The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-12
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
AbOlitionism UndIsguisedl.

If the almost utter ruin of the industrial
and financial interests OF the country, and
the scenes Of bloodshed 10 the present war,
and the dishonor to our country abroad,
caused by Abolition fanaticism, cannot
open the eyes of the people to the baneful
effects Of the slavery agitation, we trust the
following extracts will. They are taken
from recent article in HENRY WARD
BEEoHER's paper, the New York Inde-
pendent
The grand result-the only solution of the
question-is fast coming up-the emancipation
of the slaves by the nation. What other es-
cape is there from our difficulties Why
should not our people and our statesmen look
it fair in the face?
The South is far stronger and better supplied
than we suppose. She is in earnest. She be.
likely to think herself less so after a blockade
and campaign. She is encouraged by the
base sympathy of England She never could
feel any surety for slavery in another Union
with US. She hates us.
Evidently, there is but one path to safety
and victory--one to permanent settlement
one to the quiet or subjugation of the South.
Do not fear it ! Look it boldly in the face,
namely, the emancipation of the slaves.
Let our armies, as military necessity"
and strategical act, declare ''freedOm" to all,
and in a moment we have an army of 1000, 900
| human beings on our side-allies in every
house and on every plantation. The enemy is
demoralized. Panic sweeps through the South
ern land. Here is foe more dreadful than
| Northern armies.
| Fighting so near our own forces, we may
hope the revengeful feelings of these poor OPP
| pressed creatures would be restrained. Still,
would inevitable desOlatiOn and destruc-
| ton sweep like tempest over the South
| ern land. And it would be just. These men
have borne the wrongs of centuries, and why
should not their uprising be bloody? Let
them have their freedom, if they can win it,
| even though it be over the cOrpses of their
masters and the ashes of the ruined home
steads. After this tempest of fire and havoc
| would arise better era for the South. Free
labOrers would pour in; wasted fields would
be cultivated by new hands; ruined cities
would be built up by Northern capital and
| ingenuity, and the problem and the task for
the civilization of the coming age, would be
| the education and preparation of 100000 of
blacks--perhaps through some system of ap.
| prenticeshp--tor the rights and the privileges
| of free labOrers.
| For such glorious result, even if it come
through tears and blood, do we devoutly
| pray.
These sentiments are atrOciOus. This is
abolitionism undisguised. These are the
results which would necessarily follow from
the carrying out of these doctrines. The
paper which puts them forth unblushingly
processes to be Christian, claims to be in
spired with the forgiving charity and love
which characterize the doctrines of the
Christian religion. What mockery Fiends
in human shape-devils incarnate may
gloat with horrid satisfaction over the pic
ture which their imaginations have painted
as the result of this horrid contest, and for
the realization of which they may devout.
ly pray;" but every real patriot, every true
friend of the human race will shudder at
the bare contemplation of the scenes which
fanatical abolitionism, had it the power,
would spread out before our view. Imagine
one half our country given up to all the
barbarities which characterized the Sepoy
rebellion. And this is Christians prayer.
From such Christianity, Good Lord de-.
liver u.s." He says of the South, She
hates u.s." Why does she hate US? Be-
cause of the preaching of just such daboli-
cal doctrines as are here set forth. With.
out that the conspirators could never have
brought her people up to the point of revo-
luton. 1t is the continuance in putting
forth such sentiments, which are republished
at the South, that keeps the fires of rebel
lion burning so iercely.
We regret to know that such sentiments
are not confined to the Abolition party
proper. Radical Republicans are here and
there preaching similar doctrines. The
Washington correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, whose sentiments are evi.
IDENTIFY approved by that paper, has the
following:
If this war were for anything short of reali-
zing perfect equality OF rights for every hui
man being, it would be the most foolish cru.
SADIE or the direst butchery that the world was
ever stained withal. On the triumph of free
dom over slavery rests the honor and the fate
of this nation. We achieved national liberty
through the Revolution, to make US people
the worthy standard bearer of that holy cause
which we claim to have espoused for all the
world.
While such things are written here and
republished in the Southern prints, how
can it be expected that the Southern people
can be made to believe that this is not war
for their humiliation.