New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-20
wHo ARE THE ABoLETsONIsTs

! Without tear OF paradox, Wo ansWer-iA nc
! Rebel Shareholders themselves. And we pro-
coed to prove our case.
Not an age ago, we stood in Tammany Hail.
and heard Col John Cochfane make charm
ing speech in favor of the annexation Oh Cuba.
Ii we did not think it Pro-Slayery speech,
the audience did, and bestowed upon it need
of approving screams as loud as those which
immediately after greeted the bald niggcrisms
of Isaiah Rynders. Where stands John COch'
rane now! Is he dovOting bis velvet elocution
to the cause of man. owning Does he dote
upon shareholders as they are now, in the per-
feet bloom of natural development On the
contrary, he ayowed himself in this very city
recently, to a certain and not inconsiderable
extent, an Abotionist Who made him go?
The Rebel Shareholders Who, then, are the
real AbOlitonists We answer, the Rebel
Shareholders They are not only abOshing
Slavery, but Pro-Savery throughout the coun-
try. Is this, inasmuch as we are Of the Re-
publican party, any fault OF oursl We are
not Daniel s. Dickinson's cOpsciencc-keeper.
NIr. George Bancroft doesn't come to us for
his opinions. Gen. Benjamin L. Butler cannot
Say with truth that we made him practical
AbOlitionist. Mr.. Benjamin +. Hallet isn't in
debted to The LiJerator for lis new and cred
table views. Who have put even Caleb Cush-
inc under conviction, and well advanced toward
repentance We answer, once more, the Rebel
Shareholders Who, then. are the Abolition
istsl
Again. here is the Democratic Party de-
moralized, disiutegrated, az bad as destroyed.
Who DID it, Who alienated allies Ss faithful
% possible Who threw down into the dust
their well-knit pbalanx of champions 50 care.
less of all save fealty to man-stealerSl Who
converted it, rank, file, aud leaders, into
sworn and inexorablc enemy We answer,
once more, she Rebel Shareholders Who,
then, are the Aboitionists
If men will grasp at shadows they must cen
be content to miss the substance. These
Rebels had been stuffed with plums-why
would they, after such a juvenile fashion, cry
for the moon They wanted Fugitive slave
Law, and thoy got it, they wanted IL enforced
in Boston, and it was enforced. ut the bay
onet's point, in Boston; they wanted more ter
ritory, and we voted them enough TO make n
moderate continent; they wanted Free Trade,
and an approximation to Free Trade was con
coded; they wanted to hang John Brown, aud
they old hang him; they wanted buchanan "a
the White Houe, and IA the VINE House did
he take up his vretchcd residence. What
more did they want God may kuoW, hut we
don't. -Four years ago Slavery seemed to be
built upon a rOck; and good men became dig.
heartened as they calculated its strength. IL
lad upon its siie the Democratic PART, tie
remuins of the Wing Party, o large body Of
Northern c!ergymen, and very considerable
minority, valuable. 81 least as nucleus, Of
Northern voters. II II was aasailcd in conyen-
tons and synods aud in ~ manner Of annual
meetings, II never lacked glib defenders. Sci
ence soothed it; Biblical criticism eoddled it;
commerce made love to il economists
dandled it; alarmists pleaded for it; law
vers ransacked whole libraries, from
Coke TO Taney in behalf Of it. Every
body, az o rule, admitted that the United
States Constitution was upon It's side. Ii a
man was logged to death in Arkansas, some.
body always remarked, serenely: "Ah! the
" Constitution, you know" and nobody after
that ventured TO say n o. liable about the hom.
icidc. Literature was emascuated TO assuage
alayeholdirg apprehension'; unfortunate poems
were subjected to ampTianon and peccant
tracts to excisiOD; religious newspapers were
conducted with more caution in favor Of Slay-
cry than severity against Sin; and those pro-
tests against domineerDg wrong which should
have been thunderous saBk to the soitest sigh.
But what oyaled all this Slavery trusts no.
body. These doughfaces were As much in
earnest as men of such pllant natures could lie;
but al,er al their scraping and bowling and
treacled words aud linitiess protestations, the
Shareholder believed not in them. lie might
lave done so. We say candidy that We think
be misht have done so. We think that it
would have been for the interest of bis System
of Labor for him TO have ieigued, even if he
did no. feel, generous credLlity. The polt.
zeal alliance vouchsaied to him, much as he
miaht dstrust it, was surely better than po-
li;cal outlawry. Very macy dogs have man.
asei to make shift in this barren world by
forcing their company upon cleaner curs. The
strength of Slavery was in its Electoral Votes
aud Congressional Representation; but these IN
turn were not in themselves, rs we have seen,
powerful enough to sway the national policy
But. as it fell out, the Northern Democracy
needed the Shareholders as urgently as tho
Shareholders needed the Democracy. Alone it
oo,N do noibino With n subsidized South