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

ABOLITION pELusross-No. /.

Fanacsm is exaggeraton Of the TRUTH al least has
truth in il but aboitonsm is e and unmixed,
uuredeemed delusion without possibility of truth in IT,
Indeed il a lie twice told and made up Of two deu-
sons odd enough without necessary eonuexion
between them First II IL utterly ignorant Of the negro
Of his capacities his wants his natureand therefore what
is necessary for his webeng; and in the second place
assumes him to be what he is MOTTO wit white man
and then goes work to reduce this absurd assumption to
fact
Each and every form Of exisencehuman as well as an
imalhas Its own capacies--instncts- which II
must be permitted live out it dies Even the deluded
ahotons himself would admit the folly OF pretending
TO know the Of plant animal of which he was
utterly ignorant and the cruelty Of compelling such ami
NAL trying compel such animal to manifest the quail
tiles OF some other animal which he did know. For exam
pie; il some abolitionis who had bulldog
assume because he dog that he bad the
nalureindeed was in fact greyhound and thus should
undertake TO make it manifest the faculties OF sight
specific and peculiar TO the hound what would his
brethren say of such folly and cruelty and indeed wick
edness? What outrage humanity TO force, seek
to force the child TO perform the duties of adult life the
woman to fulfil those Of the other sex2 How plain and
unmakable the eternal law stamped BY the band of Om-
impotence all the forms of being, human well ami
mai that each has its faculties its own wants. and
destined 10 fulfil its allotted purpose
The social organization of the South in conformity TO
this apervadng and eternal law. Seven millions Of white
millions of different and subordinate raceand they
adapt their municipal and social regulations to this fact,
to the nature and wants of this well their
and thus from the and necessity of things the ut
good is secured to both the inferior negro
as well as to the superior white man.
It is necessary to inquire how, when, why
these negroes negroesndeed, it is eternay hidden
from mortal inquiry but the fact is Southern
know, from their daily expeencethe daily evidence OF
their as well their reasonha they negroes
and white men; that they have inferior capacities
and different wants; in short they know, however APP
proxmang they have, nevertheless different nature
from their They know this just positively they
know any thng-any material fact whatever just they
know that greyhound is greyhound, and not bull
dog though both dogs; they know pigeon IS
pig con- and robin, though both birds; they
know child is child and not man, though both are
human; and thus knowing this negro to be negro, and
awhite man, and fixed eernally by the hand of ma
in subordinate position they adapt their institutions
the nature and wants Of this negro well as their
own.
These millions of white at the South are, po-
caly considered PROFESSIONALLY advanced than
any other portion of people and centuries in advance
of Europe They have investigated the whole subject Of
political, and social, and individual rights deeply
and thoroughly, and understand them clearly,
than any other millions of the face of the
earth They the authors the propagandsts the very
apostles of the democratic creed They the founders
of our political system, and in all party contests have
been invariably and without exception the advocates and
leaders Of the largest liberty and the most unbpunded
freedomin trade in currency in short in everything
that enlarged the sphere of individual independence wi
dened the circle Of democracideas and yet wonderful and
strange indeed these these southern democrats these
Washingtons and eIsons and Jacksons of the South,
who for seventy years have led the vanguard of democracy
in the New World said to be- and believed to be- them
selves the enemies Of freedom and have been ali this time
the oppressors of millions of saves What stupendous
contradiction, or what stupendous deluson!
But is il possible? Can a be- at the moment,
sincere advocate of freedom and oppressor of slaves
The sincerity of these southern men, these Cahouns and
Jacksons one, the abolitionis win doubt
II is written every page of history and it is still
wildly impressed the great heart of the demo-
cratic masses Northas well South and TO doubt a
feet doubt its sincerity to charge the southern dem
with practising system OF deception, is absurd
charge the early Christian martyrs with secretly
Using the old rites and old receptions of paganism
But whence this charge OF wrong and oppression
the Sonh-tbis utterly absurd and impossible assnmp
ton that the advocates and exponents of freedom
themselves tyrants and oppressors OF slaves Why, it
comes from ',he voice of the civilized word"that is it
the echo of the tools and panderes of European
arehsrom the advocates and defenders of British aris-
tocracy The monarchiss of Europethe bitter and
lgnant enemies of freedom of freemen OF democratic
ieasthe oppressors thousand years. and their mis-
cradle oosake this charge of oppression against the
Soutl-ths vile assumption, this measurecss lie that
southern democrats uphold system OF oppression and
then orsooh who have turned the Old World into vast
prson-house and transformed nnumerabe millions of men
as good as themselves into abect savesy set themselves
up the champions of freedom, and proclaim their nten
ton to abolish slavery everywhere This is the most
stupcndous contradiction of all To charge that Jefferson
and Madison and Macon and Jackson that the democrats
of the South been all this time eoppressors OF slaves
and sustaining system of wrong and OPPRESSION would
seem to be the limit Of human inhuinan audacy
but for Wilberorce and Pitt aud old Dr. Johnson, and
George III and Louis Bonaparte to set themselves up
the cham pons of freedom the standard bearers of the
great of liberty and humanity is something alto
ceher You'd the capacity Of mortal endurance to listen
to- And yet every northern democrat who admits that
southern society is wrong oppression, is forced o
this exact concusionhat Pitt and the miserable tory
bgo Wiberforce who voted seize not inferior negroes
London manace Them to drag them in chains aboard
ships not engage in peaceful industry in Cuba but to
fight French and American republicans to give their blood
to crush out libertythat such vile wretch really
champion of freedom and the glorious old jackson an OPP
pressor and uphoder OF slavery
There is no possibility of avoiding these conclusions
Every democrat who accepts the theories OF aboonism
who says negro slavery is wrong in the absfroct-wbo
whines over it ms an "eviwho scods the abolitionist
for having the day of universal emancipation
Of having thus played into the hands of Shareholders
sion that the Sutherlands and SANKEY'S and Pitts are
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