Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-12
For the State Sentinel.

mas become acquainted with the doctrines
taught by Abolitionists, must feel and know
that such doctrines are Numerically opposed
to the Constitution of the United States and
to the spirit of the laws and institutions, we,
as people and a nation, live under.
If Abolitionism is right, the Constitution
and laws we live under, are wrong The
success therefore, of Abolitionism, must be
the overthrow Of the Constitution, and of
our present form of government. The more
Intelligent and consistent Abolitionists admit
the fact, and they have come out boldly and
as honorable revolutionists, and admit and
contend that the Constitution is the great
prop and bulwark of slavery; that it is a
"league with the Devil" and say, down
with it." Such independent and bold men
deserve far more praise than the sneak, the
hvpocrite. or the fool, who embraces doctrines
without seeing or rejecting where they will
lead him, OF if seeing has not the honesty |
or independence to openly avow them.
At the time of the adoption of the Cunsti- |
tuition of the United States-slave States
were thought worthy Of being admitted into
the Union = indeed, nearly all these were
Slave States : and the Yankees, having at
that time a fondness for the dollars and
cents, and still have, desired clause inserted
into the Constitution for their special benefit,
giving them twenty years, to engage in and
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the defendants of their pious sires, having no
more pecuniary interest in Slaves = now
contend that no State whose Constitution re-
cognizes Slavery, shall be admitted in the
Union? Why not admit such State Is
there any thing in the Constitution to pre-
vent such States being admitted? Certainly
not Why then the exclusion? Is 1t be-
cause the people of one State, in their own
estimation are better than those of another
State? Yes, that is the reason. The Adolf
tionists of the Free States have become very
pious of late-a great deal better than their
fathers-they are a great deal better than
their Southern brethren, who, as well as
themselves, assisted with their blood, in gain
ing the liberties we enjoy. The Constitution
gives and guarantees to every citizen of the
United States equal rights. What right then
have she people of one section, to say to
those of another section, in substance, we are
better than YOU? ave will take from you
your property, or pass laws to make 1t worth
less-we will surround you, as it were, with
what we call wall of freedom and make
you our prisoners" ''Yea, we will thus keep
you beseiged and imprisoned, as it were, I'M
till we force you to starvation, or until we
make you free your Slaves" "All these
things we expect to do and accomplish, by
admitting into the Union no more Slave
States, and in passing an act of Congress pro-
hibiting the selling or removing Of Slaves from
one Slave State in and to that of another
Slave State" Such in brief is the substance
of the doctrines advocated by Abolitionists.
: Now, does any sane man believe that the
people of one half of this Union will submit
tamely and quietly to such inequality and
insults? No, never.
If it is right to refuse State admission,
because its Constitution sanctioned Slavery,
would it not be right to turn out of the Union
all the Slave States? The truth IS, if Adolf
= tionism is not checked and ia allowed to gel
the ascendancy, it will either drive the South
to secession, or the North, being abolition,
will secede from the South If such re-
suit could only be brought about, no doubt
! the Abolitionists would be perfectly delight
, ed. Soon, however, in case of dissolution
of the Union, the North and the South
} would be at war-the people would be OF
course heavily taxed to support such wars
Railroads, school houses, churches &c, would
cease to be built-the South would not let
the Yankees have cotton to keep their fac
tories going, nor would they buy shoes, hats,
clothes, agricultural implements, or any of
the thousand things they are now in the habit
Of buying of the North. In the end the
North might whip and conquer the South
and set all the Slaves free, alter which event
the negroes Of the South would naturally fly
u
of the North, when a general jubilee and
intermingling of the races would take place,
and the millennium, perhaps, would come, or
peradventure it would not, for the free slaves
might forget to work, and become, in many
cases tax on the whites; or perhaps, they,
having never before been paid any wages for
their labor, save food and clothing, they
might work at very reduced prices, which
would of course put dOt0a poor lOhite labor IN
the free States. After all these things should
have taken place, yet would the black be a
slave-not slave under the law but slave
to custom and the laws that govern society
The name of the rose would be changed, yet
it would smell not the sweeter" A mere
change of the condition of the slave is not
what should be desired; but it should be the
lettering Of the condition Of the poor slaUe; that
is what every good mali should have at heart
How is that to be accomplished, is the great
question involved in the whole subject? Is
there any mental and physical difference be-
tween the two races, which produces a natu-
raj instinct of dislike and unfitness for each
others society on terms Of equality? Ifthere
is, then the best advice we can give the
blacks, is to advise them to separate from the
whites who, if from no other cause, being in
the majority, must ever be the masters or
rulers of the blacks. If such is the case let
every philanthropist then go in for COLOMBIA
ton, which will be to the blacks freedom in
deed and in truth
1t is strange that Aboltionists should on.
pose emancipation, and also say so little of
the wrongs inflicted by the whites on the
free blacks of the free States. 1t would seem
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