Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-10-03

biiNFt = Nilp that ItltS fllt HHtufth slhIuN ana
suen slaves Of the cotton field, and humbles
them to his single control Its not the master,
at whose beck lha, whip Is welded, for that is fee.
bic, eneryaled aud npotent. 1t is not the udolent
vicious population of The South who claim 10 own
these people, that has strength and power 10 keep
them III their CHAINS Bu, It IS the whole country.
II Is the republic, at whose bchesl The unclaimed
millions Of the land lie letlered. And the efficient
force Of that republic is north Of slayery's Dix
on line, Slavery Is, then, northern institution
and not n southern"
ABOLITIONISTS DETERMINED TO sue.
CEED IN THEIR DESIGNS THROUGH
POLITICAL INFLUENCE.
The aboionisls soon l1resaw, after their first
iotmaton into societies. that The only means Of ec
itcling their designs would BE- through political in.
iluenee. They determined, therefore, on entering
the political arena, as will appear from the following
extracts:
I'm the month of July 1888, three of the Cores
ponding Secretaries of the New-York "American
AnuSavcry Society" issued Circular OF lnsruc-
ton 10 Agents in The country in which they say:
eve hope, therefore, you will without delay con-
Ter with abl'tilonIss in your region on the subject
by correspondence, by holding meetings, and in such
other ways as my be deemed expedient and take
prompt and efficient measures 10 secure the election
Of such candidates for the National and State lie.
gisidtHres the friends Of the slave cas certainly
support BY order OF the executive Committee
signed by James 6. Bney, E Wight, and Henry
b. Stanton.
According 10 these instructions from the Exec
utive Committee" The abolition lecturers took the
field. The following is an extract ola letter from
one of them, Mr.. Stanton, giving an account of his
operations. He says
From Lockporl returned to Utica, By req lest,
delivered an address in the Blocker street Church,
the evening oI the 10Th INST, on the political duties
of the $4,000 voters in this State, IN Y with re-
ference to the fall elections"
The annual report Of the American ALti-Savery
Society, IN Y Tor 1883, contains the following
language:
"AholIiouism must have much to do with poll
ucs Abolitionsts have resolved from
the first to act upon slavery politically
About the same time the Executive Committee"
appointed Mr., T NJ. Backesly to 20 forth and
rally the aboiilonsts Oh these principles. lie writes
letter from Aurora, New York, dated Oct s, s3S,
IN which he gives an account Of his progress. He
says!
The first object TO which am bending all my
energies Is the holding OF country meetings before
the coming election, with view especially of pre-.
parlng aud exciting abolnnists to carry their prn-
clpes to he polls and WELD all their political, as
well as IN 'ral and religious power for the redemp-
ton, &c. "Can you not create tremendous re-
action, a this timer &c. Let me know immediate
w. and write letters all over the country-have no.
uces gwen out in at the churches" Sc
AT an abolition meeting held in Coma, (Oho,) in
the Court House, the following resolution was offer
ed and adopted;
"Res0lred, That while this Society is unwilling
10 trample upon the cpnscences of is members by
declaring It To be the imperative duty of every abb.
lllloust, IN whom The State vests the right, TO vote
at the polls, yet Il is free to declare that the Anti
Slavery cause is lndsSolubIy connected with the
politics OF the country, that political action has al
wsys been contemplated for the overthrow Of slave
ry;-and thai the success OF our cause depends upon
the fidelity with which the Anti.Savery electors be-
stow ther suIlrages, independent of party lines aud
badges"
A eadiug Abodnnist, in the "phIanthropist" Of
March 81, 1910, IN urging political action, says.
"Such movement on our part would send fifty
or one hundred men into the lolowin5 Congress,
such as Alvin Stewart, Thomas Morris. Joshua
Leavltt, James G.. Burney John q. Whittier Hen
~ b. stanton, +. ID, Weld, Judge Jay, Myron
Holly, Ellis Gray Lorng, and host of other able
men-who might then say as Brougham did orhe
Peemge, Eve did nos seek the honor, the honor
sought US! And such will be the fact, as soon as
a6'd'l1nsis can be brought TO act together political
ly.
1--WE are asked, do we really intend to procure
vote OF Congress to abolish slavery regardless OF the
Constitution
I've answer, thsl will not be necessary; for
whenever we can succeed in pouring into Congress
"ajorEy OF Tie riRh sort OF men, such as would
not be afraid 10 meet tina question there and to do
Their duty whenever the subject came up, the South
ern States would anticipate that movement aud
abolish slavery themselves, ike some of the British
Islands, when they saw that slavery, must die, cut it
| Oft two years before its time
The Northern man with Southern principles"
majority IN the South ITSELF would reloice to see
that day;-they are much more ready for the jmme-
date and unconditional abolition of slavery than
some dough faces" at the North. The child is now
living who will hear the South declare in favor of
the abolition OF slavery, and OF protective tariff"
THE AB0LITIONISTS AGAINST THE
CHURCH AND AGAINST RELIGION.
To carry out their designs more eiiecuall, The
abouonistS are waging war againsl the various
Secls Of Christians, with determination TO force
them into their ranksor to break down their church.
rs. The following extracts wtI show their action
against the Church:
Preamble and Resolutions adopted at the annua
meeting ct Me American Anti.Slavery Society,""
held in New York on the 18th OF May last:
Whereas, the American Church. with the excep-
ton OF some of It's smaller branches, has gwen lis
undisguised sanction and support to the system of
American Slavery ia the following among other
ways, VIZ
~. BY profound silence on the SIN OF slayehold-
ing.
90. BY tolerating slave breeding, slave trading,
and slave holding in lis ministers and members.
IS. BY receiving the avais of the traffic in slaves
and the souls OF men" into the treasures of its dit.
ieIent benevolent Institutions; and
~ By its indifference and opposition TO the anti