Indiana State Sentinel

Abolitionism Illustrated,

A short time ago the New York Journal of Commerce, in commenting upon the designs of the Abolitionists and their hostility to the Constitution, thus alluded to them:

No candid, out-spoken Abolitionist will take the least offense at our distinct charge, that he and those who think with him are not for the Union which Washington and his companions founded.

The Boston Liberator, edited by WM. Lloyd Garrison, frankly admits the truth of the charge, and its unmitigated reprobation of the labors and patriotism of WASHINGTON:

None whatever! That was a guilty Union cemented with the blood of an enslaved race on our soil—“a covenant with death and an agreement with hell,” in the making of which “Washington and his companions” committed a grievous sin. The natural and inevitable result of it is a dismembered Republic and a tremendous civil war, through the treachery of the very slaveholding class that originally dictated the terms of the Union, and also as a divine retribution for trampling upon the poor and needy. Not for myriads of worlds ought it to be, even if it could be, restored, with all its iniquitous conditions and horrible pro-slavery compromises.

Such is the Unionism of Wendell Phillips and the petticoated men and pantalooned women who follow in his train. And in this connection it may be well to remember that this high priest of Abolitionism was received in Washington lately by the leading Republican members of Congress with the most distinguished consideration. If a Democrat had uttered the disunion sentiments which Wendell Phillips did in Washington or a Democratic paper had published that the Union was “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell,” by the mandate of Mr. Seward one would have found a forced asylum in Fort Warren and the mails would have been closed to the other, but Abolitionists under this Administration can with impunity utter the most disloyal sentiments.