Title

Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Bangor, Maine, by the Friends of the Union, 1835

Alternative Title

On the Subject of Northern Interference with the Domestic Relations of Master and Slave at the South

Creator

Friends of the Union (Bangor, Me.)

Date

1835

Description

Meeting at City Hall. To the Friends of the Union. The citizens of Bangor, one and all, who are opposed to the measures of the Northern Abolitionists, and who are desirous publicly, and in the language of Washington "indignantly" to "frown upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate one portion of our country from the rest; or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts;" who hold to the preservation of our national compact, in its original spirit and purity, as a sacred and inviolable duty, and as the only ark of our political salvation;--who disclaiming for themselves, protest against the right of other citizens, of any one State, to interfere, directly or indirectly, in the domestic relations of the citizens of any other State; and who feel pledged by every obligation sacred to men of honor and freemen to support, at all hazards, that fundamental article in our sacred Constitution, that "the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union, a Republican form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion, and against domestic violence,"--are requested to meet at the City Hall, on Saturday evening, the 29th August, at 7 o'clock, to take into consideration the measures most proper to be adopted, to counteract the attempts now making by these individuals to create civil discord and to convey to our brethren of the South the most solemn assurance of the public reprobation of their proceedings, and the insignificance of their numbers, and their utter inability to produce any public action among the independent and intelligent citizens of Maine, inconsistent with the rights of the Southern States.

Subject

Bangor (Me.)--History--19th Century

Political participation--Maine--Bangor

Slavery--United States

States' rights (American politics)

Type

Minutes (Records)

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Eighteen thirties

Nineteenth century

Language

English

Is Part Of

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Rights