Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-21
10 rhnrre Of AboIltlonIsm.

H. p.I,;,nore 4osriean reminds the voters OF all par
tiss Of the fact that there has not been tresi1eo''''
oon for the last twenty-five years in which the charge
Of AbOtonism has not been brought by the Democracy
.oaipst the candidate of the Opposition IL matered not
wbe,her,he' candidate was a Northern or asou'hern
man ABoLrrloNrsr was the instant and Simultaneous
ou,ery Of the Democratic press Is not extraordinary
that the Wings Of the South Who general rule con-
stue the great mass Of large Shareholders, should never
vet have introduced the slavery subject into Pohu's
never denounced the Democratic nominee as an Aoon-
opi. but have always stood on the defensive content
ing themselves with disprovng the charge, and es'aos
o the national character Of their candidates! IS tue
solemn truth Of history that for the last twenty years
the Democracy has lived breathed moved and mao us
being by slavery agitation by obruding upon every Fres
idental canvass the alleged abOitiOnsm oil "sg nomi
ness and nsnuang into the minds Of the Southern pe'
ne the idea that Abotonism vast power III inc
fire., States that it had be prOpitated by the wings N
ID, selection Of Presidential candidates. They enarseu
that General Harrison, yrgnian, was member OIL an
Abolition society in Ohio !" that Henry Clay was dlOy-
Al 10 his native South that General Taylor, the owner
Of three hundred slaves, would, if elected, be mere
tool Of William H. Seward; that Willard Fillmore was
an out and on AbOitouis and that Winfield scott eouu
not be trusted by the land which gave him birth and
f,r which he had shed his blood upon the battle
s,i such men as these were be set aside, on the
charge of abotouism for Martin Van Buren,, who alter
,r laid the cornerstone Of the Black Republican par
~. for James X Polk, who signed the Wilmot Provso
in the Oregon bin and other equally sound and nie1ioe
p.trots When therefore, they raise again the monoto-
nous ola out,rv Of aboonism aud apply it to the true
hearted Tennessee gentleman, John Bell, we look upon
IL As simply beneath contempt We wonder that they nave
the face 70 aaunt that tattered calumny before Puoho
whose confidence has been too often imposed upon by
similar fables to lend it a momeuts credenee We are
opisbed that they whose interest in slave property Is
limited in COMPARISON with that Of the Union men Of the
South should be stenay volunteering to defend their
s'aveholdiag neghbors from themselves. We should
think. moreover, that the position to which they have
brought the country BY their perpetual agitation OF the
slavery subject would suggest to them at this time the
practice Of peni,ence and humility, and the abstinence
for one Presidential election a. least from the luxury oil
,heir vore scandal Il is their persistent attempts to
evoke the goblin Of Northern lbOliliOnism which have
led 10 the Sresent sectional distrus and hostility and to
their own party disruption and Generalization. Il is ow-
ing TO necessity imposed by the party use they have
made ofhe subject that every Southern newspaper and
every Southern rosrum have been made the media ofan
aeendary influence amidst heaps of eombusbles which
il Is only Gods mercy has no, long ago set the land in
baze John Bell is no more unsouud on slavery than
tsv are. They have done mischief enough with such
charges ALREADY II they have common sense, common
Justice, or common discretion, let them now desist'