Washington sentinel., 1854-06-25
ABOLITION CALUMNIEs--"DIssO
TION OF THE UNION.n

Y. AAoIN Or AAAAA cINAoVSs
We have never met with a more barefaced
and unblushing calumny than is contained in
the following paragraph from the Detroit EUen
ing Tribune:
"Since the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise and the rendition Of Burns, the south have
been more boisterous than ever in favor of a
dissolution Of the Union. The howl they have
sent up is almost deafening. But it. will scarce
y accomplish the object for which it has been
raised. Their object is to frighten the north
from their determination, not only to restore
the compromise and repeal the fugitive slave
law, but to resist all further aggressions. The
game cannot work; it has been tried too +often,
and its hypocrisy tested. The southern people
would turn pale at the very first serious at
tempt to dissolve the Union, and would beseach
the north as piteously to save them from their
own wicked folly, as they now bully and blus.
ter loudly for what they call their rights. The
greatest calumny that could possibly befall the
southern States, would be separation from
the north. They would. before five years. fall
a prey to the vengeance of their own slaves, as
did the white population of Hayti, and in the
end become mere dependency of the northern
portion of the confederacy. We should not
only protect their chattles when escaping to US
ZOE refuge, Dub we SuOulu, III TIC elu3 euleT
their territory, declare liberty to the captive,
and arm them against their oppressors."
This is perfectly in character with abolition
ism. Unscrupulous, insolent and unprincipled,
it occupies all its faculties in fabricating IN
truths, and really tells so many contradictory
and inconsistent stories that it may be said
that the bane and the antidote 60 along to-
gether.
The Tribune, if it has any intelligence, GER
tainly cannot expect its assertions to chal-
lenge the credence Of any man with one spark
of intellect. 1t is somewhat singular that it
did not consider the doctrine of probabilities
before it published its ridiculous story.
The south was in favor of the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise. The south was in favor
Of the enforcement of the fugitive slave law in
the case Of Burns Then it does not stand to
reason that the south should be {" more bois-
ferrous than ever in favor of dissolution of
the Union,n because of those two things. How
and where did the Tribune derive its informa-
ton? Where is the man or the paper in the
south that is demanding the dissolution of the
Union? We know of none-not one, and yet
this abolition Detroit paper declares that their
howls for dissolution are "almost deafening"
We will not sit down gravely to count the
cost of this Union. We will not speculate as
to which section of the confederacy derives the
greatest benefit from it, or which would be the
most powerful and the most independent with
out it. We sincerely hope that our Union vii
be perpetual, and that all parts and sections
viii enjoy, in an equal degree, the benefits il
was designed to confer.
The only cry of disunion that now startles
the country, emanates from those bad men and
wretcbed fanatics and fools who hate the Con
stitution because it protects the rights of mas
tiers. They curse the Union, and blasphe
mously pray for. its disruption. This is their
daily and nightly employment.
Nor are we disposed, as does the Tribune
| to institute comparison between the courage
Of northern and southern men. That they are
both brave and patriotic, is sufficiently estab
lished by the many battles they have conjointly
fought. But for the Detroit Tribune, or the
New York Tribune, or any other abolition pa
per to speak Of abolition courage, is simply
absurd. When was an abolitionist ever known
to face real danger with manly courage? Point
out that unknown anomaly, an abolitionisl
who has distinguished himself in battle, or in
man to man encounter. Theodore Parker
and Wendell Phillips are fair specimens of abo'
lition courage. They set on q mob in Boston
and then went to the police Of that city to
claim protection for themselves and their prop
erty. That is abolition courage. This aboli
ton courage is very different thing from the
courage of the good and the true men of the
north. These latter respect and love their
brethren of the southern States, and they cour
ageously and generously come to their aid