Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-06-13
ABOLITION LOGIC.

This is the caption Of carefully and
ably written article which we find in the
Chambersburg Pennsylvania +" Valley
Spirit" copied from the Louisville Jour-
nal, edited by Prentice, distinguished no
less as political writer than as poet and
lecturer. Prentice is an ardent cham
pion of the Union, and, therefore, in ex.
posing the falacies of such Abolition jour
nails as the Frederick Examiner, and 9TH
er papers Of the same kind, in our State,
cannot be accused of being influenced by
any secession sympathisers. We present
the article in full to our readers and com
mend it to their careful perusal. The
wealthy tor-payey as well as the yaboriag
poo. .slsite ma. viii End in il food for
serious reflection:
q Tie arguments Of Abolitionists are
the most contradictory it has ever been
our duty to read. The first proposition
is, that the black labor in tho South
protected and fostered by State Institu-
tons, expels the labor of the whites, and
thus is decided injury to the dominant
race. Therefore, for the good of the
whites, it should be abolished If this
is SO, what is TO be the result Of their
Wanted philanthropic measure? The
whites will gradually deprive the blacks
Of all the labor by their superior energy
and industry, and these will be thrown
upon The community, an idle, thriftless,
yagabond race, to be supported by taxa
ton upon white labor in Incidence and
debauehery. The duty which has com
PEELED the master TO support the slave and
make him useful, will have passed away,
and, instead Of the burthen resting where
it should, and where it can be made re-
munerative, it will fall upon all men
the white laborer as well as the wealthy
plan,er-and no return will be made. It
is a plain fact that it requires about three
hundred millions Of dollars per annum
to support the negroes. This is now done
by the masters, who get profit in return,
but when the white labor has eaten it out,
the necessary poor house, police regula-
tons &c, will have increased this sum
to five hundred million dollars per an
mum tax, in times Of profound peace,
equal to what is now paid in the midst Of
the most gigantic war the civilized and
savage world has ever known, exceeding
the Tremendous efforts of France in the
days Of the elder Napoleon.
This conclusion is indisputable upon
the PTsnfses Of the Abolitionists. There
fore, iWhen any man in the North or South
is addressed by such arguments, and
trusts IN them, he must get his own con-
sent to pay annually tax of FIVE hun
dred millions of dollars per annum for
hts me Purpose alone and add to il two
or three hundred millions additional, for
the usual expenses Of the government.
We DO not think it would be an excess to
put down the government expenses. one
year after another, including war times
as well as peace, under such a scheme,
at thousand million per annum. Then,
If we add the favorite colonization scheme
with its enormous additional expenses,
we can come within the mark by placing
the annual governmental expenses at fif-
teen hundred millions Of dollars per an
nun. This is not excessive. There is
the expense Of removing them from all
parts Of She country, tho shipping, the
purchase Of the territory to which they
are exiled, The expense of sustaining
them. Suppose that we grant that their
labor, released from competition Of the
whites, was to pay five hundred millions
above what is necessary to feed and clolhe
tbem--eycn the abolitionists do not grant
this much--which is more than they get
ia servhude, but put the figures down at
a minus still there is a thousand million.