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Daniel S. Dickinson To The Rebels

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Day
16
Month
August
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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We invite the attention ofwir friend who talk "per.ee," to the following extracta from the address of the Hon. Daniel 8. Diokinson, ot New York, deiivered at Amherst, l:ist week. It is adressed to the rebela of the South : ' You desire pe;ee ! Then lay clown yor anns and you hhall have i;. It was peace when you took tliem up ; it shall bo peace whon you )ny tliem down. It vvill he puauu when you v. ba n dort war and refurn to your acuustimed piwwOil. Honorable, enduring,' [a.-itij relations will be lound in potuplete (ibiü.ience to the provision.-s of tlia. consiitution, and not in its violution or destniction 'l'he governmeiit is sustained by tliü people, not for tho purpnse of coercinuf States in their domcstio policy, not lor the purpose of itiis'iing niemberá of iha conft;deracy bccause thuy fatl to öoflfhrm to :i Federal Standard, not for the purpose. if 'ieapotting ;heir peplo, untl, least of all, not for the purpose of disturbirigt o,r in anv vay interfering uiih the systein of southern servitud; but for ttio sole Hiid on!_v ptirpotQ itf putting down nn unholy tirmed rebellion whicli hns dufiled tfefl aulh d'ity of the guvernrn,en and tiook.s its destruetiun,, in.tj. their. determination ia takou witii a feol:!tioi.i. eonipared with whiuh the eJicts of tl. o Modes and Pelviana were yieidtag and temporarv. Whcn the t;overmnent of our tsiihers shall ba again rocognized when the oonstitution and tho liuva tu. wbioh every eiiizen owes iillgiance shall ba observed and obeyed, then will the ariniiM o' the consntution and tho Union disband by a eommon inipulsu,' in obodience to u unanimous -ill."

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