Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-12-21
eastern Gimfs,
BATH, DECEMBER 81, 1854.
The Abolition Tribune.

Inc ADonJi0n ITlDune.
Our neighbor writhes dreadfully under oul
charge of abolitionism, and although evident
ly letting himself down from the Garrison
principle he has mounted, because he begins
to feel forebodings that he cannot make his
disunlon sentiments go down in this city,
yet he continues to fire away his abolition
thunder at half charges. In an article on
"Sectionalism, great ado is made because
the Tribune is charged with advocating sec
tional doctrines, which amounts to nothing
more than an acknowledgement of the charge
with an attempt at palliation.
In the article referred TO, the writer could
not forego another insult to the South, as fol-
lows.:-ssTHe South eUer has directed her eCery
esaergy 20 selfaggrandi@encrt at the expense of
morality and Justice-all the favor of govern
ment, ordained for the good of all and sup
ported by the labor of all, is bestowed upon
the few to the exclusion of the many-abuses
are perpetuated for year after year, until they
arc hardened into the framework of society,""
Now the above declaration is untrue in ev
cry respect. From the day Of the pledging
the lives, the fortunes and the sacred honor of
the siguers of the declaration of independence,
the South has been true to her pledges. In
stead of directing her every energy to self
aggrandizement, she has nobly consented to
furnish the means for the rise and aggrandlze-
ment of the commercial marts of the North.
She has patroniZed Northern manufactures,
schools and merchants. She has filled the
holds of Northern vessels with her products
and the pockets of Northern ship-owners with
the rich avails of her carrying trade. And
all this, when the South could have sustained
her own manufactures, schools and merchants,
and built and sailed her own ships. Does
this look like "directng every energy to self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ~ But the Tribune, after
making this false declaration, is not satisfied
but accuses the South of aggrandizing herself
at the expense Of morality and justice. Here
probably is a reference TO slavery. Were not
a majority Of the 'original thirteen" slave
states when the compact was formed, and was
it any part of that compact that slavery should
be abolished! Was not the compact then
formed, according to the reasoning of the Tri-
bune. at the expense of morality and justice,
and why does not the writer 60 the whole fig
ure and come out against the Constitution, be-
cause it was formed at the expense of morali-
ty and Justice That is the Garrison doc
trine, and the Tribune is as near TO it as il
dares to be in this community, we say it to
the credit of Bath.
The South aggrandizing herself at the ex-
pense of morality and justice Look at the
recent revelations made of the participation Of
a Northern port in the piratical slave trade
What do you think Of Northern morality and
justice
1t is outrageous that here in Bath a paper
protesting to represent the commercial inter-
ests of this city, supported by ship owners who
have amassed their thousands by the nldgnan-
unity of the South, should fall TO abusing our
Southern brethren as though they were pick
pockets, and fix the groundwork Of that abuse,
too, upon downright falsehood. Shame
Not satisfied with deserving all there was
that was valuable in the wing party, regard
for the Constitution and the Union, the great
and glorious principles of the noble Clay and
Webster, this renegade sheet joins hands with
the enemies of the Constitution, who call the
glorious instrument a compact with hell. II
has rushed pell neil into sectionalism, disun-
ion and abolitionism, and there it flourishes in
the mud, weekly libelling our community and
uttering its mad anathemas against the South.
1t is under the editorial control of an abolition
sprig of the first water, who draws his pay
from the pockets of our citizens, and then sets
TO work to abuse the source whence has arisen
much of our prosperity and wealth as city.
Is this what the citizens Of Bath employ him
to do