The Liberator

Important Secession Movement! A Poor House OUT OF THE UNION!! We learn, from a reliable source, that the inmates of one of the largest and most respectable County Infirmaries in the State, have held a meeting, and unanimously resolved to secede. Intense excitement prevailed, and all felt that they had been in a state of dependence as long as honor or self-respect would allow, and that they would sacrifice all their earthly goods rather than endure it longer. The speakers were vociferously applauded whenever they counselled defiance to the constituted authorities. Resolutions were adopted with entire unanimity and the wildest enthusiasm, declaring in substance that poor people are as good as rich ones, and of right sovereign and independent; that all laws which reduce them to a condition of inferiority should be resisted to the last extremity: that, while their neighbors had lived in affluence and luxury, they had been kept in a humiliating state of dependence on the public charity; and that the only remedy for the past, or security for the future, was in separate and immediate secession.
The Seceders are in quiet possession of the Infirmary building, and are determined to hold it until an equitable division shall be made of the County property. Commissioners have been appointed to negotiate for the liberal share of said property to which the Seceders are presumed to be entitled, and which will probably be given up with very little ceremony. It is confidently believed that no effort will be made to coerce them.—Jeffersonian Democrat.