Excerpt from For Peace, and Peaceable Separation: Citizen"s Democratic Address, to the People of the State of Ohio, and the People of the Several States of the West and North
At this supreme hour of destiny for the free States, we call on Northern thinkers to emancipate themselves, in order to save their own section from destruction. The old Union of the States is gone; but we can preserve the Constitution, and thereby our liberties and prosperity, with diminished power and territory.
There will be two confederacies hereafter. Ours, in the North, can always rise superior to that in the South in proportion, only, as we excel in the knowledge of our Federal system, and in our adherence to it, through all report, in principle as well as practice.
We must cling, henceforth, all the stronger, to the Constitution; for the threatening danger is, that the huge State of New-York, and its huge metropolis, will, at once, attempt to get rid of constitutional obligations, and to change the Federal system into a consolidated democracy. Like old Rome, New-York, if we allow it, will assume to be the imperial head of a nominal republic, with the other States, especially the boundless West, for outside provinces. She will be governed by her interests, irrespective of the Constitution.
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