Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-24
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
ABOLITION AND DEMOCRACY.

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and yet provoking us to prove them by citation the
Union yet chooses to pursue precisely the dsrepu-
table course of which we intimated our suspicion,
and TO charge US with spreading incendiary mat
ter" and with " ILLUMINATING Mr.. JEFFERSON" why,
that is its own affair; and is only by making
widely known its condac TO take care that it shall
incur the just public consequences of such absurd
trickery. Not hot and headlong youths to rush into
any poor trap set for US, we perceived-and it was
surely great effort of penetration-the Union $
drift; and well assured that this was its only re-
Sort took all care to render il fatal for il, by
procaiming in advance what the fetch would be-.
We congratulate il on the issue of its intended
stratagem it maneuvred to place us in position
where fraud could be used against US with advan-
tage and it has found itself involved in the neces-
slty of attempting that fraud when already an
nounced and expected. In word the Union has
grossly outwitted itself: feat on which it might
is one TOO shallow to afford much triumph.
Our readers will recollect that we, last week. in
to its challenge, produced Mr.. JEFFERSON
original plan Of l777 for the emancipation OF all
slaves after-born that further gave in his own
words of 1924, the history of that plan, with his
addition to it of proposition to make the Federal
Government party to it that we cited other pas
sages from his writings, proving his ideas the
subject TO have been the same at intermediate Pc
riods of his life. After thus producing the tert, we
briefly displayed the character the scheme-its I'M
avoidabe and monstrous consequences. Now, had
done this without exhibiting the passages them
selves, SO as to let every reader whether or not
our Interpretation of them was just, the Union
might with some face have pretended that we had
adopted the palTy expedient Of suppressng what
should be quoted in order that we might undetect-
ed by our readers, suit the case to the occasion.
But TO charge us with cafumniating Mr.. JEFFER-
son, when we have fairly produced his very words,
IS an extreme folly; and to charge US, while
itself producing neither Mr.. Je6erson's tert nor
ours, IS piece of jugglery which deserves an
eplthet stronger than we would apply even to the
unfalrness OF the Union. Let us, however, pro-
coed to the exposure of the L,ions second accusa-
ton against US.
In It's reply, appearing on Friday morning last, II
charges US with spreading ncendary matter and
with laboring to aid an anti-slavery agitation, by
our article Of the preceding day. already alluded to-
In order that it might say all this, it was of course
absolutely necessary not only to suppress every
word of what we had, upon its invitation, cited
from Mr.. JEFFERSON, and to hint at none of the
most material parts of our own article, but actively
and directly to falsify the only passages which are
quoted from it, by representing them to its readers
as urging just the opposite to what every one, TAX
ing them in their context must see that they urge
In effect, las readers will presently see,) the
garbling is open, the perverson so total and SC
wiIful, that if the Union had forged an entire ar
Gle the most foreign to our opinions and solemnly
attributed it to us, the fabrication would have been
just as respectable and as innocent.
We fear not that what seriously say shall
incredible to our readers but our rule is las
they know TO ask faith in matters Of fact which
ought 10 be proved one goes along to make no
charge upon character without showing its grounds
in word, to ask er parie conviction, but to
bring the other side fairly before them, call on him
TO hold up his hand and be heard, and let them sit
his just judges and ours We NAV the better do
so IN this case, because we look on it as a very
aggravated one, demanding stern and even vindic-
tive sentence for its atrocty Of misrepresentation
and Of this We can give, by merely our own recital
but very faint idea that il is every way our
part to place the Unons entire article before the
public, long as that article is
FROM THE UNION.
" The Of Democrats for the sake of the Union
When laid before readers the full and conclusive proof
already submitted by of the fact that the Wig party
throughout New England planting itself fully and dis
uncy upon the Abolition platform basis of organization
and action upon national politics. knowing did the
serious and peous character of this movement could
not have foreeen the rapy with which il would extend
self the favor with which would be received by the
leading champions Of the Wing party other sections Of the
Union.
The Wing journal Washington began by CLOSING over
the resolutions adopted by the Wing State Convention in
Massachusetts, and giving them substantially its
and appreciation Resolved however to guard if pos
sibe against the odIum naturally attaching aboliton
demonstrations that journal followed up this step by
the assertion that though the Wings Of New England were
entering de acto into full fellowship and alliance Of
fensve and defensive with the AboIonss yet all this
merely accidental because the natural allies Of these fanatics
10 be found the ranks Of the Democracy In proof
Of this the lnelgencer alleged, first that the Democracy
the party Of Anti Renism and secondly that Thomas
Jefferson the Apostle Of the Democracy had shown himself
prepared 20 unite the nefarous schemes of the Liberty
party they presented to-day We noticed briefly
known facts which alone could induce the ntelgencer
face Of the recent nomination Of John Young in the
o'ate q New York, at by the Wing and Anti
conventions TO proclaim the connexoR between Democracy
hu anu Kentism At the time challenged the
lhegencsf 70 show that jefferson had placed himself
on me platform Of the . Liberty men, and avowed bis
hs V eak up slavery by the action Of the Federal Gov
eminent ~ ueogation Of the exclusive and guaranteed rights
% 'ne ose and Of the imminent peril
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