Those lovable abolitionists On....(Part 1)

Dixie Traveller

They say, it is true the Constitution dictates this, the Bible inculcates that, but there is a higher law than those; and they call upon you to obey that higher law of which they are the inspired givers. Men who are traitors to the compact of their fathers--men who have perjured the oaths they have themselves taken--they who wish to steep their hands in the blood of their brothers; these are the moral law-givers who proclaim a higher law than the Bible or the Constitution, and the laws of the land ... What security have you for your own safety if every man of vile temper, of low instincts, of base purpose, can find in his own heart a law higher than that which is the rule of society, the Constitution and the Bible?"
- Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis

In the 1999 movie “Ride With the Devil” the Evans family, Missouri homesteaders living on the Kansas border entertain a Confederate guerilla fighter who has sought refuge with them for the evening.
After dinner the Missouri guerilla discusses a wide range of topics with the Evans family, but ultimately everyone’s mind turns to the then raging War Between the States. Mr. Evans, hearing the Missouri guerilla say he’ll “always want to fight them”(Yankees) asks if he has ever seen Lawrence, Kansas. (the frontier headquarters of Abolitionism). When the guerilla answers no, Mr. Evans tells of his days in the Kansas Territory watching New Englanders build Lawrence:

“As I watched those Northerners building that town, I witnessed the seeds of our own destruction being sown. I’m not speaking of abolitionist trouble-making, or even the number of Northerners. It was the school. Before they built the church, they built that schoolhouse. Then they brought in every farmer’s son and every farmer’s daughter and made sure they would think and live the same free-thinking way they do, without regard to station, or stature, or custom, or propriety. That’s when I realized that the Yankees will surely win, because they believe everyone must live and think just like them. We don’t want to make everyone be like us. We shall surely lose because we don’t care how other people live-we just take care of ourselves.”

And so it was. Through the New England created public school systems, millions of American children are indoctrinated every year to think the “correct” Northern way on all matters. This includes such figures as the Abolitionists of the 1840s and 50s. Yes, the Abolitionists- those noble, righteous reasonable men who loved the black man and “peacefully protested” slavery until violent slavocrats forced them to fight. To this end, the modern day left, fighting for drag queen story hour, freeing criminals or reparations from you, often refer to themselves as “modern day Abolitionists”. A prominent Antifa Militia with Chapters across the U.S. even proudly refers to itself as the “John Brown Gun Club”-named for the Abolitionist whose deadly terrorist attacks on Southern families in Kansas culminated in his failed attempted genocide of white Southerners at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in 1859.(Ironically this man Northern troops idolized in the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” while putting down the “rebellion” was hanged for treason).

As a Southerner, you probably wonder what issue your ancestors could possibly have taken with such a heroic band of missionaries of truth, justice and the American way. Since social media has taught us that operating the cut-and-paste functions on quotes online is the same thing as having a Doctorate in History, I compiled just a handful of quotes from our lovable band of Freedom Fighters on a range of topics.

The Abolitionists on Genocide of your Ancestors:
“you would be instrumental in bringing upon your wives, and your children, a fate too horrible to contemplate, one that would surpass the massacre of St. Bartholemew." -Hinton R. Helper , The Impending Crisis

(John Brown) is the JOHN THE BAPTIST of the New Dispensation of Freedom”-Edward D. Holton of Milwaukee

“if it were necessary, we could clear off thousand million square miles so that not a city or cultivated filed would remain; WE COULD EXTERMINATE NINE MILLIONS OF WHITE PEOPLE(SOUTHERNERS) and re-settle-re-people the lands.” -Newburyport, Massachusetts Daily Herald, May 24th , 1861

“I look for the day when I shall see a negro insurrection in the South, when the negroes will be supplied with British bayonets and commanded by British officers, and shall wage a WAR OF EXTERMINATION AGAINST THE WHITES, WHEN EVERY WHITE MAN SHALL SEE HIS DWELLING IN FLAMES and his hearth polluted”-Congressman Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio

“Resolved, that it is the right and duty of Northern men to incite and aid negroes in the South to rise in insurrection”-Resolution of Senator Henry Wilson at Natick, Massachusetts, 1859

“When I am on the trail of the enemy against whom I have a deadly hate, I will follow him with cat-like tread will not strike until I can strike him dead. I do not wish to give the South notice of our intentions. When the time comes to strike I want the South to have the first notice of the blow in the blow itself”-Governor Andrew Reeder of Kansas

