THE EFFECTS OF ABOLITIONISM.

(From the METROPOLITAN RECORD, April 4, 1863.)

THE American people, with all their shrewdness, with all their business tact, with all their so-called Yankee 'cuteness, which is said always to get the best in a bargain, are the most easily humbugged in the world. They have not only tolerated, but, to a great extent, nurtured and sustained a party that has caused a division of the country, and that, if longer sustained and tolerated, will plunge it into irremediable anarchy and ruin.

Never was a nation so afflicted, so cursed by a miserable faction in its midst, a faction which has lived upon discord, and the triumph of which has been the knell of the Republic. It has been the unswerving ally of a foreign foe, and it has worked with a zeal that knew no ceasing to overthrow the liberties of a nation which was based upon the principles of self-government. Claiming to work in the interests of humanity, it has plunged the land in a civil war, that has rocked it to and fro as if convulsed by the waters of a mighty deluge.

It has succeeded in estranging the North from the South, and in the election of a President whose administration will be infamous through all time for its subversion of popular rights; it has succeeded in the overthrow of that Constitution and Union which it has stigmatized as a league with death and a covenant with hell;" and its triumph can be seen in the ravages of this melancholy war, in the bloody battle-fields that mark the dividing line between the North and the South, in the thousands of homes which have been made desolate throughout the country, and in the wretched, miserable attempt which is now being made by an incompetent, imbecile Administration to fasten a military despotism upon the country. It has been the faction of dissension and destruction, the party of discord and disunion; and yet its principles have been adopted in the White House, and its policy has entered largely into the management of this war. The socalled national Administration, almost from the beginning, showed a predilection for Abolitionism, and it now no

longer represents the great majority of the people in its management of national affairs.

We say only what is patent when we assert that the President has violated again and again his oath of office, and that the evidence of this is to be found in the efforts of Congress to indemnify him against the consequences of his unwarrantable and unconstitutional acts.

It will hardly be denied that the President has not only acted in utter defiance of his official obligations, but that his course has been in direct antagonism with the feelings of the great conservative majority of the North. He has stamped himself for all coming time as the Abolition President, as the man who, misled by the designing councils of Northern disunionists, falsified his pledges to the people, and abandoning the only moderate, conservative policy which could save the country, flung himself into the hands of its enemies, and rendered useless the expenditure of the vast amount of blood and of treasure which had been poured out for the supposed salvation of the Republic.

Let us see if we can find any justification for his course in the sincerity of the party to whose principles and policy he yielded such a willing acquiescence. What is that party? It is known by the singularly expressive and truthful title of “ABOLITION,” and its leaders are notorious for their efforts to bring the supreme law of the land into disrepute, and to overthrow a Union established by States, the majority of which were slaveholding. After more than three quarters of a century of unexampled prosperity, and the enjoyment of popular liberty to a degree that was never before realized in this world, these men have discovered that the whole system was wrong, and that the integrity of the Republic must be set aside for the furtherance of an impracticable theory. By the most persistent endeavors they have enlisted an influential portion of the press in their cause, impregnating the very literature of the North with their disorganizing influences; and yet it seems almost incredible that so far as the practical working of this principle is regarded, we can hardly, with the single exception of John Brown and his hair-brained associates, find a case of self-sacrifice among them.

Here we have been at war with the South for nearly two years, and yet no part has been taken, nor is it likely that any part will be taken, by Wendell. Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Wilson, and Sumner, of Massachusetts, Hale, of New Hampshire, and other leading Abolitionists, in a war which is now professedly waged for the emancipation of the negro. Nay, we venture to say that the real simonpure Abolitionists do not bear the proportion of one to every hundred in the Union army. They have not even succeeded in organizing an anti-slavery force in the whole North of two thousand. While others have been importuning for months for the ranks of colonel and brigadiergeneral, not one of them has ever applied for such a position, although doubtless our Abolition President would most willingly have granted their applications. True, they can point to such men as Fremont and Jim Lane; but where are the Sumners, and Giddings, and Gerrit Smiths, and Wades, and Lovejoys, and Beechers, and Cheevers, not to speak of Fred Douglass himself, the very personification and embodiment of Abolitionism?

