Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-10-26
Abolitionism

/" Dawsons Weekly Times and Union 4
Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Editor of (which B
paper has just been appointed by President {
Lincoln, Governor of Utah. 1t says;-- !
This unfortunate isn, which for a few
years last past, subsequent to the disinte-
grafton of the Wing party, surreptitiously
forced itself into notority and boldness
and consequence, and which so much in
jured the Republican party, has seen the
banks of its political Jordan, and now
must turn back dismayed and disappointed.
The question whether by this civil war it
is designed to emancipatc negro slavery, is
forced upon us all to answer. And thank
God, President Lincoln, as the Chief Ex-
ecutive Of the nation has answered for US,
with an emphatic No. Why! he could
answer no other way, for he has sworn to
preserve, protect and defend the Constitu
ton of the United States; and making
this war one for the abolition of slavery,
would violate that Constitution and render
all hope of restoring the Union vain.
Docs not the law forbid it! Does not
every consideration of morals as drawn
from the soundest policy, forbid it ? Ger
tainly it does; and yet the circumstance
of war may create the necessity of con-
fscation Of many slaves TO be freed or re-
turned to their masters as time and other
circumstances may make proper. But
this confscation of few is only an saci-
aent and not the purpose Of the war; aud
the Administration has said, and Congress-
has declared in its most solemn manner
that for the abolition of slavery the war
is not carried on ; and hence all such in
c;dental confseation or emancipation will
be avoided SO far as possible. To this
sentiment four fifths of the whole people of
the loyal tates give their hearty approval
and so no emancipation will take place
beyond what is incidentally unavoidable.
And yet there are newspapers and ultra
men all over the land, who talk and write
as if their sentiments were those of the
people and the Administration. They
. even seek in this trying hour, when all true
Union men and The Administratio are
striving in every way to preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution against rebell-
ion, to force their extreme sentiments on
the President and on the public mind
and thus have it appear that the last of
negro slavery is intended by the war but
it is ofno avail, the war will be prosecuted
REGARDLESS, of their dogmas or influence.
Rebellion will be ended and the trial of
!, whether our people are capable Of COVER
ming themselves, will 60 on to success till
the Constitution with its compromises '
will 10 again acknowledged in all Tx
States. Then that other question Of ABo
ILITIoNIsM will remain to be disposed O.
3 at the North, in manner just as deter
U mined and final as that of SECESSION viii
q then have been; and in that awful hou
. when abolitiopism will come up before th
!. tribunal of an outraged people to answc
;s for its sins, terrible will be the ordea
through which it will be forced to pass
It will then be ajudged aud dceroed tha
- abolitionism and secession arc crimes 81
Il, indcniical that they may be joined in on
Indictment and punished in every particu
lar alike, and without benefit of clergy
Let the awful fate which awaits such
. when the war shall be over, from this da
on, sink deep into their soals aud set thcl
Id at the work Of putting their houses ia OF
Id der for the sentence Of condemnation.
o. We still lingcr to in,ist Gil them not t
to throw this apple of discord into this awf
W war. They should know that it leads I
0" inHam ed passions and fanaticisim on Il
'c- one side and resentment on the other,
n behalf our civil institutions, and all abo
le' cause about which they have no leg
u concern, and which they cannot ass;
ng without attacking the Constitution tn
'te gave it guarantees which they can not re
lease. Still lingering, We urge them n
he 10 divide us Oh question which is hosti
70 both to war and to peace at home, host
ere to the Union and tho Constitution, brin
riy ing infinite woes to tue endured. Aga
rn' We implore them as we i" plore secessioni
to lay down their arms before they a
rt~ compelled to by the stern necessity of t
we, war they have so rasnly invoked,
'o We may be deceived, but appearance
~ a., certainly indicate in New England, her
'A0 to.ore most fanatic on this subject, I
'on cciving sanity, The conservative elemen
",'!y even III Massachusetts, are working wo
Di' -. drous changes in the rabid ansi-slave
SUI sentiment OF her people. We hail this