The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-25
Remedy for Abohtionism.

The annexed admirable article Is transcrI-
bed from the columns of the Manchester (N.
H. Union Democrat Sentiments such as
are therein expressed seldom find their way
to sheets published north of the Potomac
Would that more of the editors OF the North
possessed the intelligence, frankness and lnde-
pendence of Mr. Campbell
We have long been of the opinion that there
is but one remedy for Aboltionlsts Our peo-
pie shudder at the word Slavery. They have
but meagre idea of the thing it represents.
They never see it as an institution which
feeds cloths, civilizes and Christianizes a bar
barous race, but simply as an agency whose
general spirit is represented by the occasion
al cruelties practiced under it. Consequently
they will never let it rest. They will find
some pretext for its agitation; or, in default OF
a pretext, they will assail the thing itself, and
secure Q large measure of public sympathy
Look back a little. The acquisition of Louis
lana and Florida, the admission of Missouri
and Arkansas, the annexation of Texas, the
Mexican war; the purchase of California, New
Mexico and Missilla. the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, have all been made the pretexts
for violent Abolition excitement. And, in
the present temper of the public mind, it is
almost impossible for Congress to do anything
to which pro-slavery significance will not be
ascribed. This shows that demagogues rely
upon the prejudices of our people against sla-
very as the most available means of promotion.
Nine tenths Of the slavery agitation has its
origin exactly here; and as it always has been,
so it will always be, until some remedy is
sternly applied. Our Southern friends have
the remedy in their own hands-the only re-
medy-ttey must make AboIitionisnl costly
We have done what we could to arrest it but
with modification and shame, we are obliged
to confess that we can neither reason it down
nor vote it down, and we tell our Southern
friends frankly that they must hereafter take
care of themselves. They can kill out Adolf
tionism in . year if they will but there is
only one way-they must starve it out.
In this city we have three large manufac-
turing corporations-the Stark, the Amoskeag
and the Manchester. All of them, practically,
are abolition concerns; yet all Of them are
growing r1ch and impudent upon the profits
of Southern trade 1t was hoped that the
murderous invasion of Virginia by old Brown
and his gang of Williams would awaken the
people of the North to the danger if not the
disgrace, of the Abolition agitation in every
form. But it seems to have fired fnaticism
with freuzy, and certainly there has been no
time within the last ten years when the man
ufacturers here have resorted to such infa-
nous means to swell the Abolition vote The
vote in the incorporation wards, escipcially
in the First. shows with what alacrity the
managers responded to the appeals of the Re-
publican committee, by coercing their work
men to vote the John Brown ticket
Our Southern friends are generous and for
bearing. We have in this city 1900 men who
want SO to vote that the South shall under
stand We do not wish to interfere in any way
with its constitutional rights. The doctrine
has been openly advocated here by the Adolf
ton press and Abolition orators that such men
must be starred out-must not be employed (;
and many an honest Democrat, gentleman of
the South. who works upon the goods you
buy, has been compelled to vote against your
rights and his own conscience under the PEN
atty of dismissal. And it is not long since
that a prominent attache of the Amoskeag
mills crept stealthily to the tower of our City
Hall, and tolled the bell for the ignominious
life and death of a man who invaded your
territory and murdered your people. These
are the men you patronize, and these are the
men who use the strength you give to crush
out every man who is willing to respect your
rights.
The whole North has been flooded with
the Helper book. The Republicans imbibe
its spirit and practice its recommendations
1t afiifms that mo man can be a true patriot
without first becoming an Abolitionist ;" and
urges that business determinations shall be
made against every man who is not SUCH
This policy is in force to greater or less ex-
text all over the North and if the South has
any respect for itself or its Northern friends,
it must meet this prescription in correspon-
ding spirit If it will spurn Abolition goods
of every character, as our fathers did the tea
in Boston harbor, it will bring the Helperites
to their senses in single year. Will it do it?
or will it continue to buy and scold, and scold
and buy, until its Northern friends are worri-
ed out ? We repeat it can cure our people
Of abolitionism in a single year, if it willard
make money by the process, too