Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1857 — Are the Black Republicans Abolitionists. [ARTICLE]

Are the Black Republicans Abolitionists.

The Washington National Era, the leading Black Republican paper, thus indicates the proper relations which the Black Republicans susstain to the old Abolitionists. The Era, itfhich has always been an abolition journal, says: We do not intend that these facts shall be lost sight of. The early Abolitionist, so far as our influence can go, shall not be discredited through ignorance and prejudice. There are Republicans, so called, who would separate their movements entirely from that which those most abused men originated. They cannot do it; the mdveme&ts are one; the early abolitionists were the only pioneers. They were stigmatized as incendiaries, fanatics; amalgamationists, traitors; so are Republicans now. What is the difference? They counted only by thousands; Republicans counted by hundreds of thousands; their voices were overwhelmed by the universal uproar against them; Republicans, commanding a majority ofthe leading journals ofthe Union, in possession of nearly all the free States, and with more than a million of voters, can hurl back the charges, and make themselves not only heard, but felt. And yet some of them are pusillanimous enough to disclaim any connection or sympathy with those brave pioneers whose self-sac-rificing labors have enabled them to proclaim, without fear of proscription doctrines, whose promulgation in 1836 imposed polittical and social degradation, and the pains and penof Lynch Law.

What Brings Mormons to America?—A correspondent of the Episcopal Recorder , writing from Des Moines, lowa, fell in with a large company of Mormons. “They comprised representatives from England, Wales, Ireland, France, Germany, and Denmark. The majority of them were women. Among them were to be found men evidently of respectability, who brought their families with them. Among the women the characters were various ; some whose appearance was anything but reputable. There were others who, from their sober demeanor, their neat peasant-like attire, their ingenuos countenance, their accent and conversation, 1 could at once determine to be respectable English and Welsh belonging to the humbler classes, it is true, but at the same time instinct with that homely honesty and straightforwardness by which the English agricultural interests are so often distinguished. What the temptation was which drew them to this country was soon determined. The Mormon missionaries, who are scattered over the continent of Europe,, sink the religious in the economical. It is not ‘ What a divine faith!’ but ‘What a splendid home!’ The charms of western life are unfolded to the toil-worn resident of the cramped manufacturing town. The cheapness of prarie farms is expatiated on to the impoverished tenant of a rack-rent field. Free institutions are dwelt upon to the Chartist, a pure religion to those who are faint at heart with the corruptions, or the supposed corruptions, of the church to which they belong. Out of the thousands who come over, 1 believe that there are very few who do not believe that they are coming to a Christian Agricultural community, in which the disciples and purity of the early church is to be united with the soil and climate of the -most fertile regions of the globe.” DZr* An Exchange say*, “ the young man who would rob a henroost would steal the lasses candy from a sick nigger baby, take the acorns from a blind pig and steal a paper from a printing-office in which to lie them up.”