Washington sentinel., 1854-06-27
ABOLITION VS.. THE WHITE La
BORERS.

paper, 10 show that one ingredient IN the flee-
seil-abolition combination was the subugation
Of the white laboring classes to the caprice,
insolence, and tyranny with which they have
| always sought to treat them. So universally
is this the case, that everywhere the working
men, as class, are embittered against the
| freesoil abolitionsts, because of the perpetual
efforts made to render the workingman subser-
Went to them politically as well as socially.
| Every workingman knows that these freesol
abolitionists are seeking to rear up negrocacy
in competition with the white man, and through
| this instrumentality to grind them down to the
veriest pittance upon which humanity can exist
The Legislature of Massachusetts,, without sub
| mitting the question to the popular vote, passed
laws that negroes we're as good as Massachus-
| setts white men any how, with full right and
| privilege to engulph in their dark embrace the
| daughters of Massachusetts, and to coin fac
| SMILES Of the imps Of darkness, and thus trans
NIT to posterity in black lines, the evidence OF
| the wisdom, purity, virtue, and intelligence of
the citizens Of Massachusetts,, who could thus
forret everything that was sacred to decency,
se.I-respect, and the laws Of God, by comming-
hing with negroes, in violation of the dictates
of all these.
Connecticut left this question to the people,
who declared against even the right of negro
to vote, by FIVE to one New York left it to
her people, who repudiated negro equality by
a majority, if our memory serves us right, of
some 276,000 The people of Illinois did the
same. Wherever the people have had the OPP
portunity to decide, the workingrnen have
risen en- masse and put down this infamous at
tempt to create negro rivalry with the white
labor.
But the meanness and yillainy of abolition
ism is fathomless. Notwithstanding this deci-
sion of the workingmen of Connecticut, repu-.
dating and revolving at the idea of contami,
nation by the juxta-position on equal terms
with them of the negro the scoundrels of that
breed, by some political convulsion, being
vomised into the legislative hail. are seeking to
perpetrate upon the laboring classes Of that
State this horrid offence, as will appear from
the subjoined extract Of the action ofthe House
of Representatives Of Connecticut:
NEGRO VoTERs.-On Wednesday last, the
Connecticut house of representatives, by vote
of ll6 to Is, III not yoting,1 passed a resolu-
ton to amend the State constitution, SO as
to allow negroes to vote on the same terms as
white men; also (l06 to SOY an amendment to
prohibit any person from voting who cannot
read. These proposed amendments were then
ordered TO be continued to the next legislature,
| and published with the laws
1 "The Connecticut legislature are driving a
large business this session, either for good or
evil They have elected one regular built abo-
| litionist to the United States senate, passed q
notification resolution, two strings of ant-Ne
| braska resolutions, stringent prohibitory
liquor law, and what they could towards
amending the constitution so as to permit
negroes to vote, AND PROHIBIT MANY WHITES
FROM VOTING. Other things they have doubt
less done, one Of which we now recollect is
to authorize the speaker to inrite cotored
preachers TO opeB the sutings Of the house
| with prayer, in common with white clergy men.
In point of fact, we believe the speaker has
not done this; but why not? Why this : IN
! godly prejudice against color%"
!. list Of these traitors should be printed, and
put into the hands Of every workingman in the
State that they may know them, and when they
meet them, spit upon and kick them as treacher
GUS dogs who have betrayed their trust. Ifit were
| not for the sake of the workingmen Of Conneo-
ticut, We would take pains to give the aboli-
tionists of that State such a gorge of free ne.
groes, as would give them the mastery of the
State, and let that State stand for all time the
leprous monument OF abolition folly and wick
edness
How different the true representatives Of the
working men Of Pennsylvania, in convention
assembled to form constitution They did
not undertake to SANDER their white laboring
men by saying they we're no better than negroes,
that they would put them on level; no.
Pennsylvania, the keystone, conservative Penn
sylvania, voted down without discussion al
most,a proposition to allow the legislature at the
expiration of fifty years, in two successive ses-
| ons by majorities Of two,thirds and with
property qualification Of a hundred thousand dol
lars if they chose it, and with the assent Of the
| governor at both sessions. that, at that remote
| period under such stringent limitations and re-
| s !ctions, the legislature might have the pri.
vlege Of allowing to egroes the right Of voting,
| 1t was sternly refused. That convention would
leave no chinck through which such reptiles
as have crept into the Connecticut legislature,
should ever find access to her halls of legisla-
ton, or if they did, they should find themselves
in the firm grasp Of the Constitution, checking
this revcciltting treachery TO the conGding work
ingman Of the State. No wonder Pennsy
presented such front on the Nebraska ques-
ton. She stands like great breakwater,
bu,wark to Withstand abolition storms, whose
billows constantly beating against her as con.
stantly find themselves dashed to spray. Long,
forever, may she stand an honored instrument
of providence in staying the fury Of the sirocco
philanthropy Of abolitionism, shield to her
people from the concentrating influence ofthat
leprous morality which recognizes only one
virtue, a spurious Moloch virtue upon whose
altar every virtue known to God and man must
be sacrifced--a cormorant virtue, which swal-