Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-01-08
Au tlmvn6 Ei!yl!ll.s
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1854
A YANKEE nE;iEW OF VITAE TIE
ABOLITIONiAyS HAVE ACCOM-
PLISUED

PLISHED.
Last week the Abolitionists held jubilee.
in New York aud Philadelphia. The "1ri
buEe" claims for them that they elcc!ed Lin
coin in 1860. and that "pcsterity will DO tisu
justice" That paper, however, is entirely
too modest. Tha Aboliticn;sts have daEc y
good deal more T.; II, .lact he Gorilla, aud il
the matter Of doing them jurt;ae, We vii: an
ticipnte pesterity q H.:lc. and CO Y tn. t"i
lowing from the NeT York "lIeral!" g.
Saturday:
In 1860, the American Abolir;Gr;s'e, Pure
and simple, numbered about onc hGDdfe'i
shsusand persons. In le1O, whc;! they TAI
Mr. Biruey FOR President Ike ihoii,i,,i.t
polled seven thousand votes. Ia 1874, wirh
the same candidate. they rol!sa sixtJ-tHo
thpu.and votes. In l24S, theg !nternnglcc
with the Freesoiiers and gave Vac BuT'.i
three hundrea Thousand votes. FrGr, thar
time forth tho pUro Abolition votes is,so.n;z
ed sp with the Freesail 7ote and the R'P,b~
liean vote that VIC eanrat get o. I: With mD:f
accuracy. Still we beiiovc tina: ere hundred
tho usapa is fair estimator: the r,:c;lUy ul
true. radical Abc'itiorists who haze iciiownn
tho flag 81 Garrison ana Phi!!:p&. s:.i wiz
ere entitled tn share in t..a Ured.s of tht
Abolition work and in the glory which low
ersTns their labor: In :llis number VIC j..
elude all such old women as Greeley anu
surh young womenaas T:ltan. .4s.ssss
:. Whit these oTe hundred thousand Ali f.i6;I.
lists have accomplished rnHy be stated in vary
lev words They athaccpraEIished, flyspras-
ent war. Thsyshsvo ,7er!:cd forfsT thirty years,
and hereitis, They Eays;w:eckedE q powerful,
pe4eefnl and happy country. They hs7s array.
ed brother against brother iatilt4~ againss sost,
children against parents. They have filed tlls
land with widows. -af.d orphans. They finve
Transformed the country into g VAST graveyard -
Thay have Sized en- ocean Of bool, and sauan-
dered msuntains OF money. They have made
tbs cir heavy with bricks Of their wounded,
the gfosus 'oi iha.s dying, and ihee !suantatic~s
of the. nnoueae-s: Th=y hHyo devastated the
fields snd plantations OF the South. md destroyed
the commenced Of lie North. They haye given u
check to the progress Oi civilization AMI demo-
cratic institutions from which it will take years
to recover. All this they have accomplished IN
thirty years. Oae hundred thousand leads iG.
leese fIOm the iuE est he'll. aud inspired b. he
most Internal malice, could not have accomplished
more mischief in the SANG space CT sine. II this
be any thing 10 rejoice over let the Abo itcnis;.
rejoice If they desire TO raise monument to
perpetrste thu remembrance Of hsir triilmps our
battle fields will furnish them with enough iuiaea
skulls for I pyramid aud Wendell Philips or
Bsecher would b. only too i.aprys to dnlirsr the
address ut the !ayinS oftlls corner skull
During this abolition va, at least ore hun
drel thousand iven have been killed, ard four
hundred thousen,! have been disabled for liis :;
thus half million have been subjected TO death,
wounds, aud 10 sickness ,sorsn thsn wounds in
the armies Of both sides. What nnlruns Of hu
nan misery has occurred beyond and behind The
armies we shall not :loiT inquire. The amount
of property destroyed Turing tho war may b
roughly estimate! at i've hundred millions OF
dollars. The iujury inii rted upon oar cons
nerce and carry ing trade may no stated ii
one hundred in;i;iohs oi do;iars. This IS
rather under than over tic ms,k, ior he
rebel Maffit asserts that ltr alone la, de-
stroyed eleven millions Of dollars worth o.
ships and carg0es, and Selnn;as has certainly Il.
stroyed much more. The war dek' Of The North
and South amounts TO about five Thousand NIL
lions cl dollars. ]! the war eds blythe abolition
of slavery. we shall have to. keep standing army
Of hundred thousand men, ani suppsrt two or
three millions Of ludiasat negroes fer ssverai
years.
But we will leave that probability cat Of the
account and will sisorefrs:a from estimating tho
millions and billions of dollars which the row
impeded industry of neutrality-suspicious. pre-,
duced had not the aholltion:ss csus.rlrhis war.
We wish to c"ntiue ourselves 10 facts ami figures
o4 indisputsble authenticity Aud what io these
facts and figures sho " Estimating the white
population of the United States in 1890 a TWEEN.
ty.siI millions and this is within u few hundreds
of the official igures-we find that the abolition
lists lKve heRn instrumental in causing the dcu; b
OF orc man out Of every two hnndrcd and stSiy
psopie, and the crippled or otherwise drsnni j
OF one man ont of every hfty two people Ais
that the sboitloniss' have raused'tha deslruc ION
of property valued ut six hund,ed millions of c>
lars, and war expenditure Of sbont Eve :hous-
and millions. If these are things TO o. proad nt,
LEI the aboli ionists hold y perpetual jubilee.