The daily union., 1856-01-22
THE HYPOCRISY OF ABOLITION SYMPATHY FOR
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that discharged into lis camp by President Perees
sage Il was the terrible because II was unexpected
It's effect Is in the violent and vulgar abuse to which
he has been subjected In the very midst Of the saturna
liza Of anacis when each days proceedings in the House
OF Representatives testified their strength appeal is
made against them which for boldness of attack and for
ygor and eoquence Of argument has seldom been equaed
Coming as 1t did from northern man. emanating from
the Chief Magistrate Of the Union appealing with iesis
ibe earnestness and dignfed ealmness to the popular
Judgment and reaching by its uthulness the popular
heart 1t is not surprising that the reasonable cohorts
of abotonism appalled, by the unlookedfor assault
and that they should seek avoid its force by Indignant
denuncation and abnse Fortunately, however for the
country, the popular mind is in humor become
cited by situpcration While the Nebraska bill
before Congress- the abolition leaders made similar ap
peal passion and prejudice and it then successful
Since that day the country has reaped the bitter fruits Of
misguided excitement and is prepared to listen only
The President that this the auspcious
to address himself the sober judgments Of the
people and the indications are abundant that his appeal
has been effective
We are led to make hese remarks upon reading an eab-
crate article in late number of the New York Tribune in
which Mr. Greeley endeavors to evade the force Of of
and shameless abandonment of the leading idea Of
abotonsm- sympathy for The poor Stare The point
made in the message s that the aboiuoniss much
concerned for the interests of three millions OF the coored
that they reckless seeking to overwhem twenty
seven millions Of white men with ruin No abolition
gan in the country has furnished much proof in sup
port of this position the Tribune It's columns have
been filled for years with the alleged expressions and su
erings Of the slave The grossest Misrepresentation
to the cruees pracsed by have daily eemed in
that paper Pictorial illustrations of southern oppression
have been resored to of exciting sympathy for
the poor slave and indignation against his cruel master
But in the face Of this proof the Tribune virtually
knowledges that all its former appeals were hypucrtica
for it denies that it the sympathy that the abo-
toniss feel for the slave that mpes them to their
able The following extract from the article alluded
will show how powerfully the message is working and
with what pharsaieal hypocrisy abotonsm has hereto
fore sympathized with the slave: - #
"WHAr Is THE QUESTION Perhaps threc-fourths of
the people do yet understand what is that blocks
the wheels of the general government, while many whom
they have conded power doing their utmost to deceive
and mislead them. Nothing is than to
something like indignation in the most quiet quarters at
the tarness of the House of Representatives in organizing
itse What these fellows quarreling about cries
way another agree let it aoae and go about the
business for which they eleced2 Rogues, all of them,
probably unless few honest oscating between
Banks and Richardson TO be excepted who appear to be
blessed with little susceptibility of notion and will
ling to go for moderate man of party, provided his
latitude sufficiently low. To this profound ignorance of
question based facts stubborn the everlasting bills and
piled high Lucfers crest before he FELL the President
franks by carloads bis ptul pettoggery pretending that
the question is of ocious sympathy fer two three
NJ
lions of Amercans And he upon this from
the class aforesaid oh IL that all Then hang the
meddlesome aboons and let have the good old times
patriotic regard for the Union and harmony in the
tonal councils
al is question of sympathy for the Africans
African question ALL 1t is question of the ab
rights of man. question whether slavery shall
s is, the contrary, question whether the
liberty the of Americans shall hereafter be of any
practical value them shall be overhadowed and nul
fed like that of the poor whites at the South by the slavery
Africans Others While slavery was confined TO slave
States and understood to be waning there toward the
doom OF extinction this not practical question in the
free States, except those gifted with prophecy. Now that
northern President occasion for executive inter-
ference against the horde of border ruans which his
parans have stirred up to exterminate freedom on the soil
once it, and which IL exists under the
guarantee Of bis Kansas b it has become not
only practical question but inevitable one. Ordinary a
fairs take the place of it, or postpone IT, than
autumn postpone winter. Compromise did its utmost
long and has Jailed. IL mas come at this!
that the millions of the North insist before thing
else and at all hazards that slavery shall not extend another
step why Because there Is but step for 1t to
take that there be more free labor at the
North but only free aziness at the Southmore mser
able II that be- than slavery itself The dleness, para
scs dependence and hopeless degradation in any African
savehong community, Of those who neither slaves nor
slayehoders is the great inexngutshable fact which
laughs to scorn attempts hush tho anti slavery clamor
while slavery Il encroachng freedom The free millions
OF the may look the surngs OF the African slaves
with about the equanmy upon those Of the subject
classes in Hndosan Their sympathy would never disturb
the noon-nap OF Brahmiu Of overseer. But when
they begin that their labor In which all their wealth
honor consists Is put par With that OF chAttes In
human shape and that they and their children are to be
starved By competition in their own trades and fields
with men bought at auction they win stand to their rights
and, Il need be, 10 Sbsrp's rifles"
We doubt whether the history Of political abolition it.
self furnishes parallel Of eachery and hypocrisy
disguised as this The slave himself would with in
dguau contempt and such mockery Of friendship
sympathy for his condition used for political effect so
long as IL Is available but when It to be available,
the slave cooy told that IL is not friendship for him
but for the poor white man. that gives energy to tho
tions Of the aboonist
II is from sympathy with The slave that the sboli-
tonst wishes him made free but the condition Of
the white man who slaves is wretched that he
must be made happy by evaing the black TO level
with him What think the non-slaveownes Of the South
OF this avowal Of the object Of aboonsm2 We have
never believed that political abolitonsts sincere
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