The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-02-28
Abolition Agencies.


These agencies are quite as busy now as at any
previous period of their history and quite as destruc
tive, too, of the peace and harmony of the country
we do not personally know the iact says IN exchange
nut have good reason to believe, that abolition ennis.
sarles are not confined to the birthplace of the ism.
but are injecting every part of the Union with their
poisonous sentiments. Sometimes they come i'm the
shape of Yankee preachers; then in the milder form
OF Yankee ccturcrs then as shcoomastcrs: aud then
but why attempt to enumcratc the spawn that
nave gone up over the land rs destructive aud loath-
some as the plaques of Egypt? The most insidous
however, of all the forms In which the reptiles an
pear, Is in the shape of volumes aud pamphlets
which are circulated among our people. and are
creating false, and we may say almost traitor
GUS sentiment on the subject of the peculiar South
erh institution. The Black Republican proclivities
OF Putman's Magazine are well known II NAV not
DC generally known, however, that IL has become
the common sewer for Northern abuse of the South
her literature rs well as her institutions And II
may not DC further known that this magazine Is pat
rohized ny Southern men, who read and we suppose.
iatten on the compliments to Southern manners its
sparklingly brilliant pages flash upon their minds.
We confess we have no sort of sympathy or pity for
such toadyism. and would gladly learn that u copv
OF such a journal had never crossed the line that
separates the slave from the socalled free States of
the Union. In the last number of the Putnam wc
are invited to partakc of such delicate me,eeavy rs
the following:
The first proper novel in American literature
Uncle Toms Cabin, is the greatest protest against
IT, lie. human slavery.
THAT novel is scarce six years old. and II strikes
lhc Key note OF strain that will not cease. The
wholc spirit OF modern teratnc is directly humane.
There are, therefore, but three ways open to Truman
~ Co.: hrst to give up reading altogether; second
10 REM hnniane literature wdch u.s. in It's reyY essence
antaarey or, third TO insist tha, the talent enough
to 40 what Is wanted shall begin to do it,"
Again "lf' ii. c. the literature of the country
VIII treat slavery as great moral, social and polt-
ical blight" fN''
lhese, anu others of like cast form the staple of
one Of the articles in Putnam designed for Southern
consumption 1t speaks well either for the charity
or the ignorance of our people. when such stuff is
tolerated. We are not inclined to give it the gen
tier name. II is sheer ignorance or worse. STUPID
blindness to the true interests of the South which
prompts any to the encouragement of such litcra-
turc.
II Northern agitators were really in the right in
the position that slavery is the .cursed thing" they
speak OF, and. il from motives of benevolencc they
sent US the calm expression of their sentiments we
should not oljcct-bnt when, as Is the fact, the
weight OF authority and reasoning. and of example,
human and divine is with MS, and the efforts they
are making are deia It and tend to the overthrow Of
our Institutions, and of the Christian religion ITSELF
We confess we cannot understand the philosophy of
he man, who can look calmly at and not lift a hand
o stay their ruinous progress How much stranger
hen his course, who cheers them by his support
md yields them, what they prize most of all in solid
ash return for their vililcations Of the South II
high time this thing were put stop to, and we
earnestly desire our readers, far as their influence
extends, to lend helping hand to arrest It, What
'ver other abolition agencies we may have among
IS, for Gods sake, let us not have an abolilonis,
literature