Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-07-20

OUR NKIeRBoR AND ABoLITIoSIsN.-
Our neighbor. after sleeping two weeks
on the charge we made touching his alb
clifton principles, came out last week
with fat denial that he had ever read
the Porter abolition communication to
negro upon the public streets IN TINS
town. We suppose he bases the denial
upon the principle that no man Is a ne
gro unless he is as black as charcoal,
and to read the communication to mu-
Ilatto. with his way of thinking. is read
limo II to a white man. If he is recon:
Iciled by such notions we think him
tarred with the blackest kind of aboli-
ton stick. We do not blame him for
lsympathizing with the colored race, for
having been publicly cowhided in the
streets of Point Pleasant, he bears mu-
tual scars with the fractions of the col
ored population of Virginia, and his
thoughts and feelings would naturally
revert to them. But for our neighbor
to deny having read the abolition COM
nunication to negro upon the streets
is perfectly absurd, and to bring the
matter to focus we will make this pro
position to him-if he viii publish the
names of all the white men (what he
considers white to whom he read the
abolition document concerning us, we
viii publish the names of all the dar-
keys. If he viii not accept of this pro-
position, as a matter of course he stands
convicted in the eyes of all white men,
other than abolitionists.
The fact is, our neighbor wishes to
keep in the good graces of the Wings,
Democrats and Abolitionists, and to Sc
cure the support of the latter, it will be
remembered that when he received this
Porter abolition communication, he de-
clined publishing it, giving as excuse
that no name accompanied it, and at the
same time made milk -and-water state
ment concerning the insult offered Mr..
Dyas and our severe comments thereon,
which he thought he had made impair
tial. But the cloven foot of abolition
ism stuck out like darkey's heel. In
that article he stated that-he knew no
law to prevent the whites and blacks
from dining at the same table. At the
close of his article he requested the au-
thor of this anonymous Porter aboli-
ton communication to send his real
name, and he four neighbor) would
give his priUdte views upon the subject.
Now how do these tally with the re-
marks in the last Courier-our neighbor
finds that he is caught upon a spring
hook, that he must either throw aside
his abolition principles or stand confes-
sedly an abolitionist in the eyes of eve
ry man of principle. The change is
made in trice--he came out last week
and cut the acquaintance of his Porter
friends as nice as ever pirate
"scuttled ship or cut throat"
But will this cutting of his Porter ac-
quaintances change the man, his nature
or his feelings, or convince the people of
Gallia county that he is not still an abo-
litionist in his heart! The fact is our
neighbor wishes to convince the Demo
Gratis that hei a dyed-in -the-wool Dem
ocrat, the Wings that he is little the
to be found, and the Aboli-
tionists that he can beat the whole tribe
in putting darkeys through upon the un-
derground track, the latter probably
the cause of his short stay in Virginia.
To Judge of an expression in the arti-
Gle alluded to in the last Courier, one
would be led to think our neighbor had
the grit of grindstone in him, but a
greater coward and more slippery man
ian no where be found in Gallia county. +
We have tried him in almost every pos
iible manner and found him wanting in
What constitutes man.
We may next make him eschew his
Democratic principles, after that his
Vhig, and then whittle him down to
harp point and stick him in the ground.
~Lamsrtine & Sullivan have sold
heir Daguerrean Yacht, and we under
tand are about fitting out another.