Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-05-02
Abolition in the district Of columbia,

A civil war, bloodier and fiercer than that Of
the British Roses, is now raging in our coun-
try--the fruit Of that uoxious. exotic, Abol-
tionism, transplanted in the garden of free
dom by the hand of a false and fanatical phi
lanthropy. Though warned and adjured by
no less parsonage than Washington himself,
not to have anything to do with sectional
ideas and isms, the American people, or
rather a majority Of the people of the nom
slave-holding States--took under their special
charge this deadly night-shade, this Upas
plant of the political garden--which they
knew could never flourish in one-half of the
States Of the Union-cultivating it more as
siduously and carefully than corn for bread
or fax for clothing.
The solemn warning of the Pator Pdtriae was
laughed to scorn. The earnest admonitions
Of the race Of great men that succeeded him,
(lett as thcig last and most precious legacy to
posterity, were despised or forgotten. So,
the poisonous tree grew and Aourshed, and
distilled its venomous dew over thelength and
breadth Of the Northern section of the coun-
try. Rankcr and deadlier became its poison,
as the muck and filth from the partisan nos
trum were applied to its root; denser and
deeper and darker grew the shadow it cast
their caterpillar nests upon its branches, and
with their festoons Of cunnjngly-woven cob
webs, spun from the finest threads of the
higher law sophistry, shut out the day
light Of the Constitution; then, when IN the
false light in which men began to behold each
other, reason succumbcd to prejudice, COM
mon sense to passion, and patriotism to par
tizanship, the clash Of arms was heard and
section rose againstsection, in furious, bloody
and most unnatural conflict.
To drop the figure, Aboiitionism, or Anti
slayeryism, proceeded from one step to another
until it created a civil feud, whose history is
now being written in blood upon almost eve
ry hearthstone from Maine to the Rio Grande
Horror, ruin, desolation and death are borne
upon every wind. Realization of tile awful
condition Of our country is almost impossible
Tongue cannot utter nor pen dcliniate, nor
pencil portray, the ineffable agonies, the I'M
utterable horrors, the indescribable dismay
that every passing hour brings to the once
happy home Of the American citizen. And
though this dreadful curse under which the
people suffer, is the indirect result of that
Abolition crusade which set at nought the
teachings of Washington, and reared its Cor
gon head despite the prophetic language of
Webster, Clay, and their glorious compeers,
the suffering people are called to witness the
still further advancement of this monster to-
wards the destruction, nay, the very annihi-
laton, Of our Government Congress has
abolished slavery in the District Of Columbia
Are we really to be but another example in
the yerification of the pagan maxim: Whom
the gods wish TO destroy, they first make
mad ~ Congress is truly, already insane.
The conduct Of that body would have made a
secessionist Of Job, if he had been slave
holder Shall Abolitionism progress still
further in its work Of disunion and dcsola-
ton? VIII the people permit it?-Belford
(Pa) Gazette, AprH 10.