Opposition To Abolition
Under Archbishop Purcell, who emphasized the "prudential motives" that made the abolition of slavery inadvisable, the Telegraph condemned slavery but opposed Abolitionism. In an editorial, the Telegraph condemned the New Orleans Catholic newspaper, Le Propagateur Catholique for running an advertisement about a mulatre who was available for rent or sale. The Telegraph opined that "It is not necessary to be an abolitionist... to condemn a practice so repugnant to Catholic feeling." In April, 1861, the month the Civil War started, the Telegraph continued to urge accommodation with the slave states so strongly that an abolitionist, Unionist bishop condemned the editorial stance as "aid of treason."
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