The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and PoliticsVarious
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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But we must not congratulate ourselves too soon. In the interval
between the fifth of July, when his oration was delivered, and the
seventh of August, which is the date of the Craytonville letter,
Mr. Cushing seems to have reviewed his opinion on the state of the
Union. There is more cause for alarm than appeared on the surface;
but this time it is not because we have fallen out of love with the
South, but that we have become desperately enamored of negroes.
Nurses will have to scare their refractory charges with another
bugaboo; for the majority of Massachusetts infants would jump at the
chance of being carried off by the once terrible Ugly Black Man. Our
great danger is from _Negrophilism_; though Mr. Cushing seems
consoled by the fact, that it is a danger to Massachusetts, and not
to South Carolina. We think Mr. Cushing may calm his disinterested
apprehensions. We believe the disease is not so deep-seated as he
imagines; and as we see no reason to fear the immediate catastrophe
of the Millennium from any excess of benevolence on the part of
Mr. Cushing and his party toward white men, (whose cause he
professes to espouse,) we are inclined to look forward with
composure to any results that are likely to follow from sporadic
cases of sympathy with black ones. There is no reason for turning
alarmist. In spite of these highly-colored forebodings, it will be a
great while before our colored fellow-citizens, or fellow-denizens,
(or whatever the Dred Scott decision has turned them into,) will
leave mourning-cards in Beacon Street, or rear mulatto-hued houses
on that avenue which it is proposed to build from the Public Garden
into the sunset.
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