The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-11-09
You are an Aboliti( mist.


called abolitonsts The editor seems to consid-
er all persons so denounced as prosecuted. I'M
less it can be made to appear, that they have
been taking in the act of tcloncously packing
n negro Oh their backs from: Il slave to free
State, and there sleeping with him.--or her. He
says that "twenty years ago, abolitionist was es
ieemed word of reproach, even in the Zee
States, but that now it is Invested Of all olium.
This is true, but the reason for this change in
northern sentiment, is not because of anything
Southern Northern Democrats or any Southern
States have done II is because such papers as
the Union and such politicians as its editor, have
been during this time. rantng against the sin
aud impoicy of domestic slavery in the South,
have painted it in mlgned horrors, until rcli
gious societies sundered upon that question, have
taught the laboring people Of the north to be-
lieve that the labor of the slave in the South
was inimical to the interests, and degrading in
the most offensive sense to them, have by arous-
ing flnatical zeal, suppressing truth, and propa-
eating fllsehood, SO schooled and wrought upon
that people, as to bring about majority of vo-
tiers and of people, TO act with them, and TO
elect President embracing their views and
pledged to their cause. Seventy years ago
gambling was considered, 10y the elite of Eng
lsh society, as very innocent and proper
amusement. and was anticipated in by ladies
and gentlemen Of the first responsibility, in the
Empire, openly and publicly.-a change of SEN
timcnt has taken place,-an gambling is under
the ban Of society. and of law, and he who
would indulge his flncies in gaming, must do so
in a corner, with men Of questionable rerute,
and at the sacrifice of character if detected
perhaps Of being branded felon, loss of liberty
and civil rights.
We do not mean to justify gambling, we think
it most pernicious thing ana that this change
of public sentiment in that respect is right; bat
we introduce it as an illustration, showing that
what was esteemed right and lawful, may by
years of steady teaching to the public. become in
the estimation of that people. rrel gious, sinful
impolitc and hateful in the EXTREMIST degree.
To such state of sentiment have the anti-sla
very disciples brought the people of the north
in regard to slavery and that is the true reason
why it is rather creditube. in those States to be
considered an abolitonist. The democracy of
the South, and as long as they held the MAORI
ties in the North, held out against. this insidi-
Gus undermining Of the rights of the Southern
people. The northern man north who maintained
the political compact with the slave owner in
this respect. was made olious to his fellow cii-
zen. He was branded rs a dough-face a niger
catcher for the South, and prosecuted to retire
ment.
Antislavery men, filled state offices and cgis-
lative halls. the Wades and Summers waxed
mi ghty in the Federal Congress. Democracy was
placed under the ban, until, under the pressure
OF the times, overwhelmed with odum. trampled
upon by the victorious masses of ant-slavery.-
by the general teaching so long persisted in.
through every conceivable channel desplring
Of personal success in politics by other means,
even democrats stopped and joined hands with
the mistaken bat clamo1ous hordes, that were
shouting against slavery in America.
So long as the great democracy stood unit d
like phalanX, about the Constitution and laws
of the Unitel States, there was confidence on
the part of the slave States, in the integrity of
the Federal Government, and complete Union OF
the States: but when he Of the Sac. tnlou and
others Of his kind, by their twenty years nsidious
plotting and teaching, broke this sacred square,
antslavery triumphed and the Union was sun
dered. And now forsooth the men that have
done this mast not be called aboitionists,
They have said time and again that dissou.
ton of the Union wolll abolish slavery. and
they have produced this dissolution yet it
is an of, nee, to >pak of them rs uboltionists.
They bring abont the election. President, Of a
man, who declares that a ''house (maaning the
Uuon) divided against itself can't stand. that
the Union can't exist half slave and half free
that it must be all one thing or the other and who
is pledged to favor making ii all free, and they
back a support to him in his EXTREMIST measures.
and yet are not uboliton>ts? In the cabinet and
high in favor with this President. are men who
have denounced slavery and save.h holders, who
have denounced the Constitution of the United
States because it protected the southern man in
/ his rights slave owner, who have declared
that there was an irrepressible conflict between
the institutions of the Southern States ana thos,
of the free, and that this conflict must 90 on I'm
til liberty should triumph. all Of whom are back
ed up and supported by them and yet they mus
not be offended by the term aholitonst? Oh
you sensitive nerved philosopher hav
made great mistake, and you don't want to bea
the approbum and cyecratons of deceived unt
outraged public, which you plainly see is coming
] ou see the handwriting on the wall, and you
knees begin to smite. Yoa are confronted by the
rcproving ghost of your country, and like Mac
beth, you say
'Shake not thy CORY locks at me,
Thou can'st not say, did it,
And with chattering teeth, you would manag'
to stammer this out. though all your victims, from
Old John Brown, the gallant dead at Bull Run
Cheat Mountain Big Bethel, Edwards Ferry