Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-24

alias AbOlitionism.
On last Friday evening the news was
received here that the Black Republican
fusion had carried Pennsylvania by 1000
majority. This was made the signal Of
the widest exultation and rejoicing by
the Fillmore meu of this place. They
threw up their caps and hurraed discor-
dant yells for Fillmore and the Wings in
the most extravagant style. We heard
the report J." more in sorrow than in an
ger" and supposed that our regrets would
be shared by our entire population. We
imagined that there were no Fillmore
men in Virginia. with sympathies for the
black flag Of niggerism or its friends,
sufficiently strong to weep when they
weep and rejoice when they rejoice. But,
alas ! we were doomed to sad disap-
pointment. While they were making the
night hideous with demoniacal yells. it
it was suggested by by-stander that
"this was not u Fillmore victory" the re.
ply from leaders was, that they did not
care-Me Buchanan party aOas 6euten. and
they PREFERRED Fremont or ANY BODY
ELSE to him. Great God is it possible,
that men in Virginia, pretending 10 be
national and conservative. prefer Fremont
to Buchanan "Tell it not in Gath
publish it not in the streets of Askalon,"
that Virginians are not only ready and
willing, but do strike hands with, and en-
brace as brothers, those who declare that
" the Constitution IS q covenant 10ith death,
and an agreement q0itA HELL!"--that they
clasp hands with Fremonters on the altar
of mad fanaticism, and say with Joshua
R. Giddings:
- look forward to the day when there
shall be SerViIe fnSurrection in the South;
when the black man, armed with British
b0yonets, and led ON by British officers,
shall assert his freedom, and wage a war
of determination against his master when
The TORCH of tie incendiary shall light up tile
t00ns and cities of tie South, and blot out
the last vestige of slavery. And though
| may not mock at their calamity, nor
laugh when their fear cometh, get 1 aviI
hail 1t as The damn Of political miIsnni>
un1.'
1t is said that the graduations Of hui
man in6rmity are slow in their progress
that the approaches to moral death are
apparently innocent and unalarming-
that
81 ViCo il n Of F,,1 ,o;D
AS to be hated, needs but be seen
But seen too oft, familiar to the face,
We first endure, then PITY, then EMBRACE :"
and this seems to have been the fate of the
Know'Nothings Of this place. They first
espoused the cause OF a party which had
sprung from the hot. bed Of abolitionism,
gilded with protested nationality. That
party by slow approaches has put on the
worst garb of fanatical disunion, and
though many have smelt the danger afar
off and rushed to the rescue of our below
ed confederacy, still there are many who
shout hozannas to a Fremont victory,
even in Virginia,-the State that claims
at their hands tilial and INDY ing protec-
ton. and they prefer Fremont, the STAN
dard bearer of the wildest-the maddest
fanaticism, to Buchanan, the champion of
States rights, the Constitution, and the
laws. But thank God those who en-
dorse these damnable doctrines, do not
the majority among US. It is
only the " Goddess and Christless'' who
shout peans to abolitionism, and may we
not, in charity, utter for them the invoca-
ton of " him who spake as never man
'Pake." Father forgive them. for they
;n0U not aOha! they do !'