The Montana post., 1866-09-22
THE DELUs1oN OF ABOLITION.
From the Old Guard, for May, 1866.

THE DELUSION OF ABOLITION.
From the Old Guard, for May 1866.
A notion, or "idea, is set up that ne:
groes should be white men, or beings like
ourselves, and after thirty years of "agita-
tion," a majority of the educated "
classes have gone to work to reduce it to
practice. Of course the uneducated
classes, or common" people, could never
get bewildered on such a subject. They
saw the negro before them, with his
black face, woolly hair, ebo shin, and
could no more form conception that he
was creature like themselves than they
could of crows being eagles, or grey
hounds bull dogs, or shad salmon
All errors, delusions, and untruths of
any kind, among an intelligent and self
covering people, should be met by argu-
ment and reason; but there are some
things so impious, monstrous, anti-social
and disgusting, that their teachers
should either be exterminated at once,
or confined in" mad-house by them
selves, for even the unfortunate idiot
should not be subjected to such loath-
some companionship. Abolition is one of
these things, and if the healthy instincts
and outraged manhood of the common"
people had not been restrained, and the
leaders of this damnable delusion had
been slaughtered thirty years ago, a mil
lion of Gods creatures now in bloody
graves mi ght be walking Gods fair earth
and rejoicing in the existence He blessed
them with. But the educated classes,
the Church, the men Of wealth, the men
who accepted European distractions and
traditions, and call them knowledge,
stood in the way, protected the preachers
of the Abolition crusade, and at last have
become so utterly besotted that they re-
gard it's leader and embodiment as the
great martyr of liberty. !.
Suppose this monstrous malady had
broken out in 1888 instead of 1860, and
all the States had adopted what lunatics,
fools, traitors and towards call the Con-
stitutional Notwithstanding the CEN
sus returns as basis, the entire negro
population would at this moment be less
than fifty thousand instead OF four mil
lions, and as the white people are the
authors of the sin, and therefore st least
an equal number are punished with the
victims, the entire white population OF
these States could hardly be above ten
millions. Of course with no negroes to
cultivate it, we should not have acquired
the Louisiana territory, and France or
some other European power at this mo-
ment would probably own all the terri
tory west Of the Mississippi. Of course
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, all the
great cotton region would still belong to
the Indian. and without Texas, the gold
of California would still remain buried
treasure. .,. 5
If. in fact, the States had" abolished
slavery" and adopted the Constitutional
amendment in 1888, we at this moment
might be ten millions of people, bounded
by the Mississippi on the west and the
Ohio on the south, with some scattered
settlements in parts of Virginia. Georgia
and the Carolinas, and with some fifty
thousand perishing negroes, like the van
ishing Mohawks and lroquois, to put us
in mind of our sins and crimes. But IN
truth, this disgusting and horrible lunacy
is vastly more disgusting than the "abo
lition of slavery" in 1888.
We have not only made paupers and
non-producers of four millions OF these
hapless beings, but we have loaded the
northern laboring classes with debt o.
four thousand millions to degrade then
into an equal citizenship with these ne
groes. When, or how, or where thl'
most horrible, most sinful, and most dis
gusting of all possible national suicides
may end, is only known to Him Wh'
holds all human destinies in the hollow
of His hand, but it is so monstrous, un
uaralleled, and utterly diabolical, that
will be worked out rapidly either in ma
tional ruin and social disintegration, o
in the recovery of the national reason
and the moral restoration of our people
Meantime, and in conclusion, let ever.
man, and woman too, who believes in DE
mocracy, hold everybody equally crimi
nal, and equally responsible with Carr
son, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln
who would change the condition of tn
regro to that of the white man. God ha
made them different beings, and therefor
designed them for different conditions
and all those who strive to abolish tha
design are equally mad, impious and sir
ful and traitors to their blood as well q
country.