The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-22
For the Southern Press.
Abolition
IT'S oRIors, NATURE, AND CONSEQUENCES.
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acquired such an alarming influence over ths
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 successb but
patriotism; and were it in my power, would ar
ray the love Of our country and countrymen
against the love of all the rest of mankind
would stimulate every native heart to a fanatical
species of fanaticism 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 hypocritical philanthropy, and the blind
tools of her ambition. | would set Lefore the
people of the United States glowing picture
of their present happiness, and future glory, and
contrast it with the condition OF their fellow men
/ in the other quarters of the globe. Iwould call
their attention to the high and holy mission which
seems to have been delegated to them by the
great arbtor of nations--that of being his chosen
instruments for regeneratng the old threadbare
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
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them that if there ever was country that merit
ed the love, the devotion of a people, it is these
United States; for never did there exist land,
where all the great blessings of God and nature
are so beautifully distributed.
And having done this, | would ask my coun-
trymen, whether they stand ready to sacrifice all
these inestmable blessings to hypocrisy, fanati
cism and ambition, Haunting about the world un
der the banner of universal philanthropy 3
| 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 gre1t source of them all? 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 peaceably to acquiesce in the imme-
date or prospective emancipation Of their slaves,
and by so doing, beggar themselves and render
2 their country desert? Do they believe that
five or six millions of people can ever be in
duced, voluntarily, to make such sacrifice to
British philanthropy, or that congressional legis-
{ lation, or actual force, can ever accomplish Il at
object! Do they believe that preachers, school
masters, and itinerant lecturers can achieve such
a miracle They may drive the Southern States
: from the Union but will that facilitate their OBJ
ject, by extinguishing, or preventing the extern
sion Of slavery? What is to prevent them from
notwithstanding and annexing Cuba, with its three
hundred thousand slaves, at some future period ?
Who can stop their progress towards abe South,
as far rs the lsthmus of Panama ut least, when
they have established a separate confederation ?
But even if all this were not almost certain
to happen, ard slavery thus extended over an
area far greater than it now occupies, surely the
people of the North, East, and West, are not so
besotted with their devotion to an alien race
! Of barbarians, as TO sacrifice n 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 dscards all ties of social
brotherhood, except between negroes and white
men, and all laws but the higher law"
: ] am under serious apprehensions that shall
be terribly laughed at by certain old weather
beaten trading politicians, for prating about pat.
riotism, and such obsolete IDEAS" 1t matters
? not. don't address myself to them, nor am
r so sanguine as to dream of making any impress
sion on spch hardened sinners. ] have seer
enough TO know that old trading politicians are
very apt-wth reverence be it spoken,-to b,
D old rogues, and would not trust them half a,
r far as | could see them. They may be as cur.
ming as the serpent, but are not quite as inno-
$ cent as the dove; and are so accustomed to mis-
+ take their own interests for those of the country
2 that they at length become incapable Of distin
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 but
: miracle can save them from the influence OF
! the father of all evil. Experience may give
them greater dexterity in playing on that g;ea
bass-viol, the world And in those receptions
intrigues and circumlocution, which, when sue
! cessful, constitute great trading politician
n They may acquire consummate skill in pledges
e declarations Of principles, to suit both parties
q and especially in defining their position, wber
y they have performed great feat of ground an,
d lofty tumblng but in general, they reminc
II me of wine which is wholesome when new
3 paIatable when middled-aged, but which all a
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