The republic., 1851-08-14


have hitherto been treated with nothing more
drastic than ridicule, and accounted unworthy
of any serious consideration.
1t is my purpose, at particular stage of this
discussion, TO present, for the contemplation Of
those who can afford time TO read these articles,
a picture of anti-slavery as it was and as II IS.
1t is popular mistake to look upon this VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison, the leader OF those dlsor-
ganizers who are doing all in their power to
overthrow the Republic, merely as furious
and reckless abolitOnist. If there is thing
which is deemed particularly sacred by wise
and good men, Garrison and his associates are
soon found arraying themselves against 1t,
whatever it may be.
We instil into the minds of our children a
reverence for the Holy Scriptures. For the
purpose of bringing them into contempt, Gar
rison openly describes the Bible as a fashion
able book-ihe most popular book IN .Ameriea-
book tctich some people believe 10 be the lcord
Of God.
To keep holy the Sabbath day, in obedience
TO the commandment of God, is practice par
ticularly dear to the people of New England,
and held in reverence throughout the land.
The report of the Anti-Sabbath Convention,
held in this city, published by order of the
convention itself, furnishes the speeches of the
members. There we have the disorganizing
twaddle Of Garrison and his dear friend, Par
ker Pillsbury, or Foster, of Worcester, who
says he makes it point to chop his wood on
the Sabbath, and regrets that he cannot do so
under the ewes of the sanctuary of the woman
Mott and of Perjury Parker.
Obedience to the laws of the land has been
ever justly accounted essential to the continued
existence of civil society. Garrison and his fell
lows, as is well known, long ago arrayed them
selves against all human government, denying
the authority of man to control his fellow. In
accordance with this principle, Edmund Quin-
cy returned his commission as justice of the
peace, denying the power to grant it. Such are
some of the doctrines for the dissemination of
which Garrison devotes all his time, and all
his powers, whatever they are, of body and
mind. If such man is not an insufferable
moral nuisance, in the name of all truth and
soberness what is he2
Among these dsorganizers the princi ple-
alb uno disco onsneS-may safely be applied.
True it is that occasionally one may be seen
stretching himself up above his infamous peers
in all the ungainly proportions of hideous de-
formity. While giving some account, from
the Salem Register, of a late anti-slavery meet
ing at Danvers, the Boston Daily Journal, of
July lth, observes:
GAS specimen of the sentiment OF the speeches
on the occasion, the Register publishes the follow
ing:
q The Fourth OF July is the most cursed day in
all the calendar. The day when Judas iscariot be-
trayed his master, the day when Jesus Christ was
nailed to the Cross s moro to be honored and cele-
brated with the firing of cannon and waving of the
hateful bunting, than the Fourth of July. On the
morning of the Fourth of July should clothe
ourselves in sackcoth and set in ashes during the
day.
"'George Washington waded in blood through an
eight years war; he then went home and grew
rich in selling his neghbor and stealing their hard
earnings.
''There is not sterile hilltop in Austria but that
1t is more sacred to freedom than Bunker Hill and
the plains of Lexington and Concord. The vilcst
mud-scow that floats on the Danube is nobler
craft that the proud frigate Constitution
'These sentiments were utteredon Sabbath even
ing by Parker Pillsbury, and the writer in the
Register says, that the same afternoon the same
speaker went through mock ceremony of taking
several dogs into the church-that he questioned
them as to their doctrinal opinion, and made them
give replies satisfactory to himself-that he pro-
pounded them, and finally administered the cere-
mony of baptism in the following words: Il baptise
thee, Bose. in the name, SC; baptise thee, I'll
ger, &C."
Let us hope that this revolving tale, though
reported in one highly respectable journal, and
recited without any expression of doubt in an
other, may be untrue. For, if true, this Par
ker Pillsbury should Immediately be sent to the
menagerie and subjected to the discipline of
Driesbach. This Parker Pillsbury is the
friend and colleague of Garrison and of Perjury
Parker
Select jury-not from the religious portion
of the community, but from among men of or
binary sensibiity and who have a respect for
decency-assume the statement, made in the
Salem Register and repeated in the Boston
Journal in regard to this Pillsbury, to be true.
and that jury will promptly pronounce their
verdict, that the perpetrator who could thus in
suit the feelings of his fellow-countrymen and
women, who hold the holy communion and the
ordinance of baptism in the deepest reverence,
is an unfeeing brute. Such are the Corinthian
columns of anti-slavery. SIGMA.