The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-05
IFrom the New York Day Book
ABOLITIONISM IS A LIE-SHALL IT BE EX
PLODED?


ers at the North have long been excessively
troubled and embarrassed by the slavery"
question, and were it not for the frequent
glimpses of light let in OH the dark picture
they contemplate SO despondingly, they
doubtless would have despaired long ago
These CLEANS of sunshine were the "Com.
promise" the bargains-the "Union saw
ing" contrivances which occasionally threw
their factitious spendors over the scene and
gave renewed hope of "better times" though
they invariably ended in disappointment if
not despair. Some have even hoped to push
the slavery" question aside altogether by a
new issue on the currency question, but we
will venture to say that if the currency
question were really in issue, these same
gentry would be equally anxious to get rid
of it by au issue on slavery" Indeed, it is
fact that when the great struggle on the
independent treasury was at its highest point,
some of the very men now most anxious to
escape the slavery" question were then its
only exponents, and in order to avoid meet,
ing the then issue, did all they could to thrust
"slavery" into the foreground of party poll
tics. Some, again, seem to be quite certain
that when the Kansas question is disposed of
the county will have peace, as if that paltry
affair was Of vital Importance The whole
Kansas business is the work of the politicians
the consequence of party faithlessness--
a1d has not even necessary connection with
the great question now before the country.
That question has been forced on us by the
monarchists of the Old World, and it can be
avoided no longer. 1t is a question of ideas,
but unlike those which, in other times, di>
vided men into schools of philosophy and
religious sects, it is not resolvable into mere
beliefs, but resting on basis of fact, is sus-
ceptible of actual and indeed physical demon
stration. A theory, or assumption rather,
has been set up that all mankind constitute
single specieS-that Mongols, Maylays, In
dians, negroes, &C., have common origin
and therefore common nature, whatever
may be their external or seeming differences
Our own race is alone historical, and there
fore little is known Of the relations or the
notions entertained of negroes, &C., in an
cient times. But we do know, from na0nu
} mental history, that the negro in Egypt anc
| Northern Africa occupied substantially the
same relations to the whites witnessed in oul
own times, and as the material and palpablC
always predominates over the abstract ant
sentimental in the earlier stages of society
} it is reasonable to conclude that they wert
t regarded as they are in point of fact, specif
caIly different and subordinate to all other
races of men.
: But we need have nothing to do with any
t thing or with any of the habitudes of those
remote and mythical times. and still more
irrational is the effort to discover the cause
of the negro being. Whether, as the scien
tifc man would say, he was originally created
t thus, or whether a super natural lnterposl
ton placed things on their present basi
never can be known, and it is the extreme o
human folly, if not, indeed, gross impiety, tc
I seek to unravel the mystery. The negro
as negro, exists as absolutely as the dog
the horse, the elephant or the white man.
He is physically, morally and mentally al
f absolutely different from ourselves as the
salmon is from the shad or the owl is differ
ent from the eagle. He has different capac
tiles, different wants, in short different ma
ture, and therefore it is an obvious and ev
, erlasting truth that he is designed for diff
ferent purpose and subordinate social posi-
: tion. But Europeans, ignorant of all this
t assume that he is the same being and en-
dowed with the same rights as ourselves, anC
} hence that we have system of slavery. anC
four millions of slaves in our midst
On this false foundation rests Abolition
, aud the so-called anti.slavery party of th'
, North. 1t does not presume that the condi
t tion Of things at the South is defective mere
ly, or that it fails to do justice to the negro
. It assumes that the negro is black Cauca
r sian-a man (under the same circumstances
? like ourselves-and therefore it demands tina
{ he shall be placed under these circumstance
shall have the same rights and the sam
r chances for development enjoyed by the whit
t citizenship. Its clear, therefore, absolute
: ly and unmistakably clear, that Abolitionisr
r is lie, whole, complete, unadulterated liz
"a lie as palpable and positive aad unavoida
S BILE as if white was declared to be black o
{ that the sun rises in the west and sets in tn
east. And it is equally clear, certain an
unacceptable that all that has ever been saiC
. written or done by the opponents of so-cal
. ed slavery, from WilbGrforce to Charlie
' Sumner-from Mistress Elizabeth Fry
Herriet Beecher Stowe aud the poor youn
K girl who run off the other day with "nigger
a in Michigan, is equally false, senseless an
: worthless.
d Now in view Of all this, let every ma
!. who leads this article ask himself what sha
Y be done Shall he lend himself to the ful
d ther propagation of this lie by silently assen
!, to it, or shall he, whatever his condition
Il however distrustfulo of his own powers, aid
j, exploding lie SO worthless and yet fraug
il with such fatal consequences to the peace
h the country, and perhaps to the safety of q
10 Union tits folly to dream of their poss
le bility of clinging to this lie in theory al
at hope to escape the consequences in practic
D. aud therefore that certain class of men, ev
er found sometimes at the South, who conden
is the Abolitionists while admitting their q
a. guments, should be exposed to the popul