Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-02


proceed however, to the consideration of the great ques
ton before the country Immediately after the Presdentia
Senator from Michigan on the floor of Senate
ply to inquiry as to how he he answered Wen
9a sP Ss Mon be-
am now not without painful apprehensons OF different re
out of the Kansas bill hundred Kansas bills would no
have produced this result. These people to abos
fanatics but the misfortune they You will gail
nothing by making to them concessions you cannot there
by help us but you will ruin yourselves BY standing Urn
you can at least protect yourselves
His words made the deeper impression upon me because
they were accordance with my settled convictions
But the evil has attained such alarming dimensions tina
demands consideration. When dark and rapidly advan
cling cloud has already covered half the heavens and thu
muerDgs of the distant thunder and the wangs OF the
coming storm loudly heard none but false sentinel viii
proclaim calm Eminently futile, too and mschevous
declarations OF Southern men against agitation and
favor of union and harmony When man is threatened
with violence will he stay the hand of the assaant by pro
claiming his love of peace? When country invaded by
public enemy the inhabitants protect themselves by
passing resolutions in favor Of peace and All the
world regards such things evidence of weakness or COW
ardce and only calculated to stimulate the invaders
When Philip of Macedon threatening Greece his hired
Demosthenes as political agator 1t was in the midst OF
who crying out "peace! peace! that Patrick
ionsts in the North could be induced to abandon agita
ton the subject Of slavery it would be well but they
reject with derson the suggestion and become only
nsoent Southern cry out the louder for quiet and
When some twenty five years ago. the abolition society
at Boston, under the lead and guidance of British subject
attracted public attention. though it declared that its pur
poses were merely peaceful and intended to persuade men
to beTae the slaves yet Insignificant in numbers
that the candidate for Congress in that district refused to
reply to its or TO give any Peages as 10 DIS
mented by Harrison Gray Os who nevertheless said with
And can you doubt eow-ctzen that these associations
will together for political purposes Is in human nuture
Combinations f0bear2 If then their numbers
should be augmented the they anticipate realized in
making proeytes how might see majority in Con;
returned under the influence of the associations And
how long afterwards would this Union lastf'
Though few i'll numbers, the AboDohuonlss went reso-
lutely and actively to work
There was strong feeling in favor of liberty pervadng
the public mind generayNwhle its attention haG never
been called to the specific mental
and moraexisDg between the white man and the negro
The point of selected was one remote from
tures and thus fitted easily to be imposed upon In
the Southern section of the Union The effort OF the boil
onsts directed to the corruptng OF knowledge at its
fountain heads by the diffusion OF publications directed to
that end. Its first fruits seen in its influence on
women preachers teachers and professors persons OF
lively sensibties generally not so much accustomed to
deal with matters OF fact more easily deluded by cunnng
devised sophisms frequently acting from the in
uence of feelings Soon abolition sentiments appeared in
books of education possession OF schools colleges and
churches. it's powers increased, its efforts multi
Piled until it covered the land with its publications. Some
twelve months ago it stated in the newspapers that
of the antsavery organizations had resolved to crcu
late, during the following year, in the State OF New 4ork
his consisting, does of ingeniousy written
and tasehoods fail to produce some eff
Remember that this is repeated from year to year. and
aided voluntary lecturers speakers and preach
ers Aboitionism to great extent pervades the tera
slavery there the writers novels and plays
the public patronage, exercise their wits IN imagining all
that can be conceived as worst in human nature and
sent true type of the state OF society in the South
The bulk of the newspaper press too in the North anti
slavery. Such tbs character of the entire press of the
dominant party there, and of large portion OF the neutral
and religious papers while part OF the minority
Democratic press, avoid the subject much possible
instead of attempting to stem the current Though North
city papers much read in the South the contra
y papers have little circulation in the North
they had the efforts OF the ansaVery party would to
some extent be counteracted The cities of New York
and Philadelphia for example, net abolitionized and
this is attributed, by sOme to the fact that they
gagged largely in Southern trade But the mechanics of
Massachus it's just much interested, and yet they
are intensely ansavery in their feelings. The true sou
on think, will be found in the fact that these cities are
the resort of Southerners that society
hee3y peIter uoefsood ana CANNOT De so successfully
deaed The same reason apples to the Tree States on
the borders of the slayehodng country 1t not the
ounted that they cannot appreciate the evils OF slavery
but simply because they do understand it, that they cannot
addition to this reason, the Western States have large
influx of Southern emgrants While Vermont is intensely
New Hampshire, adjoining it, less So This
be accounted TOR from the fact that New Hampshire
orginy strongly Democratic, and its press resisted
therefore, to extent the statements of the Abolition
lists. Had not New Hampshire been small State and sur
rounded by adverse Influences she would probably not have
been OVerpoWered,
The antislavery movement has gone with increasing
strength until it has educated large portion OF the North
people to entertain feelings of hostility to slavery and
the SOuten States The movement has progressed indie
been accelerated retarded by them For example, in
1850 weakened somewhat, partly by the great dis
cusson at that time which enlightened somewhat the popu
lar mind, and also by the peculiar character OF the egs
ation of the period. California admitted free
state with boundaries reaching tar south OF the missouri
the principle nonntervention applied to Utah and New
Mexico was regarded as futess absactlon the general
opinion prevailing that to the words Of Mr.. Webster
the law Of God had excluded slavery from them AS to
the fugitive slave law, it that could practically
like It's predecessor the act OF l!93 be rendered nuy
by State action and individual resistance. 1t great mis-
take suppose that the repeal of the Mssor restriction in
1854 produced the present antslavey organization In 84
and l84 the House of Representatives by large ore
repeatedly passed the Wmot proviso and this under
stood to have been done accordance with the wishes of
been divided by this issue.
year year the antislavery sentiment acquired
and more political influence and in 1848 it took pos
session of the greater portion of the Wing party in the free
States. No influential in efectng this result
that year in Ohio, the object in part Of which to in
duce the antslavery to join the Wing party rather
than the BuaOpattOrm Freesoers ne such express
sOns these. call the attention Of Senators particularly
them, because shall have occasion to refer to them
again presently
The party of freedom seeks complete and universal eman
all OF only but of all the nations It perverted
and corrupted the moral of mankind deeply and
thought become fixed principles No American vet
are guilty of slavery still by Withholding the right Of Suaa
from the race we have emanePaed You in Ohio are guilty in
and odous written in the Constitution the United
snail equal TO three 1reemen
representation and is written also violation of Divine
hat shall surrender the fugitive who takes refuge
rede from his relentless You blush
ngs because they have become familiar household words
and your pretended reeso allies claim peculiar merit for main
tanning h'ee mscaed of slavery which they
he national compact Does all this prove WING
party nave kept with tt spirit of the true
to human freedom the inert conscience of the
nothing done for freedom because pub onn
mains ne Yes much be done every thing can be done
Slavery can be limited to it's present bounds ameio
rated 1t can be and must be abolished and you and
must do it, The task is simple easy contamination
follow this simple rule of action To every and on every
occasion what neglect do what we
can at any time because at that precise time and parc
lar occasion cannot do
" circumstances determine possibilities"
But must begin deeper lower than tho composition
and Of factions parties wherein the strength
security OF slavery lie You that lies Constitu
on Oh the United States the laws slave
in The