The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-04-19
New York Politics and Conyersatiop.

deadly opposed to slavery, and have fully
made up their minis that il is tho religious
duty to do all in their power TO destroy it
i'll tho United States. To use the words of
an old mercllant-1'he State is rotten with
abolitionisIn Take out the cities of New
York and Brooklyn, and VIC can scarcely
tn'lnc town where the out-and-out abuli-
t'on'st would not have majority of tho
votes IN n contest with the silver grays or
old bunker democrats. So determined are
tile people in the western part Of this State
to destroy the slavery some way or some
how, that they look upon what are termed
Onon'sm in this city, us their natural enc-
mics, and they insult and taunt members Of
the Union Committee with cowardice, knavc-
ry, treachcry, &C., DC. Country merchants
now III the town, go boldly into the stores
and connting-rooms of our citizens, and be-
GIN to taunt them with having sold them
selves to the South. They call them dough-
faces men who have no souls! no patriot-
ism no minds or principles above dollars
and cents They tell us that the Southern
people are knavcs, tyrants and thieves. and
'nat thcy have no respect or regard for the
whatever: And as for dissolution or sec
SION, their language is, Let them (the
oo@'hD go:'1hcy have always been curse
ana burden, and the sooner they 20 out Of
.he Cm,on and use themselves up the bet
Ter; lhe'r negroes then will all run away,
ana they will have to 60 to work themselves,
as We 90, and get their living honestly"
ANY one Mt all acquainted with the course
OF Tic Albany Evening Journal, and the
view York Tribune, readily sees that this
language is of their teaching and comes
IT from !, their school. The patronage given to
tie Tribune in this city by our merchants
ana brokers, and to the evening Journal by
the Wing party, has enabled them to circu-
late through this State and Ohio thousands
OF copies Of their cheap wecklies filled witt.
,hcse sentiments and slurs against New Yor-
kers until they have poisoned tho public
mind and tnrned the current of feelinr
dead against us.
Since the opening of river navigation and
the arrival of such vast numbers Of country
people, our merchants and the Union Com
mittee seem to have become convinced that
II IS useless to attempt to change tho cur.
rent OF public opinion in this State. It is
all one way, and directly opposed to the
efforts OF the Union Committee, and in fl.
vor OF high handed measures against tho
South. 1t is rs common to hear men speak
OF the weather, as to hear merchant say
10 it is idle to attempt to stem this aLoli.
ton current: New York and Ohio are NIL
over abolition, and the people will listen TO
@ nosbtpg hui anti slavery, ffes- soil and tho
tls fugitive slave law. The Presi-
they cgstinne, = had he taken
) ss0I nssAsuFeeA 1tai MI; ;xhd come oas With
ma detefiainAts9a, and removed eve
y higher laM officer; apd ppt in their place,
hienas ld]ie tDmrro.nise, Have broken up
the Seward faction, but it is too late. IIo
has done just enough, and that hesitatingly,
to get the hatred and contempt of the free
soilers, and not enough to inspire confidence
and courage in his friends"
81 tell you" said one of tho leading COM
lnittce ren and a merchant on Saturday to
n company Of ncrclants-"We shal! have
non-ntercoursc with the South in less than
five years and shall prepare for it. Seward
is as cunning as the dovil and as ambitious
as Cesar. He has been here and made
Union speech; he thinks to quiet us and
make us believe him our friend, and he has
quleted good many, but he is a devil
and sets the snares of the devil. The state
Is as completely under the thumb of Weed
and Greedy ms the members of Catholic
church are under the thumb of the bishop.
We have been cheated and humbugged all
our lives by these fellows: we paid fof print
ing hundred thousand copies of Stewards
higher law speech when we pnid money to
Draper and Grinnell for the Wing party, now
we are paying to print sermons to counteract
it. We have paid for and supported the
Tribune for ten years, because we thought
it n Wing paper, and now we are getting
abuse from it. In short gentlemen, we have
been turning the grind-stone to sharpen tho
knives which are to cut our tllroats.n-
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