The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-09-17
From tho Catholic Telegraph.
Abolitionist!


There are many persons who think
that to call a man an Abolitionist is
sufficient to establish their claim to be
considered of superior intellect. 1t 10
with them kind of logic made easy,
and compensates for the absence of ar
gument, and removes the necessity and
fatigue ofproving a proposition. A man
may be an AbOlitionist when he is zeal
Gus for the removal of evils of any
kind. 1t is good as applied to drum
kenness or profa nity--but it has no
signitcation now when applied to Slave
ry. That great nuisance is already aba.
ted; the slave owners have left far be-
hind them the emancipators of the
North.
This word has often been applied un.
justly to the editor of this paper. We
never deserved it. Always devoted to
the cause of order, we never felt that
we could justly assail what the law pro.
tected. But things are changed. Slave.
ry is abolished by the action of its
friends. There is no parallel case in
history, where the very cause for which
war is undertaken, becomes, in the
progress of events, the most fatal enc.
my to itself. We have seen the scor-
piOn when surrounded by enemies and
unable to escape, bury its fangs in its
own body and sting itself to death. So
has slavery acted-not, however, by
cOmpulsion but voluntarily. We never
raised hand against it; no word of any
Catholic editor assailed it so long as it
would be unjust and illegal to do So
but now that it is dead--dead by the
act of its admircrs-we will not consent
to see its body fostering on the high.
ways. Let it be buried out of sight
forever. Let it rest with all its horrors
in the grave--let its memory fade from
the recollection of men. 1t was an out.
rage against humanity such as the his
tory of no other people could exhibit
There was something manly in the old
custom of reducing to Slavery him
whose sword had been beaten down bv
stronger arm on the battle efold; there
was show Of justice in reducing 10
bondage the debtor who could not nav
his creditor, but for American Slavery
there was no excused 1t was a mon.
strous crime-from the seizure of the
African in his own land to the moment
of his death, when his body was wasted
by toll, rather than disease, to uphold
the luxury ofa masterl ........
Well, it has fallen, and we are called
Abolitionist because we refuse our
consent to its resuscitationl We are
proud Of being called so, under cireum.
stances SO creditablo to the mind and
heart May we ever deserve the
namel We will bear it's stigma joyfulIy
through life and carry it into eternity
with honor, We struggle in a holy
cause.-the cause of religion and of the
human race. We maintain the sanotity
Of the marriage tie-the fidelity of the
husband and wife to each other; VIC
maintain the cause of justice, denying
the right of any man to another's labors
without his consent or compensation,
We maintain the right of the parents
to the disposal of their children, and
that no man, through the exercise Of
his powers as master, shall deprive
human beings of instruction in the
Christian religion, and of tho means to
save their souls. Can any man be a
CathOlic--a believer in the Christian
faith-snd consider the question other
wiser With the long and shining list