Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-16
From the Parksr4burg Gazette.

we pity tne poor creature whose only
stock of political argument is the word
'aDoiltionist" He ID utterly contemplate.
ana would beiunworthy of.notice were it
not Tor the harm he may do. Ourcom
munlty IS infested by.plenty of these mon-
otonous squaWkers. Do they see a Federal
uniform! they squawk out 1abolitionst.n
Do they dear a patriot advocate the main
tenance of the Government they sduawk
again, "abolitionistl" No matter who Won.
may be-wbere you come from, where YOU,
are going to, or what you hold to-. If. yon
are for Sthe GoYernment as Il sis snutti,,
down the atrooious rebellion-yon are an
"a6olitionist." With men of such shallow
f6 Rd6P@eTgg2S6bF' 'ts Keep them from carving
out in acts the treason we believe to be ia
their hearts.
We know wof but few abolitionists
except the Southern shareholders who. are
in arms against the Government. They
are abolishing slavery upon grand scale
by thrusttnG ilt IN the gay fthe preserva-
ton of the National Huioh. The institution
never was safer than Immediately after the
last Presidential election The Republican
Party, which felt itself to have been great.
ly nisrepresented'i in the South, was anxi-
GUS after it bad obtained the victory which
gave it the spoils of political warfare, to
relieve the slave States of all apprehension
in regard to any hostile, ,intentions it. was
supposed to have against slavery.
The President expressed himself as hav-
ing no power to interfere with the tnstitu-
tion of States. Congress by the requisite
majority proposed an amendment to the
E'Oonstltution guaranteeing perpetual pro-
lection in thisrespect. But Ito nojavail..
The south refused to vote for Compromise
measures, and rushed to arms to break up
the Union. From regarding alavery as a
necessary evilit set itup as an idol7Tmade
it the basis oflaanew Government ada went
to war TO establish an independence and
Ipsrpetuity. 90 Never was there such 'infatu.
lation-never was. there such stupendous
suicide. The merely domestic institution
was dragged forth and held up ito. the
world IL its most unattractive form, and
was proclaimed to astounded nations as
the foundation and chief corner stone of a
tueW Empire! Then it was that the real
abolitionist appeared-then it was that
slavery received its seYerest5 blow-landi
was stabbed Lin7thes house of its trIeuds..L
The fret gun fred upon Fort Snmpfer. as
1T reveberated. through the land, reduced
slave property t,0ice as much as the national
tSdf deb. Ro.0i Is, and 1t remains 10 be seen
/ lit 1t did not ina1guFate an age ofsviolence
IN winch slaVeryaW be entirely destroyed.
We who have in this been called an.
abolittonist because we support tho Gov.
ernmenti count o1f losses in slave property
I,bY thousands of dollars but We, thank
kind fortune, that we have discrimination
Ienopghto enableiuss to charge those losses
to secession. IGx Governor Magofin Of
Kentucky !. as arrants q traitor asleVeriliVed
s-77-in au annual message trieGato enrage his
constituents against the North and the
GoVernment because sthk psopI6 Of the
State lost yearly two hundred thousand
dollars worth OF slave property. eSeces-
sion, which he countyed At and fostersd, at
one fell stroke lost the State a hundred
million of dollars, and yet We are called
aboli litionists because We do not applaud.
The people are beginning TO designate the
real aholitionist--and will ultimately find
out that a se6essi0nist and abolttionist are
one and the same person. S s,15s