The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-07

in bringing about division between the northern
and southern Baptsts These sef.sancti6ed Phari-
sees set themselves up as better and purer than their
neighbors and profess TO be horihed at commu-
Mon with the pious ministers Of the South' whosc
INCAPABLE offence Is the misfortune OF own, ~
slaves Have these northern fanatics no REGARD LOT
the memory of darlington and Madison-southern
shareholders, whose noble deeds Of pubic good and
whose private charities and pure christian lives have
placed them on level with the greatest benefactorr
OF the worldl When war swept over the land and
the God Of hosts was appealed 70 ~ this Union Of
free States was the question of owing slaves for a
moment allowed to cast single doubt over the
patriotism of the southern people, Did the northern
neople. under the puritanical spirit which now
SWANS too many of them, refuse the assistance OF
the brave sons Of the South, who rushed, at a
moments warning, to the defence of the north
toned and our sympathies appreciated at that
time; il, in appealing to the God Of battles, the
people Of the whole Union, not excluding southern
shareholders, knelt together around the altar OF
their country, and, with one heart, besought the
blessings Of Heaven upon our righteous cause,
what has since occurred to place mark of condem-
nation the southern people, TO make them amena-
BILE to northern puritans, and, by excluding them
from communion Of religious feeling, TO sow the
seeds of disaffection to the Unioni Whence do the
selfreheous ministers of the North derive the au-
thority to dictate terms their southern brethren
to Danish them from all participation in the board OF
missions, unless they wipe out the sdamnable spot
of slavery Are not the people of the South on the
whole, viruous, as patriotic as the people OF the
North Do they not obey the laws and sustain the
constitution Of the Union' Do they not worship
God as reverently, and practise the Christian VIZ
tues as scrupulously their feow-citizens Of the
North Why, then, at this late day, DO we see
our southern people denounced for heinous
sin in the eyes of God and man, our ministers
cut off from a general association for the good
of the church, and one Of the links of the ma
tional Union weakened Not long since, simi-
lar movement was made in the Methodist church,
by which the North and the South were separa-
ted in feeling That has been followed up by the
present action of the northern Baptsts and j is inn
possible to say where the work of dissolution, so
rapidly progressing, may terminate. The jealousie.
Of rival religious institutions may create embtcrcd
feelings and the end destroy the highest incen-
tiyes to the love Of the Union Il 10 evident, that
the fanatic spirit of abolition which has thrust itself
into the political canvass has reared its hord crest
in the bosom Of the religious community Of the
North If not arrested II viii poison all the better
feelings of our northern brethren, and engender a
bitterness of language and action, that must prove
fatal to the peace and union Of the States We in
woke our northern neighbors to pause in their mad
The people Of the South are devoted to the
Union-they revere the constitution Of their fathers,
and will die in its defence, but they cannot, with
composure, see their dearest rights assaulted their
elevated motives aspersed, their worship of the Gre
ator nsulted In the name Of religions Of free instr
tutions, and Of the blessings of enlightened society
we pray that the northern people may not continue
in course, which may render dreadful alternative
necessary to our safety.