Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-26
DEMOCRATIC ABOLTTIONISTS.


DEMOCRATIC ABOLITIONISTS.
Whilst the locofoco papers Of the South permit
scarcely T. day to pass without denouncing the
principles and public conduct of VIM. II. Seward
it is worthy Of remark that they rarely bestow a
syllable of Reproduction on the Democratic Adolf
tionists and Free Sellers who habtually indulge
in the utterance of the most outrageous and trea-
sonable sentiments onthe floor of Congress. These
faithful wardens on the watchtower of Southern
rights put themselve; to vast deal of trouble to
keep the South advise of the sayings and doings
of Seward. They paint his character in the black
est coors, and hold him up from day to day as a
true embodiment of Northern Whiggery." Now
we have as little federation regard for the High
er Law prophet as our locofoco contemporaries, and
they are welcome, so far US we are concerned, to
abuse him to their hearts content; but if their
constant assaults upon him are prompted solely
by detestaton of his principles, why do they not
denounce in like manner those Northern Demo-
Gratis whose anti-sldvery sentiments are as often
sive to the South his own In what respect
are the principles of Messrs. Rantoul, Cleveland
Townsend, King, Floyd, &C., less Objectionable or
Why should the latter alone be singled out by
Southern Democrats as the object of attack and
be held up to tue execration of the Southern peo-
pie, whilst the former are permitted to go I'M
whipt OF justice! The answer is plain Seward
is Wing, and his free soil heresies are forever
paraded before the eyes of the South with the
view OF manufacturing party capital in this region
but Rantoul q Co. being loco focos, no such ad-
vantage is to be gained by calling attention their
abolition dogmas, and hence their names are very
rarely mentioned. If it depended on the Demo-
cratic press, the people of the South would never
learn that there such animal in existence
as Democratic Abolitionist.
The present session of Congress has been unu-
sually prolific of free soil speeches. coming chiefly
from Northern Democrats. Messrs. Rantoul,
King, Cleveland, Townsend, Floyd and others have
all INDUCED in the most violent and abusive dia-
tribesagainst Southern Institutions and proclaimed
the most abominable sentiments. As specimen,
we quote extract from speech delivered few
days since by Mr.. Floyd of New Y ork
The South is told by the North, that the fug-
tive slave law shall be observed and executed
Let the State of Pennsylvania, which is very par
ticulary sound upon this subject, be taken as the
best instance of Northern State faithful to the
compromise. The recently elected governor OF
this State, in his inaugural, says:
-.''The loyalty of Pennsylvania to tho national
Union cannot be doubted. She is now as she
ever has been, for the Constitution and its COM
promises. She will maintain and execute, in let.
ter and spirit, the several jusment measures, as
passed by the late Congress, the subject OF
slavery"
There is little slurring here Of the 'sWhiskey
Rebellion but let that pass. The passage reads
well, and sounds WE'LL Pennsylvania is .'for the
| Constitution and its compromises What State
| Is not!
But further: In maintaining the compromise
she will not disturb the law fixing the boundary
of Texas, and giving that State $4,000, 900, for
| the law Is fixed fact, and the money paid; she
will not eject California from the confederacy; she
will not repeal the law establishing a territorial
| government in Utah; she will not re-estabish a
slave marketin this District; and we all know that
| she will execute the fugitive slave law, because
she did at Christiana, and the way she did it is
caution to persons pursuing slaves under difficult
circumstances.
| But, practically, what is the gubernatorial ro-
domontade of Pennsy lvania worth to the South
In the city of Philadelphia your officers cannot
arrest fugitive without first getting him into Gus
| tody on false charge of an offence against the
State laws. At Christiana your marshall and his
posse are driven at full speed through corn
field, and the claimant shot dead At Harrisburg
fugitive is arrested in the night and tried before
day-break, for fear of the populace; and at Column
bla the officer unable to make an arrest kills the
negro and then runs away. And yet the COVER
nor tells US that the people of Pennsy lvania are
sound upon the subject, and upon such soundness
her tavorite son is commended to the support of
| the South.
The speeches of the other Democratic wor-
thies whose names we have mentioned, were
much in the same vein with that of Mr.. Floyd,
breathing the bitterest hostility to the South and
her institutions and Astounding in dangerous, trea-
sonable and atrocous sentiments. But these man
ifestations are treated with silent Indifference by
democratic journals in the South. They are
prompt enough to descry danger and to sound the
alarm when Seward or any other northern Wing
gives utterance to abolition opinions but such de-
clarations appear to be Invested in their eyes of
all noxious tendencies when emanating from
Democratic source. Language which if coming
from Seward would have been emblazoned in
their columns with all the glores of typography,
is not deemed worthy of passing notice. when
spoken by Democratic abotionist
HON. MR.. McMULLEN.
We cannot concur with this gentleman in the