The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-09-16


chehy oihcfate IN the cities For the country there
another of distributors con sis,iny NJ ,hoso
travel about in the characters Of i.cseran, Jocos
pedlarS and preachers. The abotionis.s pretend
that these not their agents because they do NO,
send their papers directly to them but ,bev
know them to be their busy auxiliaries, if not
their acknowledged agents they do not address the
slaves, they say, yet, In of their annual
" Reports" they boast that ninety abolition
lists from one state rent abroad 10 preach the clad IT,
dings Of dclirerance to the eoptice In the same
paper the church is called upon to aid in the cause
They send their papers to clergymen and magis-
traes they say the truth is that they publicly ad-
vertse for and soci, distributors and earnestly beg
( to be informed how many papers they shall send
! (gratls) to each one. They boast that I75 900 num-
bers OF four OF their papers only (omttng the Lib.
orator. and others) were published in July last, and
1000 they say were burnt at Charleston, their pa
Pers are sent by the mail unasked for, far and near
and vast numbers sent back unopened The
abolltIonsts say in their apology that they should
"Piore serr,le tnsurreetion. But they know that
the whole South and West have been thrown into
"A state of alarm and agitation by means of their in
cendary publications thus distributed. They know
that servile instructions have in reality been plot
tcd' and conspiracies detected, and they have been
maze acquainted with the dreadful punishments in
ii'c'ed ON some of their auxiares and the wretched
fa'e oi number OF the slaves whom they have de-
'uued and seduced from their duty. In their decar-
alton, they profess geeat deoOtion to the Union vet
they are doing all in their power to excite the an
cry passions of the South against the North and to
nerSu do tha 4
sututons OF the South. They have also passed res
olutions pledging themselves to use every exertion
to have the constitution of the U. S. so altered as to
enable Congress to abolish slavery in those states.
willing or unwilling. This they we'll know, the
slave holding states (Which embrace more than two
thirds of the whole territories Of the U. ST. will
never submit to and that if the project should be at
tempted will destroy the Union. The abolilionists
are told that neither tie slaves themselves nor the
white people are prepared for immediate emancpa-
tion They reply in their papers, that the slayes are
fully prepared and if the ~hite people of the South
are not, it is because they are too idle to earn an
honest Livelihood with their omn hands, but Mat"abol-
itionists (we use their words) are la6oring pM
all their might to complete the preparation Of the
Northern people for this change, and whenerer this
part of their work is accomplished the change may
specify be expected to take place. for the PREPARATION
ofMe mhites of the SoSth like that of the colored
people themselves wW in many respects be Effected af
ter slarery is abolished' Such are the moral inRu-
ences, facts and arguments which abolitionists adj
dress to the hearts and eonscenees of the slave hold
aud srch their love of the Union. They arc
asked how two millions and half of slaves could
support themselves if instantaneously emancipated.
They reply that they could support Themselves much
utter than noU, uhen they hare the bmthcn of sup-
porting their masters and mstrcsses nmating that
The slaves to take their plantations along
with them. They told that the Northern States
would be overun with hords Of freed blacks. They
answer deliberately in their papers, what if wc
should be orerun by hem' They are told of the
of immediate emancipation, that the
slave would butcher his master and spread devasta-
ion over the land, they reply, in cold blood, that
if ii pere known this day known that the slayes had
-isen in nsmreeton and scattering dismay and
ieah through the South, "Mey are fighting far their
freedom would be the unirersal cry1" They are told
hat their incendiary publications will excite the
slaves to nsurrection and the massacre ofthe whites.
They swer " better to meet their vengeance than
COTS" They are fully aware of the horrible
which would cnsuc upon the success
If their project of immediate emancipation but they
elieye themselves from all uneasiness or blame up
IN that by the reflection that the slave holders,
they repent and comply with their demands, ought
till to be punished for their past sins. Repentance"
they say in their papers) I" makes no amends for
1t may be necessary for mereitm
God to make an example of om rebeliions nation,
its late repentance. The murderer
IN the gallows is not pardOned for his eontrtion.
Toes not merit PARDON nations as such, are only re-
cdrded and punished in this life"