The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-13

the determination to establish forever a gov
ernment of absolute despotsm; government
whose corner stone is the blood soul, and sim
ew of a man-not the representative of dis
tinct race, as some very plausibly claim, but
race unlike any other ever before existing,
whose life-blood, whose love of country. earth
ly interests, and eternal hopes arc the same
with the oppressors.
A stakeholder told me the other day that
"the history of the world tells of no nation
wherein two distinct races lived together for
length of time peaceably. One race" he
said, must always be in subsection to the 9TH
err" did not deign to controvert this asser-
ton, but suggested that the application of his
cherished theory to the existing relations be-
tween the free and slave population of the
South, are hardly consistent with facts, as the
"dtsttnction" of blood or race noticeable in
the slave population, was generally on the side
of the white race. The theories which the adj
yocates of slavery eliminate from Scripture,
from history. and the assumed superiority of
one race to another, do not even stand the
test of facts, such as can be produced by thou
sands in connection with slavery in the United
States.
The mass Of those who compose the Union
army are daily witnessing the effects of the
system which is blighting with its accursed
breath the fairest portion of the creation; and
they cannot but he thoroughly impressed with
a sense of the utter inconsistency of fighting
for the Union, and trying to save, at the same
time, such rotten and offensive system as ne
gro slavery.
Sometimes you hear an indvidual-he may
be one who processes to settle the whole mat
ter with one essential thrust at the abolition
lists, or he may be an officer, striped and strap
ped and pompous; you hear such an one de-
scanting upon the rebellion and its causes. the
probable result, &C., to the country; you un-
ostentatiously enter into the conversation,
inadvertently, though in keeping with the ar
gument, you propose the freedom of the slaves
in the South, in order to crush the rebellion
Presently your dogmatical friend or the one
with the trappings on, appears offended; you
persevere in the attempt to establish your
premise, when you are cut short with the ster-
eotyped fling at the id abolitionists, or that
formidable and conclusive argument ~ so of
ten heard. 'D-n niger any howr'
1t is unpopular with class, l find, to be an
abolitionist, 1 suppose because it implies love
of humanity, and a desire to see universal jus-
tice triumph over oppression and wrong. 1t
is considered by some persons to be no credit
to mans head or heart to feel any sympathy
with the downtrodden who are continually
before him in their poverty and degradation.
so be IL. Let those persons reflect that it is
not wise to set at naught the counsels ofexpe-
rience, nor the invariable lessons which histo-
ry teaches and though the wicked and the
oppressor, may flourish for a season. and "lord
it over the weak with high hand, yet the
day of restitution will surely come. The bond
man and all those who suffer wrong, will be
avenged, and restored to the dignity and rights
of manhood. SUBALTERN