Year: 1862

would condemn US, and probably, in the


cause of humanity, rise to stay atrocities


SO disgraceful


But what sane man can doubt that IN


der such policy the last spark of Union


sentiment In the South would be cxtin-


guished. and the entire Southern popula-


ton become united as oDe person against


the Government It were the merest folly
to- suppose otherwise How then would
such fighting bring back the revolted States
into the Union! Can the 5000 900 of
white people there be held under our re-
publican form of Government in subjec-
ton Is it believed thatthe people of the
North can be maddened into the effort for
determination of eight millions of people,
with whom we have hitherto lived in a


Union held together by fraternal bonds,
and most of whom are now bound to mem
bers of our own population by the closest
ties of consanguinity Ii we were to ex-
haust all our physical resources and our
pecuniary means could we, if we would ac-
complish such purpose of extermination -
Can we hold the Southern States or peo-
pie in subjugation without oVerthrowing
our Constitution and the Union; without,
in fact, establishing government the most
despotic! We need not answer for you
these inquiries. We know what must be
the response of every mind not denenie ed


by Abelitionism.


Have we not shown, then, the policy of
Abolitionisn, if carried out, is to the over
throw of our Constitution and Union! Be
lieving we have done so, it remaines to in-
quire What is the relief for Us III this hour
of gloom for our beloved country? We an-
swer /: Remove the CO. SeS ; remove ANo-
litionism and Secessionism. Put down the
former at the ballot box put down the lat
ter (backed by arms) by force of arms
In the execution of the latter, insist that
the Government shall stand by It's plight
ed faith-to conduct the war to uphold the
Constitution and Union, and not, as Abo-
litionists would have it, to make disunion
complete and to overthrow the Constitu-
ton! As Pennsylvanians, you have poss-
IDLY greater stake in the preservation of
the Union than the people of any other
State. Should the cooperative, yet in
some sense, hostile movements of Aboli-
tiouisln and Secessionism succeed, and dis
union become an established fact, Penn
syigania, owing to her peculiar geograph-
zeal position, would be exposed /, the des-
olation aud become the battle field of the
confiction forces that might undertake to
settle all questions that would remain as the
heritage of disunion.


These, however, We forbear now to con.
template; for we are unwilling to believe
that THAT God who presides over the des-
tiEies of nations will permitsuch a terri
bic dispensation to befall US We are un-
willing to believe that the people of the
free States will ever become so madcned
as to aid the spirit of Abolition, that
seems now to brood over US like some evil
genius that would control us to our destruc-
tion. 1t cannot be that we are to have
doom worse than befell Babylon after she
bad g become the habitaiioR of devils and
the hold Of every foul spirit"


The only excuse offered by Abolition
ism for its police, is the plausible falacy
that 'slavery is the cause of our threaten
ed disunion. To those who lcok only to
immediate and proximate causes, this
po,ition is captivating; but to those who
that the original Union, which
waged the war of the Revolution, was made
up of thirteen slaveholding States that the
Union at the time of the adoption of the
present Constitution, consisted of twelve
to one free State, il is very
plain, that instead of slavery producing
disunion that, unless it had been recog-
nized and the faith of the whole people
pledged for its protection, this Union would
have never existed.


1t would be as reasonable to argue that
houses and money should be cxtermina-
ted, because so long as they exist there
will be incendiaries and thieves, as to ar
que that slavery should be destroyed be-
cause so long as it exists :here will be Alb
olitioHists. Houses and money are not
more clearly and decidedly recognized by
the Constitution and laws O. the Federal
Government, as subjected to the laws and
protection OF the States where negro slavery
is recognized. Incendiaries and thieves
no more violate the recognized rights of
others when they burn houses aud commit
robbery, than do Abolitionists, when, by
the underground railroad or other devices,
they deprive the Shareholders of the South
OF that property to which the Constitution
and laws of his States, as well as those of
the United States guarantee protection.
1t in the attempt to commit arson or rob
berry, life is taken, it is murder in the first
degree; SO, too, it is murder of the same
grade to take life in the unlawful attempt
to deprive the owner of his rights in the
of his negro. And here, too, we
will remark that the present war, If
Abolitionists should succeed in diverting
it FROM its proper purpose of fupholding the
Constitution and the Union, aud prosti-
tuting it to their cherished object of free
ing negroes by killing white men, would
become an atrocious murderous war, that
would justly subject all who give it such
direction to the penalty of the law imposed
against the highest of crimes.


The policy of Aboiitionism, therefore us