Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-11-16
The Hypocrisy of Abolitionism.

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The sentiment of Abolitionism as held by
almost every grade of anti-Slavery men North
and South, who advocate the emancipation of
the slaves of the South to remain among us,
so far from its being a religious or Bible SEN
timent, is a spawn Of infdelity-a lying, by
pecrltical frenzy, nearer akin to the vile in
fdel ranting Of Frerch Jacobinism and down
right atheism, than to the pure, peaceful and
reformatory doctrines of the Bible.
Now, We do not say that every anti-Slavery
man is an aafdel, nor do we say that every
Abolitionist is knowingly and wilfully a n.y.
pocrite. Ordinary charity obliges US to hope
that many of them are ignorant Of the ten
dencys and character of the sentiments they
entertain. They do not understand the sub
tain the light and information necessary to
understand it. But while we make this adj
mission, we have no apology for that class Of
Abolitionists who are called fanatics, and who
find sympathizers North and South. By
isome they are treated with the mercy and
the sympathy which persons who are proyi-
Identially deranged mentally, are entitled to.
They are maniacs, but not by the hand of God.
Their arrangement is of their own seeking.
They have pAungedinto i with the means OF
preservation in their own hands.
There is one remarkable fact in the history
of this class of men which must not be over.
looked Whether professedly pious or wick
ed, in the beginning of their Abolition pro
~clivities the Bible was their great charter
From fthis armory of truth they professet
to draw all their. arrows at first, for the over
throw of Slavery. But as that glorious oil
Book was brought successfully to batter dow
!" all their ramparts, they began by little an
: little to give up the Bible-to seek som
higher lasa, until now, so far as we are abb
: to judge, the larger body Of them, if not al
: if they do not wholly discard the Bible, see
: for expositions of it's meaning-not in tn
t Bible itself, but in the yagaries of their ow
y disordered minds, andiin the lieentious ran
ings of infdel and atheistic writer's
f Such fanatics deserve not sympathy, nc
ara they entitled TO the. contsideration of me
e who are deluded. They either know bette
they are wilfully blind-or they are subjec
of judicial blindness because of their wifi
. rejection of the truth. They are the enemi
= of all law and order-the bloated advocates
q anarchy, confusion and blood-the puerile il
itators of Danton and Robespierre-and q
~ serve their fate. Old Brown of Ossawatt
r. mic, and his coadjutors, are the pimps and ell
6 ployees of perhaps worse men, if possible,
n do a work which they were too cowardly
S, undertake.
lr There is a larger class of A~bolitionists, no
e4 ever, who though not yet f~anatical, are, Mt
d ertheless liable to the charge of hypocrisy.
e. We mean that large class of religious p
sons who hold sentimentally the doctrines
IN Abolitionism, but who yet revere the Bi
Ii too much to yield to the extremes of fan;
cism. They professedly yet fix themsel
down upon the Bible as the greatvsfoan
ton upon which to rear their a~nti-slav,
Of structure, and upon nothing do they hinge
err mucn as upon the golden rule :-NDO u
/; 10 others as We would they should do unto 20
,er Now, does it not require a stretch of chal
lv to believe that they are sincere? Is it
ut the sheerest hypocrisy for men to put sue
VS.. burden upon the shoulders of Slave-hold
of in the exposition they give to this law, wi
adj. they would not touch with their little fins
if they we're in the INT circumstances
= Where is the Abolitionist living, who, in v
of the horrors such a result would entail
&C. or him andghis children, would Cor a mon
give sanction to it? The man does not
who would do it in his sober senses, and
remain among the blacks. We have no
ny, hoeice el'hef III tnelr exposition OF the
ex- nor have we a whit in their sincerity.
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