Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Northern Plea for the Right of Secession
But secession, the exciting phenomenon, is only the fatal issue of a chronic disease, as old as the nation. The seeds of dissolution were planted in the American Government at its formation.
Long before the South Carolina ordinance of secession, was this Union of States destroyed in spirit and practice. The laws which obligate the States and their citizens to each other, have been practically nullified for years. While a citizen of Massachusetts, or of any other Northern State, can traverse the whole wide extent of the British Empire, and, whatever his color, creed or condition at home, his natural rights be as firmly protected as those of the Queen on her throne; the moment he crosses the line which divides the slave from the non-slave States, he is subject to indignities and lawless outrage, unsurpassed by the selfish cruelty of the most wild and inhospitable barbarians.
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