Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-10-30
abosstIou FanatiClsnl. .

We have always believed that the fanatic on
any subject is monomauiac. When man be-
comes so welded 70 an idea or theory. that he
canno. think or reason nationally concerning it.
when one oyerpowering sentiment subjects his
intellect to its despotic sway, and common sense
is ignored and cast out. he is 4 nononaniac, and
rs far as th5 delusion extends, rs insane, as tie
craziest inmate Of bedian. Such men have in
every age been the bane Of society, and the worst
enemies that religion and rational liberty. have
ever encountered. The AboHt;onsts are the
WORST class Of fanatics with which our country
has yet been cursed, They have stirred up strife
between the sons Of ner who fought side by side
ard shoulder to shoulder in the struggle for Iude-
peudence. They have ignored the Constitution
Of their country, declaring it to be a league with
death, and a covenant with heIl.'' While pro
Tossing to be the friends of humanity. they have
melted slaves to murder their masters and weak
women and helpless children. They have pro
claimed the murderer John Brown a martyr in
the cause of humanity, and made his grave their
political Mecca. While declaring themselves
pure patriots, they proclaimed their Willingness
"under certain circumstances, to let the Union
slide, '@regarding the Abolition Of Slavery IN the
Southern States, as 4 matter # infinitely more
I Importance, than the preservation Of the Union
They have while declaring as the fundamental
doctrine Of their political creed that all mankind
/ including Negroes. are created free and equal.
/ almost il the same breath, advocated the pas
sage Of laws, dcpriving white men Of the right TO
vote OF hold Office on account Ct their religion or
I the place Of their birth. The founders Of Know
! Nothngsm were AbJlitjouists. IL Massacllus-
/ etts the strongest Abolition State. with the ex-
/ ception Of Vermont, IN the Union, almost at the
very time they EXTENDED TO Negroes the right to
vote, they deprived foreigners Of that right until
. ten years after naturalization, While authors
zing Negroes to organize volunteer companies. %
be armed at the expense Of the State, they pas sc
law for disarming all volunteer companies in
the Commonwealth composed of uaturazed For
e;guers. They seemed to entertain very exalted
aea Of the rights Of Negroes, but most contempt
ible one Of those of white men-Of their fellow.
citizens aud the countrymen Of those from whom
they had descended. All this shows that When
the AbOlitionists talk about the rights Of man
they know not what they mean, and that Will,
they are IN favor Of clevating the Negro, they re
gard the nationality or religion Of a white man
as sufficient cause for degrading him and ma
king him an outcast in the land. This is fauati
c.sn, and fauaticism Of the very worst kind.
This fanatCal organization, never presented s.
hileoas and revolving a frontto patriotic and com
mon sense men. as since the commencement o.
the present wax lgr the Union They hailed th
beginning Of the war not with horror and sorrow
but with JOY as the dawn of the Abolition mile
mum, rs the death kneIl Of the institution of sIa
very on the continent of America. 1t IS for this
that since the beginning of The war, they hav
been watching aud praying and not for the pres
ervatIon Of the Union anI the Constitution. a
they were transmitted TO US 10y Washington. an,
other illustrous patriots of the age thai tried tn
souls Of men. The whole pack. from Herao
Greeiy down to 4. A Barker went in for eman
cipating the slaves. aud for encouraging instes
Of Giscouraging servile instructions among them
When Fremont issued his Abolition Proclama
ton in Missouri the object of which was, to lib
crate all the slaves in that State and turn ther
loose on the loyal States, although it was clear
unjust, unlawful and unconstitutional. tn
A0oiitionists everywhere we're delighted with il
and pronounced It the greatest document Of th
age And when President Lincoln. had manli
: ness and firmness enough to eeto it. althoug
J they had assisted in elocting hin, they had nc
language in which to deuounce him wi:h suff
cient bitterness. They lost all confidence in hin
as soon as they found that he would not allor
himself to be used as their catspaw, in carryin
out :heir reasonable emancipation schemes.
SO fondiy were they welded TO this one idea
emancipating the slaves, that although the D,
mooraey were the irmest supporters of the Pres