No Treason, No. II—The Constitution [pp. 393-403]

NO TREASON.
ment, as it is appalling to every American mind that realizes
its fatal meaning.
The grand total to be yet settled with the American people
by the leaders of the Black Republican party may be thus
stated:
1st. An unnecessary war engendered by the vilest management and intrigue.
2d. The blood of more than a half million of men murdered
in the flower of their youth.
3d. A debt of two billions and a half as a standing mortgage on the industry of the people, following the total sacrifice
of one third of all the values in the country.
4th. A burden of taxation nearly twice that of England or
France, based on less than one half of the wealth and property
of either.
5th. The probable desolation of the cotton fields of the
Southern section, and the yearly loss to the nation of two hundred millions of dollars in gold from that quarter alone.
6th). The pollution of the Constitution of the United States,
and of the laws and the morals of the nation, and the inauguration of a military despotism based on empire and absolutism,
in the place of the representative Republican government of
Washington and the fathers.
T,hese few ful facts cannot be suppressed, and now address themselves to the sense of the nation. Ilow long the evil-doerswill
be pernnitted to bear sway to the ruin of the country is for the
people to say. Already does a fearful war of races and the remor seless and unspeakable horrors of a second San Domingo
tragecdy threaten to follow swift upon the heels of the calamitous
civil war forced upon the country. Already, in the judgment of
the m7ost thoughtful and philosophical minds, American civiliza tion and Christian enlightenment has been hurled back a half cen tury. It is time the truth should be told, and for men to speak
without bated breath in behalf of both society and liberty.
APiT. II.-NO TREASON. NO. II.
THE CONSTITUTION.*
I.
THE CONSTITUTION says:
" We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Lysander
Spooner, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for
the District of Massachusetts.
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