Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-01-14
How they Talk in Boston.

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Boston has been sometimes styled the
Athens of America. Perhaps in a literary
point of view it is not totally unworthy the
cancellation. In ather respects it ought more
properly be termed the Abdera of America
There are quite as many simpletons and era.
zy people in Boston as there were in that an.
cient city of Greece, to whose inhabitants
Hippocrates recommended hellebore as ar
excellent sternutatory which would clea'
their befogged brains. We think the Adolf
~tionists Of Boston display a stupidity and ig-
~norance as colossal as those for which the
Abderites were distinguished.
On the 22d ult., one Mr.. Alger, who is de-
corated with the title of Reverend" under.
took to deliver a discourse in Music Hall, in
commemoration of the landing of the Pill
erims. We take it that Mr.. Alser must be
i%ineally descended from one of the grim reg
icides who fed to America to escape the fury
of the reinstated Royalists, for he was as saw
age, as trucuIent and f~anatical as Harrison.
Bradshaw, Ludlow, or any other OF the Purl-
tanical crew. Mr.. Alger deemed the occa-
sion favorable for a general and terrific on
sIaught on slavery. and therein he exhibited
the carniverous propensities of the hyena,
amalgamated with the impenet,able stolidity
of the hippopotamus. He compared the
Southern people to cannibals he told us in
the mildest possible terms that we are head.
ed by a swarms and frantic politicians, and
tailed by a crew of renegade ministers. This
amiable specimen of the church Of Christ
shrieked imprecations enough upon eight
millions OF Southerners to choke him with
impotent wrath. There is hardly an unsa-
larry, a term expressive of utter, hopeless and
sprocIaeunahIo rickodnoce which tho mock.
minded minister of Him who babe us love
one another did not apply to the owners Of
negro slaves. Here is a very small specimen
of the rant and ~rhodomontade of the gentle
Alger:
By the principles of immortal truth emilia
zoned in the New Testament, by the privile-
ges Of humanity, won through ages Of strug-
gle and sacrifice, by the laws of the living
God, incarnated in our heart, let there be no
tyrants chasing men on the banks of our
New England rivers!-lett there be no chains
for men within sight of the sehoolhouses OF
New England!-no setting up Of auctions for
men within sight Of the church affairs of New
England !-no legalized stealing Of men by
kidnappeIs, cesecrating the hallowed dust, as
they yell past the graves Of our dead heroes,
within sight of the battlefield monuments Of
New England! lGreat cheering
Such tribes as the Constitution ofthe Uni
ted States and the laws made in pursuance
thereof are not to stand in the path of Mr..
Ayers sweeping philanthropy. That over
whelminG sentiment - to disregard all such
puny barriers.
MI. Aiger holds as primary duty that
the North should "extricate itself from all
completely with this system of sin and in,
misunderstanding slavery-that it should
cease to have any interest, or to saction it in
any possible way. Brave words these!-|
Mr.. Alger no doubt, at the time he uttered
them, wore a shirt manufactured from slave
grown cotton, and when he returned to his
home, sweetened his cup Of tea with slave
grown sugar. This was the practical exem-
pli6cation of the mode in which tine North is
to extricate itself from all completely with
slavery. Why don't the Abolitionists carry
their theories into effect-wear no cotton, eat
neither sugar nor rice, and smoke no toba eco.
Then they will furnish some evidence of their
sincerity but when the most rampant and
furious ofthem purchase Southern cotton, man
~ufacture it into homspuns, and send it back
to the South for negro clothing, and thus make
out Of the slavery they are so con-
denounclng, they must hot be surpris-
ed at being regarded in this quarter as a pack
Of vile hypocrites and pretenders, whose prac-
ticc is at total variance with their profession.
But this Is no new thing. Nothing is better
ascertained than the fact that every vessel en-
gagged in the slave trade is built in New Eng
land ports, manned by a Yankee crew, and
owned by thrifty Yankee merchants. Per-
the gentle ALGER himself-that
model Of Christian humanity and brotherlv
have his own little venture in
craft even now engaged ic loading with
a live cargo from the dominions of the sable
potentate of Dahomey.
In addition to violating the law of the
land, and breaking off all intercourse with
the South, as means of annihilating the slave
power, Mr.. ALeER relies upon a general poll
teal ostracism of the whole Southern popu-
lation. He wants all the offices of the coun-
try, from that of President to that of tide
waiter, filled exclusively BY AboIitionists
In other words, he wishes the existence o:
the South to be politically ignored. Well, it
is palpable that is the reverned gentle mems
candidate 70, the I residency should
be elected, his desires may be graft fed. We
question, however, the annihilotion of the
ensue the North, and especially in the
of Boston, which would serious.
" curtail the member of Mr.. ALGER's ad-
Perhaps, if he takes the trouble to
he may discover even now that some
Of the solid men OF that city are begenning
to feel sensibly the disastrous influence Of
acitation.
When we say that Mr.. ALGER finished his
with a flaming euIogy of JOHN
BRowN, we have said enough to establish the
of the speaker and his productions.
The Abderites Of Boston thronged Musit Hall,
and applauded the insane fanatic with the tu-
most enthusiasm.
TELEsRApHTc.-Boaon, Jan. 1O.-A des-
from Lawrence City; in this State, an
nounces that the large cotton factory, known
as the Pemberton Mills, in that city, fell to-