North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-12-05
The Falsehoods Of Abolitfenists.

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on his thinking cap for a moment, and re-
member, if he can, one of the ten thous-
and diatribes which the Abolitionists have
inflicted upon the country during the past
twenty years to show the advantage of
freed negro labor over that of the negro un-
der a master. Has it not been said and
sung in ten thousand shapes and forms !?
"Free the negro" cried these blatant ere
formers" "and you shall see the South
even outstrip the North" st is slavery
that depresses her energies; "slavery is
the cause of her being behind the North !;
but give the negro the boon oflberty, give
him something to labor for, and the waste
places of the South shall bloom as the
rosew Volumes were written, of which
this is the brefest epitome. All that art,
rhetoric or eloquenre could bring to bear
upon the subject, was reiterated to show
how great curse, slavery, so called, was
both morally and economically. Especial
lv were we to have Tremendous crops of
cotton, sugar and rice, as soon as the
shacklcs were taken from the poor crushed
negro, who, touched by the magical wand
Of universal emancipation, was to spring
ike another Minerva, full fedged, from
the brain of Jovc. But this was not all.
Millions of white men were standing, arms
aklmbo, waiting for the incubus of "slave-
ry" to be lifted from the South, that they
might rush in and aid in developing her
resources. The crop of cotton, under the
combined efforts of black and white strug-
Cling in the grand arena of freedom" !"
was, according to General Banks, to rush
incontinently up to ten millions Of bales in
ne timei The wonderful Colonel Conk-
ling, of New York city, most profound
thinker, and as deeply read in commercial
wisdom as the renowned Wouter Van
Twilier was in the intricacies of the Dutch
Grammar, delivered an address just pre-
vious to the close of the war, before the
Statistica! Society, of New York city, in
which, with the utmost gravity, be pro-
pounded the following: No sooner will
"the national flag be nnfnrled IL the South,
"than millions from both the North and
Europe, who have Stunned her slave trod-
eden fields, as they would the shade of the
"Bohan Upas, will rush to occupy her de
"serted but enfranchised lands, and will de-
"velope her resources as they never were
"developed before. Even the blasted
'wastes of slavery, revived oy the touch of
Liberty, will again be made to blossom as
the rose. The first year of peace, in all
"human probability, will witness the ac-
"cession of million of freedom to the
population Ct ine South, bringing with
'them, at once, the economies, the IN
'proved processes and greater producing
''powers of intelligent labor. Before two
years shall have elagsed, it is safe to pre-
"dict that America will resume her former
Supremacy in the cotton market of the
"World, never more to be deprived of it. -
As the renowned Captain Cutie declared
of his friend, Bunsby, "There is wisdom
for you? Wisdom in solid chunks ~
And Yet it is just stuff as this that readers
of Abolition papers have been swallowing
for the past thirty years. RObespierre
and St. Just preached il in 1899, before
Hayti went down, never to come up again.
Old Mr.. Claiming, simple soul. declared
that the same result would follow negro
freedom in Jamaica, and yet it didn't -
Our Aboltionists said the same thing, and
yet, strange to say, found people to believe
them. Every pig, it is said, will burn his
nose before he will be convinced that the
swill is hot and people seem to be Just as
smart as the pigs, and no smarter.
Here is Colonel Confidence Conkling
predicting that a million of freemen will
rush Southwark the first year of peace
How many have gone? We hear now
and then of Northern men going South
but we will make an even bet that two
Southern men come North for business,
where one Northern man has gone South.
New York city is full of Southern men
seeking living. Such athiug was never
known before. "lu two years." says this
great Colonel, "America will resume her
former supremacy in the cotton market"
Well, the two years have nearly passed
and what do we see? Where is the cot
ton? All that this year will show is five
or six hundred thousand bales against over
four millions before the war. %, the
negroes will work for wages This ia all
that is needed to stimulate Southern indus
try" And it has been stimulated with a
vengeance! Already the Abolition press
is trying to explain away their falsehoods
and let down their dupes as easily as pos
sihle, The New York Tribune, after ex-
planning about bad weather. poor seed, &c.
&c, is forced to confess that the crop will,
in the future, be insignificant, and then
says: "From these statements, Northern
"farmers should learn that they must de-
"pend more upon themselves for part of
'their clothing. They must raise fax and
wool, and provide improved spinners and
"looms which save immense labor and
"cloth at home. A half an acre of fax
"the wool often or fifteen sheep worked
cup every other year, will give cloth
(which will gladden. their famiI y. and even
"their grand children. We have never
"seen a wife have such bright ewes or such
"rosy. beautiful cheeks, as when she un-