The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-23

ABOLITION DELUsIoSs.-No. ,.
Neoro SLausrv an Ega.p

been trying 70 conceive plan Tor getting d Of what
they and indeed everybody else have supposed an
erR But all this thinking has been in vain the highest
flights Of genius utterly barren the abstract conoe
ton of such thing impossible True Garrison and his
immediate followers End difficulty in the matter 72y
say abolish it immediately unreseryedly totally and they
are surprised that any should object to what seems
plain and easy themselves. But Garrison lives and
moves in an ideal worldprobably the most completely
OF any man now living and who is not pronounced ALSO
lutely insane
| He SAYS and doubtless believes that black is white
really aud positively that there negroes that It's
prejudice suppose the existence OF such beings
Indeed of his disciples and who in other respects
gentleman of distinguished ability, and recently member
of Congress long since made speech in which he de-
to his audence-who by the way, happened TO
be negroeshe fatal consequences of giving way 10 this
foolish notion and closed his address by the earnest dec
araon that though he should labor with all his might
this prejudice nevertheless as long as 1t did con-
tnue exist he desired them 10 consider himself as ncu
ded in it, or, in other words, matter what Others
thought him called him, that he himself was not white
man--not even a white black white negro--but
| positively and no mistake, negro
Now such people, there is of course, no difficulty in
the premises they logical IN their madness for
if these three millions of negroes in midst were people
like ourselves they should not indeed they could not
be kept in their present condition twenty-our hours.
The most ignorant and abject white population in the
world not Brtshers probably the bestdrled slaves
in Europe could be kept in the condition of these south
ern negroes and if supreme and all-conrollng
power could suddenly translate three millions of such
the South, who does not see viii not see that they
could not be retained in the position of those negroes
single week that the whole system would tumble down
of ITSELF and its very bottom fall out in single day2 In
stead of this however, anything like this what do
witness Why, that southern society ia quiet and
orderly than that the North that it is less
trolled governed b. external artificial material
force of any kind whatever than any society in Christu
DOM and yet tue deluson prevails that this
cey thus quiet and regular thus natural and peaceful
thus governed by natural laws moral force is condi
ton of slavery which implies and indeed which cannot
exist hour without material force.
But outside of the category of extreme deuson no one
conceves plan for getting rid Of negro slaves and OF what
many suppose to be national evil Strange that this
fact does excite the inquirycan 1t be abolished May
it not be normal condition Of things? Is it not nat
raj relation of the equally vital to both2 May it
not be an outrage humanity" to withdraw protection
from the hepess and inferior negro? No onecerainy no
aboonst-asks these questions but blindly, and igno
rany and stupidity shutting his eyes to facts to reality
tho and fitness of things he recklessy drives on
only in total disregard of all the great interests OF
mighty empire but brushes under the wheels OF his huge
Juggernaut deuson the feeble and inferior negro the
very object Of his hdeous and disgusting abor and for
whose benefit supposed benefit he would sacrifice tho
happiness and welfare Of his
The notion Of the aboonist is that slavery is wrong
inflicted on the negro and therefore evil for they say
whatever is wrong is necessarily evil but this notion
has really but little influence the northern mind
The popular instinct is sufficient without any discussion
or enlightenment of the masses to nentraze this
ton of wrong and it may be doubted If the abolition
presshe innumerable racsthe army OF lecturers pen
etrating every nook and of the free Statesthe
vast sums of money contributed by European monarcsts
if indeed all these efforts have made any real impression
on the mind of the North. When think for moment
what it iswhat this grand "anavery enterprise really
meanswhat it proposes to effect or aims to accomplish
we readily why it makes headwny indeed why IN
utter of such result it is all the time
tending itsefthat Is as far AS the honest Amer
can portion of it is concerned
assumes that the negro is white man, who by some
chance or other has had his skin backened, and from
foolish popular prejudice in regard to this color OF his
skin white have made him slave; in short IT holds
the negro in theory to be white and this theory
aims to reduce to fact.
Well the negro, we all see, negro and is not white
man; just pigeon is pigeon and is not robin or
trout and salmon; and therefore, the great
anslavey enterprise undertakes to outstrp nature and
undo the work of the Almighty Such enterprise as
certain learned is fond of designating it. of
course only end in waythat is in the final return TO
common sense and the truth Of things of all those hon
esy deluded though before that time arrives fatal mis-
chiefs may result but far all these have fallen upon the
negro and except the of time in Congress- aboli-
tonism hardly be said to have produced any injury to
the country.
But there is another phase of the same thing that Ia
pregnant with mighty dangers not only to the Union but
republican institutions 1t is the popular notion that
negro slavery is ev--an economical evil well
political contradiction and the whole abolition force of
the country brought to bear in this direction The
great heads and sponsors of the enterprise Palmerston
Stanley Co. lead off in the British Parliament show
that their "systemwhere millions of men, to whom
the Almighty has given the wants and capacities
themselves forced to work for whatever their employ
ers please to give them they put to deaththey
aud their wives and children lay down and dieis
grand System of Freedom" and exceedingly productive
that free labor pays far better than save labor and
their miserable dupes Immediately start the cry Of Gree
so and "irec men, and ee labor in the national Ter
| ritories
| They have too, standing and they suppose
wemng argument in the assumed relative superiority of
the free States they term it. of ree labor ave
labor They contrast Virginia with New York and Penn
sylvana, and Kentucky with Ohio and say look at the
result look the glorious result Of freedom and "ee la
Dor and Stree SOIL when conrased with slavery" and
slave labor and SLAVE soiH Now, it is very evident
that Slavery" freedom "free son or "save sol'
that whatever may be the economical superiority of New
York Virginia Ohio Kentucky it is owing to
the simple and precise that the former has white
population, and the latter has large negro population
thus showing that white mel vastly superior