Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-02-07
CclonixinY the AbOlitionists.

The Philadelphia Journal suggests the
idea Of coon!zng the Abol,ionis.s in
stead of the negros. The suggestion is a
capital one. Ii is wonder it has not
already been thought Of by our sagacious
Chief Magistrate. There are numerous
considerations which render >his project
much more torcthlo than l.incoln's plan
of culautkias tho negroes. Ia the first
place, they are not SO many abohtioniSts
as there are negroes aud secondly. the
country could great deal better afford to
spare them than the negroes, They could
also. at any fair valuation be obtained at
much cheaper rate. A good. healthy
negro, down South, kept ,udustriously At
wurk, will raise cotton enough 10 clothe
two or three families He performs a srea,
and beuetcieut duty in the drama of mod
ern civilization. For The lack Of his labor,
We are, jas; mo~, Suffering all the illiicuI,
ties at paper famine. The pub lc are
compelled IL pay higher price for news .
papers sni books, and heoce The freeing
vi the negro would b. direct tax ON
knowledge, Co'ontaa the negroes, aud
clatalng would become 50 high that only
;an rseh >aali afford II dress we'll Wool.
eu a0a >jtk goods would 50 advance ia
price tha3 tagma~s mechanics and working
men eaat8 seldom afford 10 dress them.
selves ia a>asGelath, aad their wives aud
daus hters would be compelled to go back
TO the l,nsey woolsey OF their grand
mothers.
But no such evils would flow from get.
ting rid Of the aboIti1uis,s Indeed
these are obvious reasons why the country
would be infinitely etter off without them.
Ever since they started up in New England,
some thirty years since, they have been IL
pertinent. mischief making set Of fanatics.
They kept the country in continual hot
water before the war broke out, and were
not satisfied until they brought that on.
They have burdened the country with some
two thousand millions Of dollors of debt,
which will tax the bones and muscles, and
sweat of unborn millions to pay. They
have been the means Of destroying one
hundred thousand lives, and of making
half a million Of widows and orphans,
whose cries Of anguish now FL the land
with weeping waling aud woe. Surely,
We can spare such q set of bloody ianat
les. Then, too, these men would be no
great loss to the community or the coun-
try. About nine tenths Of them are non
producers, being composed Of lawyers.
doctors, sgecu.ators, contractors, shodly,
ties and preachers The latter class are
nearly all Abolitionists, and are more res
ponsib'e to God and man for this horrible
war, than any other class of people. If
every priest who heralds forth the gospel
of murder, were sent out of the country.
and their places supplied by those who
will preach Peace, Christ's gospel, who
will say that we should not be much bet.
ter off? We suggest, therefore, the idea
of restoring peace by colonizing the Abo.
litionsts, as the cheapest, speediest and
most favorable means Of ending the war
1t is impossible 10 send away four millions
Of negroes, but deport only five hundred
thousand Of the worst abolitionists and
the country would again be as peaceful as
ever, and the question of slavery set
tied TO the satisfaction Of every sensible
man.