The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-07-23

weare taking no efficient means to rcpress
them, and they very naturally consult CO..
cession from the Union as the only means
of self-preservation that remain to Them.
They may he wrong, but we Of the North
have no right to blamo them for doing what
we are forcing them to do, If lhoy wish to
retain any snmblancc OF freedom.
"Lct no man deceive himself with tho
vain hope that this radicalsm now repre-
sented by the Free-Soil party would stop
with the mere abolition of negro slavery.
II is the persuasion of so many of our
citizens that it would, which renders it so
dangerous. The abolition Of slavery by
violence, against the will Of tho masters,
and without compcnsating them for tho
property we compel them to surrender,
would be a great evil, but it is one of the
lghtest evils TO be expected from the pro-
grcss of Free Soil faDatcism. We assure
The public, and it is tho point we wish
particularly 10 impress upon our readers,
that the abolition of negro slavery is only
an incident in Free. .Solism. Neither the
Free -Soilers nor we can foresce where
they would stop. Combining as they do
in ono all the several classes Of fanatics
in The country, and being the party opposed
to law, to constitutions and governments,
certain it is they would not stop so long as
there remained single safe guard for ndi-
vidual freedom, or a single institution Ca
pabe Of imposing the least restraint upon
awHcss and despolic will. No doubt there
are honest but deceived, individuals in the
party, who will not go all lengths with it;
but they will be impotent to restrain it, and
the party itself, augmentng its forces as it
marches, will on whithersocvcr its licen-
tious and d"spotic principles lead, unless
speedily and efIectua!!y resisted by the
sonndcr part of the community. or by the
lnercifni intcrposltion Of Divine Providence.
"Thc essential principle Of the Freesol
party, that which gives it so terrible vi.
| taiity. is not, we repeat, exclusively or
mainly, opposition 10 slavery. Half uB-
known To itself, it is a party organized
against law III all its forms, against all the
! principles and maHims of the past, and
| all The moral, religious, social, and po-
ltical institutions OF the present 1t is a
! party formed against the common reason.
! common sense, and common interests OF
mani md. Whh the cant of religion and
morality on their lips, its leaders are
n'mcs, % man, iniidels and blasphemcrs
as well as traitors and disorganizers
They arc men for whom, il is not enough
10 sin from appetite or passion, but who
must sin from principlc,-for whom il is
not enough TO sec the good, approve it, and
yc, pursue the wrong, but who must
pcrvcrt conscience itself, erect evil into
good. and mako sin pass for virtue. They
aim at reversing ni the Judgments OF man
kind, and brand the Christian virtues as
vices, and cxa', tho vices opposed TO then
tn ihr rank and dignity ofChrlstian virtues
Whatever has hitherto hecn counted sa
cred they pronounce prrfanc. and whatever
has been hitherto counted prolanc, the,
command us TO respect as sacred. They
say with Miit"n's Satan
Gan gnod to me is lost;
! Evil, br ;hou my goo,l."