Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-04-05
AbolitioniSm.

ADonuon, thou6n ono OF INC Inos6 Seh-
eral terms in its Specification, has recently
been assigned specific meaning. Abo'
ltionists are those who, nnscrupuJouS as TO
means anil reckless as TO the constitutional
la,O ord social rights, scouid put an end
to stavyy
Such abolitionis.s are Wright, Kelly,
Thompson, Phillips, Pillsbury, Garrison
& Co.-men and women who advocated
emancipation even by the extreme of vio-
lence, reckless of consequences who de.
claimed against the Constitution and the
Union, against the Church of Jesus Christ
and the teachings of the Bible Such lea
ders we could not follow. Such course
we were bound to repudiate. We hence
adopted the appellation Aati-SIavery, a
term properly expressive of the sentiments
of the great body of the Northern people.
The antipodes of the abolitionists were
a few rabid, " fire, eating" pro-slavery men
vi Luc DOuth' uSeo eAuSiuSo dSlcou tn
one thing, viz, either that their opposite
must be put down, or the country divi-
dod. Unhapply for the Southern people,
they fell in with their fanatics, seeded,
took up arms, and commenced the war
If the people of the cotton States had been
patient, there would have been no strife
beyond war Of words. Or if the people
of Now-England had taken up the senti-
ment of Garrison & Co., raised armies,
seized forts and arsenals, and threatened
the overturning of the Government, then
the Nation would have directed its forces
Northward. And then, too, the war
would have been on the same principle as
it is now; that is, it would have been waged
for the preservation of the Union, and the
supremacy Of the Constitution and the
laws.
1t is fashionable with US, at the North
to say that slavery is the cause Of the war;
but the belief is even more nearly universal
at the South, that abolition is the cause
1t is well TO look at causes, if We look
wisely. We would not pretend to decide
between the antagonists. This much is
certain If there had been no slavery, we
had not had the war; and if there had
been no abolitionism, the peace of the land
would have flown yet as river. The two
impinging on each other has caused the
disruption. The powder and the spark,
IN contact, produce the explosion.
Abolitionism cannot dwell peacefully
with slavery, but abolition is by no means
the synonym OF freedom. Freedom dwelt
interminglod with, and side by side with
slavery for near half century after our
national establishment in l776, in entire
peace. And freedom was not inactive
either. But she was just. She acted
where she had the right to act, and avoid
ed all undue assumptions She abolished
slavery in Pennsylvania, in New-England
New-Y York, and New-Jorsey-in seven Of
the origional thirteen States. Sho also
prohibited Slavery's approach to the ter
ritory of the North West, thus laying the
foundation of the free States of Ohio, In-
diana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
She had also, by her peaceful excellence,
won so far upon Slavery, that the question
of abolition was entertained with much
favor in three other of the orgional States
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and
in the new State Of Kentucky. But then
fanaticism arose and attached itself to
freedom, claiming her as its own; and
thence forward freedoms progress was
marred. Since then no State has abolish
ed slavery; and in no State where slavery
exists can abolition be now advocated.
Wendell Phillips lately spoke in the
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, and is
reported as saying 1--WE quote from the
Pittsburg G0zette.)
''Now the reason why think so much
of the Message Of the President is because
l read in it fitness to govern l do moi
think he has entered Canaan, but he has
set his face zonward. The first line ot
the Message goes to my heart, Now
love the Constitution, though my friend
! (Dr. Pierpont,) who sits beside me here
has heard me curse it hundred times
and | shall again ifit doesn't mean justice
| have labored nineteen years to take
nineteen States out Of this Union, and if
have spent any nineteen years to the salts
faction ofmy Puritan conscience, it wa:
those nineteen years. The child Of six
generations of Puritans, l was taught at Q
mothers knee to love purity before peace
And when Daniel Webster taught me thai
the IInion meant MAKING white man hun,