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1 An Address, to the People of Connecticut 1 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/adppctt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ADDRESS, TO THE PEOPLE OF CONNECTICUT. Fzuow CmzEs:- t The period of our annual State Election is near at' hand. The interest which attaches to it, is only second to that which stirred the heart of this ancient Commonwealth on the 4th of Novem- ber last. The parties to that struggle are now arrayed for another contest, and you are called upon to adhere to, or reverse, your recent judgment. Under these circumstances, we ask your calm attention to the following considerations, believing that they ought to be of weight in deteimining your action. The Administration of FRANKLIN PIERc. is at an end. It has been regarded by the people of Connecticut not merely as a failure, but as something infinitely worse. By its foreign policy, as developed in the bombardment of Greytown, and the sanctioning of national robbery at the Ostend conference, it has done what it could to render our country at once odious and contemptable in the eyes of civilized nations. By its domestic policy, in making the preservation and expansion of slavery the chief object of governmental concern, it has brought reproach upon republican institutions, and betrayed the cause of liberty. It has violated its own solemn pledges, deliberately made upon its inauguration. It has removed the ancient landmarks, and opened up every acre of our national territory to the inroads of the system of human bondage. It has seen an infant Commonwealth, which it was under every obligatioa to protect, overrun and subjugated by the citizens of a neighboring State, under circumstances of infinite cruelty and wrong, and has not only refused to prevent the outrage, but, when completed has deliberately sanctioned it. It has abandoned the great principles of democratic equality, upon which our institutions are based, and has made a Eystem of slave-holding aristocracy paramount in the administration of the government. And because the Administration of FRANKLIN PIERON has done these things, 45,330 of the electors of Connecticut, on the 4th of last November, pronounced upon it their unequivocal condemnation. For thus exercising your rights as freemen, the President of the United States, in his annual message of last December, descending I Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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