Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-16

have been preached by the descendants of the
: Purians, since that Bill became the law of the
United States. Take the entire range Of North
ern literature OF every class. The penny pa
pers that cater for the appetes of the multitude
= The papers that are tho organs of trade and
commerce. B. The papers that support politi-
cal parties 4. The papers that are the repre-
senauves OF religious denominations 5. The
periodical literature, in the shape of magazines,
reviews and miscelanies. Either they soutly
defend Slavery-meanly apologize for slavery,
or profoundly silent on the subject. An A,npri-
can cannot name me the influential periodical
Journal, that writes in favor of hl7aani,y. and
directly and uneqnvocally condemns slavery
have now referred to that description of Htera-
tnrc which is carefully provided for the known
moral and intellectual palates of the people
Are you not justified in inferring the state of the
public mind from these indications.
Take graver works Works on moral phi
osophy. Reprints of English works. Works
on American History. Works on Political
Economy. All contain the proofs positive or
negative, OF the fact, that the spirit of slavery
relgns in the department of literature as SUI
premely as in the cotton and rice fields of Ala
bama or Carolina These are starting ana af-
iec;ing signs of the times. Look again at the
tameness--the submseiveness-the almost thank
IuIliCSS W III Niilbu INC NoTtl allows DCrSoIf 10
be deprived of her rights and her citizens going
South to be treated worse than ours She al
lows the crews of her vessels to be pundercd
ct their cltlzens-rights and thrust into dungeons.
and sold to pay their Jail fees. She allows her
own diplomatic ministers to be ordered out of Il
Southern State by Lynch committee She al
lows her best sons TO have their backs p,oWed
up, their heads 81 aTed, their bodies tarred and
teathcred, TO be hunted, mobbcd, duckad, drown
ed,lmprsoned, cat-hauled, branded ard shot Ike
dogs-and never utters a word of rcmon-
STRANGE.
What is the only subject which will now raise
a mob1 Abolition. What is the worst char
acter man can bear in the Church? The cha
ractcr of being an abolItionist. What is the
opinion man takes most pains to conceal p
! The opinion that slavery is a curse and a dis
grace to the country. What class Of men. of all
others, is it that may be ridiculed and Hbecd
with mpunity, in the pulpit, in public letters, in
! lyceums, at dinners on political platforms p
Abolitionlsts. What meetings are they to which
rowdics and little boys know they may go--to
shuttle, whistle, crow and cough with impunty?
| The meeting Of abolitioniSts. What religious
views are termed hercsies? Those that view
man man, whatever be his color or his coun-
try. What slave is it of all the slaves in the
world, that an American may not succor? The
slave born in his own country, and perchance,
| the son of one OF its most distinguished patriots
What animal is it that Southern ma. !. Nv hunt
over all the valleys, hills and plains of the free
States MAN! The American Game Laws
grant licenses to hunt this animal throughout the
land, and make it a crime--nay, treaSof--to at
tempt to succor, defend, or rescue the prey ofthe
! blOod-SccrterS OF the South, when Oh the track
| OF the flying and quivCring fugitive
No American will deny that have drawn a
true picture of the state of his country. No ~
mercan will deny that The pro-savery sentiment
! is The paramount and all powerful sentiment of
the United States. Slavery in America is su-
perior to all law, for it is the controlling spirit of
the country. There is no higher code than the
| bloody enactments of Slavery. The great re-
| glous controversy at this moment in the United
States is upon the question, whether there is any
higher law than the Fugitive Slave Law: and
the maJorIty--the vast majority of the Dvincs
90 tor the superior authority of the Congress,
and preach openly to their congregations. that
thus saith Willard Fillmore, is more binding than
thus saith the Lord: and that letter signed
Daniel Webster is infinitely more worthy of at
tentiOn than the sermon on the Mount.
II anything more than another can prove the
horrid influence and dominion of slavery in the
United States, it is the fact that because the de-
mon hates the Bible, the Christian denominations
OF that country have consented to withhold it
from the three millions of Southern slaves
ct, heaven knows, If any portion of the human
race needs the Bible, it is the slaves This has
always appeared to me the fact which above all
others proved the demoralizing influence and a.
heistical character of slavery-that men who
profess to regard Bible as the Word OF God and
the revelation Of his will to the children ofmen,
should deliberately consent to see it withheld
from their fellow immortal beings and enter 10
protest against laws which punish the second of
fence of teaching the Bible with the penalty Of
death.
Christians Of Toronto. of all scots ! sum-
mon you tonight to the rescue Of pure and I'M
detiled religion from the dishonor cast upon il by
slavery in the United States of America. liza
nation is to be judged by its fruits, and according
TO the prevailing influence which directs controls
and domneers in every department, in the field,
on the exchange, in the closet of the author. the
study of the minister, the Assembly of the Pres
byteran, the Conference of the Methodist, the
Hall of Legislation, the Cabinet of the General
Government, ask you who is the God of Amer
lea? Is this the God who hath made of one
blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face
of the earth, and hath determined the bounds of
their habta,icn." "The God who is 10 ''ros-
pector of persons, who directed Phillip to Join
himself to the Ethiopian Eunuch,' who hath
said Cry aloud, spare not The God who
spake from the burning bush, who sent his son
TO seek and to save the lost, whose tender mer-
cies are over all his works Is this the God
who is served in America | see a consistency
between the religion ard the acts Of the devil
worshipers of interior Africa. The medicine
mummeries of the North American Indian cor
respond with the habits and pursuits of those chill
dren of the wilderness. ! can understand the
Persic fire worshiPper when he bows before the
sacred flame, or halls the sun as he comes forth
from the chambers of the east. can understand
the Mahomedan, the warrior Of the faith, who
goes forth with the sword in one hand and the
Koran in the other, 10 spread the religion of the
Prophet. can understand the Hindoo when he
washes in the Ganges, or prostrates himself I'M
der the wheels of Juggernaut; but cannot I'M
derstand the religion of America and least of all
reconcile it it Is seen in the lives of its profess
sors, with that religion ofloye, whose object, aim,
spirit, duties, blessings, hopes rewards, honors
and glores are LIBERTY ! whose founder
came TO preach deIiyerance to the captive, and
the opening Of the prison to them that are bound
Wherever | travel in America, am still in
the realms of slavery. The country is magnii-
cent and glorious--the mountains are stupen-
dous and sublime-the rivers roll their floods a.