The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-06-05
For the Democrat
ABOLITION !! ABOLITIONI!

This subject, when agitaied between
the Northern fanatics, and the South.
ern.Slave holders, is ever calculated 10
create unhappy feelings amongst tho
citizens OF those States which stand far
from their broils, holding a neutral po.
silioD, and respecting and holding ga
cred the sovereignty Of each State; but
more revolving and painful still, 10 the
attempt to force US into those broils and
sow discord in our so sial circles.
Iregret exceedingly that circumstan-
ces of very recent character, invite
these remarks. wish no. 10 dea! in
unmeri.ed railing, but when the wisesl
statesmen have weighed the pros and
cons, on the subject Of Slavery, and
have yet failed to devise any plaus-
BILE means to facilitate the emancipation
ofthe blacks, we deem il a piece pre-
sumption, or infatuation, if not of dis
honesty and cOnsulnmate impudence, for
any other set Of men, to raise the hue g.
cry, whether they proclaim thems elves
as delegates of the most High, or are
the secret hirelings or agents Of the
Wing party, crying out A6oGhOnisu',
Emancipation, &c, responding faithfully
to the views of their Quix otic Here, g
master VIM. H. Harrison.
These clerical Gentry, who profess
to have 30 much regard for their color
ed brelhern, contend that it is criminal
to hold our fellow beings in bondage;
but have they prescribed a remedy .
No! Is it not the duty Of clergymen,
in painting the horrors of crime end its
punishment, to instruct Us how to cor
rect tho evil and avert The Calamity ?
Yes; but do these craz'd Abolition ex-
hor,ers pursue this course? No! they
will appeal to the feelings, and awaken
eymphathy, BY pictures Of The distress
and privations of the poor blacksi but
fwhere is the remedyl They offer
none-but they will still trumpet abol-
tion. Whence, Messrs Editors, we
nust infer, that these pious creatures
have peculiar prediction for their
colored brethern, and would welcome
the crisis when the negro will shake off
bis chains, by cutting the throat of bis
master, or the more fashionable mode
of thrusting bowie knife to his heart,
and then become The sovereign of The
soil. This appears 10 be the disguised
remedy, which these ph,lanthrophic
spirits, prescribe for their poor colored
friends, Alas, what an alternative
THIS TOWN, Messrs Editors, is
not disposed TO cherish a mobocra,ic
spirit, bot it wouldbe prudent not TO
tempt courtesy too far,wben folbearanee
would cease 10 be virtue; and we will
now in due season, and without dis,es-
pect, caution itinerant Ministers, against
the practice Of prnclailning such doc
trines from the pulpit. We would ad-
wise them not TO spend their lahore
lruitlessly in State which respects the
rights Of her slster States, and consid.
srs an Interference in those matters, q
violation OF the Social compact. If
their zeal or enthusiasm urges them on,
let them locate IN the vetv hotbed Of
Slavery, and there strike at the root Of
the evil, where their gerius and their
talents could be probably employed in
some manner 10 the world.
If they deem it their bounden duty 10
proclaim such inHAmatory and incou-
diary doctrines, they shonld 60 fearless
| Iy 10 work in the South, where the OBJ
jecis Cf their commiseration abound.
and if Judge Lynch lays his painful
screws upon them, they can die, res.
joIcing IN their martyrdOm for The good,
and just cause of abolition.
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