The Liberator

LIES! LIES!!

The Philadelphia Commercial Intelligencer, which, in infamy and desperate malignity, ranks next to the New-York Courier & Enquirer, has a most abusive article against our estimable friend Dr. Edwin P. Atlee of that city, of which the following are extracts:

We have opposed the madness of the abolitionists. We have, time after time, reasoned with them on the destructive tendency of their course. We have told them that they were exciting a storm, which, though easily raised, it might be impossible to lay. We said that the effort to effect immediate abolition, was a violation of the constitution; was an outrage upon the rights of the South, calculated to increase the irritation of our brethren in that section of our country, and produce, not immediate abolition, but immediate disunion—attended with a perpetual civil war to us, and an eternity of bondage to the slaves. We pointed out to them the madness of attempting, in the present state of public feeling, to produce a social equality among the blacks and whites; and solemnly warned them against the dire consequences of their unnatural and fanatical doctrines of amalgamation. We said that an explosion must ensue, if they persisted in their criminal and insane policy, and implored them to reflect on the subject with the cool philanthropy of common sense, and not rush madly on beneath the sanguinary banner of a wild and headlong fanaticism. Our object was to prevent the danger that we knew to be impending; and while we reproved the madness of the fanatics, we besought the public to avoid and discourage all violent and illegal opposition to them. Such has been our course. We are proud of it, and proud of the public approbation with which it has been regarded.

Our predictions have been realized. The results which fanaticism panted for, have been attained, They have succeeded at length in effecting a collision between the whites and blacks, and our streets have been filled with midnight mobs, and the sleep of our people broken with the shout of an infuriated multitude, or the shrieks of their helpless victims.

Yet these men. who come from this scene with the cries of the sufferers ringing in their ears, and our repeated warnings fresh in their recollection, instead of hiding their guilty heads in retirement, and shunning the gaze of their injured fellow-men, dare to persist in their mad and guilty policy. Their appetite for violence is unsated. Like Othello, in the play, they still cry blood! blood! Instead of doing all in their power to heal these wounds in the public peace, and bring back the reign of reason and the laws, their voice is still for war. They fill the papers with incendiary appeals; and denounce those who have condemned their dreadful course as 'ACCESSORIES TO MURDER.'

By Dr. Atlee's confession. it appears that there has been a combined effort among the Abolitionists of this city, to proscribe those papers which have opposed them. This is a specimen of the Christian spirit of these men. Should these efforts be continued, it will become necessary to ask how far it is proper in the public to 'PATRONIZE THEM to extend encouragement to those whose days and nights are devoted to the excitement of revolution and insurrection, and to the encouragement of sentiments the most unnatural and abhorrent. Should they proceed much further, it will become necessary for fathers to ask themselves if it be prudent to admit within their domestic circle, physicians who will teach the doctrine of amalgamation to their daughters as the will of heaven, and encourage by precept and example, sentiments which degrade the race to a level with the very brutes.

We have been anxious to avoid the disagreeable and unprofitable duty of exposing the designs of the abolitionists. Their own madness, however, renders it necessary. We will, since they force us to the task, paint them and their purposes in their proper colors. They are powerful, much more so than
the community at present conceives possible ; they have a complete party organization, possessed of wealth and strength, and are straining every nerve to accomplish their unnatural ends. Unless they are stayed, unless the people rouse from their lethargy, and check their onward career, they will leave to our children a legacy of horror.

The adjacent parts of New Jersey has been overrun by fugitive persons of color from Philadelphia—but many have returned home, and we hope will not be again disturbed. Let us ask, however, what is to become of this people, always increasing—and, not being admissible into society, becoming more and more degraded? They are, indeed, an unfortunate class—on whom a mad set of enthusiasts are heaping injury upon injury, by discouraging their emigration to Africa, where an opportunity is held out, to worthy persons of their color, to obtain rank amongst men, as rational beings; a rank that cannot be hoped for in their own native land.

We speak not of the right in these cases —but refer to the facts as they exist, and will remain, without the hope of change.—

Greensborough (N. C.) Patriot.