The Liberator

The reckless denunciations, studied misrepresentations, and continued abuse of abolitionists by such papers in the north as the Journal of Commerce, has done more to embolden the South to offer rewards for the kidnapping of Northern citizens, than all other causes combined! The course of the Journal, in relation to Anti-Slavery men, is absolutely fiendish. It accuses them of attempting to create insurrections in the South—to promote bloodshed, and then when they vindicate themselves from its charges over their own signatures and attempt to disabuse the public mind with regard to their acts and designs, that paper deliberately closes its columns against them, and will not permit their defence to come before its readers, unless its insertion is paid for as an advertisement! No wonder southern fanatics offer rewards for the heads of abolitionists, when they see northern editors thus co-operating with the enemies of abolitionists in persecuting them with cold blooded deliberation.—Middlebury Free Press.