ABOLITIONISM UNVEILED.



This is that foul demon that has come in among us, to
produce those results which all humane persons so much
deplore. As you are from the far south, you are not sen-
sible of its encroachments. I rejoice, therefore, that I
have it in my power to furnish you with a history of ABO-
LITIONIS-M, which you will find contains more truth than
fiction. When you return home, you will remember the
solemn declarations of your aged uncle, whose head is
blossoming for the grave. I have passed the meridian of
time, and I am now descending to the vale of death.
What I shall take the liberty to utter in your hearing the
present summer, I hope will make a lasting impression
upon your mind. You are young-just entering upon the
theater of life; hence, when this poor franme of mine may
rest quietly beneath the sods of the valley, upon you and
the rising generation will this rich inheritance of freedom
be devolved. By the blood of martyred patriots it was
achieved, and it can only be preserved by eternal vigi-
lance. That all the privileges we enjoy depend upon the
preservation of the Union, I am firmly persuaded. Its
dissolution would involve a train of evils too horrible to
contemplate-civil war would soon rage between North
and South, which would only end by entailing upon the
country one long night of gloomy despotism.
  " The commencement of the contest would be to liberate
three millions of African slaves, but its end the enslave-
ment of all, without regard to color. Then, indeed, the
iron rule of some military chieftain would hush to ever-
lasting silence the wild fanaticism that goaded the South
to madness. Its fearful visage never more would ba reared
to proclaim the inalienable rights of man, or to cheer on
his way 'the panting fugitive.' When intolerable slavery
shall press to the earth the teeming millions that may in-
habit this vast western continent, there will be no room
for the exercise of philanthropy. Pens and tongues would
no longer be employed in the syren song of emancipating
the world. Blot out this luminous spot on earth-the
only spot upon which liberty has found an abiding place-
then the sable cloud Cf despotism wouild enshrine the face
of this glol)e. But I imist answer the question which
you have propounded. Old people must be indulged in



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