The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-05-14
Who is an AbOlitiOnist +?

Nobody IS. AT least nobody wants 10
own up to it. The word is classed among
the vilest epithets of our language. Abe
litionism is deprecated by everybody. 1t
is Stunned, like leprosy and smallpox.
1t is cursed with bitter maledictions. 1t
is prescribed from polite or profane, vul-
gar or elegant literature. Some daring
sinners have undertaken to prove God
the author of slavery, and men were so
fearful of the ghost of Abolitionism that
they listened patiently to long spun
proofs that saved meant slave, and dou-
los, if not nigger, meant at least Stare
too. But the other day a friend (shall
we call him friend p had the daring to
come into our sanctum and startle us
with the frightfhl assertion" The Al
mighty is an Abolitionist! We remon-
strated; said perhaps he had resorted to
emancipation as "war measure;
but he stoutly maintained that God al
ways was, and is now, an Abolitionist,
and he would prove fEees Scripture
and from history. He went on and said:
When the Antediluvians were so we'd
ded to their favorite and peculiar institu-
tions that they would not abolish them at
the abolition preaching of Noah.
God abolished them, and their much
loved idolatrous institutions, in the
mighty flood. That was (said he) radi-
cal and instantaneous Abolitionism." "
So when the cities of the plains, Sodom
and Gomorrah, clung to institutions of
a disgraceful character, and would not
abolish them, though they had the ex
ample and teachings of pious Lot
among them, then God sent down
shower of fire and birthstone, and abol-
ished the people, their cities, and their
corrupt Institutions, all at the same
time. Radical and iusta ntaneous A6o-
itioniSm.
When the Cananites legalized and
popularized institutions of most revolt
ing character, God sent the sword of Is
rael to abolish theml When Moses, the
abolition agitator, and Aaron the aboli-
ton priest and preacher, preached "abo-
litionism" to the stupid Pharoah, saying:
"Let my people go, and Pharoah would
not abolish the long established and we'll
favored institution of slavery in Egypt,
then God sent an angel of death, and he
issued Proclamation" offreedom, one
night, written with the blood of Egypts
first born, and next morning slavery was
abolished in Egypt. The slaves took to
their heels, and forsook their "kind mas
ters" immediately; proposing to enter
upon colonization scheme in the land
of Canaan, which was first proclaimed
Father Abraham" But the Fugitive
Slave Law was still on the statute books
of Egypt, and was thought to be consti-
tutional. So it came to pass that Pha.
roah and his host of blood-hounds pur-
sued the painting fugitives; but instead
of returning the slaves, the Fugitive
Slave Law was utterly abolished in the
Red Sea, and God was the AboIitionIst
But God was not satisfied with having
abolished slavery in Egypt; so he com
manded Moses to make law providing
for the abolition of all servitude, for
Jews, every seventh year; Ex. 81, 2, and
for 'all other inhabitants" of the land,
every 50th year, Lev. 25, TO-, lest slavery
might spring out of the privilege grant
ed them, verse "A, of procuring laborers.
And when the Jews, afterward, violated
this law, and did hold their fellow-beings
in bondage, as illegally as it was unjust,
then God sent abolition" prophets, who
issued "Proclamations," ''meddled with
politics preached liberty to the captive,
and announced the acceptable year of
(Jubilee) the Lord, and commanded to
"let, the oppressed go free" to undo
every heavy BURDEN; and thus he kept
on abolishing, until he had abolished
things generally that did not please him.
The Babylonian Empire had wicked in
stitutions and he abolished them. The
Gree an likewise, the Jewish even, and
the iron empire of Rome, all were in
their turn abolished, because of their
wickedness; and he has furthermore de-
clared it has his purpose of abolishing
the wicked, root and branch, unless they
turn from the error of their ways That
he will continue turning, and turning,
and overturning, pulling down, and set
ting up, eleyating one and debasing
others, until superstition, idolatry, ignor-
ance, terror, war, Inidelity, Mo-
hommedanism, slavery, and every other
peculiar and goddess ism batched by the
Prince of Devils, is utterly and hopeless
ly abolished, and the Kingdoms of the
earth have all become the kingdoms of
God and his Christ But, said he, Mr. !
Editor, don't let anybody call YOU an
"Abolitionist. "-ErangelicaI Messenger. !