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Editorial
July 13, 1850
New England Religious Herald
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
The Puritan Recorder asserts that Massachusetts populace prefers enduring Union dissolution over extending slavery into territories, vowing to secure disputed lands for liberty and condemning Northern leaders who yield to Southern oppression.
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Massachusetts and the Union.
The Puritan Recorder says: "Whatever may be the privations to come upon us by the dissolution of the Union, we believe that the great mass of our population is fully determined to brave them and bear them, rather than to yield another rood of the national territory to the pollutions of slavery. Our people will not meddle with the subject, except by moral and constitutional means, where the slaveocracy have established their reign. Woe to the Northern statesman, great or small, who shall betray the cause of freedom by surrendering an inch of soil to the power of the oppressor. His political death will be instantaneous, and it will be followed by no resurrection. Let the Union depart rather than suffer slavery to "extend the area" of its abominations. In the event of national dissolution the territories now in dispute between the North and South will be secured to liberty; for the South can then win them only by force of arms—a force in the using of which she would ridiculously fail."
The Puritan Recorder says: "Whatever may be the privations to come upon us by the dissolution of the Union, we believe that the great mass of our population is fully determined to brave them and bear them, rather than to yield another rood of the national territory to the pollutions of slavery. Our people will not meddle with the subject, except by moral and constitutional means, where the slaveocracy have established their reign. Woe to the Northern statesman, great or small, who shall betray the cause of freedom by surrendering an inch of soil to the power of the oppressor. His political death will be instantaneous, and it will be followed by no resurrection. Let the Union depart rather than suffer slavery to "extend the area" of its abominations. In the event of national dissolution the territories now in dispute between the North and South will be secured to liberty; for the South can then win them only by force of arms—a force in the using of which she would ridiculously fail."
What sub-type of article is it?
Slavery Abolition
Moral Or Religious
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
Union Dissolution
Slavery Extension
Northern Resolve
Moral Opposition
Disputed Territories
Slaveocracy
What entities or persons were involved?
Puritan Recorder
Northern Statesman
Slaveocracy
South
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Opposition To Slavery Extension And Union Dissolution
Stance / Tone
Strongly Anti Slavery Expansion, Prefers Dissolution Over Concession
Key Figures
Puritan Recorder
Northern Statesman
Slaveocracy
South
Key Arguments
Population Determined To Bear Union Dissolution Privations Rather Than Yield Territory To Slavery
Use Only Moral And Constitutional Means Against Slavery Where Established
Condemnation Of Northern Statesmen Betraying Freedom By Surrendering Soil
Union Should Depart Rather Than Allow Slavery To Extend
In Dissolution, Disputed Territories Secured To Liberty As South Would Fail Militarily