Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-02

US OF our lnSltutlODS, were 10 ldiu on our SnOrtS
and be thrown for while only with aboli-
tionists, and were to read none but abolition
papers, he would be forced to the conclusion
that the people of tie United States are the
most unhappy people on the globe. He would
think that of all curses slavery is the greatest
of all creatures slaves are the most tormented,
and Of all tyrants, the shareholders of the south
are the most cruel. Nor would he stop there
lanthropists the abolitionists are the greatest.
He would commit four as great mistakes as
were ever committed. When so fortunate as
to get out from among the abolitionists, he
would find, first, that our people are the hap
piest on earth, that shareholders are among
the kindest of benefactors, that slaves are, of
all laboring classes, the most contented, and
that the aboltionists are, of all created things,
the most rancorous, malignant, selfish, and
heartless.
We feel such scorn for abolitionists, we
have SO low an estimate of their intellects and
their morals, that we would cheerfully abstain
from any notice of them, if they would let us
do SO. But that they will not do. They keep
themselves constantly before the public. They
force themselves into the capitol of the nation;
they thrust themselves into the churches they
assemble in public meetings; they fill the
presses that they control with their speeches,
mons, essays and resolutions. They print books
and tracts for children and seek by such means
to distil the poison of abolition into the youth
full mind. five write of them, it is not because
the theme is pleasant but because, their
schemes, tricks, and frauds call for constant
exposure.
Abolitionists pretend to be patriots, but mark
the difference between the two. 1t is as Hy-
perion to Satyrl
Every man knows what patriotism means,
although unfortunately there are those who
have never felt its high and generous impulses.
1t is noble affection that rises above self,
above the home circle, above sections, and
above classes, and comprehends in its interest
and its love a whole country. 1t will gladly
make sacrifices for that country. Abolition
ism is its opposite. What black is to white.
What the nadir is to the zenith-so is aboli-
tionism to patriotism. The patriot would give
peace and contentment to the people. He
would bind them all together in the bonds Of
affection and brotherhood. The abolitionist on
the contrary would sow the seeds of strife and
discussion. He would only have one and that
black brotherhood. He would only benefit one,
and that his own section. He loves divisions and
dissensions. He not only carries them into poll
tics but he carries them into the church. Almost
every church in the country has been invaded,
divided, and distracted by this fell spirit. 1t
has made the rights Of property an element of
religion. 1t has even gone so far as to make
religion q civil institution to ascertain and
fix the rights of property. 1t declares that
the religious citizen Of the south, who owns
with the immaculate aboitionist who does not
own a slave. 1t has split churches, that like
our government were general, and bounded
them by Mason and Dixon's line. Yet it has
the hardihood to charge, that those who oppose
its infamous doctrines are sectional.
These remarks are drawn from us by an
article in the Worcester Spy, which manfests
towards the southern portion of this confede.
racy, rancorous malignity that is no less
surprising than unjust Amongst good
many other things, the Spy declares that un-
less the south loves the institutions of educa-
ton and religion, as zoe hare them IN Ne,c Eng
land, there cannot exist between the south and
us 1.-THE north) one element of that sentiment
Of fraternity and union, which we call patriot
ISM" The plain meaning Of which is that the
south must join the abolitionists, or the south
cannot stay in the Union.
To this sentiment the Boston Post replies
as follows:
when Boston was in her deepest distress,
and Massachusetts was in her most agonizing
struggle; when the tories we're prophesying
that there could be no union Of colonies formed
Of such discordant elements when the eyes
Of all the north were bent with the intensest
gaze upon the south for the cheering signs that
all the colonies would make the cause of Bos-
ton the common cause; when things were in