Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-16
SEE FOURTH PAGE.
The Abolition PIague.

Some of the oldest Democratic papers
in the country, we are sorry to see, are
becoming abolitonized. Those who,
heretofore, have gabbled most and loud
est about NEGRO equality" linking of
the races" Degradation of the whites"
are becoming infected We are surpris-
ed-shocked- such detection from the
true faith What is worse than all, we
cannot for the life of us, see that We can
do anything to remedy the evil There
Is every appearance that this plague
of aboltionism is spreading with
such alarming rapidity that the whole
democratic party win soon be compelled,
with hands upon their mouths, to cry
out to every conservative passer by, 'un-
clean, "unclean.' We have always
been under the impression that aboli-
tonism, like the measles, whooping
cough or small pox, never afflicted for
lorn humanity more than once in an or
binary life time, and that the Democra
- cy of this State, having suffered terribly
from its ravagesi in 1S4S and IS49, would
escape the disease for all time to come
Judge Law and Joe. MeDonald-how
terribly they afflicted is yet fresh in
the minds of some of the older in
habitants! They were against the
spread of slavery, they were for
removing the National Capital to free
soil. We uneasy for the safety of
-. these gentlemen. The plague has broken
- out among the Democracy of the New
England States Like the cholera and
= = the "Star of Empire" it is slowly wend
ing its way Westward and we will have
~ it in epidemic form in our State be-
fore we are aware of it Vaccination
isasmall-pox preventive, bag of sui
Cphur suspended around the neck is said
to keep off the itch but does any body
know what will prevent the Peace Dem.
ocracy from catching the disease
of abolitionism? If so, as friends
Of humanity, they should make it known.
We are not alarmists, but think it cur
duty to put Democrats on their guard
That we have not exaggerated their dan
ger they may see from the following ex-
tract from the Newburyport Herald,
long the leading Democratic print in
New England, and the organ of Caleb
Gushing, whom the Democracy have
ever delighted to honor. 1t will be seen
that the Herald has the disease in an
aggravated form 1t says:
Slavery is to be abolished before this
war closes, come what will, oppose it
what WILL and cost what it may The
political opposition may say that the
people do not have freedom to express
themselves; that does not matter; thev
viii not stop upon any nice points; an
expression will be had, and recorded
They may tell US that the Union-as we
have understood it-eannot SO be re-
stored, or the Constitution preserved
Let it be so some Union-a union of
territory-can be had from the lakes to
the Gulf, and the Constitution will be in
force with all the modern improve
ments. The past is closed book, and
whatever we may have wished or be-
HeVed, or labored for, we may as we'll
prepare Tor the present as it is and let
the future look out for itself If it is
Detter than the past, shall be the
gamers; and II worse, shall only
share the common lot; but better or
worse, it is useless to whine and grimm
bic about what the people have deter
mined shall be; and if we read aripht
the signs OF the times, the popular de-
cree runs thus: First that this country
shall be one nation; not an acre or rod
OF 1t to be given up, if the war must on
on forever and eternally for its unity.
and though shall have to Law waste
State after State, till territory bigger
than all of Western Europe shall be
turned to desert-depopulated and de.
nuded Tor that end. Second, that slav-
cry shall be wiped out. The cause of
the war shall be removed more com.
pletely than was the human race de-
stroyed by the great food, not eight per
sons surviving in servitude to tell the
story of the past"
All yes, says a reckless, thought
less democrat confident in his own So.
curity through ignorance of the past;