M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-06-19


sion at Jefferson City. The most im'
portant item Of news connected with
this is the defeat OF scheme to grad.
ually abolish slavery in M ssourl.-
The vote stood against abolition 50,
and for it !9. 1t is no time now to
talk about emancipation in Missouri.
The people can not afford in that State
to raise that incendiary question
now. -EhQutrsr.
AbOIiiIOnlsIs, North and South.
Words, by varying circumstances
If human life, become narrowed or
enlarged in their meaning. Former
| ly, the word Aboit!Onist denoted one
who simply desired to set aside or
abolish me- 10 slavery. Now it means
one who, in addition to that, wants
to set aside or abolish the Federal
Constitution and the UEion formed
by it.
In the new or modern sense, Seccs.
sionists are Abolitionjets. They seek
to set aside the Federal Constitution
and to abolish the Union by dividing
it, and establishing an independent
Oonfederacy out OF part OF it. The
specific differences between Northern
anj Southern Abolitionists is this
that the former seeks to Abolish the
Union for the sake ofputting an end
to negro slavery; tie latter for the
sake Of maintaining and strengthen.
ing that institution. Both, however,
agree in the main point of final OBJ
ject to be attained, namely the abol
ishment ofthe old United States Con
stiintion aud Unien.
We sometinles call our Northern
AbolitioDists radical. A radical ID
politics is one who aims to root oui
OF overthrow established Institutions
AiseceSsionistis is one who separates
from, and opposes the existing order
Of things, and is essentially a brother
Of, and a co.worker with tho radical
Both are Abolitionists in the broad
and general sense.
In the South the people are not al
secessinists or abolitiomsts of the Un
ion. In some ofthe slave States these
dis organizers are in the. minority. -
But by violence, denunciation and
persecution, they have obtained or as
sumed control, to a great extent, o
public affairs. Where they have the
power, they make it unsafe for mar
not to belong to their party, or al
least, not to profess to sustain ,theil
cause. {. lR
Ia the North, the members Of the
dominant party are not all radicals ol
! Abolitionists. But these fierce dis.
uDienists, in great measure, contro
the party, and dictate the policy o.
4 Congress and the Federal Admins
tratIon. Whoever will not ion in
their schemes for the overthrow O
the old slayeholding Union, as they
call 1t, they denounce as a secession,
ist and brand as a traitor. They dt
knot even spare the members of thoi,
own party, nor the officers ofthe Gov.
ernment, if they exhibit the least
tincthre Of sound, rational and pat
riotie conservatism. The Abolition,
lists Of the North are close imitators
OF their brethren in the South, and il
they can obtain the power, will carry
matters to the same desperate length
There is another striking analogy
between the Southern and Northern
Abolitionists, to which we may brief.
] ly refer. They both take substantial.
Ily the same name; and both use it as
a cloak for. their real designs. The
Abolilionist Of the South does not call
himself secessionist, but a Cenied.
crate, that is, united or Union man.
But his Oonfederacy or Unionism
means the abolishment ofthe FEEDER.
al Union, and the establishment OF a
separate GoEeriImenton its ruins.
just so, the Abolitionists at the
North does not acknowledge himself
a radical, and seldom will admit that
he is an AbolitioniSt, and always We,
hemently denies that he seeks the
abolishment oft Union. He calls
himself a Union man, and lovingly
invites all who love the Union : 20
unite or confederate with him. Yet
his Unionism when examined, is like
that of his confederate brother in the
South, he is for a Union, but not for
the old Union Of free and slave States,
he declares there can be no harmony
in such Union, and if lie aud bis