Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-04-07
AbOiitioniSln.

pib''i W DSb'NNiuNJt iN' hN"''J 'i'S t'''
twenty years, constituted the "whols stock in
trade" of democratic fuglcmen. 1t is a ste
reotyped charge, which, when once uttered
from headquarters, locofoco journals and pol
iticians throughout the length and breadth Of
the land, parrot-like, repeat and they re-
peat IL, too with such zeal and earnestness,
that one would think they really hated abo-
titonism, and dearly loved the Cherished in
stitution" of the South, when some of the
very men against whom they make the wan
ton and unfounded allegation own more ne
groes than all the ire-eating locofoco politi-
clans from Maryland to Texas. The moment
any prominent member of the opposition is
named in connection with any office, he is as
saileu as an abolitionist, no matter what his
course hitherto has been and the fact is, loco
foco politicians have done more for the cause
ofabolitionism than Seward and his coadutors
have done, or, can ever do. And do you
ask why, reader We answer, because they
bave emboldened them to encroachmcnts up
OF tho institutions Of the South, by unceas-
ingly laboring to induce the belief that one
half the people of tho South sympathized
with them. And in proof Of this, we ask
what Wing or American in the South, for the
last fifteen or twenty years whether candi-
date for Federal or State office, has not been
branded as an aboitionist. and the party
which supported him, MS inimical to the in
stitutions of the South For the Presidency,
neither Clay, Taylor, Fillmore nor Scott, all
men of undoubted worth and patriotism, have
escaped this damning charge, while Cass, with
his Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, Pierce, who
loathed, abhorred the institution of slavery
and Buchanan, who voted for the admission
of Texas because he thought it would have
the effect of abolitonizng Maryland, Vr-
ginia, and several other Southern States, have
been palmed off upon the people, as par en-
cellence the very embodiments of Southern
sentiment on the subject Of slavery.
But if the locofoco politicians grow wiser,
as they grow older, they seem not to grow
better, as they are still assiduously engaged
in the same labor of blackening every public
man opposed to them, with the odious i'm
putation of sympathy with Northern aholi-
tionists-even with downright, unmixed alb
oltionism. The spirited political canvass
now in progress in Virginia, is attracting the
attention of the public press in tho various
States of the Union and locofoco journals
true to their instincts, and with an eye single
to the elevation Of q locoloco to the Guber-
material chair Of the proud old Common
wealth of Virginia, by detraction of her
prominent Wing statesmen, are industriously
cndeavoring to make it appear that the whole
American and Wing parties of Virginia are
abolitienists Unable to find anything a.
gainst the noble standard-beare of the Anne
riuan and Wing forces, the Hon. William L.
Goggin, they are using their utmost efforts to
damage him in the Old Dominion by making
him responsible for the declarations of Hon.
John Minor Bolts, which they have wilfully
tortured into meaning their phraseology
cannot possibly justify.
They represent Mr.. Bolts as declaring a
willingness to unite with free negroes to put
down the democratic party, when his Ian
euage will bear no such construction, and be-
cause he supports Goggin, forsooth, the whole
party is rotten to the corc-aboltionized
What sublime reasoning But they tell us
shat the Convention which nominated Goggin
endorsed Bolts, and therefore the whole party
have sold themselves body and breccbcs to
the Republicans, and that, consequently, the
success Of Goggin would be triumph of
abolitionism. This position, however, can
he successfully rcfuted by high, standard,
administration, democratic authority-the N
York Herald. 1t speaks in the namo Of the
democracy, and tells its readers that the cleo
ton of Goggin would be a death Jiop to
Republicanism-
If then, the endorsation Of Bolts by the
American and Wing Convention of Virginia
makes these parties of the South allies Of
the Republican party, let us see how the rule
works the other way. Here then we have
few interrogatories to PROFOUND.
Who declared slavery "a deleterious insti-
tuition" Course" plague ~
Who declared the Tendencies Of slavery
"destructive7"
Who said that slavery was "a curse more
destructive in its effects than war, pestilcnce,
and the oppression of rulers, civil or ecclesi-
astical 2"
Who called slavery CONSUMING
PLAGUE" "DESOLATION2
Who said that slavery. "like the locusts,
have eaten up nearly every green thing"
about the cold tide-water shores" Of Mary
mo said slavery was "a dead weight"
and that it drives .tree-laborrs farmers, me-
ehanics and all, and some of the best of them
too-out Of the county, and fills their places
places ,cith negroes"
4 Who said ono branch Of industry can
flourish" where slavery is established by
law2"
Who said that "slauery is demonstrated 10
be not osly improbable, but deeply Injurious
to the public prosperity"
Who said that 'eren The common mechanical
trades do not flourish in q Stare State !"
Who said that iron manufactures in Ma
ryland exceeded those in Virginia, because
MARYLAND was only a HALF-SLAVE-
HOLDING STATED"
Who said that slavery inf1icts on multi
tndes', In the Southern States the ''curse Of
s6aoyanes and mental depreciation through
Who said that slavery is pernicious to the
Iswsiare Of the States 2
~, ..;J that the triumph of slavery