Year: 1861

goes on here continually that q
poor prisoner who is condemned to death
by the laws Of his country chooses in
varibly, If mercy sho'd interpose, the
penitentiary for life in preference to tho
hemp Of the gallows. This is human
nature, of which our Abolitionists do not
appear 20 have any adequate conception.


Now, suppose that the savage King of
Dahomey sent his subjects or prisoners
to some of the factories on the coast and
/ sold them as slaves, would he be moro
guilty than if he had their heads cut Off?
/ Suppose the Slaves at the dock should
bny them of their barbarous tyrant,
would they be doing wrong? They
would only have to choose between leav-
ing those wretches lo be buchered or trans
porting them to some of the slave colo
MES Of America. We, of course, be-
lieve that no genuine Christain-no de-
cent man-would he engaged in this
Kind OF business; still, we cannot discov-
er the crime even Of the SLAYER in snatch
ing them from the butcherios prepared
for them in their native land. When
they arrived in those colonies, would it
be crime for humane masters TO purchase
them at sum which prospectively


might cover the annual or serni-annual


wages given to laborers in other parts
OF the world? Those purchasers should
be bound, and if they are men of con-
science they would be bound, to take care
OF these unfortunate people Under the cir
| cumstances, 1t IS very difficult to discover
IN purchaser any moral transgressing
OF the law Of God or Of the law of man,
where traffic is authorized. The terrific
part Of the question is, that not only the
individuals brought to the American
continent or islands are themselves to be
slaves, but their posterity, in like manner
/ for all time to come. This is the only ter
/ rifle feature about American slavery And
| yet Is not alien from the condition Of man
kind in general. Original sin has en-
tailed upon the human race its conse
/ quences for time and eternity. And yet
the men who are living now had no
| part In tho commission Of original sin
The d"unkard the thief, the bad men of
any description, entails upon his pos
terity evils which the forfeiture of his
own personal life cannot prevent or repair


We are aware, indeed, that on the
score 0: morality much can be said with
truth against slavery. The Marriage


bond, creating the relation between hus-


band and wife among slaves, is not al


ways respected by their masters. Fami-


lies, if one can call them so, are broken


up-the husband sold in one direction
and the wife in an other, whilst their
i children are disposed OF according to the
= highest price offered from any point of the
{ compass. These are hardships, but ex-
E cept in the right Of selling AMI dispensing
, families, they are not, unfortunately,
, peculiar to the South The degraded
e condition Of thousands of females in our
b. cities in the free States furnishes a hint


that it is for those wko are without sin.
= to cast the first stone, that man should


take the beam ont Of their own eye be-
fore they attempt to spy out the mote of
) their aeighbor's. Nay, we would ask,


is there moralist even of the Aboli-


ton school, who does not know that


there is prevailing in all our free States
! land possible in many of those in which
slavery is recognized) }, an occult science


by which in order to protect unmarried


females from public shame, both the
mother and her unborn child are destroy
ed by brutal, barbarous operation.


This topic may be taken into consid-
GRAFTON by our philanthrophists, but it
cannot be treated of by newspaper With
any regard for the decency and delicacy


of pure morals.


But we are tired of this topic and we
have only now to say that we despise, in
the name of all Catholics, the "Idea'' of
making this war subservent to the phi
lanthropic nonsense of Abolitionism.-


in certain localities Aboitionism may


tend to elevate some aspirant to Office
But Statesmen, once elevated, view the


question as statesmen are bound to do
If they are charged with administration
of the Federal Government, they are
: bound to look to the North and to the
: South, the East and the West, with the


same Just and impartial appreciation of
the rights of all our people. If any por-


tion of the people should array themselves


against the Government, then that por-


tion should be brought to order either by


civil law, if that would be submitted to,


or at the cannon's mouth But to sup
: pose this war is trick by which, adroitly
!, managed, our Government and our brave
, troops are made, or hoped to be made,


blind instruments of Abolitionists to carry


ont their Idea" in the Southern States.


is an insult to the North generally, and


Catholics generally. We have Gov
eminent. That Government proffesses to


guide its administration according to the


requirement of the Constitution. That
Government, under the sanction of the


Constitution, has been created by the
people themselves. Having been thus


created, if it should be left unsupported.
the people will have turned traitors to
, themselves, and allowed the Government
to abdicate. Nothing of this kind can.
t of course, ever happen; but in the mean
0 time, the actual Government Of the United


States, shall and must be supported by
V all the treasures and all the blood, it
n necessary, of loyal citizens. But at all
!. events, it must be supported.


- no Mary.


g | am thinking of the time Mary. when
i sitting by thy side, anil shelling beans,