Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-30
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TIE BRITISH ARIsToCIACY or CHURCH ASD STATE
The Impudence Of the cantng professions of univer-
sal phianthropy whereby it is seeking reard the i'm.
pending downfall of its power, by dyertng the a,,en
ton OF The victims OF It's tyranny from their own
misery to remote objects of sympathy is to our minds,
treated as It deserves 10 be in the following notice of
recent publication of DR.. Claiming:
Emancipation BY WIN. E. CHANxlSG. Boston
L. ?. Peabody. 1910 ~ mo. PIP. Hive have no
space to enter into discussion Of the important sub.
ect treated in this little work. and production by Dr.
Channing needs any commentator from to secure
it the attention il deserves. The work treats mainly on
the working OF Emancipation in the West Indies, and
proves what we have often asserted that the system Of
wages is much successful method for the T.
pioiaton of man by than slavery itself We cannot
however, fobear expressing astonshment that the
following passage could ever have fallen from the pen
of so accurate observer, and truth-lovng writer
as Dr. Channing I" IL is nth deep sorro,c, that am
c0mpefedo turn to the contrast betceen religion Eng
land and religion in 4merica. There ii rindicatcs thu
cause Of the 0pprcsscd Here II rirets the cham ana
hardens The heaH Of lie opprcssor." Does DR.. Chan.
ming believe this Does religion in England plead the
cause of the poor lrsh where out of population Of
about Eight Millions, every third person experiences
deficiency Of third rate potatoes for thirty weeks
in year; Does il plead the Of Eleven
Millions of wre,ched proetaries in England and Wales
large portion Of whom in condition almost inf
nitely below that Of the Negro sare' Does il vindlcatc
the canse of the oppressed Millions in India victims oil
tie avarice and tyranny OF her East INDIA Company:
To talk of English religion vIndcatng the of the
oppressed, be,rays ignorance almost nexcusable
England IS nj this moment, the grand enemy Of HUI
many, The ensaver of the nations, and arch oppressor
of The aborer and when has her religion rcbuked herr
"Nor il Religion that emancpated the slaves III
the West Indies. If the East India Company had
said nay, had not desired it for their interest,
the Religion of England might have screamed herself
hoarse The suffering slave, without having loosen
ed Il single fetter. England is The es nation on
EARTH and her Religion is Of piece with her general
character. When her Religion commands her 10 free
her slaves at home, TO show Il disposition to at
tempt to repair the slightest degree the wrongs she
has for seven hundred years inflicted unhappy Ire
land, to do something 10 mitigate the wre,chrdness
other operatives, besides shooting down mprsoning
the poor Char,isis, will listen to culogiums the
religion of England but till then call down upon her
the Indignation ola just God and the curses deep, burn
ing blasting curses of the oppressed everywhere. We
assure Dr. Charming that it is with deep that
have found him, the pure minded friend of religion the
warm-heared defender of the rights Of the oppressed
everywhere, holding up England or the religion OF
England, in favorable contrast 10 his own country
This 10 stab Liberty in the house of her friends IL
is 10 do what do to place the religion and phi
lanhropy Of this Country at the service Of the worship
pers ot mammon, and make Christ do homage 10 the
DevI."-D0stcn Qunricriy Rcricr.