The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-02
From the ". Y. Caacasian.1
Coloniaing The .Abolitionists.

The Philadelphia journal suggests the lea
OF colonizing the Abolitionists instead of the
negroes. The suggestion is a capital one 1t
is wonder it has not already been thought oil
by our sagacious Chief Magistrate. There are
| numerous considerations which render this
project more feasible than Lincoln 'splau of col
onizng the negroes. In the first place, there
are not SO many Abotionists as here are nesroes
and secondly, the country couldka great deal
better afford to spare them than She negroes.
They could also, at any fair valuation, be OBJ
tanned at 4 much cheaper rate A good, heal
thy negro, down South, kept industrously at
work, will raise cotton enough to clothc two or
three families.
| He performs great and bendfcent duty in
the drama of modern civilization. For the
lack of his labor, we are, just now, suffering
all the difficulties Of apaper famine. The pub
lie are compelledto pay higher price for news
papers and books, and hence the freeing OF the
negro would be direct tax ON knowledge.
ColOnize the negroes, and clothing would become
so high that only the rich could afford to dress
wei. Wooden and silk goods would SO advance
in price that farmers, mechanics and working
men could seldom afford to dress themselves in
brcadcloth, and their wives and daughters
would be compelled to 60 back to the fnsey-
woolsey of their grandmothers.
But no such evils would flow from getting rid
| of the Abolitiouists. Indeed, there arc obvi-
| Gus reasons why the country would be infinite
| ly better off without them. Ever since they
started up in New England, some thirty years
since, they have been pcstilent, mischief ma
king 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 Swo Thousand millions Of dollars of debt,
which will tax the bones, and MUSCLES and
sweat OF unborn millions to pay. They have
been the means o. destroying enc hundred thou
sand OF lives, and of making half q million
Of widows and orphans, whose cries OF anguish
now fill The land with weeping, waiiing and
woe. Surely we can spare such aset OF bloody
fanatics
| Then too, these men would be no great loss
TO the community or The country. About nine
tenths of them arc non producers, being ON
posed of lawyers, doctors, spectators. shoddy-
il es, and preachers. The latter class are near
ly all Aboiitionisis, and are moro responsible
before God and man for this horrible war than
any other class Of people. IF every prizes: who
heralds forth the gospel OF murder, were sent
ont Of the country, and their places supplied
by those who win praach the ospcl Of Peace,
Christ's gospel, who will say that we shou.d not
be much better off? We suggest, therefore, the
idea of restoring pesce by colonizins the Abe
litionists as the cheapest sfeediest, ana most
favorable m cans of ending the war ~ IS I'M
po ssiblc TO send away four millions Of negroes
but deport only five hundred thousand Of the
worst Abolitionists and the country would be
-s..,- i7aani.eisl os auo-. and Tie -
| ''slaveTy" settled TO the entire satisfaction Of
every sensible man.