Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-06-27
POLITICAL. ABOLITION.

divided ifOnf,-wHn oitlihafN Iaf'y CohHOfff-les
and VIC may safely appeal to our editorial columns +,
testimony Of the frequency and the will
which we lave rebuked the repeated efforts of GU
political adversaries 10 identify with the Abolition
faction one Of the great parties which now divide
the county. Our efforts, however TO keep the two
subjects distinct fr m each other have been 10 u
great extent unavailing; and compelled there
fore sometimes resort the argumeniaa al hon-
mem well in examination OF anac onsts as IN
vndicaton of our Norhern Wing associates
Wedo not now intend 10 say that the great body of
Northern Democrats are Abeltionsis, allhoueh we
nigh, quote The testimony Of one Of the leading or.
gans of the Administration party in New England, 10
prove that abolition and Democracy are one"-nor
do assert tbat the Wings, as party in the
Northern States, have not an extensive infusion of
Aboonism in their ranks. We mean only Ia say.
thai, connected with politics. or in reference To
the desire to interfere with he rights Of the South,
though the means of Congressional legislation.
public sentiment s,ln our opinion, sound a, healthy
throughout the mons avehol'ing States and that rc.
garded in It's political aspects, there us many taa.
fcs be found in The ranks one parry as in the other
that as mary OF lh"m are Democrats as Wigs
chicvous in policy, in Southern men, to force either
of these great parties Into unnatural and undesifed
coalition with the Fanatics, persuade the peo
pie of The slavehohlng States that such coalition
actually exists-as in the former case We nrccipi.
tate crisis which affect 10 dread and in the Lar.
ter, create un(ounded arprelensons and ealousies,
which, though they be founded in msconct prion ard
falsehood, will the less certainly lead to the ali
enalion Of the two great geographical sections ofte
Union. and to the disruption Of the ties that now
bind us together as ono people.
II, how ever, it be wrong in Southern men to play
tins desperate and suicidal game. in order to achieve
Il temporary and Transient succssS,-wbiel, after
all, may not crown their rxerlions, how much more
imprudcnty criminal is he, who a Northern man
himself, and uhde firing at tic North a rabid .4boH-
Zionist, comes 10 the South, and, after crossing
Masons and Dixon's lire, not only denounces lis
late associates as tieicey as, while with them he de-
nounced Southern sas, holders, but actually accuses
Southern men and Shareholders Of utilization with the
fanatics, who aiming ade4diy LIow at our ii eh,s
and our safety! And vet in This position of infany
stands The Jackson an. Buren, Democratic epub-
lican- Stale Rights" Editor e The NaSitf1e Eaioa.
the organ Of the Van Bhea part, IN Tennessee.
aud Judging from the character Of certain articles in
his paper, the COZ fideht1 associate and trusted
mouth piece il General jackson hnlselti \ few
weeks ago this impudenl Aboiioni,tG< silly import
ed from Massachusetts, asccudcd The editorial tripod
in Nashville: and, hoping Tor IMMUNITY in previous
obscuiity or from The dsta &c OF bis residence
from tie former scene ot his lobors, lie Immediately
echoed the false cIanior ofthc Southern journals de-
live ttr Nor It;o
as Aboltonis,s and threw his poisoned missiles
at John Bell, the representative Of the Nashville dis
trct in Congress, whom with shameless etilontery lie
charged with countenancins the designs Of that pes
iilent faction! But, unfortunately for Jcremiah q.
Harris, as he called himself when he edited
Democratic Abolition paper in Massachuseits,-or
j. Geo Harris he dubs himself since lie is fairly
installed in the editorial chair oftbe Nashville Union
as the instrument by which tie Van Buren, patty
hope to revolutionze that eaan, State,-un-
fortunately. say for this Mr. Harris, he is in pre-
csey the piedcamcnt in which Solomon desired his
enemy TO be placcd--he had written book" before
he left his Yankee home; and that book. in the shape
Of files Of the New Bedford Gezeite is brought
forth in judgment against him. We do not intend to
republsh all the articles from This pensioned editors
ville because it is not necessary to our purpose
which is merely 10 show the irne character of the
Northern democracy. by sketch OF the conduct of one
of its leading champons-once, wien III Massachu-
Sets flaming Aboiitionst, if his language is
TO be believed-now, because he is in Tennessee, IA
devoted friend of slavery, though it is certain he
played the hypocrite then or now We subjon
few extracts from the paper edited by Mr. Harris
while in New Bedford. Massachusetts:
From he Nep Bedford Gazette, May 1871, 1886.
Texas AND SLAvERY.-We have seen it stated
that agreeably the 1~s Of Mexico, lately enforced
by the decree of Santa Anna, it is unlawful for the
Mexcans to hold any Of the blacks in slavery: that
this decree seriously initiating 10 the injury OF the in
feresis Of Texas, caused rebellion in that Province
against The Mexican Goyefnmen--and that the
slruge Gle between Texas and Mexico at this time is
nothing more nor less than one between negioslavery
and ne FRO lreedom,-Ihis is nearly the view ofthe
affair tax en- by Mr.. Adams the i)oor of Congress
and if il be correct there are thousands who-rom
knowledge Of the fact that Texas is peopled mostly
BY natives oft United States, oy their friends and
perhaps their relatives, AT first anxious tor their
success-will throw back the veil Of sympathy, and
rather that the bones of every Texan should bleach
upon that fair soil, than that human slavery should
triumph over human liberty.
As nation we have The curse OF slavery upon us,
and find it difficult TO get rid OF it.-Tbere
are but few who will not acknowledge that it is the
blacklist, ioulesi blot our national escutcheon.
1t would then be the height OF madness to wish well
to a cause the success OF winch would spread this
plague over greater portion of the land If the
sole object OF Texas is rs here represented Justice is