The Rhode Island Republican

It is a singular fact, that the abolitionists have either forgotten, or wilfully violate the divine command, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's man servant, nor his maidservant, nor any thing that is his." In their inordinate zeal, they grasp at, or covet, every servant (or slave, if you please) belonging to their neighbors of the south. And they wish to obtain them, too, by fraud and violence; they have no notion of possessing them through fair and honest means.

They know well enough that they cannot purchase the freedom of the slaves, were they disposed to do so: and were they able to, they adore their filthy lucre too much to expend four hundred millions of dollars for such an object. No, no, they will never buy the freedom of the slaves with money—not they,—their boasted philanthropy will never submit to such a tax upon their purses. It is through far different means that they would obtain their ends. Corruption, treachery, and murder, are the instruments they would apply to advance their object. Discord, civil war, and anarchy, they would look upon with composure, and smile with delight, one would suppose, upon the oceans of blood which must incarnadine the fields of the south, as the result of the mad schemes they have plotted in the dark recesses of their villainy.

Away with such philanthropy—out on such philanthropists! Let them turn their eyes inward, and cease to covet the possessions of their neighbors, or forever hold their peace about the rectitude of their intentions.

Sund. Morn. News.