The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-12-19
A Yankee Review Of What the Abo.
liti0nists have Accomplished. :

Last week the Aboaiuonists held jubiiees in New
York aud Philadelphia. The Tribune elaine for
them that they elected Lincoln in 1850, and thai
''posterIty will do them justtce.n That paper,
however, 10 entirely too modest. The Abolitianists
have done good deal more than elect the Gorilla,
and In the matter Of doing them justice We will an
tIcipate posterfty little, and copy the following
from the New York Herald Of Saturday last:
In 1860 the American Abolitlonists, pure and SIM
pie, numbered about one hundred thousand per
sons. Tn ls4v, when they ran Mr.. Btmey for Presi.
dent the Abolltlonisss polied thousand votes
In 1884, With The same candidate they polled sixty
with the FreesoileEs and gave Van Buren three
hundred thousand votes. From that time forth the
pure Abolition ~ vote Is 20 mixed up nth the rree.
get AT Il with much accuracy. Still, we believe
That one hundred thousand Is fair estimate Of the
number Of true, radical Ab0iiionses who have fol-
lowed the flag Of Garrison and Phillips, and who
are entitled to share In the credit OF the abolition
work and In the glory which now crowns the
labor. In this number We include all euch old
women a. Greeley and such young women AZ
Titon.
What these Que hundred thou.and Abolitlonists
have accomplished may be stated IN very few
words. They have accomplished the present war.
Is. They have wrecked powerful, peaceful, and
happy country. They have arrayed brother against
brother father against son. children against parents.
They have filled the land with widows and Or
phans. They have transformed the country into q
vast graveyard. They have shed an ocean Of
blood end squandered mountains of money. They
have made the air heavy with the shrieks Of the
lions of the mOurneB. They have devastated the
felds and plantations of the South and destroyed
the commerce of the North. They have given
check to The 81 Eau aoa
cover All this they have accomplished In thirty
years. Que hundred thousand 6ends let loose from
the lowest hell and inspired BY the most internal
malice could not have accomplished more mtschief
I n the same space OF time. II this be anything 10
rejoice over let the Abolluonists seioice If they
desire TO raise monument 10 psYpetuate the re-
furnish than with enough human skulls for pyra-
mid and Wendell PHILIPPE or Beecher would he
Ony too happy to deliver the address At the laying
of ibe corner skull.
thousand men have been killed, four hundred
thousand have been disabled for life; thus half
million have been subjected to death: wounds,
both sides. What amount of human misery
Ms occurred beyond and behind the armies We
shall not now inquire. The amount Of property
70. war may De
injury inflicted upon our commerce and carrying
trade may be stated at ono hundred millions OF
dollars. This 10 rather under than above the marx;
for the rebel Naf1t asserts that he alone has de-
stroyed eleven millions Of dollars worth of ships
and careoes, and semmes has certainly destroyed
much more. The war debt of the North and South
amounts to about ave thousand mlliions OF do.iars.
(f the war ends by the abolition Of slavery we
shall have to keep standing army OF hundred
ethousand men, and support two or three millions
of INDECENT negroes for several years. But we
will leave that probability out OF the account, and
will also refrain from estimating the millions am
billions Of dollars which the now impedcd Indus
try Of this country would have produced had not
the AbolItionists caused this war. we wlsn 10
eonfne ourselves to facts and figures Of indfsputa.
bic authenticity. And what do these facts and
figures show? Estimating the white population OF
the United States In 1860 at rxenty-slx millions
6eures-we f3nd that the Ab0liti0nists have been
instrumentaI 10 causing the death Of one man out
of every two hundred and sixty people, and the
Gripping OF otherwise disabling OF one man oat o.
Its have caused the destruction OF property valued
a six hundred millions Of dollars, and war ex-
neaditure Of about I've thousand millions. If these
TakIng the above stallsttcs ~ basis, very sim-
nile process Of arithmetic will demonstrate maj eecn
one of our ono hundred thousand Ab0ltionisss nas
caused the death ofone man and the lifelong disa-
bilIty Of four men, and has already cost the coua-
trv forty six thousand doiiafs. What ara the
crueiiies and the expenses Of slavery wnen com.
pared TO thisf u Y very evident nSwe,si, ,ns. ..
should not be % equally divided among on! one
HUNDRED tiousand fanatics. individual Abolition
ists have been more Orless guilty acc0sdng 70 theE
ersmnjc. should have more than one dead man,
four woanded and csipped men, and any stx tno0-
sand dollars worth q dsst!oyea properly y. eo
70 his account. Wendell Phillips e 10 tne sams ~
least thousand mea, and the rsuaandsr o. t0e ~.
iary which he has inilieteA upon the natloa and
upoa humanity must be increased in pf0p0suon.-
Tns s.s .ed :.es y. ses
nsg, Wilson, Chandler and 0ther ab0IIgoe poaa-
clans hsvs even lesgss shass to. whtcA-so A.