American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-18
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all arSuuiohlS VI Scu aSaiust ther prlh-
ciplcs or policy, to charge their oppo-
nents with Abolitionism! This charge
slips between the teeth of the corncred
Democrat, 50 Aippantly, that he uses
it almost without knowing it, and we
have often wondered whether or not
Democratic orators and editors did
not grumble "A6ohtton" in their sleep
o nights, particularly when they were
the victims of a curtain lecture from
scolding spouse! They have become
SO used to look upon it as a "knock
down argument "-as 'inality to all
discussion-that it now stands first in
Importance in their catalogue of house
hold words. "AJolttoa 7" But for
it, the sham Democracy would be with
out Straw head and bloody bones
with which to terrify the qualms of the
nervous into submission! 'A5olstionr
Without it, the leaders of the sham
Democracy, would have no goad in re-
serve--no rod in terror-for those who
daredto berefractory! Federaltst"
used to be the Democratic scare crow,
but now that James Buchanan, himself
Federalist, is their candidate, the Gu
phonious epithet of /" ABOLITION! is
Installed as the first assault and last
argument to sustain Locofoco corrup-
ton and rottenness. No matter if u
man is the owner of thousand slaves,
let him expose and denounce the NAL
administration and putrcscent reckless
ness of sham Democracy, and immedi-
ately the locofoco kennel becomes hid
eous with howls, from bull and pup, at
every imaginable pitch, and all to the
set phrase Of Aboltion!" A weak
cause, without some bolster, wouldfall,
but we would suppose thatby this time
the rank and file of the Democracy"
had become heartily sick and tired
of hearing from the stump, and seeing
in print, the slang phrase Abolition"
The people certainly are tired Of such
meaningless suhterfuge, and South
ern men who are opposed to sham de-
mocracy will attach the same import
ance to it that it should claim from our
party friends. The charge of "1bo-
Htionist" should be regarded by Amer
leans with no moro attention than the
monotonous creaking of q swinging
sign in awindy night!
We are working man, and we up
hold the banner of honest industry
Wherever or by whomsoever assailed,
we make common cause, as our inter-
ests identify us, with the workingmen.
Daniel Webster, standing in the shad-
ow of the great Battle Monument of
Bunker Hill, exclaimed--"L labor
look up here, and be proud in the midst
OF its toll J! So say we, surrounded
by the monuments of cheerful labor,
and the busy hum of active, requited
industry. Our farms and factories
our rivers and railroads shops and
storehouses-attest the triumphs and
the nobility of labor. And, while o
loyal citizen of slave State, ready
and willing to uphold the rights of cv-
cry fellow-citizen in the extent of the
Constitution, we point to the achieve.
ments of the white man, in contradis-
tinction from the prescribed routine of
slave servitudc. There is q degree of
nobility, at least, between the instinct
of the cotton-hoer and the genius of
he macbinist who adjusts the sinews of
he iron horse The man who would
degrade the white laborer to the level
Of the African slave, isworso than the
Abolitionist of the North, if indeed
there be any difference in the dogmas of
the two extremes. The Abolitionist
proposes the equality of the races, by
elevating the negro to the level Of the
whitc mana proposition lmpractica-
Die in itself because nature has set the
signet of infcriority upon the black.
The Southern socessionist and section
alist cody proposes the degradation of
the white working man to level with
the slave of the cottonfold, because
the white laborcr works for the bread
ne consumes, and is not heir to plan