New-York daily tribune., 1845-12-24

RELIGION AND SLAyERY.-We have before US
"a condensed Anti-Savery Bible Argument by
Citizen OF Virginia, pamphlet of 90 pages. New
York SIS. We are ever panied when we see or
hear Religion ard Slavery mentioned in conneXion
Here we confess we lose all that charity which we
can at times feel toward the greatest criminals and
the worst of crimes. We imagine that no one looks
upon the lion and the snake with the same feelings
although death may be threatened by both Go 10
the field of battle, and the brains scattered from
the crushed scull. the great sush of the hearts
blood and the greatest work Of God has been mar
red This sight is horrid enough. But go TO the
gloomy chamber of the victim OF secret poison
See the wasted forn,-ihe anguished eye-the dread
of friend and foe-the horrible of the neces-
sary craving for food-and the instructive keen
sense of fatal poison-now when a.! that God has
intended for support in the trying hour are turned
into the bitterest curse-look there, misery and
madness struggling for supremacy-and cold GER
tain inevitable DEATH the sole arbiter and giver of
rest! Tell US now, the untaught impulse OF the
heart of man, is not this worse than death in the
battle field 60 see the " cat onine buried in the
flesh of the unprotected slave-see his ashy shriveled
torm-his rags-bis foul and comfortless hut-tear
him from his home-bot out from his eye the loved
images of wife, children. and friends-and who are
the men who do this thing Every citizen who by
his vote allows the vlest wretch TO do the deed with
impunity; But the citizen was born TO it-love Of
wealth. pleasure and pride. have usurped the place
OF unbought conscience many paliatives come 10
his help-and il conscience awakes heaven help
us-there is great and merciful and omnipoent
God, who can purify the most deep stained soul
and upon repentance make the tortured spirit
happy once more
Bat when and how shall we class that who
knocks from under tottering and weary feet this
last scafolding OF hope and makes God himself the
worst of tvraats-lhe fasest of friends-the most
unjust of fancied exis,ences The man who at
tempts to justify slavery from the Bible is that man.
If he wins US 10 his opinions, he makes US an inf
del-we lose our belief in the existence OF God
our idea Of the Immortality of the soul-all distinc
ton between right and wrong-we sink from the
man into the beast-we would not scruple to muir
der our mother for meal of vctuals-or scatter the
desecrated remains of dead sister, or father. or
wife. 10 manure our cucumber vines! We thank
God that instinct is stronger than reasoning. and
conscience more powerful than argument. We do
most sincerely believe and we deliberately weigh
what we say, that all the books and papers which
have been written to prove slavery divine nstitu.
ton, has never convinced single man woman
that it was right-n0 not one We have not read
the argument above referred to-liie is short for
man TO read long discourse 10 prove that man
may not murder his father, or sell his country for
gold or enslave his fellow man II then we will
not and cannot read the argument OF our able friend,
{" A Nirginian" in defence of the right, what shall
we say of the God-dcfying defender of the wrong
We promised to give the Alabama Preacher" and
his class a round when we got cool, we now post
pone it for ever for until this miserable and dying
being Of ours becomes yet most deserving oil all the
ills that flesh is heir to- we never can associate In
our mind Religion and Slavery without the most
unqualified loaihing and hot indignation
[C. NJ Clays True American.