The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-07-06
A Sal Mistake.

throughout the SOUtn, the northern
people are universally stigmatiztd as aboli-
tionists As no name in their catalogue is
more abhorent, they use this as concen-
trio expression of all that is despicable and
odious. And they believe it not misap-
Piled What is the cause of this war but
slavery, say they, and why should The
north go to war about slavery, if not 10
destroy the institution? So they reason
and SO they believe
! There never was greater mistake The
! genuine abolitionists of the north are op-
! posed to the present war We admit they
are scare, but there are as many Of them
as there ever were. 1t is true, the Repub-
| lican party, few years ago, availed itself
OF the learen sown among the people by
the genuine abolitionists as a means Of
aiding them to attain popularity and
power; but as the time came around when
they must act cut abolitionism or back
down, they took the back track with all
possible expedition.
What are the views Of the genuine abe.
litionist? What was the cause of the de-
struction Of Pennsylvania Hall by a mob
in Philadelphia IN 1899? Lloyd Garrison
made an abolition speech, in which ho de
! nounced the fIamers Of the constitution
as wor. than murderers and the cons,itu
ton as heaven daring league with hell
81. Lloyd Gar i-on hold; the same opinion
to this day. so do Wendell Phillips, the
Burleishs, and all the genuine abolitionists.
The Rev. q. W. BAssETT, of this city, is
4 genuine aboltionist. At the same time
we venture to say there is not in South
Carolina more earnest secessionist. Why
so? We have before US a pamphlet re-
Gently issued by Mr. b, entitled 4
Northern Plea for the Right of Secession ,
IN which the views Of his party are fully
set forth. With genuine haters Of slavery
the To- &c Of that pamphlet is unanswerable.
1t may be summed up in few words
The strong arm-the only sufficient egis
that has hitherto protected American
slavery has been the constitution of the
United States. BY that instrument its
existence in the southern states is not only
recognized, but guaranteed against assault
from every quarter. Does slave escape,
the constitution returns him; docs servile
instruction occur, the army and navy of
the Union is at the command of the slave
holder to suppress it. But break up this
accused Union, Gas the abolitionists cali
it, and what protection is there for slavery
In one year after the recognition of the
cotton republic, emissaries from Uoyti and
the West Indies will stir up such OH insur
rection in the south rs all the power they
can muster will not be able to suppress
Why, haul off the north from the protec
ton of the south, and in 90 days an army
of $4,000 well trained and disciplined
black men can be landed on the shores oil
South Carolina ane Georgia, and with the
aid of the risen slaves, defy the masters.
This war is wased by Mr. Lincoln to up
, hold the constitution-to maintain the
Union, and consequently to rivet closer
, than ever the chains of the slave As
abolition agitation in the north will ever
afterwards, should this war be successful
be remembered as the cause Of it, so must
the abolittonists ever afterwards be de
, spiSed and abhorred Is not, then, Mr. B
may well tsiumphantly ask, that aboli
zionist mad who supports this war?
1t is true, Mr.. B. in the pamphlet before
us, places the right of secession on other
and ostensibly higher grounds. But the
above are unquestionably the ruling ideas
and motives Of the genuine abolitionists oil
the North.
Could tho South be made to understand
this-could they be made to realize how
earnestly and ardently tho worst enemies
-, OF their idoiizsd institution are longing and
! praying for their success in overthrowing
q this government, would they not be apt te
pause in their madness?