The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-05
FANATlClSM AND FAILURE.

There is a close ethical resemblance
between the Abolitionist campaign pre-
vious to the Civil War and to that
which is being waged by the radical
Prohibitionists in these days. The ABB
olitionists were people acutely sensitive
to the wrong Of slavery but without
any practicable plan of redressng 1t.
They always went to extremes which
brought no reward save the martyrdom
of their leaders and the prostration OF
their cause. The lawful compact with
slavery was properly called a cove
nant with death and a league with
hell" but the Abolitionists could think
Of no better way of getting rid of 1t
than by adopting such methods as
those by which Mrs. Carrie Nation and
ether female cranks are trying to abol-
ish the saloon power in Kansas. Every
plan of reasonable compromise, and
even that of buying and freeing the
slaves was rejected with scorn. No
man could rise and point out that the
ownership of slaves was vested right
and that some way must be found To
pay the slave-owners for the loss of
their chattels without being assaile1
with violent epithets. Every one who
counseled reason and moderation was
called a Creature of the Slave Power.
" men the iu'iiitE VI 'oiin
Hlethoos was SHOWN Oh 'he saho"s, t''e
retort was threat 10 eN'enu 'no9e
methods untll pIoou ran III every sut'e'
ana nre proke from every mousse que
OF the Apoiltloh ieauers 'horace ufte-
le!) couhsele'Vtpe preahiis up VI t'e
Union, settlnsNthe slave states OH by
themselves; heNwanted the errlhS Sis
hal
tiers TO go IN peace his paper the
Tribune, called the flag "a haunting lie,
whose stripes are bloody scars ana
VIM. Lloyd Garrison's Journal the
Emancipator was quite as fanatlca'
The Abolitionists had no faith in Abra-
ham Lincoln; and when he declared
that he would save the Union If he had
to save slavery with it, Wendell PM
lips stood before an audience of ap- !
plauding freaks and called him TIE
slave hound of Illinois Yet when
the time had ripened in the heat of war
this illuminated martyr broke the
manacles of every slave and did 1t with
means to which the Abolitionists had
denied their confidence and by the
hands of men who had suffered most
from their dispraise.
That slavery was eXpunGed from the
laws and life of the nation Is, there
fore, an achievement to which the Abo-
lition party, as such, can Law small
claim. The part taken by that body
was merely that of an irritant-Garri-
sonianism only did something to induce
the act of folly by which the Slave
Power tried to break up the Union and
for that crime was shattered on its own
soorstep. Had the South been content
to let matters stay as they We're, slaV-
cry might nave held place until the
present time or until the prudence OF
tie owners educated by public Senti-
rnent' mad prompted them TO let the
aiacks earn their own ireedom' As
suredly Garrison via talK ana fhli-
lips eloquence' ana greeley hHs'erl"
ana the lacKdaWlhs OF the snort
halreo hahsaS women coulu nave u'''e
nothing more than to Keep up an eS
citement when, after Tune Noulo
nave worn ltsell out leaNlhS tVe Not'"
apathetle ana the south uhulstutne"'
The Prohibition hight against the Fa-
loon power Is already gong INTO tle IA
uonal decline Whlch the Apoil'ioriS'
crusade out ior Lincoln war rheiS
ures' must soon nave experience /
Never were the crahks more Nl"leh!
than IN the PRESIDENTIAL campaign OF
last year never was the'r ueIsat nlTre
FROM 'he uaS McNliieS
was fehonilhaleu' sucn h'rtu S'ahuererS
as Mrs cougar shr'eKeu i''to tne ears
oil disgustfu audiences 'he most imam
Gus charges against the private ana
punllc character OF tne nation ohlel
NJ aElstrate lie was tme ruIi,-Selisr VI
the Fhiippihes' lhe bartender Oh .i'e
Canteen, the murderer ot our b"Ns - I
ia ~ imi,,oisn bad haa,. as oron,i,, ,
ru,It,- Of bon,icida as Francis Nurnhy :
6tm'so,f m nao,,a baard ana turned :
,,.a,, ava y,,han tha,, COST thai,. ,,otes