Abolitionist Hate Sows the Seed of War
From: bernhard1848@att.net
The Abolitionists emerged from amongst those who had butchered or sold into West Indian slavery the Pequot tribe and enriched themselves in the African slave trade; yet they would lecture Americans to the South on morality and the evil of involuntary servitude. Southerners logically saw no future in a fraternal Union with such people and departed the voluntary Union in the respected Jeffersonian manner, confident that they would discover the solution to African slavery in their own time as Northern people had done earlier.
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
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Abolitionist Hate Sows the Seed of War:
“As with the anti-liquor and anti-foreign movements

Examination of Abolition speeches, sermons, pamphlets and books during these ‘Thirties and ‘Forties affords a ready understanding of these reactions. For, in the deep black of Southern turpitude the Abolitionists could see no good, no redeeming trait, no shade of gray. The formula of attack was almost standard: The Negro was God’s image in ebony. White and black were brothers, equals, and slavery was a sin against God. The Declaration of Independence asserted that all men were created equal, and so slavery was a breach of the Declaration as well as an affront to Almighty God.
There could be no honest slave-holder, the Abolitionist insisted, all such were thieves, robbers and man-stealers. The slave-holder underfed his chattels, housed them in hovels and punished them like wild animals. Tales of savage cruelty and bestial lust were eagerly repeated. Abolitionist lecturers went into every hamlet of the North painting tales of unmentionable horrors of the South. The entire Southern social system was indicted along with slavery. All Southern white men were portrayed as lazy, drunken, lustful braggarts. Their society was an oligarchy, a slavocracy destructive of American democracy.”
The Eve of Conflict, George Fort Milton, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, pp. 160-161)