Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-05
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Conn.,
As there may be many in the State of
Maryland who have of late made themselves
obnoxious to the Breckenridge Democracy
as 'tAbolitionists," by fighting the battles
of the Union, we consider ourselves pecu-
liarly fortunate, OF present, in having come
into possession of u definition of the word,
aud from IA high authority, too, which can
not fail to set all right. 1t is particularly
opportuue now, when the best men here
may be pricked in their conscieuces, lest
they have drifted overinto the wrong camp,
deceived, as many are, with the clRmor OF
the Simon Pure, Estates Rights, ''chival-
ry," who assume to have in their sole keep
ing the honor of the South. Although all
of MS may have sort of suspicion that the
term "AbOlitionist" has quite lost its ter
rors as the old battle.cry which won so
many hardly-ccntested fields, still in its
varying Specification, it is worth while to
learn ut what point II has arrived now
! But we ars OBTAINING our readers, perhaps,
needlessIy. The new definition comes from
that centre ofall that is wise aud pure and
| good at present--Richmoud; and for it we
AFRO indebted to the Well-known Southern
Literary Messenger. Listen:
"An Abolitionist is any man who does
not love slavery for its own sake, as di-
vine institution; who does not worship it
as a cornerstone of civil liberty; who
does not adore ii us the only possible social
condition on which ii permanent republican
Government can be created; and who does
not, in his Utmost soul, desire to see it ex-
tended and perpetunted over the whole
earth as means of human reformation
second in dignity, importance and sacred
ness TO the Christian religion. Ho who
does not love African slavery with this
love Is an Abolitionist."
That will do. You might knock us down
with feather as the horrid conviction
burst upon us that so many millions are
under ban; that not Massachusetts alone
is cast out of the pale of the church in this
thing, but that even Maryland stands no
chance whatever of being considered even
remotely orthodox. But might not slavery
just here put up that off repeated Adjura-
ton, "Save me from my friends" Not
content with the cotton aud tobacco aspect
of the question, this writer sets up the
"ebony idol" and calls upon all the earth
to ''fall down and WORSHIP i'll" Let us
hear Victor Hugo upon such traucendeu-
tnlists on the "nigger question" tits from
Les INissrG6ieS:
ITO be ultra is to go beyond. 1t is to
attack the sceptre in the name of the
throne, and the mitre in the name of the
altar; it is to maltrcat the thing you sup
port it is to kick in tho traces; it is to
cavil at the stake for under-cooking here
tics; it is to reprOach the idol with IL lack
of idolatry; it is to insult by an excess of
respect; it is to find in the Pope too little
papistry; in the King too little royalty; and
too much light in the night; it is to be dis
satisfied with the Glbntross, with snow,
with the swan and the lily, in the name of
whiteness; ii is to become the partisan of
things 10 the point Of becoming their enemy:
ii is 10 be so psry PRO that you are CON"
Now, we ask, could the case of the Rich
mond writer be more felictously put by any
possibility whatever? Do the people of
Maryland want any such advocate of slave
~ as him, and are not such accurscd alb
surdities as this definition given of Adolf
ton better calculated to break down slave
ry where it exists than all the rawlings of
Wendell Phillips or Greeley to the end of
timer The world knows pretty well al
ready all that can be said honestly both for
slavery aud against it; and it is enough to
make Thomas Jefferson and the really
great men of Virginia in the olden time
turn in their graves could they hear the ra-
wings and idiotic gibberish of the present
generation, those who have sold themselves
soul and body to the supercilious mag
mates of South CRrolina-the nDon Quix-
otes of the cotton "plautRtIon.n Slavery
has been strangled to the point of death by
its insane nurses and god fathers, aud will
never recover, and when such stuff us that
we have quoted is put forth at Richmond
ostcnsihly in its interest, we are led to
doubt whether it is not an emanation from
one of its deadliest enemies in the guise of
a friend.