North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-20
From the Washington Unlon'
Sunday READING.

can slavery t1G Iris COuF""S
e...b ,,,o,en,ente- An auti1ote to the eVI pro0'o
ed bv an american ckergynsan-4hr tI'o@ q.
1;s.s,,rses ,,.,on The contrast bet,ceen the B'O'
and A6otitionism.
Not lono since the clergy of the United States
and the RELIGIOUS community i'll general, were coi'
,,Inanted with an address and resolutions rom
meeting of the Irish clergy of Dublin ana the "
cinitv. called by the Rev. DIR. King to express 'ei
sentiments upon the subject OF African slavery II
this country. DIR. King had but recently returned
from tour to America he had visited US profess
civ 70 renresent the wants and distresses OF tn
Ir;sb dissenters he was everywhere received witt
marked hospitality his applications for asslstanc
were cheerfully and literally responded to; and al
ter somewhat protracted solourn IN what seemed
to him an earthly Paradise, he returned to poor
oppressed, and furnishing Ireland with his pocket
OVERLOOKING with gold and his eyes standing on
with fatness. .s-s ....
One would really suppose that after such an ex
perience of the practical Christianity of the Amer
lean people-afer being fed and clothed ministereo
to, provided for, and sent on his way rejoicing
the reverend DOCTOR if he felt called upon to say
anything about us, would at all events say some
thing civl-would dwell, from preference, on our
good qualities rather than those which ne consld-
cred bad and tender us some slight acknowledge
ments for favors received instead OF ADDRESSING us
in terms of admonition and reproot what would
be thought of the mendicant who, driven by the
DIV for relief to a benevolent neghbor, should in
return for bounteous supply, instead OF thanks,
give his benefactor setting-dow for what he
chose to consider the mismanagement OF his do
nestle affairs {? And yet that is very much the way
that this clerical mendicant has treated us, and it
is the way that a large proportion of our foreign
visters Especially those of any literary pretensions
treat u.s. after having been .feted and entertained
with a proflsion of hospitality and kindness of
which thew have no example at home.
The Scotch Presbyterians read us a lecture an
nually on the subject of slavery-the English dis
senters not unrequently do the same but, so far as
we can recolect this is the first admonition of the
kind we have ever received from Ireland, and we
trust it may be the last for we are bound to that
unhappy country by the strongest ties, and depre-
cate any movements calculated to weaken or sever
them. Probably one-haf at least of her living
children own by adoption they are
devotedly attached to our government, our laws,
and our institutions they satisfied with things
as they are and we cannot for a moment believe
that their unfortunate brethren at home, who are
hoping and praying for the privilege of joining
them here as priceless boon, have one sentiment
in common with the antislavery fanatics who get
up these meetings to denounce us. No the people
of Ireland-the honest industrious, laboring peo-
ple-have no anti-slavery feelings; nor have the
same classes in England or Scotland; they give
themselves no trouble about matter which does
not in the most remote degree concern them nor
do the highest classes either, as general remark,
NEEDLE with the subject. 1t is principally from the
dissenting divines, and that portion of the middle
classes whom they directly influence, that re-
ceive these impairment missives, which, but for
their effect in keeping up the excitement among
similar class of community in this country, and
Strengthening their preconceived errors and preju
dices, would be wholly -undeserving of either COM
ment reply. Inasmuch, however as there are a
1horo e
ern sections of our country who really and sincere
ly believe that slavery is sin, contrary to the will
of God, and forbidden in His word, and as more
over, this misguided and mistaken portion of our
felow-citizens liable constantly to be confirmed
in their impressions by the reiteration of
such sentiments from the foreign sources we have
mentioned, it would seem not altogether an unprof-
liable undertaking to endeavor to administer an
antdote to the poison, and counteract the evil as
far as possible.
The aboGtionists of the North hold that slavery
is sin against God and ought to be immediately |
brought to an end. Many who are unwilling to
be considered aboltionists believe in its sinfulness
but from motives of expediency are opposed to its
immediate termination while a still greater num-
ber who care comparatively little about the matter,
never undertake to examine the subject for them
selves IN religious point of view, but, quietly as
senting to the truth of position which they hear
constantly asserted and never contradcted by those
around them, gradually come to believe with the |
last class in the sinfuness of slavery and in the
end with the first class in its immediate abolition.
1t is upon those whom we have last referred to |
that the addresses and resolutions of the FOREIGN
anti-slavery meetings and associations make the |
most impression and have the most mischieyous
effect. They do not consider who they are that as
sumo the dictatorship of the American conscience
and the censorship of American morals; thew do
not examine the authority upon which they pro-
nounce sentence OF condemnation upon our domes- !
tic institutions. All that strikes them is the enor-
NIFTY of the sin which ELECTS the reproof of what
they consider the whole Christian world across the
water, and they become convinced of the truth of
the antlslavery positions because people three thou
sand miles Off believe the same dogmas, which are
instlled into their minds by those whom thew daily
see and hear converse. Such is the process bv |
which so many recruits obtained to swell the |
abolition ranks; and yet there is probably not one
IN thousand of these men who has not his Bible |
at bus elbow, and who, if he would open its sacred
pages and give ear to the voice of God instead of
that OF man, would see how grossly he had been
deceived, and how perfdiously he had been be-
trayed into an attitude hostile at once to the DEGREES
of Divine Providence and to the best interests of his
country.
With view to direct and aid such of tb;s c1oos |
as may think it worth while to examine this o-root
question in religious point of view. we nronose |
to call to their notice discourse delivered 70 ~
Cincinnati Synod upon the contrast between The
doctrines of the Bible and abolitonism. bv the Ro,
VIM. Graham, of the Second Presbyterian church
Oxford, Ohio. ~ ii'
As so much evil has emanated from the fa,so
of Aixyiro $500