The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-11
The New Plan for Abolishfng Slavery
Patented by jeff. Davis.

Wendell Phillips may hang his harp
upon the willows. His occupation as an
abolitionist is gone. jeff. Davis has en-
tirely superseded him. Phillips and his
followers proposed to free the slave. Jeff.
Davis goes much further. He proposes to
free three hundred thousand able-bodied
slaves and give them fifty acres of land
apiece. When the able bodied slaves are
free, of course the old slaves and the in
FAINT slaves will he worthless. We shall
see their masters running away from them.
No SOutherner, however great his love for
the peculiar institution, will be willing to
support lot of decrepit old darkeys and
swarm ofnegro children in arms and clouts
Practically, therefore, jeff. Davis will
abolish eVery. We hail him as the great
abolitio 8. All that the slaves freed by
PhillipssOould expect was six feet of mother
earth Ter they starved to death. jeff
DavisStill give them fifty acres of mother
earth }pl fair chance to earn livelihood.
Fifty Ceres of land each for three hundred
thousand negroes amounts to fifteen mil
lions of acres. Making allowances for
cities, mountains, rivers, swamps, lakes,
rocks, barrens and last bitches, this will
leave but little room for any rural white
population in tie seeded States. So we
are to have no more planters or planta-
tons, as in the olden time; but al rebel
dom is to be made a present to the blacks,
and the white men are to enigrate, go to
work for colored masters, or submit to q
premature decease.
jeff. Davis is going to free the slaves
and bestow upon them the title deeds of
the seeded States in order to achieve
Southern independence. He feels that the
sacrifice is great but he is prepared to
make it for the sake of the Southern Con-
federacy. This is a highly novel and ORR
ginal plan, and jeff. Davis ought to take
out patent for it Immediately. 1t is cut
ting off man S head to save his life. 1t
is pulling out the corner stone to keep the
edifice standing. 1t is throwing away a
thing so as to keep it. 1t isjumping over
board to avoid wetting. It is leaping
into the fire to escape from the trying pan.
1t is committing suicide to get out of trou-
bic. The seeded States tlounced ont of
the Union because they were afraid Lin
coin would interfere with slavery. They
put themselves under the lead of Davis,
who promised to protect slavery against
the attacks of Yankee vandals. They
have been fighting for four years to pre-
vent us from bringing them back into the
Union, where the awful abolitionists might
get another chance at slavery. Now. after
the lapse of all this time, and after the
shedding of all this blood, presto! the
chief abolitionist turns out to be jeff.
Davis himself. Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan have stripped him of his dis
guise, and the horns, hoofs and tail of
the abolition Lucifer are revealed. What
do the Southern people say now? Do thew
like jeff. Davis any better than thew dia
Phillips, Greeley, Garrison, Sumner and
Ward Beecher? Are rebel muskels anv
pleasanter than Sharp's rifles? Do the
shareholders prefer military orders to news.
paper arguments? They left the Union to
save slavery; will they now give up SLAVERY
rather than come back into the Union? We
can fancy their feelings when they read
about the fifty acres apiece to be parceIled
out to the freed slaves. By their is ignorance
and their prejudice they have been led into
the very trap they were most anxious to
escape. Their own avorite leaders
have deluded them. They have been
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