The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-12-04
EMANCIPATION.

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Philips, Charles Sumner and Henry Ward
Beecheb are representatives, has had a
controlling influence in its management
The hand Of these abolition leaders is al
ready seen in resistance to the Fugitive
Slave Law. by mob law violence, in the
passage Of Personal Liberty Bills by
State Legislatures aud in the fiery denun-
CATIONS Of the institutions Of the South,
by abolition presses, stump orators and
congressman. The more conservative
members Of the republican party have
been overslaughed and led INTERESTINGLY
by the nose, by these frothy, rampant de-
chalmers who havo'sang the changes upon
slavery and The South until the power of
resistance has beeome well nigh exhaust
ed. Starting upon the premise that
"'SIayery is wrong andfonght to be crush
cd wherdverit can be reached, by nation.
al Or Stale legislation the abolition
leaders have led the way in "war gep
slavery" which has at last calmiBatedin
the Southern rcBeilion.. isaooJ 10 nH'' a1f
The democratic and conservative wing
leaders ferosaw this result years ago, and
warned thei'coubtty against it. Web
s:er, Choate, Jackson, Polk and Douglas,
hays. left their solemn warnings upon rec
ord against The fanatical folly Of abolition
is,u;abut madness ruled the hour" and
wisdom and patriotism were ridiculcd as
dQugh-faceism and fogyism. When the
history of the causes Of the present war
shall be written the impartial historian
win not hesitate 10 lay the chief respon-
sibilitv at the door of aboIitionism. Had
there been no anti-slavery crusade at the
North, thc.e would have been no rebell-
ION at the South. Had the counsels Of
Clay, Douglas, and their compeers been
followed, aboitionism would have been
abandoned, sectional luminosity smothered
and patriotism and loyalty now pervading
the land.
One would suppose that the people
had seen enough of the bitter fruits of
abolitionism, to cast it from them and
trampic it beneath their feet; that the
abolition leaders themselves, seeing the
utter failure Of their representations and
the ruin and bo6dshecl they have caused,
woula. hide, their diminished heads in
shame and leave the, direction, of affairs
to olhcr'and'moro competeathads. But
like Robbespicrrc and sDauton, ia the
FRENCH revolution they look for peace only
through the determination Of, their enc
mics. The restoration of the Union
would be to them bootlcss victory I'M
less .accomPanied by a destruction Of
slavery. The war as it,progresses brings
out abundant proof of this at every step.
From the time General Butler offered the
services Of his regiment to suppress a
slave instruction in Maryland, to the is
suing of General Shenrman's procama-
ton at Beaufort, declaring that the $50
cial and local institutions of South Caro-
lima should not be interfered with, the
abolitionists and ultra republicans have
been clanorous for the emancipation Of
the slaves in every Southern State. Re.
ligious bqdies have expressed their desire
for-D their emancipation 10 resolves aud
memofinIs?lhe aboliticn pressfaSelbeen
oS'erbntdehed aifHs"fcadSrs sc floi Same
purport, and we may expect AZ. itbc next
session ofg Congress a. systematic and
powerful Opposition 10 the administration,
based upon this abolition policy I II re-
mains, J g BE- seen yhether. Mr.. G Lincoln
basoLhe 6rppess TO perssvsro, IN the. poll
cyhithorto pursued. = The time has come
when abolitidnish %iirHdSnIahd an entire
change ip the q conduct Of the war; that
instead. of a,war in1defensc of tho consti-
tuition, it shall be n war for the extermi-
nation Of Slavery. The people may as
well begin to look this issue full in the
face fer. itis coming upon them and they
must cheose9the side on which they will
stand. They must join hands with Gar
rison and Beecher in favor Of abolishing
slavery, or with Lincoln, Crttenden and
Holt against it. 1t is momcntous is
sue involving the life or death. of the re-
public. Should the ADMINISTRATION adopt
the ahoEtiop policy, ave copsiderthe knell
OF theoUuiouisouud@Lsi Everyloyal man
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