The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-03-28

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BENTON W. NO.. ERN DEMOCRACY.
y. The last Cedar Democrat cobtaius .
long, pretended editorial about "Aboli.
s'ssisn"-in which i, attempts to max.
oss thst oil the trouble that has of late
come upon our country, is the result of
sboli'ion agitation, which, it says, com.
nenced about thirty years ago. l. says
that, cat that time public sentiment
Throughout the United States was de.
"eiaedly in favcr Of emancipation and
"the removsl Of slavery from the couu-
cry All the leading churches in the
country gave the cause Of emancipation
their undivided influence. VIC en-
derse these statements The churches
then gave ",heir undivided influence
sgainst slavery" and were no. denounc.
ID as ueddling with politics. "PubIic
sentiment was 10 favor Of emancipation
"aod the removal Of slavery" aud mau
could oppose the extension Of slavery
without being denounced as a disunou.
ist. Tho case is different now. Now it
il wrong for the churches to favor eman.
cipstion. What has caused the change !?
The Democrat lays i. all to the Aboli.
s'oni's' Its memory i. very short or its
knowledge Of history is very defcieu. or
It Knows thst Abolition societies were
formed more than thirty years ago, and
that too BY the active men Of the Revo.
luton. Benjamin Franklin was Pres;.
dent Of an Abolition society, and was
working member, and from his time down
70 the present there have been such SO.
e'ssies, add they have doue good. L.
wss not the Abolition societies that
caused the agitation, bu. it was the az.
sressive spiri. of the shareholders and
the doughfacedne.s of the northern Dem.
ocrats. What is now denomi. ated a.
"Abolitionisrn" was almost universal
thirty years ago, as is admitted in the
above quotation. Col Benton, in the
'seoad volume Of his Thirty Years in
the U. s. Senate" places tho RESPONSE.
bility Of this agitation where it belongs.
Il will be seen that he dates the com.
mencenent Of the agitation at abou. the
same time as the Democrat We think
that Col. Benton is little better author.
ity than the Democrat, and commend his
statements to the careful consideration
OF those who arc continually denounc,ng
Northern men. Northern anti slavery
men are agitators only in the sense thai
. man is an agitator if he resists the at.
tempt Of highwayman to rob him Of his
money. If he resi..s, an agitation is
commenced, and, in the view of the
Democrat, the robbed, and not the rob.
Der, Is the asitator Col Benton says.
"The regular Inauguration Of this
slavery agitation dates from the year
1885 but it had commenced two wears
before, and in this way qualification aud
disunion had commenced ia 1880 upon
complaints against protective tariff -
That, being pu. down in 1885 under
President Jackson's proclamation and
energetic measures, was Immediately sub
stiluted by the slavery agitation. MIR.
Calhoun, when he went home from Con.
gress in the spring of that year, told his
friends that The ISouh c,uH nerer be
united against the North on the torit
qucs'ion-thm the sugar Interests Of Lou
'siana you'd keep her out, and that III,
basis Of Southern uniioa must be Atiee
to the slacc QUESTION. Then all the pa-
pers in his interest, and especially tn
one at Washington, published by Mr.
Duff Green, dropped tariff agitation, aa
commenced upon agitation, and in tw
years had The agitation ripe for inausurs
ton On the slavery question. And, i
tracing this agi,ation to its present stag
and " comprehend Its rationale, it is NJ
to be forgotten that it is mere contin,
alton of old tariff disunion, and preferre
because more available