The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-05-28
NEW YORK DAY BOOK.

The following extract from an article in
this valuable Democratic journal, pictures
in true colors the miserable victim of aboli-
tion fanaticism. He des .rbes with n vivid
pen the moral md hopeless degradation, in.
to which this frcnzcd feeling may lead its
dcludcd followers:
But he docs not stop here, or rather he
cannot stop here. The moLstrous lie h,
has burdcncd himself with presses him on
ward-the huge phantom his disordc.cd per
rcption has conjurcd up urges him forward:
the devil, TO whom he has sold himself oiy.s
him no peace, no halt, no rest like Salaibi,l
the accursed, he must on, on, always ON.
without rest To his feet or sleep 10 his eve
lids. lie sees the people quiet, contented.
happy. lie secs progress, prosperity, enjoy
men', uncxamplcd in history and unapproach.
able elsewhere. lie sees at the South.
where this mighty wrong should blast and
withcr, and strike its uphcldcrs with more
than mortal punishment, tie most orderly
and peaceful society in Chrstcndom, which.
Tor seventy years, has never seen an armed
man in its midst, or shed one single drop of
blood To sustain it lie sees those who
practice this wrong, who own these Slaves"
the women jast rs pure ard the men inst as
brave as clscwhcre-instead Of being cor.
rnrtcd by il, unsurpassed in true nobility by
any similar number of people on tho whole
earth. lie sees, above all, perhaps. these
cruelty and fright'ully wronged "sl,vcs" To.
tally unconscious of il ihenis .lves, not one
sin2'c one among them dreaming, even in
hundred years, of resistance, who instead
"t pining and dying out rs white men al.
ways have and must, If in such n condition
perfectly uprearons in their joyousncss, and
actually propagating faster than their mas.
tcrs. And finally, he secs that the moor
misguided one that he and such as he have
scduced from their homes and thrust in an
unnatural condition at tho North, are social
monstrosiiies, who withcr and die
Now, these contradctions-thcsci irrecon-
| cilablc things-;hs good aud evil ,hus con.
iounded-:h:s right and wrong thus pery-r.
tcd--ths cause and effect thus disconnected
this injustice of II and blessing of Prov
'dence-this mortal iniqu,,y and heavcnly
rcWard-this human wickedness and divine
oene!lccncc. utterly confounds him. n,
losses al! belief, all faith, all hope, in socic.
| ~, IN the church, in humanity, i'm God. III,
becomes n traitor to his country-an enemy
TO socicty-an infdel in religion, and a Has.
phemer agnins, the Almighty. We do no.
mean TO say that all those called abolition.
lists are thus; by no means, but thew are
travelling in the same path, and must come
TO The same end as those that have soupdcd
It's depths, who like Garrison, step by stem,
have reached its ultimate and only end
utter disbelief IN man and impiety 10 God IL
Is the end, the actual condition of all those
who have labored for years steadily and hon.
estiy 10 practicable false abstracton-to
transform a lie into truth--ihe phantom of
Their own diseased perceptions into a reality
TO undo the work Of the Almigbtv and
make The negro n man like themselves
Starting with lie, aud such n lie, that wide
| ~ different things constitute the samo thip0
| that The negro is white man--ip short
that black Is white, nll they have done or
tried to do or hoped for, is, of necessity
equally false-are lies, measurel.s, and
iathomless as the great parent lie that begot
hem. And now, after tfty years effort. the
best argument they Can offer TO the DE opl.
is 10 rum themselves, TO accomplish the abo.
h'ion "enterprise'-to dissolve the Upiop-
10 break down "slavsry"-to abolish their
own institutions, that they may .aboli,h''
the hatnral relation Of white men and negroes
Ito trample their own laws under foot,
that they may Perysrt the decrecs of the
aImlghty--in short, TO cut their own throats
Tor The imaginary good Of the negro!
| IL IA, .n5eeG, !. wonderful aeius;.u. and
dcplorable as wonderful. IL has souander.
ed untold treasures Of intellect ms well A,
money, and 1t has left sad and dcsolate. II
not despairing and faithless, some Of the
hnest minds and noblest hearts that ever
lived.