The New York herald., 1845-01-07
The Abolition Crisis I'm the United States
Their Opinions and Purposes.
JAMRs G. BENNETT, ESQ.

The Abolition Crisis an the United states-
Their Opinions and Purposes.
JAMES G. BENNETT, ESQ.
some months past, in relation to the effect the
liberty party abolitionists would have on the
drama Of the late presidential election, have been
tulhiled IN a truly astonishing degree You, S:r,
Was the hrst person IN this nation. acting as an
editor OF an antl-aboti0n press, who had the can
dor and good sense fairly to estimate our strength
and numbers, by which means you was enabled to
compute the amount Of disturbing force involved,
and to what extent the one or the other of the
great parties might be aided, or injured by the
force OF repulsion, or attraction, absorption or ex
tlncton, or by sustaining our onward movement of
integrity and integrality, without intending to aid
but meaning, by all lawful means, to overthrow
both parties, and ALLEVIATE as great a number as
possible from either.
As there ha. been much said against us in your
paper in past times, would it be trespassing on the
interests Of your pape!--now the great neutral,
and mouth-piece of this country-to publish a
brief view of what the liberty party believe, and
intend to do, and why the wings, or democrats,
in the late struggle, could not receive their aid nor
can ever expect il in any future conflict Tor polit-
cal supremacy.
The press Of the two great parties of the United
States supposed It could serve the interests ntrust
ed to their care best by misrepresenting our sent
ments, by connecting for us creed which we ne
YER believed, formula Of action which we never
adopted, and objects Of accomplishment never en-
preserve
the integrity of the great confederacy BY placing
the abolition. intellect in a state of per-
Petual lmbecllity, and when it sent up a
iurld blaze tor a moment, it was never to
be regarded as the ebultion Of genius which
startles but sort Of mysterious fanaticism
which alarms. springing from the wid-fres of mo-
raj insanity For the salvation of the nation it was
deemed necessary by our enemies to impugn our
the most elevated love Of country to write obitu-
aries OF our decease. and pretend to have witness
ed the last solemnities, in our death and burial
peated, that it at last excited a doubt among the
more thoughtful, whether it was not patriotic at
tempt, on the part of political undertakers to pro-
Tess to have buried what might injure the public,
whether they had or not; to quiet clamor and 81.
ence debate.
To do a man justice, we must allow him to
tell his own story, vindicate his own position, and
American press, that great chandelier with its
thousand lights, rejecting every image of thought
supposed the best interests of mankind were to be
advanced by refusing to publish any Of the follow
ing dogmas of modern political abotionists
That an innocent man has better right TO him.
self, his wife and children, than any other man had
That the Constitution of the United States when
truly Gas it never has been) administered, is an
word Constitution imports made for the protection
aud defence of our natural rights, of life, liberty
and property, and was not made to destroy and
strip person Of his natural rights, to lfs liberty,
"
the whole people, with each person, and each per-
son with the whole people, for the protection and
defence Of their natural rights from invasion.
There are eight millions south of Mason and
Dixon's line, three millions of colored. and five
millions of whites--in 25O,OO persons, or one
eightieth part Of the American people, in whom re-
sides the fancied @ title to near three millions oil
slaves 1,25O 900 in the shape of wives, children,
relatives and dependents, in addition to the 25O 900
of title holders, making one and half millions OF
about one;thirteenth Of the American people, are
ted directly from unpaid slave labor. There are
about half million OF persons, such as ministers,
LAWYERS, physicians, agents. merchants, not land
holders, nor slave owners, who hire slaves at the
south for menial Offices
wretched whites, in the slave states, without edu
cation, having no capital except their labor. The
uapald labor of the slave is their competition, and
the. stakeholder, who owns the land and slaves,
and creates as the superior claes, the law
of public opinion, which is that no white
man or woman can work for wages by
the side Of the slave without being diegraced,
and .looslng caste (which is the case generally,
except in western Virginia and eastern Tennessee,
where free labor Is in the ascendant, in this Swift
zerland Of America, where the awful forms of the
eternal Alleghanies prop the clouds.) These poor
of the great unpaid. These men are the Lynch jury.
men, and do the bidding Of shareholders, and are
the slave hunters, and companions Of the man.
hunting hound.
These poor men are our President makers, and
do the bidding Of highly educated oligarchy OF
some 10000, who clam the great offices Of the
Republic The common school house as a sys
tenn, like New England or New York, is not found
in the entire South. There is not a district school
house In Kentucky.
These three millions of poor whites are the Lag
aronIoi this continent, and worse off than the poorly
rewarded laborlng classes in Europe, from the
Mediterranean to Polar ice. These American
Lazironi are the victims of position-they have no
capital but their labor, and if they attempt to labor
for wages by the side of the slave thew sink To the
al q n nj al vvn
Labor is degraded. Three millions are ruined
by being compelled to the labor OF country un.
rewarded. Three millions more are ruined for
very has SO degraded, the whites cannot
perform Or, in another form, it is as though hea.
ven had said, if you wrest liberty from three mil
lions OF colored men, and make them work for no.
shall be ruined and undone, tor being prevented
from performing that very labor for reasonable
reward. Thus, six millions, or one third of my
couniryman, are und9ne, hopeessly 50, unless sla-
OF one thirteenth OF the population. This is de.
structive of the peace prosperity Of one half of
the republic, and acts in thousand ways to mar
Of the north are always brought in contact with
the wrong doing class, who, out of this mountain
of.iniusce, make Presidents, Secretaries, Speak
ers, Foreign Ministers, and majority Of theJudg-
es of the republic, and use the government to sup
ply places to themselves and sons; and the North.
ern States are but conquered tax paying provinces
The abolition enterprise is for the delivery Of six
millions Of men from ruin. The abolition under.
taking means to give every man the benefit of ma
king the most OF the energies o. his body and
mind, and make labor honorable; 30 that men
need not fear to perform it, from disgrace. or fear
that when they so do they shall lose their reward
by giving freedom to ALL we shall treble the labor
producing power of this land, and infinitely en-
hance the happiness Of the people.
We believe IT wrong to count three-fifths Of the
slaves as the basis of law making power, by
m he IN
their seats;- sufficient number to control most
questions Of legislation.
We believe tina. 10000 leading shareholders, OF
the south, rule the nation, and have given, out of
hty-six years, slaveholding Presidents for forty
tour. The Speakers of the House Of Representa-
tves Vice Presidents of the United States, Chair.
men OF law-making Committees, the Secretaries
and heads and subordlnates Of the Governmental
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