Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-06-12

THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1889.
AN ABOLITION WAR.

AN ABOLITION WAR. a&
The Northern Democrats who trained in
company With James Buchanan, JEFF. Davis,
asd William L. Yancey, down to the very
cement Of the outbreak Of the rebellion, and
sAs have synpathixed with the miserable
1kssd Of traitors since, Eve heard Yancey in
he ial Of 1850 make speech in the State
Of New York in support Of the conglomera-
I'd Electoral Democratic ticket call this an
abslitien war. In certain sense ii ia
1As.eh mot . war precipitated by ths aboli-
tsaists, for they were themselves powerless
tw.nischisf bat war precipitated by the
dhvahalders. for the avowed purpose OF
asssgtAasing the institution and enlargine
~ area d slavery upon the ruins of the
AissicAn Union, il will turn out in its re-
salt, tha,kst to an overriding Providence, to
- IN abolition war. By taking up arms
agphss free government which guarantees
AsnGhs II free speech, Of free press, and
saivsrsal toleration Of opinion, the slavehold-
e. have brought their instisution of slavery,
(aas.alous IN, and inimisal 70, free gov
ssshsnt) to the verge Of annihilation. BY
asort Of Divine justice unlocked for in the
SAortsightedness Of mortal man, the task
masters arc made the blind and unconscious
kberators of those they have held in bondage.
They went to war for slavery, and behold
fssSsm is the result Virginia seceeded
I'm the Union, not to protect free speech,
tree schools, and universal federation of free
opinion, but to conserve slavery. The result
. the very opposite Of that which her ruling
spirits desired, for it has turned out that sla-
vssy has suffered intellectually, while free
principles have been advanced. Like Ha-
man, who Built gallows for poor Mordecai
hey constructed a gallows, 6guratively
speaking, for freedom, but now behold slav-
cry dangling therefrom Yea, it is an abo-
Elton war. The Governor of Virginia an
neunces in recent message to the Virginia
Legislature that since the outbreak of the re-
bsllion the State has lost more property in
slaves that have run away and been liberia
ted as contrabands than the entire amount of
her quota of the expenses Of the Confed-
ssacy.' There is a confession that his war,
inaagurated by its authors, and proclaimed
BY its authors as war for slavery, is really
and actually an abolition war Let it con-
tinue three years longer and there will not
b slave in Virginia, nor in any other bor
der State. When shareholders presumptu-
susiy took up arms against the best and fire.
~ government on earth, in OF der to perpet-
nate the most barbarous system Of domestic
tyranny on the face OF the Christian portion
e the globe, they sealed the doom Of slavery
The institution existed only by toleration.-
h was not strong in itself, 1t could not af-
fbrd to summonin to the field Of deadly
strife, all armed and panoplied for decisive
conflict, the hosts of freedom who inhabit the
hnd of Washington. The moment it pitted
aself against Freedom it was doomed The
great contest was provoked by slavery; 1t
gave the challenge to Freedom, and Freedom
accepted 1t, and most CALAMITY will Freedom
win the victory When the Union is restor-
cd, as assuredly it will be, slavery will no
lDnger be power in the land 1t NAV lipger
for season, as the poison in the system
which has maze its victim frantic will linger
after it's malignant effects have been subdued,
but the healthy blood of freedom will flow at
last through all the veins and arteries of this
broad land, and the auspicious time will as
ssredly arrive when no bondsman on this
continent will clank his chains in the ear of
an avenging God 1t is an abolition wa
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