Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-20
THE CHARACTER OF ABoLITIoNIsM.

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We can scarcely say which are most to be
pitied the abolition Preachers, Editors, and
Politicians, or the abolition masses who derive
from them their ideas, information, politics,
and religion. The first are objects Of com
misseration on account of their reckless profit
gacy, and total depravity--the last on account
Of their almost idiotic credulity. The first
manufacture, without any regard to truth, feel
ing, or decency, such stories, rumors, and
frauds as they think will help the abolition
cause, and the last swallow them down greedily
without any further inquiry into their correct
ness. So accustomed are these poor deuded
creatures to hear abolition preachers and
speakers, and to read abolition papers-so
habituated are they to hear and read denuncia
tons OF southern men, that they look upon
them as tyrants, brutes, and blood.suckers.
No doubt many of the young children who are
learning their first lessons in abolitionism from
delectable picture books, representing slaves
as chained, burned at the stake, scourged to
death, and chopped into mince-meat - No
doubt We say, that many of these artless in.
nocents religiously believe that southern people
eat young negroes warm for dinner, cold for
supper, and hashed for breakfast They are
taught to loath, abhor, and hate all slave
owners, and all who live in slaveholding States.
The credulous abolition masses never see
southern papers or associate with southern
people. The abolition Teachers and Editors
cram them with the most horrible falsehoods
they can invent about the cruelty of ma1Dsrs
and the sufferings Of slaves
Language cannot convey any adequate idea
of the baseness, the corruption, the meanness,
and the abandoned profigacy of these aboli-
ton teachers and editors. At the head of them
is the New York Tribune, close behind are the
Erening Post and the Albany alias. Some of
these papers repudiate the name of abolitionst,
and assume the miider appellation of Freesoiler.
But they are all alike corruptand unprincipled.
They cannot tell tie truth. 1t is their business
to scatter falsehoods all over the country.
When convicted of falsehood, as some of them
are every day, they regard it no more than the
Blowing of the wind. They never correct any
of their Misrepresentation, mistatements, and
falsehoods. They know that the corrections of
them by other journals will never be seen by
one tenth of their own readers Their object
is to make mischief and as they can only &C.
copplish that object by falsehoods, they stick
to those falsehoods.
TO make complete abolition propaganda,
man must be either crazy land all of the
more decent sort are) or altogether destitute
of truth, honor, courage, and manlness. He
must be mean, sneaking, pitiful creature,
without one single element that enters into the
character of gentleman. He must lie, and
not be ashamed when detected; he must
SANDER, and glory in his dishonor. Before
man in his full senses can be an aboltionist,
he must abandon the Bible, abandon the Con.
stituton, and abandon patriotism. When he
does these things. all other things are but
minor matters, that he very easily and natu-
rally falls into. No one who does not con.
stantly read the abolition newspapers, and as
constantly read in other journals the evidences
of their frauds, forgeries, falsehoods, misrepre-
sentations, and misstatements, can form an
adequate estimate of their total want of prin-
ciple. They really seem to be incapable of
telling the truth. The boIdest and most reck.
less of them all is the Tribune; the most
sneaking, insidious, and contemplate, is the
Albany Atlas.