Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-05-02
For the Democrat and Star.
Abolitionists and Abolitionism
y BENTON DEMOCRAT.


MEssRs. EDITORS II closed my first
number with the statement that the prin-
ciples of the Fathers and also their prac-
tees were in harmony with the laws of ma
ture and Revelation. This believe to be
strictly true But here is where the Abo-
litionists take issue with the Fathers and op-
pose the political fabric which they have es-
tablished. Their opposition to the Consti-
tuition, the Union and the rights of the
States, viii now proceed to prove from
their own Abolition records
''The Constitution of our Fathers was a
mistake Tear it in pieces and make bet
ter Don't say the machine is out of order,
it is in order; it does what its trainers in
tended protects slavery. Our claim is dis
urion, breaking up Of the States l have
shown you that our (Abolition) work cannot
be done under our institutions. y Wendell
Philips
''THis Union is lie The american IN
ION IS an imposture, a corendnt 5oih death,
and an agreement Nth he'll l am for its
overthrow Up with the flag of Disiuaion,
that we may have free and glorious Repub-
lie of our own, and when the hour shall
come, the hour will have arrived that shall
witness the overthrow of slavery. - Fm.
L. Garrison.
mo man has right to be surprised at
this state of things (the war; 1t is just
what we Abolition Disunionists have at
tempted to bring about. Ours is the first
sectional party ever organized in this coun-
try. 1t does not know its own face, and
calls itself national, but it is not national /;
it is sectional The Republican party is a
party of the North, pledged against the
South. . Wendell PliHips
II have labored nineteen years to take
sixteen of the States out of the Union, and
thank God, it is now accomplished. . Thus
spake Phillipsa three years agoat Wash
ington, in public speech, to which Abra-
ham Lincoln and his Union loriag Cabinet
listened with much satisfaction. The Senate
of the United States received him with dis
tinguished consideration the next day; the
Speaker of the House soon after entertained
him at numerous dinner party; the Presl-
dent at that time, and subsequently, held con-
sultation with him in the White House on
the war hence weare justified in the appre-
hension that they then held, and many of
them now hold, similar views concerning the
Constitution and the Union, with those Of
Wendell Phillips, who soon after leaving
Washington assisted in passing the following
resolution at an anti-slavery meeting in New
Yerk, viz:
'ResoIred. That while the anti-savery
society has rendered this verdict with the
deepest emphasis. it has not failed to re-
mind the people of the North that, ever
since the adoption of the Constitution OF
! the United States, their feet have run to
evil. and they have made haste to shed IN
nocent blood, in the way of slayeholdlng
completely; that, by consenting to a slave
representation in Congress, to the arrest and
rendition of fugitive slaves on their own
soil. and to the suppression OF slave lnsur-
rection by the iron hand of the general gov
ernment. they have made covenant with
death, and with hell they have been. at an
! agreement, till, at last, Judgment Is laid to
| the line. and righteousness to the plummet,
and the ball sweeps away the refuge of hes,
the waters overflow the hiding place, the
6venant with death is annulled and the
agreement with he'll no longer stands.
More anon. JEFFERSON.