The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-23
For the Southern Press.
Abolition I
ITS ORIGIN, NATURE, AND CONSEQUENCES.
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which has assumed 80 dangerous form and
acquired such an alarming influence over the
people, and consequently the government of the
| United States, and which threatens such serious
consequences, should be met by some great
counteracting principle, sufficiently powerful to
overcome, or at least neutralize its influence. In
casting about for with any prospect of success but
patriotism; and were it in my power, would ar
ray the love of our country and countymen
against the love of all the rest of mankind. i
would stimulate every native heart to fanatical
devotion to this shrine, and thus marshal one
! species of fanaticsm against another.
this, ] find none that can be arrayed against it
would invoke the shades of the heroes and
martyrs Of the revolution, who gained immor,
tai glory by resisting and battling the tyranny OF
England, and place them face to face with their
degenerate posterity, who are now the catspaws
Of her hypocrtical philanthropy, and the blind
tools Of her ambition. would set Lefore the
people of the United States a glowing picture
of their present happiness, and future glory, and
in the other quarters of the globe. would call
their attention to the high and holy mission which
seems to have been delegated to them by the
great arbitor of nations-that of being his chosen
instruments for regenerating the old thteadbare
world by their precepts of liberty, and the ex.
ample of its blessings. would tell them what
is every day becoming more evident,-that the
new world was called into existence to redress
the wrongs of the old and would prove to
them that if there ever was country that merit
ed the love, the devotion of people, it is these
United States for never did there exist land,
where all the great blessings of God and nature
are so bountifully distributed
And haying done this, | would ask my coun-
trymen, whether they stand ready TO sacrifice all
these inestimable blessings to hypocrisy, fanati
csm and ambition, Haunting about the world un
der the banner of universal philanthropy p
Whether they are willing to barter that, or even
place in jeopardy, their present happiness and fu
ture prospects, by placing millions of their fellow
citizens in a position where they can only escape
ruin by dissoiving that Union which has been the
one great source Of them all 2 Whether they
will suffer themselves to be sung to sleep by the
tuneful lullaby Of" the Anglo, Saxon race" while
the serpent is crawling into the cradle of the in.
FAINT Hercules to sting him to death! Do they
dream Of bullying or persuading the people of
the South peaceaby to acquiesce in the imme.
date or prospective emancipation ofther slaves
and by so doing, teggar themselves and render
their country desert Do they believe that
five or six millions of people can ever be in
duced, voluntarily, to make such a sacrifice to
British philanthropy, or that congressional legis
ation, or actual force, can ever accomplish Il at
object! Do they believe that preachers, school.
masters, and itinerant lecturers can achieve such
miracle They may drive the Southern States
from the Union, but will that facilitate their OBJ
ject, by distinguishing, or preventing the exten.
sion of slavery? What is to prevent them from
revolutionizing and ennexing Cuba, with its three
hundred thousand slaves, at some future period ?
Who can stop their progress towards abe South,
as far as the lsthmus Of Panama at least, v hen
But even il all this were not almost certain
TO happen, ard slavery thus extended over en-
area far greater than it now occupies, surely the
people of the North, East, and West, are not so
besotted with their devotion 10 an alien race
Of barbarians, rs TO sacrifice Il much greater
number of their own race TO their imaginary
benefit and that, too, at the instigation Of their
hereditary rival and enemy. | hope not; trust
not trust that patriotism is not yet quite
extinct among them and that they will not for.
get their country in the indulgence Of fanatical
excitement, which discards all ties Of social
brotherhood, except between negroes and white
men, and all laws but the "higher law"
lam under serious approximations that shall
be terribly laughed at by certain old weather.
beaten trading politicians, for prating about pat.
riotism, and such " obsolete ideas" II matters
not. don't address myself to them, nor am
80 sanguine rs 10 dream of making any impress
sion on such hardened sinners. have seen
enough to know that old trading politicians are
very apt-with reverence be il spoken,-to be
old rogues, and would not trust them half as
far as ! could see them. They may be as Gu.
ming as the serpent, but are not quite as limo.
cent ss the dove; and are so accustomed to mis-.
take their own interests for those Of the country,
that they at length become incapable Of distia'
gushing one from the other. They are, for
the most part, under the dominion Of one master
passion, and when that is the case, nothing bu,
a miracle can save them from the influence Of
the father Of all evil. Experience may give
them greater dexterity in playing on that giea,
bass.viol, the world. And in those deseptons,
intrigues, and circumlocution, which, when sue.
cessful, constitute a great trading politician
They may acquire consummate skill in pledges
declarations Of principles, to suit both parties
and especially in defining their position, when
they have performed great feat Of ground and
lofty tumbling; but in general, they remind
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