The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-13

TALKS NO MORE OF MODIFYING THE ANTI
SLAVERY CREED
Until few weeks ago, the New York Tribune had
been engaged for well-nigh twelvemonth in urging
liberation, concession, and alliance between all the
different factions which were hostile to the democrat
ic party and administration 1t full of eulogium
upon Mr. Crittenden and his American friends in
the South, upon Mr. Douglas, Forney, and all men
and parties at the North who were at war with the
administration ON the Lecompton any other pre-
text and was even engaged in correspondence with
these parties and politicians, the subject of gen
era union of forces, upon programme Of principles
less extreme and obnoxious than its old, jetblack
abolition one
But within few weeks the decisive elections Of
the northern States have been held ; and the union
of forces which had been formed for the purpose Of
carrying those elections has accomplished all that
was designed. Victory having been won by the
union Of the factions the Tribune signaizes the first
weeks after its achievement by return to its old
abolitionsm Seven devils seem now to have en-
tered into its house, where there but before,
and its last state is worse than the first. From
being the ally Of the Richmond Wing and the pane
gyris of Senators Crittenden and Bell it has relapsed
again into its wonted hatred of the South returning
like the to her mire, and the dog to its vomit
Its abolition gall, long restrained, pours forth
in foods, and entire columns of the Tribune are
cry morning made the congenial sewers for its dis
gorgement -.
The extreme anti-slavery programme announced by
Mr.. Seward, at Rochester did not proclaim the mere
individual resolution of the speaker but the con-
certed purpose of the entire sectional party of which
he is the leader. We shall not undertake to surmise
what must be the feelings of the southern Amer
leans, and the conservative wings and know-noth-
ings Of the North, who have been lately acting
in alliance with the party to whose true sentiments
the Tribune and Mr. Seward are now giving utter
ance. That they are surprised at the facility with
which they have been duped by the arch knaves into
whose tolls they have fallen is probable but that
they ashamed at the base purposes for which
they have been used, or filed with remorse at the
manner in which their fanatcal and unprincipled al
lies have made use Of them to strike blow at a
great conservative party and honest national adj
mnstration is not to be expected in this day of po
Iiticsl blindness and folly.
To show the public-more especially that south of
us--with what ferocty the Tribune has resumed its
old abolition cutlery against the South, we propose
the present week, beginning with that of Monday
and ending with that Of Thursday, the last one that
has reached us at the time of writing.
1t opened the week by aviolent diatribe against
the late shareholders convention in Maryland, from
which we make couple of extracts as samples of
the whole:
sit is not alone in the State of Missouri that move
ment has been commenced evidently destined to go on
till slavery is abolished in that State. having
the tendency, though different in its origin and
character is also in progress in Maryland and from the
violent and decisive character of this it
is not unlikely to lead TO speedy result than that
on foot in Missouri. =. .....
In Missouri the mass of the white laboring men are
rising to deliver themselves from the degrading, deba-
sing and blightng contact of slave labor and to free
themselves from the insoent domination which little
handful Of Shareholders have long exercised them
and the State In Maryland it is the Shareholders who
have taken the initiative From the growing unpopu-
arity of slavery among the white aborng of that
State of whom the larger part longer disposed to
act scouts spies, aors and blood hounds for the
Shareholders and from the spread of information among
the slaves to the North Star and the regions lying
that direction the disposition to run away has of late
greatly increased among the Maryland negroes and at
the same time the facilities for it, ~.
"They proposed to call general convention of the
whole State including nonslaveolders well slave
holders to meet at Baltimore the second Wednesday
Of june 1882 for the purpose of devsng system
for the better regulation of the negro population of the
State to be laid before the next legislature body to
which the shareholders the confidently address
themselves since, according to the Maryland rotten
borough system of representation they have most dis
proportoned representation in it. But though these
valiant shareholders evidently srank from that contest
with the non-slavehoders which they had previously
threatened they turned with true bulldog ferocy upon
portion of the free laborng population of the State,
less able to defend themselves. BY the census of
1850 the State of Maryland contained All 943 white
people, by whom 1925 of slave,
533I Of from two to four slaves, 1897 Of from five to
nine slaves 1922 of from ten to nineteen slaves $50 of
from twenty to forynine slaves ~ of from fifty to nine
ty-nino slaves, Of from hundred to hundred
and ninety-nne slaves and of from three to five hun
bred slaves in the whole, 49, 040 shareholders out of
white population of All 942 These 040 Shareholders
allowing each of them to have family of five persons
which is exceedingly liberal these 80, 200 persons inter-
csted In slave property among them go 1868 slaves
of whom it appears that 10 1853 nativeborn nhab
itans Of the State 1t upon this large body of free
colored persons In the veins Of considerable number of
whom Of the best blood of Maryland that the
shareholders of tho Eastern Shore have turned their
greedy eyes, They coolly propose after magning and
blackenng the character of these people much they
cam TO reduce the whole of them to slavery.
We shall not stop to remark upon the atrocious
spirit which dictates these paragraphs; or upon
the absurdity of the idea, that because citizen of
slaveholding community does not own slave he is