Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-06-04
Effects of Abolitionism in the Free
 States.
A REMARKABLE PREDICTION.

a In 1889, now twenty one years ago, Henry Clay made remarkable speech upon the effects of the Abolition agitation at the North. The great fact stands out now that it is aboliIonism at the North which is desolatng and destroying our Union, and that it is sentiment which tends directly 10 dsunion, civil war, anar- chy, and bloodshed. Read what MT. Clay. the far-seeing patriot and statesman then said. It was prophecy then, but it is ra- pidly becoming history now.
 WARNING AGAINST ABoLrTIoNIsTs.
 A Abolitionism should no longer be regard ed as an imaginary danger. The Aboli- tlonsls, let me suppose, succeed in their present aim of uniting the inhabitants of the free States as one man, against the inhabitants of the slave States. Union on the one side will beget union on the other. And this progress of reciprocal consolida- ion will be attended with violent prejudi- ;es, embittered passions, and impacable animosities which ever degraded or de- formed human nature. A virtual dissou. ton of the Union will have taken place, while the form of its existence remain. The most valuable element of unity, mu- tul kindness, the feeling of sympathy, the fralernaI bonds which now unite us, will have been extinguisbed forever. One sedion will stand in menacing and hostile array against the other. The collision of opiaion will be quickly followed by the clash of arms.
 HIS PICTURE OF THE CONSEQUENCES.
 l will not attempt to describe scenes which now happily lie concealed from our view. Aboltionists themselves would shrink back in dismay and horror at the contemplation of desoIaled fields, conha- grated cities, murdered inhabitants, and the overthrow of the fairest fabric of hu- man government that ever rose 10 animate tbe hope of ofcivihzed man.
 Nor should the Abolilonists hatter them- selves that If they succeed in their object of uniting tie people of the free States, they will enter the contest with numerical superiority that must insure victory. All history and experiment. proves the hazard and uncertainty of war. And we are ad monshtd by Holy Writ that the race is not 10 the swift nor the battle to the strong. THE coNQUERoR AND THE CONQUERED.
 But if they were 10 conquer, whom would they conquerl A foreign foe one who had insuled our flag, invaded our shores, and laid our country waste? No, sir, mo- It would be a conquest without Iaures, without gory-a self, suicidal conquest of brothers over brothers. achieved by one over another portion of the descendants of common an- cestors, who, nobly pledging their lives, thelr fortunes and their sacred honor, and fought and bled side by side, in many hard battle on land and ocean, severed our country from the British crown, and estab- Iished our national independence.
 THE DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN ACTION.
 The inhabitants of the slave States are accused by their Northern brethren with displaying too much rash ness and sensiblily to the operations and proceedings of Abolltonists. But before they can be rightfully judged there should be reversal of condition. Let me sup pose that the people of the slave States were to form societies, subsidize presses, make large pecuniary contributions, send forth numerous missionaries throughout their borders, and enter into machlnations to burn the beautiful capitols, destroy the productive manufacturers and sink in the ocean the gallant ships of the Northern States. Would these incendiary proceed ings be regarded as neighborly or friend ly, and consistent with fraternal sentiment which should ever be cherished by one portion of the Union toward another !? Would they excite no commotlon2 Occa- sion no manifestation of dissatisfaction, nor lead to any acts of retalialory violence? But the supposed case falls lar short of the actual one, in most essential circum- stance. In so contingency could these capitols, manufactures and ships rise in rebellion and massacre the inhabitants of the Northern States.
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