Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-05-10
Thursday Morning, May 10, 1880
Remedy for Abolitionism.

The annexed admirable article is
transcribed from the columns Of the
Manchester On. H. Union Democrat.
Sentiments such as are therein ex-
pressed seldom find their way into
sheets published north of the Poto-
mac. Would that more of the edi-
tors Of the North possessed the
frankness and independence of Mr..
Campbell:
We'bave long been of the opinion
that there is but one remedy for
Abolitionism. Our people shudder
ut the word slauery. They have
but meagre idea of the thing it
represents. They never see il as an
institution which feeds, clothes, city,
ilizes and Cbristianizes barbarous
race, but simply as an agency whose
general spirit is represented by the
occasional cruelties practiced underit.
Consequently they will never let it
rest. They will fluid some pretext
for its agitation; or, in default of a
pretext, they will assail the thing it.
self. and secure a large measure OF
public sympathy. Look back lit
tie. The acquisition Of Louisiana,
and the admission of Mis- souri and
Arkansas, the annexation of Texas
the Mexican war. the purchase o.
California, New Mexico and Masilla
the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, have all been made the prelext
for violent Abolition excitement
And, in the present temper of the
public mind, it is almost impossible
for Congress to do anything to which
a pro-slavery significance will not be
ascribed. This shows that dema-
gogues rely upon the prejudices OF
our people against slavery as the most
available means ofpromotion. 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 reme-
dy in their own hands-the DOLLY
remedy-they must make abolition
ism cosNy. We have done what We
could to arrest it; but with NORTH
cation and shame, we are obliged 70
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 the
Abolitionists in a year if they will:
but there is only one way they must
Stare it out.
Inthis city we have three large man.
ufacturing corporations : the Stark.
the Amoskeag and the Manch' ster
All of them, practically, are Aboh.
ton concerns; yet all of them are
growing rich and impudent upon the
profits of Southern trade. 1t was
hoped that the murderous invasion
of Virginia by old Brown and his
gang Of villains would awaken the
people Of the North to the danger, i!
not the disgrace, of the Abolition
agitation in every form. But it
seems to have fired lanatieism with
frenzy, aud certainly there has been
no time within the last ten years
when the manufacturers here have
resorted to such infamous means to
swell the Abolition vote. The vote
in the corporation wards, especially
10 the First, shows with what alacri-
ty the managers responded to the
appeals of the Republican committee,
by coerciDg their workmen to vote
the John Brown ticket.
Our Southern friends are generous
and forbearing. We have in this
oity 1900 men who want so to vote
that the South shall understand we.
do not wish to interfere in any way
With its Constitutional rights. The
doctrine has been openly advocated
hero by the Abolition press and
Abolition orators that such men must
be starred oat-must not be en-
ployed; and many an honest dem
ocrst. gentlemen of the South, who
works upon the goods you buy, has
been compelled to vote against your
tights and his own conscience under
he penalty Of dismissal. And it
! not long since that a prominent
,ttaclse Of the Amoskeag mills crept
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