The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07
SIX NUMBERS ON ABoLITION.-No 9.

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The abotonsts, amid all their Wild dogmas and dec
lamatons have yet presented any practical and
tiona plan for dposng of four millions of emanc
pated African slaves They satisfied with setting them
free and leaving them TO take of themselves after
wards What is to become of these poor ohtcasts from
their former homes is nothing them They have released
themselves from all other obligations of humanity by
breaking their bonds and whether they perish by famine
and peslenco its nvarable associate become enemies
burdens TO society," matters fer beneath the attention
of those who cherish but dea and whose duties all
summed up stupendous dogma that comprehends all
the law and The prophets But TO the RATIONAL rejecting
portion of mankind to whom appealing other
sderatens suggest themselves They will place the good
to be attained in SCALE the evils which in all probable
iy will result from its attainment in the other and strike
the balance They will inquire whether it is practicable
and So whether it be attained without violation of
certain great principles of justice and equity strict regard
which Of much greater consequence to the general well
humankind than the of partial perhaps imagi
nary evil ccumscrbedn issphere and confined in its OPP
Grafton to small portion of the human race But all these
considerations previously observed are far beneath the
nece of hese vaultng reomer who above all idea OF
consequences and impousy arrogate the sanction Of God
for the violation of his most sacred precepts With them
the inuncon Thou shalt not steal is justification for
robbing their fellowcounrymen thou shalt do no muir
der warrant for melting slaves to rise and murder their
masters and that sublime precept Of the Greatest of all
Reormers thou shalt love thy neighbor myself means
nothing than that thou shalt make thy neigh
Dor, overwhem him with calumnes, dcnounce him as
aud dealer in human fesh and render that
property which he inherited from his oefahers and holds
under the sanction Of the constitution and the laws
instead of blessing. Such is the Interpretation of
the Decaloguc by the aboitioniss such the new moral
and religious code they attempting to impose on the
worlda code that carries with it violation not only of
the law of man. but the law Of God proclaimed from
the Sacred Mount by the Creator himself and confirmed by
the Saviour from the Cross where He suffered maryrdom
for the sins Of mankind
The aboonsts in the outset of their career confined
themselves TO the mere emancipation of the slaves But
having since been confronted by the inevitable conse-
quences that would result from such measure they have
attempted to evade them by resorng the grand expe
dent of amalgamaton, and community Of social and
civil rights This they believe affect to believe would
in time produce homogeneous race where all distinctions
of color would disappear, and all become united in the
bonds of brotherhood The theory beautiful but let
first inquire its practicaby and secondly to its
consequences a s.aaI
For nearly three centuries past this process Of amaga
nation has been going in Mexico and the South Amer
can States, and what has it produced Not homoge-
neous race but nfntude of mongrel races multiplying
with every new cross all varying In color, and other
physical peculiaritics and all claiming social preemi-
in proportion they partske in the blood of
the white man Instead of united people, we have a
disjoned rabbe of castes each claiming equality as
piring to superiority and all either envyng hating
despsng each other Incapable of progress and destitute of
that anmatng every where and
disadvantage mpes the Christian white to unceasng
Efforts both physical and intellectual to improve his condi
on these mongrel races though admitted to full par
tcpation of political rights and having the inoen-
ves exertion the pure white man. remain stationary
or rather have become retograde Every mixture has
only contributed degrade them in the scale of creation
The Indian of mixed blood is inferior being to the In
dian of the days of Montezuma aud the Peruvian Incas
and the cross of the negro with either the blood Of the white
the Indian only engenders monster combining the
vices without sharing the virtues of either of the races
Such the uniform testimony ofevery late traveller in Mex
leo and South America whose works have under our
notice.
The universal experience of mankind has demonstrated
that every mixture or amagamaion Of the pure blood of