The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-03

write if You we're liable to be separated,
in the distribution of assets, from your
wives and children if you (above alD
were to fall into the hands of brutal
master-aud you condescended to admit
that there are some brutal masters in
America--if,, among all those circumstan-
ces, some friendly spirits of a more gen.
erous order were desrous to give liberty
to you and your. families, with what inef-
fable disgust would not you laugh to scorn
those who should traluce the generous
spirits who would relieve you. as you now,
pseudo -Irshmen-shame upon you -
have traduced and vlifed the Abolition
lists of North America
THE oUTcRY AGAINST ABoLITIoNIsrs.
Another piece of Stiffness. You alege
that it is the Abolitionists who make the
slave restless with his condition, and that
they scatter the seeds of discomfort Low
can sou treat us with such contempt as to
use assertions of that kind in your I'D
dress? How can you think we could be
so devoid of intellect as to believe the
negro would not know the nliseries of
slavery, which he feels every hour Of the
four-and-twenty, unless he were told by
some Abolitionist that slavery was mis-
erable condition?
There is nothing that makes us think
so badly of you as your strain of ribaldry
IN attacking the Abolitionists.
The desire to procure abolition is, In
itself, virtue, and deserves our love for
its charitable disposition, as it does respect
and veneration for its courage under un-
favorable circumstances. Instead of. the
ribaldry of your attack upon the Aboli-
tionists, you ought to respect and counte-
nance them If they err by excessive
zeal, they err in a righteous and holy
cause. You would Go we'll to check their
errors and mitigate their zeal within the
bounds of strict propriety. But if you
had the genuine feelings Of Irishmen,
you never would confound their errors
with their virtues. In truth, we much
fear, or rather we should caudidly say,
we readily believe that you attribute to
them imaginary errors for no other reason
than that they really possess one brilliant
virtue-namely, the love of human free
dom in intense perfection.
Again, we have to remark that you
exaggerate exceedingly wheE you state
that there are fifteen millions of the white
population in America whose security and
happiness are connected with the mainte-
nance of the system of negro slavery On
the contrary, the system of slavery lnfiicts
nothing but mischief upon the far greater
part of the inhabitants Of America The
only places in which individual interest
is connected with slavery are the slave
holding States. Now, in those States,
almost without an exception, Gf, indeed,
there be any exception,) the people of
color greatly exceed the whites; and thus,
even if an injury were to be inflicted on
the whites by depriving them of their
slaves, the advantages would be most
a5undantly counterbalanced and compen-
sated for by the infinitely greater number
of persons who would thus be restored to
the greatest of human blessings-personal
libesty Thus the old Benthamite maxim
of ''doing the greatest possible good to
the greatest possible number" would be
amply carried out into effect by the eman-
cipation of the negroes.
We utterly deny your assertion, and we
defy you to show any single instance Of
preparatory steps taken by any State Cor
the emancipation Of negroes before the
abolition demand was raised. You violate
truth in that assertion. There were no
such preparations 1t IS pure fiction,
invented by shareholders out of their un-
just animosity to the Abolitionists 1t is
said that the fear of abolition has rendered
the shareholders more strict, harsh and
cruel toward the wretche1 slaves and that
they would be more gentle and humane if
they were not afraid of the Abolitionists.
We repeat that this is not true, and is
merely an attempt to cast blame on those
who would coaesce to put an end to negro
slavery
1t is in the same spirit that the Grimm
al calumniates his prosecutor, and the
felon Ieviles his accuser. 1t is, therefore,
utterly untrue that the Shareholders have
made the chains of the negro more heavy
through any fear Of abolition.
Yet, if you tell the truth if the fact be
that the negro is made to suffer for the
zeal Of the Abolitionists if he is treated
with increased cruelty by reason of the
fault of the friends of abolition, then, in-
deed, the Shareholders must be a truly
Satanic race. Their conduct, according
to you, is diaboEcal. The Abolitionists
commit an offence, and the unhappy me-
groes are punished. The Abolitionists
violate the law Of property, and the penal
ty of their crime is imposed upon the
negro Can anything'be more repugnant
to every idea of justice Yet this is your
statement.
We, on the other hand, utterly deny the
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