Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-01-08
THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT ~ The RuMp
cQNdREA Position oFsNa LINCOLN.

ID"
cqNdREsa- POSITION oFsMA LINCOLN.
The Washington correspondent Of the New YORK
Herald telegraphs as follows: -. -
Great anxiety is felt with regard ITO the act4on o.
Congress during the present week. in relation to the
confscation of slaves and other measures that have
been brought before The Senate and the House. -
The Administration, however, has an undoubted
majority in both branches of the National Leg,sla.
ture, and every attempt at abolition legislation viii
be successfully met both by votes and by argument
A noted antislayery ag1tator remarked this morn
ing: We do not expect to carry oar measures
but we shall awaken public sentiment and prepare
the way for revolution against the imbec'le policy
of the President and his counsellors."
As it is Of the utmost moment that every one
should know exactly upon what ground the Pres'-
dent stands, you may accept the following acts as
unquestionable and beyond the possibility OF con-
tradiction:
l. That the President is resolnte!y determined to
veto any schemes whatever involving the cmanclpa-
ton of negroes, in such a manner that they are
turned loose upon the Southern States an equality
with the white occupiers Of the SOIL He, on Satur-
day evening" uttered the following words: " Enan-
cpation would be equivalent to John Brown raid
on gigantic scale. Our position surrounded with
a sufficient number of dangers already. Abolition
would throw against u.s. irrevocably the four States
Of Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland,
which it is costing the natien such efforts to regain
We have our hands full as it is if there to be any
such suicidal legislation might as well cut loose
at once and begin taking up the arteries to prevent
our bleeding to DEATH" My informant has given
me these words that fell from the Presidents lips,
as nearly as he could remember them, and thinks
they are exactly what he said. He spoke forcbly
and energetcally deprecating than useless,
from whatever point Of view it might be regarded,
the anatical disturbances which the ultra Congress
are endeavoring to create.
2. The most far.sighted statesmen Of the Cabinet
the Senate and the House, are persuaded that the
armies of the loyal States are no more likely to
turn to their frozen homes after experiencing the
delights of the charming climate of the fruitful and
sunny South, than the Goths and Vandals of centu-
ries bygone were to withdraw from the Italian par
ad:se they had occupied into the wilderness from
whence their hordes poured forth to overrun the
world. No Government of the United States will
ever be strong enough to induce the six hundred
thousand troops about entering the rebel States to
abandon the region their shall have conquered.
Therefore, emancipating negroes would not be turn
ing them loose against the present rebel population
of the South, but against the Northern invaders of
the Southern soil that to DC its future occupicrs
who will never consent to reside north of the Poto-
mac again, and who will permit competition, 10y
an inferior race, with their future labors.
3. Abolition politicians will shortly open their
eyes to this fact that the entire army is against
them, and they will then no more dare to continue
to urge their nelrous and unpatriotc projects than
the "On to Richmond" demagogues of five months
ago did to risk the dangers OF defending their clam
orous outcres against the Administration after the
disastrous defeat at Bull Run. The advantage they
imagine must accrue from agitation of the slavery
question will DC wholly against themselves and will
rum them IN the eyes of the nation. They have
been recently reinforced by large numbers of honest
but unthinkng zcalotS for the welfare of the rcpub
lie, who have reasoned that as through emancipa-
ton, deadly blow might be aimed rebellion, it
ought to he struck in order that traitors might suffer
This latter class, when better informed and aware
OF what has become evident to farsishte, patriots,
namely, that unnecessary slave armius, slave cman
cipatlon, or attempts to raise negroes level with
the white race, would cause the disbaEdment of our
armies, and lrrevocable animoSity among loyal non
shareholders of the SOUTH will throw their weight
into the scale of the Administration, and be guided
by the same and sagacious policy it nculcatcS.
l. In view of these circumstances President Lin
coin tavors the plan Of colonization Believing in
the theory of natural fitness of races for peculiar
zones; thoroughly aware that the majority Of the
inhabitants of the border States, from the earliest
days of the career of Henry Clay up to the present
hour, have been in favor of the total occupation Of
the soil of these States by whites, and the removal
OF blacks; a disciple Of the school of Jefferson and
Madison, which desired to make Of Central America
region which, inhabited by negroes would supply
the whole world with cotton and sugar-the India
of the United States; convinced that the country is
abundanty able to pay the value of the slaves COL
on'zed out of the confscated property of pertina-
cious Confederates. Mr.. Lincoln has presented the
colonization scheme fayorably in his message, and
1t will be sustained by him to the fullest extent of
his power.
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