Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-20
The Enects of AboiIiionism.

Northern sympathy for the slave, how
ever well bern, has led the Northern people
into grievous error.
Many excellent. but misguided people,
imagine that the emancipation of the slaves
in the Spy,h would be the erowning
achievement Of human liberty and pro-
gress and few Of the more fanatical actu.
ally look with delight upon the supposed
prospect that our civil war will ultimately
work the emancipation of the slaves.
We have no love for the institution of
slavery; yet here it is. on our soil. planted
there by the British, and what are we to do
with it? To abolish il and set free four
millions of ignorant negroes, incapable of
self-maintenance and without conception
of duty to society or obligation to law
would be destructive to the black and seri
Gus injury to the white. Therefore. with
all our adherence to the system of slavery
IN the abstract, we believe the welfare of
both races, the safety of society, and prac-
tical philanthropy, alike require that the
negroes of the SouthernlrStates be held in
the condition that they be at present, until
by some plan of colonization they can be
ser arated from the whites.
| The views Of the immortal Henry Claw
on this subject are we'll worth considering
/ at this time. lie was no friend Of slavery.
as may be seen from the fnllnwipg letter
frcm bim to Rev. Walker Gotten, vet far
the sake of humanity and the prosperity Of
tie uHion he was opposed to turning the
negroes free amongst us:
ASHLAND. Sept .. 1913.
MY DEAR SIR: Allow me to select sub
ject for one of your tracts, which, treated
in your popular and condensed way. |
think would be attended with great and
good effect. | mean abolition
1t is manifest that the ultras of thu,
party are extremely mischievous. and are
hurrying on the country to fearful eonse-
quences They are not to be conciliated
by the Wings. EngrOssed with single
iden, they care for nothing else. They
| would see the Administration of the Cow
ernment precip;tate the nation into abso
lie ruin before they would lend helping
hand to arrest its career. They treat worst.
and dennunce most those who treat them
best, who sn far agree with them as to nd
NIT slavery to be an evil Witness their
conduct towards Mr.. Briggs and Mr..
Adams, in Massachusetts, and towards me
| will give you an outline of the manner
in which would handle it: Show the or
igin of slavery. Trace its introduction To
the British government Show how it is
disposed of by the Federal Constitution
that it IL lett exclusively to the States, ex-
cept in regard TO fugitivPs, direct taxes and
representation. Shoe Hdthe agiIution of
the question in the free States wW first de-
stroy dH,harmony, and finally lead to dis
uhion-nerPetual war-the determination
ct the African race -ultmate military des
potism
But the great aim and object IF your
tract shoult be tn arouse tie idGorinq class,
Is IN the free States against abolition. De
pet the consequences To them of immedi-
ate abolition The slaves, being free,
would be dispersed throughout the Union =:
they would enter into competition siM The
! free td6OrerS-triM the american, the Irish.
| the German-redHce has rdqes, be con tou,ad-
| ed 1cih him, and effect his moral and so,
/ cidt standing. As the ultraS 90 both for
aholitionism and anna gamatiou, show that
their object is to unite in marriage the la
boring white man and the Iaboring black
woman, to reduce the white Iahoring man
/ to the despised and degraded condition of
/ the black man"