 den Compromise or what ever else the South may require lor 
 its security, if the North does say and act as above, thereby 
 neutralizing the compromises of the Constitution of the United 
 StateSj as every candid observer of the course of events knows 
 it does, why will not the North agree to disagree and sepa- 
 rate peaceably? 
 
 Because the politicans of the North as well as tliose of the 
 South who have the control of public affairs, wish to mal-e 
 Disunion certain and permanent . 
 
 A Union Man in search of the Union. 
 
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