Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-30
WHERE ARE THE "LOsT TRIBES" OF
ABOLITIONIsM.

ABOLITIONIsM.
Learned and inquisitive minds have cxer-
cised themselves in ingenious speculations as
to the "lost tribes,' and many very plausible
| theories have been given to the world with the
view of calculating the mystery connected with
them. The lost Pleiad has perplexed sage as
tronomers. Stricken from its high place in
the heavens, heaven only knows where it has
gone. A grave question was raised some few
years back as to the whereabouts ofone "Milly
McPherson,' to which, up to this very hour,
nothing but hollow and unsubstantial echo has
responded.
But, in the last few weeks, gfaver question
than that referring to the mysterious Milly has
arisen to perplex the curious and contound the
inquisitive. 1t is-What has become of the
Abolitionists? But few short months ago
they were bowling like an army Of hungry
wolves. Press and pulpit resounded with their
clamors. They were as thick in the free States
as the locusts Of Egypt. But they have sud-
denly ceased their horrid uproar and become
as scarce as Indians in the white settlements.
They have gone like the mist from the noun
tain, and melted like the SHOWS in the ocean.
Where are they? The men that composed
them have not died out; for nation, as they
claimed to be, does not disappear in the space
of few months. The answer, we think, is
easy.
They are not in the Democratic party, for
that party has no place for such people. But,
having failed in their crusade against Nebraska,
they have hid themselves in the Wing and
Know,nothing organizations Of the North. 1t
is unnecessary to discuss this question at length
and in detail. 1t may be satisfactorily solved,
by referring to one State as an illustration
Every body knows that Massachusetts was as
thoroughly Abolitionized as any State in the
Union. Yet, at the last election in that State,
the new secret political society swept over 1t
like wild fire. Ittriumphed over all opposition.
Scarcely a man of any other party was SO for
tunate as to succeed. 1t is in vain 10 say that
the Abolitionists and Free.soilers had died out
in the course ola few weeks 1t is equally abb
surd to say that these Abolitionists and Free
sellers had changed their opinions, given up
their fanatcisms and renowned their heresies.
They are still in Massachusetts they are still
Abolitioniss and Free-soilers, let them act
with whichever party they may. Like the
leopard, an Aboltionist can not change his
spots like the Ethiopian, he cannot change
his skin.
They have but skulked. They have hid
themselves in the new and secret order, SO that
they may deceive the South and seduce un-
wary Southern men into an alliance with them.
They have long enough tried open warfare.
They have long enough tried clamor. Nor is
it surprising that they should now avail them
selves of seeresy and reserve. But it may be
said that they have not hid themselves in the
secret order. If So we would respectfully in
quire-W Where, then, are they?
We are aware that some of the more furious
and unthinking Abolitionists have made war
on the new order, and they would make war on
anything in their blind and headlong fury. But
these miserable remnants of the anti-Nebraska
fanatics can easily be pointed out. Where are
the rest of them, if they have not hid themselves
behind the masked batteries of the secret foe
That is the question. {.