[Footnote 2: Of Abolitionism in its modern garb of a violent reform--a totally, radically, and essentially, different thing from Emancipation in the sense attached to it before this agitation commenced. Abolitionism is now identified with an unconstitutional, and as we have proved, seditious interference of a combination of people in the free States, with the domestic condition of the slave States. It is shorn of the honors, both of a humane and patriotic enterprise, and merged in the responsibility of a political misdemeanor. This is the sense in which we use the term throughout this work; and we have supposed there was some foundation for ascribing the authorship of this movement to the gentleman above alluded to. Certainly, he was the most conspicuous actor, when it began to attract public attention. And behold! he is at the head, and we suppose at the bottom--(for we take for granted he must be the leader wherever he is)--of an Association set up professedly and without disguise, to overthrow all Government. This last stage--for we see not how it can go any further--is, in our esteem, an open and fair _denoument_ of the principles of Abolitionism. Not, indeed, that the Abolitionists, as a body, have any such designs--for we charitably suppose, and fully believe, they have not--but the action of their fundamental principle of _immediatism_, to gain, by a _coup de main_, a visionary state of _perfectionism_, cannot stop short of this.] It is proper to remark, that, in the comprehensive picture given in this chapter, of the principles of the New England Non-resistance Society, we have taken the liberty to lay aside the garb in which they have presented them, except here and there a literal quotation, not only for brevity’s sake, but to show them in their naked form. We think, however, that we have not misrepresented; and even if we have done so, in any slight shades, the moiety of this delicious _morceau_, is enough to show the _taste_ of those who have swallowed it, and how the _physic_ is likely to operate. As to the feature of _non-resistance_, it is what is vulgarly called a “fudge,” they having reserved to themselves the privilege of conscience, according to their own interpretation of its prerogatives, and moreover declared their resolute and unflinching purpose to “_assail_ all existing institutions.” Besides, this _pretension_, to adopt their own language, is “a measure of sound policy;” for they could not otherwise be tolerated for a moment; and they hope to gain sympathy by _appearing_ not to resist, while they themselves are engaged in _open war_ on every thing that is valuable and dear to society. To show the connexion between this and things that had gone before, it is only necessary to quote one sentence from their own hand: “The triumphant progress of the cause of _Temperance_ and _Abolition_ in our land ... _encourages us_ to _combine_ our own means and efforts for the