Whig Abolition
The following specimen of Uie feeling of "ihe more favorable party' is from the Utica Daily Gazettc. We commend it to tho at tention of anti-slavery Whigs, especiaily to the Juckson Guzette.which isfor inakmg Abolition a Whig principie. "All honor to the Whigs of the South. - They stood by us when New York and Pennsylvünia and Maine and Michigan and almost all the North desertnd us, and we will stand by llicm. We deprécate tliat feeiïng thut seem8 growing up among us, to maká tne Whig party an anti-elavery party. We deprécate the passing of iho resolution1? in favor cf abolitinnism by our County Conven'ions. We know that no good can be accomplished here by such a coure, for the Northern loco focos care naught obout slavery except ns it pubserves tlieir enda. We cannot emnncipate a single slave, for over the sysieni we hnve no control, and we drive from our ranhs the Sutilhern Whig3 who are fighting the same great battlo for constitucional freedom. We con never nbolish slavery. We can nover emancÃpate the slave popuia tion nny more tlian we can the serfs of Rusia, hut we can diÃgn.t onr nllies in Wltig warfnro; we enn peril the noble principios for which we have bren s long and untirmgly contending. - Utica Dai ly Gazet te.dThe Indiana Patriot, the orgnn of "Democracy," secm3 to be grnHly disiurbed at tlie prevalnnce of Aboliiionifm. I?nt the doughface goes the whole figure for the Slaveholder?, notwithstanding Iris dreadful ngony, os evjftceJ by a profusión of Iialics nnd ca pitaÃs, thas: "It may be true, (and we think it 3 so) thal we have lost some subsciibe-s for our devotion to the Union, nnd f it is so, we sny, Ie; it be so. Before God, in all condor nnd fincerity, we say, that no personal or pecunia ry consideraron shall prevent vs f rom faiihfully discharging our uhole daly, hy exposing, ivith meritd condemnation, every jilut and project ihat may be concoct'd or luid tigainst the conslituliun and its compromisrs. The tbrenfs of AboÃtionists move vs not. We defy iheir power, and despisr their principies. We liad rather nevcr see. another democrat Jill an office, in America, than see JJbolitionism triumph. If, for this, oursubscription is to be diminiáhed - our press 6topped- or ourKelves persecutpd and put down, we eay, 'AMEN'1 to it. UponiheCONSTITUTION, nnd its COMPROMISCS, have we planted ourselves, and '-sink or swiro, enrvive or peFisb,'1 there ice mean lo stand. Are we understood." (tIt seems irom the follawing extract tliat oÃd Cave Johnson, ihe Postmaster General, is very oppressïve towards his subordinates at Washington. Thecïerks receive only from four to six dollars a day, and xhv unfeeling old wretch compels them to work nine hours insteadof six! We never heard of such severeoppression under any previous administraron!" Mr. Cave Johnson isdoing somethÃng in the way of cutting down expenses. - Ãle has abolished the tempornry clerks, after making those which he found in office permanent; and has thus diminished the forcé of the Department to that amount. To do this, he lÃos piled exÃra labor on those who are in the establishment; making two perform (he duties of three, and thus converting those who had six hours employment per diem, into slaves condemned to toil for nine hours. Sircrh economy jscharacteristic of the present Postmaster General."
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