Washington sentinel., 1854-06-08
ABoLITIoNIssI.


ABOLITIONIsM.
The inventive faculties of the freesoilers and
abolitionists are really wonderful. They are
equalled only by the cool audacity and un.
blushing efontery with which they put their
spurious coinage into circulation. 1t really
seems to us that no one can unite with the
freesoilers and abolitionists, until all manli-
ness, all truth, honor, and courage has departed
from him.
All associations and organizations, whether
they be secret or public, require that candi-
date for admission should possess certain quail
fcations to render him eligible-to make him
fit companion of those whom he would herd
with. After due deliberation on multitude
Of facts which have come under our observa
ton, we are convinced that the freesoiers and
abolitionists require that those who would de
scend to their rcompanionship shall have arrived
at that state of mental and moral deformity
which repudiates the distinction between vir-
tue and vice, between truth and falsehood, be-
tween honor and dishonor, and which is willing,
under the guidance of low and corrupt hatred
of the slaves master, to resort to blasphemy
and treason under the guise of a hypocritical
profession Of philanthropy.
We are informed that the guards of the
Boston marshal, who had the custody of the
fugitive Burns, and who beat off the abolition
mob that attempted to rescue him, made up
subscription to buy the negro suit of clothes,
he being filthy and ragged. The old suit was
sent to be washed and mended, and the aboli-
tionists stole them and committed a larceny on
the negro they pretended to pray for in their
churches, and for whom they pretended to be
willing to sacrifice their lives. The truth is,
that the abolitionists care nothing for the negro
race. Their pretended regard for the negro is
based entirely on their actual and intense
hatred for theown of the negro. When they
can injure the owner by stealing his property
and outraging his person, they are fully salts
fed, and would not subscribe q dollar to save
the slave from starvation. This fact was fully
proved when the fugitive law of 1850 first went
into operation. Then many northern citizens
who desired to see the law maintained, sub
scribed literally to purchase the freedom of
slaves who had fled to the nop-slaveholding
States. But the abolitionists refused to unite in
such subscriptions, and if there was single
exception, we have not heard Oft. Such sub
scriptions weuld not tend to further their plan
Of robbing the Shareholders, nor their desire to
gain notoriety by fomenting agitation and ex-
citing violence.
The Boston mob cannot fail to produce be-
neficial results. 1t cannot fail to enlighten the
people of the north as to the real character
and actual designs of abolitionism, and the
infamous measures they are willing to employ.
Wendell Philips and Theodore Parker, after
urging their deluded followers, even to blood
shed, and to the verge treason, as defined by
the Constitution, skulked from the scene OF
action, and trembling with cowardly fear, ap-
pealed for protection to the laws they had out
ragged, and to the officers Of the law against
whom they had turned loose an infuriated
mob.
The people Of Boston must now perceive
that the time has come when they must take
active and efficient measures to put down, de-
stroy, eradicate, and crush out the miserable
crew of demagogues and hypocrites which has
stained the reputation of their city. The in
fanny of the abolition leaders must now be
plain and apparent. The utter disregard of
abolition fanaticism for truth, justice, and legal
restraints has been fully and satisfactorily man
;fastaJ eo tbat fba most cara1eas observer can-
not fail to see and understand them. Hitherto
the sound portion of northern communities
have been torpid and inactive-permitting the
factionists to speak in their name, and to or
'ganize without the fear Of opposing organiza-
tions. The time has now come when decisive
action cannot be longer delayed.
When bad men conspire good men must
unite. Judging from the signs Of the times, the
Nebraska bill will segregate the freesolers and
abolitionists from the masses and drive them
out of the old party organizations. If this
should be the result, then the Nebraska bill
will be great measure, even if nothing more
is effected by it. When the leprous elements
are once drawn up before the people, there is
no further danger. The people win then be
able to distinguish their friends from their
foes, and they will make short work of it.
Freesoilism and abolitionism will be struck
down and trampled under foot at once, and q
pestilent faction supported and sustained main
ly by foreign influence, will be forced to dis
appear from the arena Of party controversy