The Placer herald., 1862-01-04
The Perseverance of the Abolitionists.


If the principles of the anti siaveryi,es are
to be condemned, it must be confessed that
their perseverance, enterprise and devotion
to their cause, are deserving of all praise.
If one half, aye one quarter, the effort had
been made to circulate the truth, in refuta-
ton of their philosophy, it would have been
exploded long since A new Abolition So
clety has Just been started in this city, to
procure the emancipation of the negroes;
and the press and pamphlets are to be re
sorted to, to impress the public mind and
petitions to influence Congress. In the last
quarter of a century, millions of pages Of
printed matter and millions Of dollars have
been spent to educate white men to believe
that it was advisable to live on terms of
equality with negroes, and that to retain
the supremacy of the white race over the
negro was a great sin and crime. Those
men have supposed, many Of them, that they
were really advancing the cause Of civilza
tion, Christianity and humanity, whcn in
reality, they were the bitter enemies and the
resolute workers against all these Ministers
of the Gospel have been foremost in all this
grand crusade of the nineteenth century.
more deporable and even less credlable to
human intelligence, than the crusades of
Richard Coeur and Geotfrey Of Bologne,
And although the antagonism of opinion
which this doctrine has created has finally
resulted in bloody war, yet these de!uded
people still keep tanning the flames, calling
the government to embody their creed in its
every day action, and, all in all, they certainly
show zeal worthy OF a better cause.
But cannot Democrats, and a men who
learn profitable lesson from their opponents
SupI'ose one quarter the effort were now
made to circulate sound reading matte,
among the people that has been used in
times past to push Abolition and antslaverv
papers? Would not the effect be marked
and impassive? Reader, have you ever done
anything 20 advance what you believe to be
right principl, 8? If not, how do you ex.
cuse Yourself from some share of the terrible
consequences Of AboIitionism? While its
friends have been spreading their newspapers
and their documents all about yon, deceivng
your neighbors and corrnpting their princi'
pies, have you not been sitting still, expect
ing that, somehow, things would come out
all right in the enl2 Don't you begin to
think by this time that matters are getting
no better very fast? And, really, don't you
hink it is about time to be doing something?
Have not many Democrats even patronized
opposition papers, thus building up engines
t" destroy their own principles? We put
these blunt questions to you not AS begging
YOU to get subscribers to The Caucasian
Ohouoh we believe it to be worth Your efforts
in it's bebalf) but to have you do something.
Il is for each person to determine what that
something shall be. Perhaps, von have a
faithful. earnest editor Of your county Demo
cratic paper (and we know many surh,) who
is not half SO we supported as he ought to
be. You might do something for him.
Yon ought to, tor every neighborhood needs
its loca paper. This principle should be
keTt in mnd-every person is bound to
work for the faith that is in him. BY doing
this in season and out Of season. the anti
slaveryites have accomplished wonders, and
yet the great superstructure of deiusion which
they have erected can be torn down without
the cost of one quarter Of the labor that it
has taken to erect it. If The Caucasian can
do anything to effect it, we confidently ask
that it be employed. II other means can,
we bespeak TOR them earnest and devout sup
port. We on y ask that every sincere friend
of his country shall do something, and do it
at once. ". Y. Caucasian.