Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-11-29
Who are the AbOHitianists ?

and heard Col. John Cochrane make a charm
ing speech in favor of the annexation Of Cuba.
Ii we did NOT think il O PTo-Slavery speech,
the audience did, and bestowed upon it need
of approving screams no loud as those which
Immediately after greeted the bald niggerisns
of Isaiah Rynders. Where stands John Coch
rane now9 Is he devoting bis velvet slocution
TO the cause of narrowing Does he dote
upon shareholders no they are Low, in the per-
feet bloom of natural development On ths
contrary, he avowed himself 10 this very city
recently, 10 certain aud not uncomfortable
extent, an Abolitiouist. Who made him SO :
The Rebel Shareholders Who, then, are the
real Abolitonists We anAwer, the Rebel
Shareholders They are not only abo fishing
Slavery, but Pro-Slayary throughout the coan-
try. Is this, inasmuCh as We are Of the Re-
publican party, any fault OF ouraa We are
not Daniel s. Dickinson's conscience. keeper
Mr.. George Bancroft doesn't come to us for
his opinions. Gen. Beniamin 4. Butler can
not say with truth that we made him praoti-
cal Abolitionists. tIr. Bsnjamlu +. Hallet
isn't indebted to The LGbeFator for his new and
Cfeditable views. Who have put even Caleb
Gushing under conviction, aud we'll advanced
toward repentance We answer, once more,
the Rebel Shareholders Who, then, are the
.Abolitionistsl
Again, here 10 the Democratic Party de-
moEalized, disintegrafsd, as bad as destroyed.
Who did it Who Alienated allies as faithful
no possible I Who threw down into the dust
their weil-knit phalanx of champions so care-
less of all save feality to man-stealers Who
converted il, rank. file, and leaders, into
sworn and inexorAble enemy2 We answer,
once more, the Rebel SlavehOldsrs Who,
then, are the AboIitionits
IL men will grasp at shadows they must e'eb
be oonteHt TO miss the substance. These Reb-
elp had been stuffed with plums-ghy would
they, after sueh a Juvenile fashion, cry for the
moon They wanted Fugitive Slave Law,
and they got, they wanted it enforced in Bos-
tan, and il was enforced, st the bayonet's point,
in Boston; they wanted more territory, aud we
voted them enough to make moderate conti~
nent; they wanted Free Trade, and an approx
imaticu to Free Trade was conceded; they
wanted to hang John Brown, and they did
hang him; they wanted Buchanan In the White
House, and in the White House did he take
up his wfetched residence. What more did
they want? God may know, but we
don't. Fonr years ago, Slavery seemed to
be built upon rock; and good men became
disheartened as they calculated It's strength
1t had upon its side the Democratic party, the
remains of the Whig Party, large body of
Northern clergymen, and very considerable
minority, valuable, at least as a nucleus, Of
Northern voters. Ii it was assailed In conVen
tions and synods, and in all manner Of annual
meetings, is never lacked glib defenders. Sol
enee soothad it; Biblical criticism coddled it;
commerce made love to it; seonomists dandled
it, alarmists pleaded for it; lawyers ransacked
whole libraries, from Coke 10 Taney in behalf
of it, Every body, as a rule, admitted that
the United States Constitution was upon its
side. II man was fogged to death in Ark
ensas, somebody always remarked, serenely
Sab the Constitution you know" and no.
body after that ventured TO say syllable
about the homicide Literasure was emascu-
lated to assuaee slaveholding apprehensions;
unfortunate poems we're subjected to amp uta4
tion and psccant tracts to cxcision; religious
newspapers were conducted with more caution
in favor of Slavery than severity against Sir;
aud those protests against domineering wrong
which should have been thunderous sank to
the softest Sigh. But what availed all this
Slavery trusts nobody. These dougnfaces
we're ne much in earnest as men of such plant
natures could be; but after all their scraping
and bowing and trcaced words and limitless
proteslations, the Stakeholder believed not iu
them. He might have done SO. We say can.
didly that we think he might have done so.--
We think that it would have been tor the in-
teress of bis System of Labor for him to have
feigned, even If be did not feel, generous
crednlity. The political alliance veuchsafed
TO him, much aa he might distrust il, was sure
u better than political outlawry. Very NANCY
dogs have managed to make shift 10 this
barren world by forcing their company upon
cleaner ours. The atrength Of Slavery was in
ita Electoral Votes and Congressional Repre-
eentation bat these in turn were not 10 them-
selves, az we have seen, powerful enough TO
sway the national policy. But, as 1t fell out,
the Northern Democracy needed the Slave
holders as urgently as the SHAREHOLDERS needed
The Democracy. Alone ii could do nothing.
With q subsidized South faithful TO its venal
contracts, we might have had, and we shudder
10 think how narrowly we have escaped, Dy-
Dasty Of BuchaDans. Slavery eau never DO q
robust political institution, but 10 10 astonishing
how much sedulous nursing will do for the
puniest Of weaklings.
The Democracy, demolished Dy the Grassy
blows Of the shareholders, they had yet one
more chance not Cor the perpetuitY--for that
from the frs:, was out Of the question--but
for The prolongation Of the institution. Yet
once more the gods msddened those who we're
designed for destruction. "A quiet acquies-
oence 10 the election Of Mr.. Lincoln, while 10
would nos have been inconsistent with the
most yigilant circumspeclion, would haye done !
10 much TO oou1seraot apJ abolitien tendencies