Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-04-11
From the Detroit Free Press
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Ferocity of AbolitIonism.
Sharpes rifles are an article in the creed of the ne
gro-worshirpers-a plank in their platform They
arm their missionaries 10 Kansas, not with Bibles
but with incendiary abolition publications and Shapes
rifles They declare their determination to aboli-
tonize Kansas by force of Sharpe's rifles and not
only this, but it was seriously proposed in black
| republican "Kansas aid " meeting at lbany, the
other day, to attack slavery in the States with Shape's
| rifles We quote from speech delivered at that
meeting by Gerrit Smith:
"Tbere was one thing he (Smith) regretted to
hear-that of the leaders of the free State par
| tv] in Kansas will not resist, &c. But they must
! resist, and tce must stand BY them.
:" Would you obey the fugitive slave bill There
may be men with souls so mean that they would do
so But there few such in part OF the State
for rescued Jerry and waLked him oUer that infa-
| nous act TO freedom
| Would that scme of our statesmen of the North,
who enjoy largely The popular favor, acould declare
right out that Slavery has no rights II they would,
slavery would soon become powerless. Many, North
and South. ready des roy slavery, If bold
men 1could but begin the Srork.
q" His respected friend. Gov. Chase, of Ohio, had
recently a noble opportunity; when the kidnapperS
came to take back those fugitives. he should have
called out the State militia and compelled The kdnap-
pers go back Kentucky, hare shot them dotVn."
Behold the doctrine Resistance in KSnsas; nu.
li6cation If the fugitive slave law by force; an un-
qualified declaration that slavery has rights, and
that it should be destroyed, also by force The en-
ployment of the Stale militia by abolition governors
to I" shoot down all southern men who seek 10
claim fugitives. Behold the doctrine!
This meeting at which these doctrines were enun-
ciated held in the capital of the State of New
York. 1t was not an assemblage of Garrison fana.
tics but of leaders of the black republican Seward
party Among the subscriptions was of one
hundred dollars by the Albany Evening Journal and
another of the same amount by the Albany Register
the former Stewards recognized organ, and The lat
ter lately bought up by the Seward interest Gerrit
IL lo1I~
Delevan one thousand "Peter G. Webster, of Fort
Plain,n contributed "-a Sharpe's rife" Mr. Ham
mond subscribed the price of rifle" and Mr.. Nor
throp promised a " rifle )" and the Argus says the
donations of the night characterized for ri
fes.
Does the reader want other proof of The atrocity
of abolitionsm :? We have it at hand In the Sem
ate, on Thursday, one of the Senators having read
extract from an English paper in which this Ian.
guage was used If we have not Richard Ceur
de Lion, we have one name which will carry liberty
to millions, and the emancipation, by force Of arms,
of the slaves of the American States will be
ted to the end of all time with that Lying of
freedom, Victoria "-Mr. Butler, of South Carolina,
said:
81 feel that it is an act of justice, in connection
with the extract which my friend has read from the
British print arocious it s-and the very recital
of lis falsehoods makes my blood boil-to say that
have seen in a newspaper in the United States hav-
ing, it is said, extensive circulation than any
other, a statement scarcely less atrocous than the
one which he has read from the English newspaper.
know of no part Of the United States which would
join more heartily in maintaining the honor of the
common Conederacy than the southern States; but,
at the very time when is threatened, read in a
newspaper sent to me the other day-sen to me, per-
haps, because it feared that otherwise | would
not read it-a statement that war with Great Brit
ain would have other results than those which have
been contemplated in the maintenance of treaties
and that result would be that the Virginia capes,
the Carolina shores, and all the southern would
be open the enemy's ships that there could not be
found ten thousand fighting among the effem-
nate owners of slaves; but that fifty tn ousand we'll
armed, trained and disciplined soldiers could be
brought together in short time to put down their
masters, and thus effect the liberation of this class of
people
per from which my friend from Mississippi has read,
would not put in comparison with it one who claims
the name of brother; can meet an open enemy
but in the case of one who claims the relation of
brother, and utlers such sentiments would rather
see him burnt in a bonfire OF his papers than
undertake to countenance him. have no doubt that
the English paper, in some measure, got It's nforma-
tion from the paper to which | allude. My friend
from Mississippi has indicated spirit TO 'inain
The honor of this country, and the South enertans
much of that spirit any other portion of The
Union and yet, at the very time when we are mani
Testing it. newspaper from England is quo ed de.
riving have no doubt, its information from the
newspaper to which | have alluded, which has one
States"
We need moi suggest The title of The paper to which
Mr.. Butler alluded 1t must occur to every reader.
1t is the leading black republican journal in the Uni
ted States. 1t gives shape far mole than any half
dozen of lis negroworshipping cotemporares 10 the
policy of the negro worshippers' party.
We see what that policy is. 1t is force. 1t the
force of 1t is The ncarnate spirit of bloodshed
1t is war-cvil wdr-hat fraternal collision which
brings brother in deadly conflict, and arrays father
against son.