I have repeatedly, in the following pages charged the abolition faction with revolutionary designs and tendencies.  Some may doubt the truth and justice of the charge; but I beg such persons to recollect that abolition writers and orators have, times without number, avowed an intention to overthrow this government; but it matters not what their avowed designs and intentions are, for their lawless and seditious course leads directly to that result.  If they ever succeed in carrying out their plans and schemes we know that revolution and disunion will be the consequence.  It was remarked by Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New York, on a certain occasion, that “abolitionists are seeking to destroy our happy Union.”  Chancellor Walworth says, “They are contemplating a violation of the rights of property secured by the Constitution, and pursuing measures which must lead to civil war.”

The union of these States is based on what has been called the slavery compromise; and the Union would have never taken place, had not the right to hold slave property been secured to the slave states, by a provision in the Federal Constitution.  Had not the free states relinquished all right to interfere with slavery in the slave states, no union of the slave and free states could ever have taken place.  The right to hold slave property, and to manage, control, and dispose of that property in their own way, and at their own discretion, was secured to the slave states by a solemn contract between the slave and non-slaveholding states, and that contract binds every individual in this nation, North and South.  Slave property then, is held under the protection of the supreme law of the nation, and any citizen invading the rights of the South, is guilty of a civil trespass.  Hence, all interference with slavery by northern men, is a violation of the spirit, if not of the letter of that constitutional compact, which binds these states together.  Any attempt by northern men, either direct or indirect, to dispossess the South of her slave property, or in any way to endanger or injuriously to affect their interests therein, is a violation of the supreme law of the nation.  It is an act of bad faith—­of gross injustice, and none but bigoted corrupt fanatics, and low political demagogues, would be guilty of so base an act.

It is clear then, that the slave states never will yield to the requisitions of abolitionists, and should that faction ever become the dominant party in the free states, dissolution of the Union will be a necessary consequence Intelligent men, who will persist in a course of conduct so unjust, so illegal, with a perfect knowledge of the probable consequences; are to all intents and purposes, as truly traitors to their country, as was Benedict Arnold; and as such, they should be viewed and treated.  Mark my words, reader, I say, intelligent men, for nine out of every ten among those who have been seduced into the abolition net, are objects of pity, and not of contempt or indignation.  Poor souls, they are ignorant; it is, I suppose, their misfortune and not their fault.