The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-22
JACOB coLLAMER. THE ARo1 rro,,

JACOB COLLAMER, THE ABOL L,TrJor,s,.
we observe that the Raleigh Register and =,
Southern Wing prints, in their anxiety to O'"eF
the Junior Washington's'' administrator aiA 80
tally reckless as they are as to the means .., To-
in so doing, Tepublishing letter from J.oan
lamer, the present Postmaster General, to Mr. 0'-
ford of Alabama, the object Of which is to sbor
the said Colamer is not an Abolitionist. Mr. r.
mer says, in this letter. that he is not an AbOoO;
because he does not propose directly to disturb .l
very in the States, but at the same time he save &C.
is due to justice and myself to say, I am an A.;
slavery man that is regard slavery as verv o,oa,
political and moral evil, and think nothing sbonIa
done bythis government toincrease or extend !,
The idea that man is not an Abolitionist who a."
Gates the Wilmot Proyiso and abolition in the D.,
Of Columbia, and who stops here, without attenn;D
directly to interfere with the institution in the S.,
is simply false and absurd. Who proposes that c.
gress should control abolish slavery in the St,
No one--not even Giddings. An AboIition;st .
the sense in which the term is universally recs;n.I
and understood, is one who regards slavery ,o
great political and moral ey,' who seeks to abo,
ish it by act of Congress in the District OF Columh.
and who would legisate it from the territories ,n1
such is Jacob Collamer. His votes in the 2O,b ana
3Oth Congress prove this beyond all question. W.
select one instance from among many. On the lah
day of last December, Mr.. PaIry asked leave to n
troduce bill, repeal all or parts of acts os
Congress establishing maintaining slavery or tba
slave trade in the District of Columbia; and q,oh
Colanssr oOted auo IF granting eaUe to introdu,.
said bill. See Blair and Rives's Congressional Globe
page 4s. Mr.. Palfy is one of the most decid.a
Abolitionists in all New England, and MI Colams,
as an anti-saVery man, - has uniformly stood bv
him and encouraged him by his votes and his speecb
es, in his warfare Southern rights.
Again: No longer ago than July, 1913, this sam.
Jacob Collamer delivered speech in the House of
Representatives on the slavery question, in which he
uttered the following sentiments
The people of the North regard slavery as a great
moral and political evil and its introduction into ba
Territories New Mexico and California would hs
not only an injury to them but also TO the nation
They consider that the extension of slavery over
more country is to encourage and pefpeuate it; That
the 1t IS etrcumseribed the less Is PRODUCTIVE nnd
the sooner aciH be emancipation"
In the same speech he declared that any comurO
mise on this question, short of the Wilmot Provso.
would not do for him and that if any compromise
were effected, and governments established for the
Territories without restriction upon slavery, gsi.
tafiOH" and /" Repe1P' would be the words
Here We see this sanetimonous hypocrite declaring
in breath that he is not an Abolitonist because
he does not propose direcIyo disturb slavery in the
States; and in the next, voting to abolish the nst
tuition in the District of Columbia, laboring to inter-
dict it in the Territories and announcing as his rea.
son for so doing, THAT THE MORE SLAVERY " CIR
CUMscRIBED THE LESS IT IS PRODUCTIVE, AND THE
SOONER WILL BE EMANcIPATIoN"!. The object leaks
out. He does not come up to the work of abolition
the States by act Of Congress- at once for that would
destroy his influence and render him even odi-
Gus than Gddings but he sneaks up to it through the
District of Columbia and the Territories. He EwANrs
and he takes W hat he considers the
best course 10 secure it. And this is the man who
has been placed by Gen. Taylor at the head of the
nGblic Mails, and W no holds position in which he
tsn inffict more real injury upon the South than the
whole Cabinet combined! Already is the South be-
ginning to feel the effects of his Abolition sentiments
IncendiaFy documents, without Post-offce marks,
and therefore transmitted by some of his Northern
subordinates in violation of the law, have already
found their way into South Carolina; and we see it
stated, by the Detroit Commercial Bulletin, that
great quantities of franked documents, without d.
ecuon' except tue ndhe QI me Foseothces ho" 'uut
Der up the mail bags. They are stamped "Free:
Truman Smith, United States Senate" The Wing
Postmasters are to write the superscriptOn on them,
ind distribute them"
What will the honest people of the country say to
uch conduct as this! Does it suit them? Isital
ightl And will North Carolina Wings, still de-
eived by the Raleigh Register and other prints that
night be named, continue to throw up their hats and
urrah for Taylor aud Jacob Collamer2