Do we not know that Wilson organized a regiment which he never took into the field? and that both Fremont and Jim Lane have proved the most lamentable failures in the military line that ever afflicted the War Department of any country? Beecher, during the Kansas troubles, was content to call upon the people to contribute for Sharp's rifles, but he never used one. And since the

fighting has commenced, we have not even heard that any regiment was called after the well-known authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin.”

But this is not all; for we have been looking in vain for any movement on the part of the Abolitionists toward collecting money for the families of the brave fellows who have perished in a war which was brought upon the country by their wretched and ruinous policy. While they call upon others to sacrifice themselves, they refuse even to extend the hand of charity to the poor victims of their fiendish machinations to undermine the foundations of the Republic and the principles of self-government.

Never was a greater curse inflicted upon a country than that of a faction which, like the Abolitionists here and the

Orangemen in Ireland, seeks in the ascendancy of its sec tional, disorganizing, and anarchical policy and measures the destruction of national unity.

The mistake of our so-called national Administration was in not making war upon this party instead of upon the South; for it is in it that our national troubles found their origin, as it is in the Abolition policy of the Administration that the leaders of the South find their justification and their strength. So long, therefore, as this party continues dominant in the North-so long as its principles find expression through the policy and acts of the Administration-no opportunity should be lost in denouncing through the press and through the assemblies of the peo-. ple its insidious designs, and in warning the Administration against a compliance with its demands. If we want to get back the South, let us put down Abolitionism in the North; for so long as its councils prevail in the Cabinet, and direct the management of the war, so long will we fail in our efforts to restore peace and union to our distracted country.

WHAT IS A LOYAL LEAGUER?

(From the METROPOLTAN RECORD, April 11, 1863.)

A MAN whose patriotism is measured by his official position under the Government, or by the amounts of money received for Government contracts.

A man who desires that every one else should go to the war, but who is unwilling to risk his own precious body within reach of either cannon or rifle ball.

A man who insists that we should support the President as much when he is wrong as when he is right, and who asserts that the Emancipation Proclamation is a capital

war measure.

The man who regards the Conscription Bill as the ne plus ultra of Congressional legislation, but who would rather pay three hundred dollars any time than shoulder a musket.

The man who, to subdue the South and hold it in military subjection, would burden the laboring classes of the North with a system of taxation even more oppressive than that of any European country.

The man who scoffs at such a thing as freedom of discussion when employed against the policy of the Administration, and who would hang every citizen that was in favor of peace.

The tax collector, the Custom House official, the PostOffice clerk, et hoc genus omne, who sustain the Administration because it sustains them.

The man who contends that the conservative majority are in the wrong, and the radical minority are in the right.

The man who is callous-hearted with regard to the desolation brought upon thousands of Northern homes by this cruel, unnecessary, fratricidal, and Abolition war.

The man who disregards the lessons of the past and the hopes of the future; upon whose ear the warnings of the great statesmen of the country have fallen unheeded, and who cares not how soon the Republic may be converted into a despotism.

The man who would subvert the liberties of white men or the emancipation of a race who are unfit for any other state than that of dependence.

This is a tolerably accurate sketch of the Loyal Leaguer. He is naturally such a character as constitutes the ready and willing tool of tyranny. He is acquiescent in everything which the powers that be may deem necessary toward the suppression of popular freedom. He may have taken an oath to support the Constitution, but he has not a word to say in reprobation of the usurpation of its most solemn obligations. He believes that all those rights which make the Union precious and valuable in the eyes of freemen should be held in abeyance till the Administration can wreak its wicked will in the furtherance of its Abolition and fanatical designs. What cares he for the Union as it was? What cares he for the principles of the great Revolution? He is a Government contractor, making his thousands a year by the prolongation of this war. He assumes the name of "loyal," because it agrees with