North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-01

faced imptidence and presumption, and the mex
nIicabe tondness of mankind for decisions OF every
/ description We have before us, it IS true, upon
the record of history, long list OF heresles and
schisms which have sprung up in the church, and
claimed to be founded upon some new or improved
reading of the Word of God. We have had, even
in our own day. the impostures OF Matthias, and
j those of Millerism, and Mormonism; but these
have almost all had for their object the aggran-
dizement of some individual, or the formation OF
some sect upon what its founder deemed true re-
lipious principle, or protested to do So But little
or no harm has resulted from these movements
they have not affected civil polity; those en-
! ga9ed in them have not attempted to NEEDLE with
the mechanism of government, or lay their hands
upon the wheels of State. The mass OF commune
tv have been almost unconscious of their existence
or if they have ever bestowed thought upon
them it has only been passing sentiment of pity
or contempt How different has been the progress
of aboltionism How vast its object-how ire
mendous the results it contemplates Grasping in
its sacrlegous hands the oracles of God it in such
wise expounds them as to strike deadly blow at
that faith which descended to us from the fathers,
and to shake our belief in all that we have hereto
fore held sacred. CELEBRATING one of the domestic
relations known from the beginning of time, it seeks
to overtun the very foundations of society, and in
fuse into it new element, full of mischief and law
lessness theft, rapine, and murder. Laying vio-
lent bands upon the constitution and the laws, it
seeks to sever the bonds of union, which unite us
as one free, prosperous, and happy people, and to
convert section of our country into theatre OF
servile war, while it would excite the other to add
fuel to the flames, and take advantage of the ca
lamities it ought to avert.
{" If this spirit of aboitionism, says Mr.. Graham,
had the power of the sword, in what would it
differ from the man of sin of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries, when so many thousands and
tens of thousands persisted by the axe and the cord
on the Wheel and at the stake, for conscience
sake 2" "And yet it demands to be received into
the State as the very genius of liberty and into the
Church as the very essence of benevoence, dear to
God, and consecrated to His cause. So the Gre
clan horse stood before the gates of Troy consc-
Grated offering to Trojan idol. Trojan hands
drew it into the city. 1t was received with songs
and the sound of trumpets, and great rejoicing.
But while the citizens slept the enemies concealed
in its bosom crept forth, and Troy was destroyed.
Satan, who is more cunning than Ulysses, is the
true author of this mode of deludlng and destroy
ing men. 'Dccipimur specie rect1 applies not to
writers of poetry alone all men are easily deceived
by the sembance of light. The acquisition of
knowledge tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
1t was by protesting themselves to be wise that
the ancents became fools, and changed the glory
of the ncorruptible God into an image made like
man, and beasts and creeping things The Phari-
see made void the law by saying it is cor6aa,
and, under the pretext of promoting purity and
truth, the man of sin has made void both the
law and the Gospel Satan well understands how
to give to his devices the semblance of goodness,
and to connect them with a class of means fatal to
all the interests of the community by which his
devices are adopted"
There is much more worthy of notice in Mr..
Grahams view of this al-important subject but our
limits will not permit at present to lay it before
our readers. 1t is sufficient to say that he has
succeeded beyond all cavil in making abolitionism
as hateful and repugnant in its religious it is in
its political aspect and we defy any man whose
mind IS open to conviction and accessible to sound
argument, sustained throughout by scriptural au-
thority, to rise from perusal of this capital dis
course without coming to the conclusion that it is
as impossible for a true Christian as it would be
for true American to be an aboltionist Il