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==Politico-Abolition==
''The Liberator'', v11 n6, 5 February 1841, p. 22

<center><big>SELECTIONS.</big></center>
<center>From the Journal of Commerce.</center>
<center>'''Politico-Abolition.'''</center>

It appears by the Emancipator, the official organ  of the politico-abolitionists of the country, that the  election returns being all received, the whole number of votes, polled throughout the nation for their  highest candidate, is 6,831—and 'it is barely possi ble that the sacred number of 7000' may be reached  by accurate return. These 6,831 votes were cast  in 12 States, in all of which slavery has ceased to  be lawful, long before the politico-abolitionists began their clamor. In the city of New-York, where  they boasted of 3000 votes ''before'' the election, they  could raise only an average of 150, their highest  vote being 170! and this too in this theatre of all  their great national and political projects, where  they have had presses, and other 'great moral engines,' to help them. In this entire State, where  they professed ''before'' the election to have 17,000, by  which empty boast they frightened certain politi cians from their propriety, they haye only mustered  2,808 votes! Facts like the above, have brought  out the famous Garrison, of the Liberator, in the  following style:

::'If this third party movement (politico-abolition)  was ridiculous before, it is rendered still more so  ''since'' the election. In the whole nation, it may have  mustered in its support some six or eight thousand  votes, (6,831,) out of ''two millions three hundred thou sand!'' And what is yet more ludicrous, the Emancipator and some other papers affect to regard this  result as most auspicious! The Abolitionist modestly speaks of Mr. Birney as the ''future'' President  of the United States! Well, folly will have its  day. By this modest title, Mr. Birney has not only  been heralded throughout this country, but, with  wonderful self-complacency, allowed himself to be  thus introduced to the British public, upon anti-slavery platforms.'

The foregoing extract from the Liberator serves  to show that the Garrison party among the abolitionists do not fellowship with politico-abolitionists, and  as his followers arc no-voting, as well as no-govern ment in their notions, the 191 scattering votes of  Massachusetts may be estimated as the strength of  the ' ''women's rights party,'' ' and as composing the  moral power of Garrisonism, who thus threw away  their votes, although a few others probably refused  to vote at all. The Emancipator, however, goes on  the presumption that 6,831 is the whole number of  good men and true in the abolition ranks, for though  it claims a multitude of the Harrison and Van Buren voters as abolitionists, yet it regards them as  voting against their consciences, and calls them all  'dreamy, speculative, transcendental, inoperative  abolitionists,' who will vote for slavery, while call ing themselves abolitionists; and as such disowns  their fellowship.

Now we agree with the editor of said paper, and  believe that the late election has brought out the  whole strength of the politico-abolition there is in  the country. And we marvel, in view of the facts  developed in the late campaign, that he should prate  about electing in 1844 either the President, or any  other officer of the general government. If the  Mormons had been duped to run their prophet Joe  Smith for President at the late election, no man in  his senses can doubt that he would have obtained  more votes than James G. Birney has throughout the  country. And the thought of electing the latter in  1844 is not a whit more ludicrous than the former;  indeed in the city of New-York, the Mormon voters  are more numerous than the abolition voters, as  shown by the experiment of the latter in the recent  election. And since 1839, it is plain that the abolitionists have decreased one-half, their vote hav ing been reduced from 336 to 170, in the city, while  the Mormons have been increasing. It is certain  then, if New-York is a fair sample of the whole,  that the probabilities of a Mormon President in 1844,  are much greater than of Mr. Birney's election at  that or any future time.

Politicians North as well as South may see by  the statistics of the late election here cited, that no  party can have any thing to hope or to fear from the  politico-abolitionists, and henceforth they should dis regard their clamor, as unworthy to be estimated in  any sober calculation of politicians. Their presses  are all famishing, no one of them being able to get  along without betraying pauperism in its appeals for  money, and many of them even at head quarters  have ceased to be, after bankrupt fortunes have  overtaken all concerned. The American Anti-Slavery Society is virtually defunct, and though two  self-styled national societies, cordially hating each  other, have burst forth from the ashes of the former  Society, yet neither has any thing but a nominal  existence. Even the semblance of favor, once  boasted of, from the ecclesiastical officiaries of the  different Christian denominations, has been withdrawn, and now the party is regarded as a faction  by all the churches in their collective capacity, tolerated only in the exercise of Christian forbearance with the weak and the misguided. So that the  late election has not killed politico-abolition, for  this was done before, by the folly of its leaders;—  it has only written its epitaph.
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LDSdbSysop at 02:58, 6 October 2012

LDSdbSysop: Created page with "==Politico-Abolition== ''The Liberator'', v11 n6, 5 February 1841, p. 22 SELECTIONS. From the Journal of Commerce. '''Po..."