Year: 1861

The Brigadicr- General whom we have
in our minds eye is the same who pub
lished in this city that, after slavery had
been disposed of in the South, "Popery
must be looked into" He processes to
be loyal citizen, but this is a curious
method of inducing other citizens who
are truly loyal to rally to the support of
the Constitution, the Government and
laws of our country.


Even our Catholic DR.. Brownson holds
that slavery is the cause of the war
This happens to be simply impossible
except in the sense that mans carving
money on his person is the cause of his
being robbed on the highway. Slavery
existed since the Declaration of Indepen
dence and before. And if it ever could
have been the cause of civil war among
the people and States of the Union, or Of
the Colonies, that civil war should have
broken out say eighty or one hundred
and twenty years ago. Slavery, there.
fore is not the cause of the war. There
is nothing new in it. n


Sometimes it has appeared to us tha,
Abolitionism, if it be what it has been
described by some of its most prominent
interpreters, stands in need of strait
jacket and the humane protection of lu
natic asylum. 1t would desire to do the
thing completely that some 1000, 900
of slaves should be emancipated in one
day, if possible, even in one hour. But
it has never thought what is to become
come Of these unfortunate people after
their emancipation. They would not
have a square inch on the surface of this
globe that they could call their own
Where could they sleep on the first night
after their chains had been broken .
Either on the land of their former own
ers, which would be tresspass, or on
the highway, which public convenience
could not tolerate. Where are they to
go, gentlemen Abolitionists Supposing
they sleep somewhere the first nigh.
where are they to get food for the next
day ? You would have destroyed the re-
lation between them and their masters
And after having done this mischief to
both parties you could not expect their
masters to still provide them with food,
clothing, medicine and medical attend
ance.


Whose business will it be to see to all
this ?


Will it be yours to..simply look on
rub your hands at the triumph of your
inconsiderate policy-and having dis
rupted the whole social fabric in the
Southern States, to leave the emancipated
negroes and the white population to fight
it out? Is this what you mean? Are
you honest in your theories If so, why
not have proposed to the nation the set
ting apart of some portion of our yet un-
peoplcd territory, say patch of land as
large as England, to be settled by these
emancipated slaves, ii emancipation were
possible ? Why not put your hands in
in your pockets and invite your neigh
bors to do the same, for the erection OF
huts, or the procurement Of even few
rude implements for the maintenance OF
these four million Of abolitionized ne
groes, at least during the first year, for
the procuring of seeds o various kinds,
agricultural and horticultural, to be plant
ed and cultivated by their own hands in
view of the second year, when they should
have to depend in great measure upon
themselves ?


But we have seen another part Of your
scheme, which is, that the negroes, once
emancipatcd, might diffuse themselves
throughout the free States, and especially
in the North. Well, you have had them
in the North, and there are some still re-
naming, but they are becoming few in
numbers, and dwindlinS down after the
style of the Indians. How do you treat
those that you have? Are their feelings
not outraged on every corner of oul
streets? Are they not called "blacl
nigger," with tacit approval even o
those who may have hand in their run
ming away? Even in this great city o
New York. though their money is jus
the same as that which white people use
they cannot be admitted into an omnibu
or railroad car occupied by white peopl
without being reminel by printed sig
that it is privilege and not right
Are these the benefits which you inten
to bestow on the liberated negro popula
tion of the South? What else? Il