New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-09
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THE SPIRIT or ABoLITI0NIsM,

THE SPIRIT or AsoLITIoNIsM,
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Atthe thirty-ffth annual meeting Of the Massa
| ehusetts Anti-Slavery Society, held IN Boston OF
1.-THE 25th Of last month, q motion was made tina
the society be dissolved, inasmueh as it hal
4 accomplished its purposes, and slavery nowher,
HAD d legal existence in the country. The motiol
was opposed hy Mr.. Lloyd Garrison and defeated
twas declared that the society had not fnishe,
| its business, but that !. there were other an,
equally high ends to be attained, in the education
and amelioration Of the condition Of the negr
race The motion to dissolve was lost, and off
| GERS for the ensuing year elected l
The gentleman who moved to break up the SC
ciety was about as verdant as that other gentle
man in Congress who, a few days ago, moved tina
one day IN each week be set apart for the transae
ton Of public business, to be known as tn
white mans day The one proposition wa
put down as expeditiousIy as the ether. AS hon
as radicalisn rules in Congress and in Massachu
sets, such thing as attention to the interests
white men need no more be expected than on
1 would expect sermon on charity from Ney
4 England pulpit. There is to be no white man
day in this country until radicalism is put down
Mr Carlyle said at our war, that it was like fon
Echimney, and ought to be permitted to burn itsel
IsoHt. We may say the same of aboiifonism
unfortunately the spirit Of the party grows by
what it feeds on; aud though the object for wflch
litwas created has been accomplished ths ipsi'N
continues in q vigorous state Of existence. me
/ chimney becomes only the fouler from the M
4 creased ierceness Of the flames
M The Massachusetts ti.slayery Society has
been in existence, ii seems. thirty years. It
/ was organized long before nauy who read this
+ naper were born ii had its origin in the days Of
Andrew Jackson's Presidency, but il any one had
i Than predicted that the abolition party would
assume its present formidable proportions; Il that
| Il would seize upon The government; that war
| between the sections would be the result and that
| II would accomplish By force Of arms what 1T
never could have accomplished BY force of reason,
| lie would. have been set down as d mailman, Even
when hi. Calhoun, twenty years afterwards,
pointed ont the inevitable result Of the agitaton,
NJ vas derided as q false prophet and d dreamer.
i Those, who suppose that Abolition societies
wouid naturally die, now that abolition il accom-
plished, and there is. no proposition anywhere to
revive slavery, only show that they do not under
stand the temper of those inquiet people in the
Narth,s who are never happy except when attend 4
ing to other peoples business It is announced
that Tie fabors of the society DIRE. now to he
directed to tie education and aineloration Of tile
condition of the negro race. Butltis plain enough
that it is not the benefit Of the negro race that
these pestlent people are deYoting themselves to.
Two powerful motives are at the bottom Of their
action the one to retain the political pow ersof
this country in their hands the other to abase and
degrade and wreak their spite upon the unfortu-
nate people of the conquered South. If Mr.. Sum
ner had carte blanche to write down his entire
system Of laws and constitutions Ii every propo-f
sition he has made, or intends making, were
willingly conceded by the Sonth--if his whole
policy for the regulations Of the affairs Of this
country, il all its entirety, we're adopted still
would Mfr. Sumner not be a satisfied man. He can
10 more live IL atmosphere Of peace and quiet
than an animate creature can live ii an exhausted
receiver, He can no more keep quiet than mag
netic needle can cease from trembling III the
presence Of iron. Grant all his demands, and he
would atiiI De restless and dissatisfied. If every
E rebel'' and 4 traitor III the South were hanged,
and his body exposed at cross roads, with stake
driven through it, after the fashion Of ancient
malefactors, Mfr. Sumner would still desire to give
\ kick to the inanimate corpses In this he is the
bfAE 9ItpTcat1latlfG OI Iufltal IAHd6lGSIu.& lne
incarnation of the intermedd ling bigoted perse-
cutting spirit of Plymouth Rock it Is not surprising
that a constituency which honors him and such as
he should resolve to continue the crusade against
thu South until sp far DIS law cansdo il, political
and social equality are established between the |
MI races, II not, indeed, the absolute superiority
u the black oyer the white. sgts,
But experience has shown that in the United
states political Youtions are frequent and some
lines sudden. The party which is to-day in the |
scendant, may tomorrow be IN a minority. tits /
bis which gives US hope that in course of time
he bitter and malignantaspirit which now pervades
congress may give place, under different repre- |
entatiyes. to some consideration for our people.
fr. Sumner may strive to make it appear that phi |
anthrepy, and Justice, and liberty. and equality I
nd fraternity, are the motives by which he i /
Urged; but when theveit 10 torn off, it must be
discovered that to abase and degrade the people I
II large portion Of the country is scarceyle less
lesire with him than to 50 arrange matters that his
party may be kept permanently in power We
can understand why the sentiment Of the North 1
srnSpeoplea In favor of the preservation of the /
Union was SO decided but we shall be much mis-. |
aiken If the extremes to which Mr.. Sumner and I
bis friends have gone. will be sanctioned by the |
masses, or if the political revolution, Of which we
already see the signs, does not proceed until il
will be possible to have white mans day at least
,nce q week in the United States Congress.
The Envlrons or New Orleans.
se,sse
NUMBER SEVENTEEN.
Perhaps some Of our readers may have noticed
~ antiquated building, standing inside Of the yard