Washington sentinel., 1854-06-18
ABOLITION ONE IDEA-ISM AND ABO-
LITION SYMPATHY.

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| ABOLITION ONE IDEA-IsM AND ABO-
| LITION SYMPATHY.
There are many creatures of inferior order
that by persistent and continuous effort may
be taught to speak. But their capabilities OF
speech are very limited. They can only be
| taught to pronounce few words. Of these
| words they become so fond that they scream
them out on all occasions. The most notable
of these creatures is the parrot. Hung out on
the street in its cage, it pathetically appeals to
the generous sympathies Of every passer-by
with the stereotyped salutation of "poor POLL"
1t pleads for compassionate tenderness, and its
serio-ludicrous invocations arrest the attention
alike of grown people and of children. There
is another bird, which we are told can be taught
to speak-the raven. Not so apt as the par
rot its education is work Of much labor.
One of these birds of i'll omen, as we learn
from Dickens, was taught one sentence, and
that sentence was" I'm devil" which it
generally repeated three several times.
Now these creatures remind us of class of
men in this country who have been drilled and
drilled and drilled, until they can roll out with
liquid fuency, impressive emphasis, and end.
less iteration one word-slavery They are
the abolitionists. At break of day, at meri-
dian, aud at setof sun, their cry is still-slave-
ry. They never tire of the theme 1t is alike
their pleasure and their business-their meat
and their drink-their religion and their poll
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dream by night. The clank of chains is the
only sound they hear, black the only color they
see, the African the only mortal they compass.
sionate. From rosy morn to dewy eve that
word is still their cry
If in addition to that word, they had been
taught those uttered by the raven, their lesson
would have been perfected. If they could, or
would but say, Sim a devil"-"rm devil"
they would tell the naked truth. They are
the plaques of the country. They are at the
bottom of all religious, political, and social
mischief. They outrage heaven with their
blasphemies, because inspired men Of old in
stituted slavery; they would repudiate the bible,
because it recognizes slavery; they would
break down all social systems in this country
for the same reason, and they would destroy
tne Constitution, because it guarantees and
protects the same institution. They neglect
their business, and make their poor neighbors
do the same, in order to carry on their imfa-
nous crusade. They prostitute the pulpit, and
debase even the hustings by their insane decla-
nations against slavery. If they 60 into the
social circle, it is the burden of their tedious
song. If they get, as occasionally they do get,
into Congress, they raise and repeat the same
montonous cry.
What is it all for? Has it ever made one of
them better man? Has it ever made one of
them richer or more respectable? Has it ever
been proved that those who most bewail the
condition of the sleek, well-fed, and contented
slaves of the south, are those most open to the
appeals of the poor and afflicted around them?
The whites around them may starve, sicken,
and die, without drawing tear from their
eyes or copper from their pockets, while the
fat, healthy, and contented slave of the south
enlists all their sympathies, because such sym
pathies cost nothing.
There is such thing as real philanthropy
there is such thing as false philanthropy !;
there is such thing as real religion, and
such thing as false religion; as real patriot
ism and spurious patriotism as real charity
and counterfeit charity. The abolitionists have
so managed as to combine all that is false,
spurious, and counterfeit. The abolitionist is
just the very character that wellbred south
ern slave would abhor. He would turn up his
nose at him.
That there are slaves at the south who would
avail themselves of this means to escape from
servitude, we do not deny-just as there are
wives who will quit their husbands and hus-
bands who will quit their wives just as there
are northern men who will 60 south, and
southern men who will go north.
When negro steals or is stolen off from his
master and gets among the abolitionists, for a
while they make a hero Of him. Not that they
care one straw for him, but because they can
make capital out Of him. Those that live
amongst them are permitted to drag out
miserable existence; but they cling to runa-
way as long as they can make him instrumental
in producing agitation. As soon as that is
over, they drop him like hot iron--leave him
to scufle for himself and he soon sinks to the
level Of the common negroes who suffer around
him. Hear the experience Of Burns, whose
case lately created so much excitement in Bos-
ton. The Norfolk Herald thus relates it:
Burns, the fugitive, while here, on his re.
turn to Richmond, was quite communicative.
He stated that bis leaving Richmond was acci-
dental and not premedtated. He was employed
az stevedore in loading vessel at Rockets,
and after knocking of work for the day Law
down in the hold and soon fell asleep, having
no idea that the vessel had finished loading.
but supposing he would be cmpioyed on board
again on the next day. he walked up some
time after, and finding the hatch closed, called
out TO be released from bis confinement, which
J was done i was in the night, and be was