From the Christian Statesman.

ABOLITIONISM.
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The advocates of immediate, unconditional
emancipation, have decided at last to bring thei
cause to the ballotbox. The questions they are
to propose to candidates for seats in our National
Legislature, are these:


l. Will you, if elected, vote for an immediate
Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbial
2. Will you, if elected, vote for an immediate
Abolition of the domestic Slave Trade between
the States!


8. Will you, if elected, vote against the annexa-
ton of any new State into the Union, in which
Slavery is not cons,itutionally prohibited


To these questions the candidates are 10 be re-
quired to give direct, unqualified yes, or no.
No reservations are to be allowed; no possible
contingencies provided for; no questions of ex.
pedency admitted. The Union may tremble to
its centre, but the pledge must be redeemed!


What will be the effect of this on the country!
1t may, perhaps, at first starle the public mind;
awaken for moment some little apprehension,
and puzzle few candidates for Congress. But
the puzzle and alarm will soon pass away. The
conflict will be found at least to have lain mostly
in the note of preparation. The battle cry is too
loud for the forces that can be brought into the
field. 1t is the whistle of that courage which
the stiffness of the graveyard appals.


What will be the effect of this measure on the
cause of the Abolitonsts! We hazard but little,
as we conceive, in saving it will prove its ruin.


1t will dvest it of its seeming sacredness; secular
ize it, introduce it to the tumult, violence and
profaneness of the balot-box. While held aloot
from the workings of pride, selfshness, ambition,
it inspired its votaries with an enthusiasm, that
blended itself with their Religion; it will now
lose this serious earnestness, and like all other
questions decided at the polls, be one of numbers,
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in the end share the fate of anti-masonry.


The question of slavery ought to be regarded
mainly in moral and Religious light as ques.
ton appealing directly to the bar of the human
conscience. If it finds no verdict there in favor
Of the slave, it will fly in vain to the umut Of the
ballot-box. It's feeble voice will there scarcely be
heard amid the din of the two great contending
parties. 1t cannot fight alone, and each party, as


it enters the field, will sneeringly exclaim to it,
Non tall auriHo nee defensoribus tits tempus
cget.