Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-09-17

-, .1yo.st,,, but the prudence Of lis wisel cham
,,.ho ,rc content TO - ask for the old paths
p .ara !. the good way, and to walk therein
,,;..;o, La, not escaped tie General tendency
- There are ultraists around the altar OF
- chnrcb As well as in the secular Affairs of He
,.,;,. who. mbucd with tie spirit q the pha-
-. Il aid. wear broad phylacteries, make long
.,,rs at the corners of streets and in the market
,..as and thank God that they are not as Other
- Such arc the AboIitionists for it cannot
:. ao,Ltcd. BY any person who will look at the
ENGAGED in thi, wild and impractcablc and
Pe'. -. cbcmc, and who will trace its progress.
p f,,a ,bc period when it numbered less than two
l;,ciples, down to the present time, when it
.fnumcrous societies If wealthy and nlu-
.,.r citizens, that Religion, prevented from its
,'a.,,ent, sautary and holy purposes IS the in,'-
I'm, principle of the moyemeni--lnst as, IN past
sr.s !, gavc birth to the lnqasition' famed the
20. If Smithiicld, and sharpened the knives,
..h;.b on the bloody day Of 81. Bartholomew,
.a.. made red with the blood Of Innocence and
-, Wherever the jnolerant spirit Of persecu-
r.. has RACED, whatever form il may have as
mod or however it may have been modified by
.;uo,n,tances, the dominant party have always
,.,,,,d succcdancum fer tic horrible crimes, per
.,a,,,tcd in its name, in the reflection that they
'..,.o don., God service by sPilllng the blood of
.,oso who. in the Judgment Of ,elt-eonstutcd tri-
hnnals. were saiy oj |ron9 oP"tohS PfotcS-
,..n and Catholic have alike assumed to be intalli
~, ,s they wercaltcrnatcly enabled to seize " the
scen,re and ,hc rod,' and 10
Deal Gamnation round the Land
son each they deemed lbs foe,
uhoso brnion system of Faith Wa heraldad by the
voice of angels, proclaiming . Pe@ee on earth,
and rood wW to men," And at this time, few
men. whose locality, by placing them beyond the
ro,cb Of certain Influences has deprived them Of the
,ower even if il has not destroyed the disposition,
- hold slaves, have constituted themselves into
>oc;cty for the purpose of deno0ncing others, dl-
t,ren,ly situated, who could not get rid Of the state
of tbinqs denounced, ifthcl would,-and are en-
Icayorinp to recommend themselves to God,
and to procure passport 10 Heaven, by furious
zeal. which, as il is without knowledge, and with
ou, a warrant from the scriptures, IS also without
merit, and will be without reaard-nay, which,
under the circumstances, i, absolutely criminal.
For. Of what avail are all the = facts and argu-
mcnts.' which they have adduccd, or can adducc,
in clcctinr the universal emancipation, at which
they profess TO aim? Do they believe that they
have ever We, broken the bonds of sin de slave
-, in the ,liolucst degree amcioraed the condition
Of the African race | they do, they arc as eyre
rouslv deceived in the result olther labors as they
are in the means by which the object which they
profess to desire may be accomplished So far
from having induced the shareholders to manumit
one of their negroes the course OF the fanatics has
shut the cars Of the masters to all appeals on the
subject and, in proportion 5 the clamors of the
North have increased, have the privil eyes of the
slaves been restricted and their comforts abridged.
They are, in short, decided enemies Of the blacks
as they are OF the whites and their cheap Phiion-
thropy absolutely augmcnts the sullerings which it
would mitigate. But it is utterly vain and hope
less to reason with men, who, il they be sane, are
onleavoring, under the cloak of religion, to
effect Interior objects and who, itthey be not, viii
necessarily be deaf to the voice OF reason and truc
religion, both of which admoni>h them Of the I'M
proprcty of ntcrmcddling with questions placed
beyond the pale of their jurisdiction, alike by con
stimtonal prohibition, by local position, and by
social obligation, Bigotry, however, assuming the
garb of philanthropy, like the Devil ROBBED in the
garments of an angel of light, only be reached
by the argument of fear or force and if those who
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