The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-23


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When, tihiy years ago, the. abolilonists IN
tn New England States. urged on by Brit sh
emissares. becaa tie az tat;on OF the abolition
Of avery IN tie United States, the sympahies
Of some people became ENLISTED in the move
iacnt from rhilsnthropic aud humane reldug-
nance TO Tie doctrine OF hold ne any class Of
men in bondage TIE agitation cf the subject.
| once 9, mmenced, spread among the weak
brs'ned and tender hearted in the Eastern
| States until is proselyte numbered not only
| hundreds. but Thousands. But as fast as tie
doctrine spread the more fanatical became IFS
advocates. Upon a design to emsncipate the
negro the original aboiiton'sts engrafted the
+, hideous principle Of amalgamaticn. At FIRST the
sincere and honest abolitonsts spurned the
/ idea. They were willing to free the negro; hut
they were unwilling TO raise him to political,
much less a social, equality with tho whites.
| But by the persistent and insdious efforts Of
| the fanatical leaders, men OF some learning and
CiNQuSHtC, uioSu W WV pVtiSs
Vaccinations OF Br tish aples ."- political
agents. those who were at the outset omy in
| clined to regard isvorably the emancipation
| project gradually suffered themselves TO fall
| from one degree OF firmness and dignity to
another, and finally were led to swallow the
| negro entire. Disguised ut first, they were
lured to endure. then pity. then to embrace
uniu 81 Grti kpt in tho aud
| literally. Men and women in New England
became crazy on the subject Of the negro. No
human law was too high to keep him in subju-
cation, no tabernacle too sacred to Keep him
without its threshold. All house. OH sancti-
es must give way before the negro; all human
| laws. and even divine ordinations, must 60
down that the negro might go up--that tho
black should become the equal Of the white.
The public mind became feverish on the sub
ject. Demagogucs were ready to seize every
opportunity 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 Eng
land States finally became formidable polti-
| cal power in the land Then all the strength
Of the leaders became enlisted in the one great
work-the emancipation and the social equa!i-
ty Of the blacks. Every pulpit rang with.
stories Of the atrocities of Southern slavery.
Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Gar
rison, Thompson, the Engishman; Cheeyer. the
preacher, and three thousand others. including
Henry Ward Beecher, Greeley, Of the Tribune;
|, Wilson and Sumner IN the Senate. and any
number Of smallpotato politicians in the House
Of Representatives, all howled forth their do.
puncations Of slavery, and stung, tainted,
robbed and murdered Southcrners as they
were holding fast to their constitutional rights.
Everywhere where these disturbcrs Of the pub
lie tranquility and their cchoes--whose name
was legiou-cou.d secure hearing tho doc
| trine OF abolition was hammered upon, until
they finally involved the country in horrible
civil war; and they are now sailing smiliagly
| upon the sc a Of blood they created.
Having succeeded "a they have boosted In
emancipating the blacks, they have already
commenced their neyt-more properly their
contcmporaneous--wor of amalgamation.
They no longer attempt to conceal their OBJ
ject or to delude their followers, a. they did
thirty years ago; but now they openly pro-
claim their beastly doctrines. The promul-
gators Of this infamous creed boldly avow their
belief Of the equality Of the white and black
races through their pamphlets, newspapers,
rulpits, and in all their public gatherings and
private gossiping and scandal-mongering par
ties, and in their Gideonite cotercs, wherever
the Union arms have made way for them to
penetrate with their dctestable doctrines
Plumng themselves upon being the moralists
par ercelence OF the age, nearly every principle
they entertain and expound is grossly immoral
on its face and revolving to human nature in
fact
We have among us the high priests in this
tabernacle Of degradation and vice, the pillars
of this vile temple or modern pollution, and
every day or two society's sense Of deccncy is
shocked by some broad avcrmcnt of the wis
dom of misccgcnation, the righteousness of tho
work or general system OF intcrmarriage
between the whites and blacks. Greeley boldly
declares that under certain circumstances he
| would 'compcl" white men to marry negroes
| The T;mes--a bright mulatto on the subject Of
| misccgenation-c charges the Tribune with pub
| fishing articles showing that il is "wse thing
| for whites to marry blacks" Greeley cries
| 'Iet the white man marry the black woman;
| no one has right to interfere"
II any one accustomed TO regard the sanctiiy
| and purity OF the marriage tie. whose MUD is
| not warped BY free love and Foaricrism--w who
has an appreciation OF the fner Attributes Of
human naturc-who would not pollute the
sacred stream Of conjugal love by INTERVENING
! with Il the gross and immoral impurities en-
! gepdered by the reckless Introduction Of re-
voting and degrading doctrine born OF tue
pestiierous bed Of poiitics--if any one possess
ing the quality OF a pure virtue ehould have
made the declarations Greeley has in favor
| Of this beasIly project Of miscercnatien his