The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-05-03
Abolition in the District IF Columbia.


Abolition in the District IF Columbia.
A civil war, bloodier and fercer than
that of the British Roses, is now raging
in our country, the fruit of that noxious
exotic, Abolitionism, transplanted in the
garden of freedom by the hand of false
and fauatical philanthropy. Though
warned and adjured by no less person
age 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 non-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 assiduously and carefully than corn
for bread, or flax for clothing.
The solemn warning of the Pater Patris
was laughed to scorn.. The earnest ad-
monitions of the race of great men that
succeeded him, Cleft as their last and most
precious Legacy to posterity) were despised,
or forgotten. So, the poisonous tree grew
and fourished, and distilled its venomous
dew over the length and breadth of the
Northern section of the country. Ranker
and deadlier became its poison, as the
muck and filth from the partizan nostrum
were applied to its root; denser and deep
er and darker grew the shadow it cast over
the land, as political preachers built their
caterpillar nests upon its branches, and
with their festoons of cunningly-woven
cobwebs spun from the finest threads of
the "higher law" sophistry, shut out the
daylight of the Constitution then, when
in the false light in which men began to
to behold each other, reason succumbed
to prejudice, common sense to passion,
and patriotism to partisanship, the clash
OF arms was heard, and section rose against
section, in furious, bloody and most un-
natural conflict a
To drop the finger, Abolitionism, or
Anti-slaveryism, proceeded from one step
to another, until 1t created civil feud
whose history is now being written in
blood upon almost every hearth-stone from
Maine to the Rio Grande. Horror, ruin,
desolation and death are borne upon every
wind. Realization of the awful condition
of our country is almost impossible
Tongue cannot utter, nor pencil portray, the
ineffable agonies, the unutterable horrors,
the Understandable disn,ay that every passing
hour brings to the once happy home Of
the American citizen. And though this
dreadful curse under which the people suf-
fer, in the indirect result of that Abolition
crusade which set at nougbt the teachings
OF Washington, and reared its Gorgon head
despite the prophetic language of Webster,
Clay, aud their glorious compeers, the suf-
fering people are called to witness the still
further advancement Of this monster to-
wards the destruction, nay, the very an
Inhalation of our Government. Congress
has abolished slavery in the District of
Columbia i Are we really to be but an
other example. in the yersifcation of the
pagan maxim :-"Wbom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad p Con-
gress is truly already insane. The con-
duct OF thatebody would have made Se-
ccssionist of job, if, he had been slave
holder. Shall Abolitionism progress still
further in its work of disunion aud Desc
latioh2 Will the people permit it?-
Redford Pa) Gazette, April ls.
O. TheAlbany Evenng Journal Thur
weeds paperis constrained to con-
fess that the slaves In the South, who
! were expected To assist in their own liner.