it; and if the object of intelligent men in the North was the abolition of slavery, they would cease to agitate the subject.  But that is not their object.  I allude to the leaders of that party—­the politicians, and not the common people, for they are sincere.  What then is their object?  It is to produce a dissolution of the Union; a separation of the Northern and Southern sections of the United States, civil war, blood-shed, the sacking and burning of cities, devastations, brother imbruing his hands in the blood of brother, the father shedding the blood of his son, and the son that of the father!  Yea, and ten thousand other evils and calamities, of which they, themselves, have never dreamed.  Is this abolitionism?  Great God! what a picture—­and the half has not been told!  From whence did it spring?  “By whom begot?” It is an offspring of New England infidelity.  It was born in fanaticism, and nurtured in violence and disorder.  It opposes and violates the commands of God, and is full of strife and pride.  Its course is unchristian, impolitic and hypocritical; it is alike hostile to religion and republicanism; it rejects the Bible and the constitution of our country, and under the pretense of higher law, it abrogates all law!  This is abolitionism, but all is not yet told.  Be patient, reader, and perhaps before I bring this essay to a close, I shall succeed in disclosing its anti-christian and anti-republican tendencies; its seditious spirit; its self will, pride and contumacy; its duplicity and hypocrisy; its cruelties, horrors and woes.

Should they succeed in dissolving the Union, what would they accomplish thereby?  Would they by dissolving the Union emancipate a solitary slave in the South?  No, not one.  The South would then set up for itself, and the North for itself.

We would then have a Southern confederacy, and a Northern confederacy; each separate and independent of the other.  The North would then have no more control or influence over the South; nor yet the South over the North, than England has over America, or America over England.  But what has now become of the institution of slavery in the South?  There it is, just as it was, before the dissolution of the Union was accomplished.  And the Northern portion of the Union has lost all her control—­all her influence over the South; which influence, she might have exerted for the benefit of the slave, if the Union had not been dissolved, and her course towards the South had been kind, conciliatory and pacific.  It is all very plain—­so clear, that it requires but a little common sense to comprehend the whole matter.  It is clear then—­clear as the noon-day sun, that the object of the leaders of the abolition party is not the abolition of slavery.  Office, is the god they worship.  Elevation to office, and self aggrandizement, is their ultimate object.  If they can strengthen their party, and agitate the subject of slavery, until they bring about a dissolution of the Union, then Hale will be president of the Northern confederacy, Julian, vice-president, and Giddings, I suppose, prime minister.  Would not Joshua cut a sorry figure, in that high and responsible office!  Prince John, I suppose, would be attorney general.  The little magician, John’s daddy, would be thrown overboard, for no party, I think, will ever trust him again.