St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-10-01
ABOLrr1ONIsTss

I Asol1r1os1srs.
FROM tie Catholic Tslegreph:
There are many persons who think tha
to call man an Abohtionist is suficien
10 establish their claim. to be considered Q
superior intellect. It is with them o kin,
Of logic made easy, and compensates 70
the absence of argument, and removes th,
necessity and fatigue of proving 4 propo
sition. 1t is good word, when properl,
used. A man may be an Abolitionis
when be is jealous for the removal of evil
OF any kind. 1t is good as applied 4
drunkenness or prohnity-but it has y,
signi6cation now when applied to slavery
That great nuisance is already ahated, til
slave owners have left far behind them th,
emancipators of the North. ~ -
Well, it has fallen, and We are called
Abolitionists because we refuse our consent
to its resuscitation! We are proud of Be-
ing called 80, under circumstances so cred
liable to the mind and heart. May VI
ever deserve the name! We will bea,
its stigma joyfully through life aud carry
it into eternity with homer: We struggle
in holy cause.-The cause of religion and
of the human race. We maintain th<
sanctity Of the marriage tie-the fidelity
Of the husband aud wife to, each other
We maintain the cause Of justice, denying
the right of any man to another's labor,
without his consent or compensation. w.
maintain the right Of the parents to the
disposal Of their children, aud that no man
through the exercise Of his powers as !
master, shall deprive human beings Of in.
struction in the christian religion, and Of
the means to save their souls. Can any
man be Cathohc-a believer in the
Christian faith-and consider the ques-
tiou otherWise! With the long and
shining list Of names. fiom the earliest
period Of Chriatianity to the present day,
of Popes, Confessors and Doctors to sus.
tain our position, We cannot be driven
from our groand-or rather, we should
say, the ground maintained by the. Cath
olic Church in every age of her existence.
IF the question of American slavery
was to be submitted Tomorrow to gener-
al council OF the Church, the institution
would perish-sink deeper than ever 4
would be as few and small 40 those which
hesitated to speak out boldly with Catho-
lie faith, when the doctrine Of the Immac-
ulste Conception was discussed.
1t is monstrous that cause so Just as
human liberty should be assailed as it is
at the present day, without show of rea-
son to defend the aggression. We have
never yet seen an argument which could
raise doubt As to the propriety Of suppress
sing and abolishing American slavery
much less of restoring tic thing to life.
Notwithstanding this crowd of Thought
less men, filed to the utmost capacity of
the heart with prejudice. the most insane,
cry out day and night against any one
who dares to say word in favor of its
The very men who would
profit most by the removal of slavery
the white working men, whom the slave
power has shut out from the cotton and
sugar fields of the South-are the loudest
and 6ercest in their support of slavery
Who has ever seen = white laboring man
with bale of cotton or hogshead Of su-
gar of his own raising? No one. 1t is
impossible so long as slavery exists. He
may dig on levee, or drive a mule team,
or sweep the wharves. of Southern town,
but there bis ambition must stop. The
land belongs, CT belonged to the aristocra-
cy and however generous, accomplish
ed, refined aud hospitable that aristoc-
racy might have been the poor white Ia
borer must contemplate from afar the ele.
gance in which he can never participate.
There is, then, no reason on earth why
he should clamor for the preparation Of
slavery.
We can readily understand the strong
sympathy which binds the nobility of Eng.
land and France ito the Confederacy. 1t
is natural-the result ofrhe same ideas
the concord of hearts beating TO the same
emotions-the helping hand Of the throne
stretched forth to bring back the repent
ant children Of democracy to the pride and
pomp Of Great Britain: We can under
stand all this, ard can fully appreciate
the cordial regard with which England
has cherished the South in their disastrous
war, but Why the poor white man should
hold up the skirts of the aristocracy in .
cause which helps to crush him to the
earth, is one Of those mysteries of life
which battles the wisdom Of the philoso
rher.
I CENTRAL GRANT's latest and happies
expression Is contained in his letter reat
70 his friends At the recent dinner give,
to him in Memphis. In speaking Of hi
noble army, He says: -
"T1ey vM rf;o;cs r;th ne aat the m;serabl
adkereats Of tie rebltio1, vAoms thed bayenet
hass driven from tkis fair lssd, are being rsplat
- by men Who ACK1oWLso0B HuAAN LiBeRr
Al 1Hs oHIY TRuI FOUNDATION o. HuNA
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