Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-02-13
ABoLITION

1aese agencies are quite as busy now as at any
c!2us period of their history, aud quite as de'truc-
too. OF The peace and harmony Of the country.
" do not personally know the fact, but have good
A: 4soa to believe, that abolition emissaries are not
.asd 10 tho birth place Of the ism, but are infect
,vs7y par; of the Union with their poisonous sen
t.. Sometimes they come in tho shape of yam
.Soaeis; then III The milder form OF Yankee
.rers; then a. schoolmasters; and then-but why
: up: 70 euumsrate the spawn that have gone up
@, IA. land as destructive and loathsome as the
.ues of Egypt The most insidious, however, Of
! .ae iorms in which the reptiles appear, is in the
.,.Je Of volumes and pamphlets, which are c!reula-
u 4unoag our people, aud are creating a false anu,
= lnay say, almost 4 traitorous sentiment on the
al ., IF the peculiar Southern institution. The
Y * Republican proclivities Of Putnarn's Magazine
: .'.!. known. 1t may not be generally KNOWN
+ Nsve-, that it has become the common sewer Tor
Ag-a-.n s5uss Of the South-hsr literature as well
s. her Institutions. And it may not be further known
81. Ems magazine is patconized by Southern men.
w.. -rad aud, We suppose, fatten on the compliments
= 5au,a-rn manners its sparklnRly brilliant pages
Z r,u upan their minds. We confess we have no sort
{: -; apathy or pity for such ~toadyism, and would
ga .; learn that a copy Of such a journal had never
s:..at the line that separates the slave from the 50.
: l'e. free States Of the Union. In the last number
CT ne Putnam we arc invited to partake OF such del
ica.- merceaug as the following:
.rns Frat proper novel in American literature
.Cuni. Tom's Cabin is the creates. protest against
e. human slavery.
That novel 10 scarce six years old, and it strikes
the Key note Of a strain that will not cease. The
wao.a apirit Of modern literature is directly humane.
Ilsce are, therefore, but three way. open to Tupman
6 Co.. frst, to give up reading altogether; second
/: r.oa q humane literature, a0hieh is, IN its rery e..
ssace. oafi.slosery; or, third, to insist that the "ta!ent
enough 10 do what is wanted shall begin to doit."
Agsin ut" Il. .. the literature Of the country)
Wiz treat slavery Is a great moral, social and politi-
c.. blight"
These, and others Of a like cast, form the staple Of
org Of the articles In Putnam, designed for Southern
resumption. 1t speaks we'll either for the charity
O. the ignorance Of our people, when such stuff IL
,als-s:ed. We are not inclined to give it the gentler
!ac.. II is sheer ignorance, or worse, a stupid blind
u.s. TO the true interests Of the South, which prompts
O. v TO ;hs encouragement OF such a literature.
7: Northern ~agitators were really in the right in
:; n~o-i,ion that slavery is the 'carsed thing" they
. * Of aud, if from motives Of benevolence, they
* us 'he calm expression OF their sentiments, we
: ac'i not object-but when. az Is the fact, the weight
ct .L.:iority and reasoning, and of example, human
. Irvine, 10 with us, aud the efforts they are ma
:; .ts defiant aud tend to the overthrow of our in
e're'iors, and OF the Christian religion itself, we
{ SIS we csunot understand the philosophy Of the
who can look calmly at, and not lit q hand to
t'tv ;beir ruinous progross. How much stranger
MS course, who cheers them by his support, and
hem, what they prise most of all, in solid cash
T. ,turn for their viH6cations Of the Soath. 1t il
l..h time this thing were put q stop to, and We ear
c.st y desire our readers, so far n their influence ex.
q. is, TO lend Q helping hand to arrest 1t. Whatever
o '4r abolition agencies we may have among US, for
i 5 sake, let US not have an aboli,iouist literature.