Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-19
Insinc erity of Abolitionism

How often do we hear abolitonists asser
that they have no desire to ointerfere with slave
~ in the States. Yet listen to their cham
pion, THEODORE PARKER. In his discourse
delivered at the Tabernacle, New York, hS
grapples with the details of the question, and
thus sums up the hopes and expectations thai
influence the minds and animate the exertions
of Anti-slavery
| say, then, that things look promising now
But we must have unity of idea, or else there
can be no unity of action. We have walked
together until we have come to point where
the ways diverge and turn at right angles
One leads to Freedom and Democracy, and
the other to Slavery and Despotsm. We
have now got to part, or else we have got
to lose ALL
Now, there are three WAYS of settling this.
First, we can settle it though dissolution
of the Union. do not suppose this nation
will hold together hundred years. This
great family of men, the Teutonic and Anglo
Saxon, has got an intense love of individual
liberty. 1t has likewise a great federative
power. 1t likes the organization of people
into separate States, each keeping its own
Constitution. Itnever likes the consolidation
of men into a great empire. A nation never
forgets its chronological tendencies, and De
heye that there will be a great number OF
Republics. There will be one,
/ believe, in the Pacific, one in Central Amer
lea, and the great Republic, as it now exists,
may be divided, though l do not see any like
hhood of its being divided at the present time.
Depend upon 1t, sOhen the North gets her temper
up high enough to dissolve the Uraon, instead of
adopting that neas,n e, she anil say to the South
Please God, zoe haze walked together so long,
and you have annoyed and disturbed as all this
time noa0, free every negro slave" I tell you,
the South s0iH not separate, b,t s0iH at once abol
ish slavery.
Nor does he stop here. He lays down the
programme of Southern humiliation and
marks out step by step, the path to be trod-
den. 1st. Slavery is to be abolished in the
District of Columbia. I'd. The slave trade
between the States 3d. 1t is to be declared
that " no stakeholder shall eve- hold office under
the general government" and this he thinks
will cause great quaking of hearts at the
South, as there is one principle Southerners
are much attached to in the Government that
of the loves and fishes" Mr. Parker saws
that so soon as this declaration is made, a. de-
pend upon it, slavery will cease to be as re-
spectacle as it is now." From which it will
be seen that Mr.. Parker puts a very moderate
estimate upon Southern chivalry. 4th. The
Supreme Court of the United States is to be
abolished and differently constituted, l. e. abo-
litionized. As consequence the fugitive
slave law is to be abolished as unconstitution-
al. 9Th. The stigma of anti-republicanism is
to be affixed to the institution, and 9th. the
grand finale, 1--WE are to declare, that at GER
tain period, say fifteen gears, slavery shall ut
terly cease in every slave State" This is the
programme. The Union Of the present Re-
publics is to be preserved, but slavery is to be
abolished. Not even the alternative of seces-
sion To be allowed.