Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-03

here, and we believe commenced the practice of his
profession at this place. The duties Of Executive
embrace The sciences Of War and Finance in Its OBJ
Jects of care In the former, the Major has the repu-
tatlon OF some experience at this place. and of the
latter, a few lessons at Veyay.
'STEPHES S. HARDING Is the nominee for Lieuten-
antGovernor. lie too commenccdthela law in this place.
He was too young TO be with the Major AT his hattie.
1t is understood, however, tina. he knows something
about soldiers pensions. The ticket is as good as
the Abolitlonists could raise the candidates are said
to be speakers"
At an Abolition Convention recently held in Cin-
cinnati, Judge Stevens was present and made a speech
which is reported in the Herald. In order to give
some idea of the notions entertained by him, we copy
his speech, as follows
"He said he was one of the projectors Of this
meeting, and rejoiced to be present. He said, we are
now a sepa rate moral and political organization. We
shall ever continue. SO. The other parties may come
to US, but we cannot 90 to them. They are destined
to become one simple chemical substance, fused into
one by the Liberty principle.
Sir, let US know but two classes of men in Church
and State the friends of slavery and its enemies.
We are asked how slavery is TO be abolished /! Sir,
| will tell you. We must reach the abolition of slave
ry over the dead bodies of both the old political par
ties not slain by violence, but destroyed by the over
throw of their principles, the only thing which holds
them together and gives them party existence. As
long as those parties exist, SO long will slavery fud a
shelter under their folds.
In the second place, we must reach the abolition of
slavery through the doors of 10000 churches. / do
not mean that we must destroy them, so that they will
cease to be churches but that we must bring them
on the side of Jesus Christ, instead of that Of slave
~. All this we must do by teaching the truth, and
| correcting the errors of the people,
But we are told that our plan is seditious and fac
tiOus-that we are dgitat0rS-yeS, AGIrAroRs. Well,
Christ was an ag4tator. What makes agitation wrong
is, that it Is error and not truth which agitates. The
on1v o,,oOffon tnhotbor onr arffoffnn lilo that of hrs
and his apostles, is UNSUITABLE and necessary, is whe-
Their what we teach is the truth and it is the truth
God knows :! .
"But we shall divide the Church - =
Sir, division implies separation, and what shah We
separate ! Why, the sin of slaveholding from Chris
tianity. God send how soon that division may come.
We are told, too, that we shall divide the Union
that we are disunionists.
Now, sir, | am for the Union-but | say if the on
ly Union we can have with The South, in church and
state, is TO be and must be cemented by the blood of
three millions of my brethren, | say in Gods name
let it go down. Lam for no union, tie bond Of which
is open crime. No Church can or will be recognized
for Christ in the great day, which is cemented to-
gether by blood. The doom of Seldom and Gomorrah
viii be more tolerable in that day than theirs.
But we are told to remedy all our evils at home be-
fore touching slavery. Doctor, cure yourself.
Sir, if we must wait till no injustice exists among
men. before we touch slavery, we shall never touch it.
Is that what they WANT -
But our black laws in the free States which they
ask US TO repeal before touching slavery, are a mere
sequent-a tail-a following thing 10 slavery itself.
When slavery is destroyed, these laws which are a
mere consequence of slavery, will fall with 1t. De-
stroy the tree and you kill the branches"
These, VIC suppose, are the grounds upon which the
Liberty party are to go into the gubcrnatoral contest
next year in this State. We have no comments at
present Of our own to make, but content ourselves
with copying the following extract from some remarks
upon this speech which we find in the Cincinnati
Chronicle, a Wing paper which is favorable to eman-
~cipation:
'iJudge Stevens says: 'sThe other parties may come
to Us, but we cannot go to Them There is no dam
ger of any coming to them, by the Wing or Demo-
cratic parties, as at present organized. But if they
did, the Liberty party would cease In either case for
the smaller must merge in the greater.
..How is Slavery to cease The first mode is to
destroy both the old parties! This is the most impo-
tent conclusion TO which so important 4 question could
possibly be brought! How much nearer would the
abolition of slavery be if there were no parties 7 The
question would not be Invested of a single difficulty,
even the smallest. The great questions are: l..
What is to be done with the property invested in the
system of slavery =. What is to be done with the
three millions of colored people! 3. How are the
dcep-rooted and inyeterate p~rejudices of the whites to
be overcome : d. How are you to equalize the races!
What have these questions TO do with political par
test Destroy all the political organizations of the
nation, except the municipal laws Of the States, and
you do not affect these questions at all.
1.-The second answer is, to destroy slavery In the
Churches. This is correct as far as il goes; and
there is no question that when the Church outlaws
slavery, it will have done much to outlaw it from the
world. That must be a bold crime and a bold outlaw
which can stand up, exicd and separated from the
universalC Church. But what connection Is there be-
tween a small political ''party'' and this process of
exiting slavery from the Church HoU viii the
nomination of Governors and Presidents aid in driv-
ING slavery from the Church! Will a committee of
Liberty men have any immense influence with the
Pope of Rome! Or with the Methodist Conferences
| 1t would be rather a singular interview when Mr.. X
Y. shall present himself to the Pope, or to the Pres
byterian General Assembly, with the information that
he has been nominated Governor of Ohio for the pur-
pose of driving slavery from the Church, and that he
requests that so important a parsonage as himself
shall be obeyed by ali the authorities of the Church,
| of all names"
Mr.. MADISON in one of his papers in the 'Fed-
e~ralist," says, 'the same reasons which show the
necessity Of denying to the States the power of regu-
lating coin, prove, with equal force, that they ought
NOT 10 be at Hberfu to substitute a paper medium an the