“The logic of bayonets and rifles and pikes will be henceforth used against the South.”-John Andrews, War Governor of Massachusetts, December, 1859

“The Saint whose fate yet hangs in suspense, but whose martyrdom, if it shall be perfected, shall make the gallows glorious, like the Cross.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Old Brown is supposed to have been strangled today, for obeying the Golden Rule.”-Wood County, Wisconsin Reporter December 2nd, 1859

“John Brown, dead, will live in millions of hearts….let none doubt that history will accord an honorable niche to John Brown”-Horace Greeley

“(John Brown) was the impersonation of God’s order and God’s law.”-Wendell Phillips

“You who pretend to care for Christ crucified, consider what you are about to do Him who offered Himself to be the Savior of Four Millions of men” -Henry David Thoreau
On the second day of December he(Brown) is to be strangled in a Southern prison, for obeying the Sermon on the Mount. But to be hanged in Virginia, is like being crucified in Jerusalem — it is the last tribute which he pays to Virtue!” -E.D. Wheelock, Vermont

“and when the time arrives for the streets and cities of this ‘land of the free and home of the brave’ to run with blood to the horses’ bridles, if the writer of this be living, there will be one heart to rejoice at the retributive justice of heaven”- William O. Duvall, New York

“To-day John Brown was hanged by a semibarbarous Commonwealth, as a traitor, murderer, and robber, and fifteen despotic States are rejoicing at his death; while, in the free North, every noble heart is sighing at his fate, or admiring his devotion... or cursing the executioners of their warrior-saint.”-James Redpath

“Brown was the sword in the hand of a high power, the finger of God writing upon the walls of Belshazzar’s palace the doom of tyrants” -Rev. J.M. Manning, Boston

“I would like to live long enough to see every white man in South Carolina in Hell, and the negroes inheriting their territory” -Senator James Lane of Kansas

“Not to be an abolitionist is to be a willful and diabolical instrument of the devil.”- The Impending Crisis by Hinton R. Helper

“It may be that the slaves thus armed will commit some atrocities. We shall regret it. But we repeat, this war has been forced upon us.... We hesitate not to say, that it will be better, immeasurably better, that the rebellion should be crushed, even with the incidental consequences attendant on a servile insurrection, than that the hopes of the world in the capacity of mankind to maintain free institutions should expire with American liberty. - American Review of Boston, Massachusetts

“the negroes(should) be let loose on the whites, men, women and children indiscriminately....”- The New York Courier and Enquirer

“I say, better a boundless waste of territory, filled with owls and bats, than that the Southern States should be occupied with such men”-Richard Busted, Carpetbag Alabama Judge

If I had the power, I would arm…every Negro of the South….and EXTERMINATE every man woman and CHILD south of Mason’s and Dixon’s line” – William” Parson” Brownlow, Reconstruction Scallywag Governor of Tennessee

“Illinois raised 250,000 troops to fight the South, and now we are ready to raise 500,000 more to FINISH THE GOOD WORK” – Illinois Governor Yates

(Republicans) will win the election “even if we have to kill every last white man, woman and child in the entire State!”-1875 aide to Mississippi Reconstruction Governor Adlebert Ames.

To illustrate the conditions that Abolitionists like Hinton Helper, John Brown and Wendell Phillips wished to bring on Southern Whites, a sketch of the Haitian Slave Revolt is helpful:

In an instant twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were in flames: the buildings, the machinery, the farm offices, reduced to ashes; the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered or thrown into the flames by infuriated negroes. The horrors of a servile war universally appeared. The unchained African signalized his ingenuity by the discovering of new and unheard-of modes of torture. An unhappy planter was sawed asunder between two boards; the horrors inflicted on the women exceeded anything known even in the annals of Christian ferocity. Upon the indulgent master young and old, rich and poor, the wrongs of an oppressed race were indiscriminately wreaked. Crowds of slaves traversed the country with the heads of white children affixed on their pikes; they served as the standards of these furious assemblages. In a few instances only, the humanity of the negro character resisted the savage contagion of the time; and some faithful slaves, at the hazard of their own lives, fed in caves their masters or their children, whom they had rescued from destruction.

And do our modern-day Abolitionists realize that had their forefathers succeeded in their mission that you, Southerner, and everyone you love would not exist today? Well of course they do, silly. That’s the point-always has been.

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