The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-12-09

tionism, its next most striking feature Is Its
utter want Of principle. The blind masses
who make up the rank and file Of the party,
who get oil their knowledge Of slavery from
the false and jaundiced representations Of
an interested press, and their knowledge OF
laws and constitutions from the same source,
must be allowed to be honest in many cases.
They know and feel slavery to be an evil at
best, as does everybody. The press weekly
serves up to them horrid accounts Of isolated
and exceptional instances Of hardship aud
outrage connected with slavery. Their
minds become inhamed against it, just as
they would against the marriage institution.
were the wiemurders, assertions, and other
brutaities connected with it constantly pa
raded before them, as the rule and not the
sreep,,on Of the institution.
They are against it, Therefore, with all
their might, and straightway become Abo-
litionists, without regard to constitutional
checks and balances, which remove the
whole subject as far from their jurisdiction
and give them as little business with it as
with the seridom and vassalage OF European
nations. But with the leaders Of the party,
Abolitionism ia a matter of dollars and
cents, and political aggrandzement---and
always has been. The North, ut first was
as deep in the mire OF slavery as the South.
The climate and soil Of the North, however,
made slave labor Improbable. Slaves were,
therefore, worth but little more in Connect
icut in 1896 than q st. Paul turkey on
Thanksgiving day. The North, according
ly, State after State, passed gradual eman.
cipation laws, allowing all her citizens TO
sell their negroes to the South and pocket
the money.
Mark the dollar and cent aspect Of this
first grand movement OF the North in favor
Of " freedom" Again 90 with me to that
period of our history when Aboitionsm
tells yon that WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON,
and other sages OF the Revolution, were
anti.slavery men. In 1883, North and
South were cheek by -jowl engaged in the
slave trade. The proposition was made by
Southern member Of the contention which
framed our Constitution, to abolish the
slave trade forthwith. The oniy opposition
10 tbs odme from The North, which had 50
much shipping engaged in the business, that
it plead s,reuuously for an extension Of
twenty years to enable it to get out gradu.
ally without loss. The South, with spirit
Of Cancellation very little initiated by the
North now, when the shoe is on the other
foot, generously conceded the extension, and
thus 10 the North we are indebted for fully
one half The siapes which oarco this country.
and whose condition and contact with free
labor now so aflicts her plous phl!anthro-
py and agitates her, uhensrs IRE have a
President 10 elect, "a most holy North
q most righteous North ~! GREELEY says
we must learn the south that there is
North, History tells the South that IN 1888
twenty years before the slave trade was
abolished-there wds North whose zeal TOR
Z" free labor A" and down trodden human.
ty" succumbed to dollars ard cents. FL
tu BrWe!'
And now the pious sons Of these rious
Il" Northern Frcemcp,' reylle the South for
bearing. as best they can, the burden Of
nearly 100000 slaves which their avarice
forced upon her.
The North having made all the money il
could out OF slavery and the slave trade, by
buying and selling changes front, and now
its hoTdcs OF editors, ofice-holdcrs aud abo-
iiton preachers stall actually 1--we and grow
rich of Of the institution OF slavery, not by
buying and selling, bat by trade equally
profitable, abusing those who DO buy and sell
Thus the negro, put him in any shape you
please, Is turned to profitable account BY the
universal Yankee. The South lives iTol him
aud pays bis board, clothing and doctors bin
for life for the privilege. The North lives
oil him ard pays him nothing but praises his
equality with the whites. aud refuses TO allow
him to vote, and shuts il door on him when
he asks to live among them The very
Presidency with its millions Of dollars Of
patronage, hinges upon the darkey aud
bat for this cOiored individual, the North
would have 10 hope Tor this imperial prize
itHbfhbA7 W EtAT5.o mus HSDtb hupb-sDi7
Of hands be thrown out Of employment, aud
thousands OF politicians and their families
s,arye or 60 to some other trade besides
" shreking ior freedom
1hls genoa view then looks a little like
as il aboltionism was d matter Of dollars
and cer,s. A more special view will not
change the aspect.
The zeal OF editors 10 fierce detuheiatiob
Of the oligarchy, II universally at us maxi
mum Just before az election. when the pub
lie printing is 'he pre-, or The master Who
owns them and their press las an axe 70
grind"
The ministers who prostitute the sacred
desk by preaching abolitionlsn, vii umyr
sally be found 10 have taken the rneasnre u
his pew holder. as careful y a, tailor would
Tor pair Of pants. and the desc he de
l<ns,s viii " dealt out ~ suit The tmIfr
and taste Of the 3" brethren" With the -slae
precs'oo as The pharm.ccu,i world deal %,
ca.ome by the grain.
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