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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31 1856
Abstracts 1951 - 1952
NEWSPAPERS (Cont'd)
best we can; and if some of them are displeased, they should bear in mind
that country papers published outside of Ohio are of scarcely any value
to us." (1)
1951 - L Jan. 22; ed: 2/2, 3 - The New York OBSERVER, a pro-slavery religious
paper, entered upon a new volume. The garb of religion should not
shield a paper which comes out as the unblushing advocate of slavery and
oppression.
The OBSERVER believes that socialism, Owenism, Fourierism, abolitionism,
and all the various "Isms" and schemes for the reform of the great
evils of society on other than Bible principles wi 11 prove not only a
miserable failure, but an awful curse to the communities which cherish
them.
Why does the OBSERVER make such a pompous parade of Owenism, Fourierism
and socialism when it is almost pr.!cisely the same thing? Why does
it associate them with abolitionism, which has no connection with them?
Some disciples of Fourier are aboliticnists. According to the
OBSERVER, all abolitionists are disciples of Fourier.
"Perhaps the editor of the OBSERVER wi 11 claim that by the term 'abolitionism'
he did not mean all who belong to the anti-slavery school, but
only those who are both anti -slavery men and socialists." We ask the
editor of this paper: "Would immediate emancipation be a greater evil
than perpetual slavery? Is the condition of free-negroes in this country
better than that of slavery? Is slavery a curse, and if so, should we
not check its flow? If it be worse, should we not check its spread? If
a blessing, should we not extend it all over the republ ic? The intimation
of the OBSERVER, that slavery is an insti tution sanctioned by the
Bible, is a most weak and unmanly prevarication.
"The HERALD, a Cleveland paper, says: 'The OBSERVER is a bold and
manly independent sheet, asking no favors for "isI!ls," and granting no
quarter to the evils of the day. '
"How these opinions wi 11 accord wi th opinions of anti -slavery men of
Ohio, we know not, but as the HERALD is a 'sterling Republican paper, '
there can be no doubt that they will stifle their own convictions and
yield a willing assent."
A southern slave-holder in a letter to northern friends says: "The
OBSERVER does more than all other periodicals combined to keep the dreadful
slavery system al i vee "
Having faithfully performed our task without any hope of reward, we
leave with our readers the New Yorlt OBSERVER, the Cleveland HERALD,
and the extract from the southerner's letter. (30)
1952 - L Jan. 24: 2/1 - The NEWS, a prosperous Republican paper in Newport,
Ky., attempted to establish a pro-slavery paper in the same place but failed.
"Why then, in Heaven's name, are northern papers afraid to speak out
on the slavery question?" (1)
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