Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-01
COL. DAHLGREN's ORDERS.
The BcastIy Doctrine of NIiscege-
nation and Ets High Priests.

When, thirty years ago, the Abolitionists
In the New England States, urged on by
British emissarfes, began the agitation Of
the abolition of slavery in the United States,
the sympathies of some people became en-
listed in the movement from philan-
thropic and humane repugnance to the doc
trine of holding any class of men In bond
age, The agitation OF the subject, once COM
menced, spread among the weak Drained
and tender hearted in the Eastern States
until its proselytes numbered not only hum
dreds, but thousands. But as fast as
the doctrine spread the more faBatical be-
came its advocates. Upon design to eman-
cipate the negro the original Abolitionists
engrafted the hideous principle of amalga-
nation. AT first the sincere and honest
Abolitionists spurned the idea. They were
willing to free the negro; but they were un-
willing to raise him to q political, much less
a social, equality with the whites. But by
the persistent and insidious efforts of the
fanatical leaders, men Of some learning and
remarkable eloquence, aided by the secret
Vaccinations of British spies and political
agents, those who were at the outset only
inclined to regard fayorably the emancipa-
ton project gradually suffered themselves
TO fall from one degree Of firmness and Dig
nifty to another, and finally were led to
swallow the negro entire. Disguised at
first they were lured to endure, then pity,
then to embrace him-fgurativeiy at first,
but In the end literally. Men and women
In New England became crazy on the sub
feet of the negro. No human lazy was too
high to keep him in subjugation, no taber-
nacle too sacred to keep him without its
threshold. All household sanctities must
give way before the negro; all human laws,
and even divine ordinations, must 60 down
that the negro must go up-that the black
should become the equal of the white. The
public mind became feverish on thesubject,
DemagOgues were ready to seize every OPP
portnnity to turn to advantage the growing
agitation, and by bargains and coalitions as
corrupt and hellish as any that Satan ever
winked at, the Abolitionists in the New
England States finally became formidable
political power in the land. Then all the
strength Of the leaders became enlisted in
the one great work-the emancipation and
the social equality of the blacks. Every
pulpit rang with stories Of the atrocities Of
Southern slavery, Theodore Parker, Wen
dell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Thompson,
the Englishman; Cheever, the preacher, and
three thousand others, including Henry
Ward Beecher, Greeley of The Tribune;
Wilson and Sumner in the Senate, and any
number of small potato politicians In the
House of Representatives, all howled forth |
their denunciations of slavery, and stung,
taunted, robbed and murdered Southerners
as they were holding fast to their constitu-
tional rights. Everywhere where these dis
turbers Of the public tranquility and their |
echoes-whose name was legion-could Sc
cure hearing the doctrine of abolition was |
hammered upon, until they finally involved
are now sailing smilingly upon the sea of
hInod thory rraotad 10 .lh |
Having succeeded, as they have boasted,
in emancipating the blacks, they have al
ready commenced their next--more proper
ly their emporaneous-work of ANAL
gamation. They no longer attempt to con-
ceal their object or to delude their follow
ers, as they did thirty years ago; but now
they openly proclaim their 7beastly sdoc- !
trines. The promulgators of this infamous |
creed boldly avow their belief of the equal
ity of the white and blank races through |
their pamphlets, newspapers, pulpits, and
in all their public gatherings and private |
gossiping and scandal-mongering parties,
and In their Gideonite coteries, wherever |
the Union arms have made way for them |
to penetrate with their detestable doctrines. |
Pluming themselves upon being the NOR
alists par, excellence Of the age, nearly every |
principle they entertain and exp0und is |
grossly immoral onits face and revolving to |
human nature In fact l9 .prnls ~ |
We have among us thehigh priests in this |
tabernacle Of degradation d,vice, the pill
lars of this vile temple of modern pollution, |
and every day or two society's sense Of de-
cency Is shocked by some broad averment
OF the wisdom Of miscegenation, the right
eousness of the work of o general system Of
between the whites and
blacks. Greeley boldly declares that under |
certain circumstances he would compel"