Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-15
Be Al TAinns 10 Al Men

platform, have obeyed somewhat literally this in-
junction ofthe divine Apostle. Whatever may
be the proper Interpretation of this precept md
whatever may be the limitations and restraints i'm
posed upon it in the Christian world, of one thing
we feel assured that ST. Pauldid not mean to IL
eense fraudulent professions of faith or recommend
deusive courses of action That great agent for the
propagation fthe gospel, never meant that it
was laudable or even lawful, in order to win
feeting popularity, to put on show of opinions
not truly entertained, and bow the knee to the al
tars of the heather and worship the dieties of the
country wherever tmight be. Such laxity would
but too nearly resemble the ductile faith of the
Chinaman, who, in order to conciiate Governor
Bigler aud the California Legislature, tells them
that, so far from being inimical to Christianity
he has engrafted it upon his native idolatry, and
adopted Jesus Christ among the number of his
gods. Indeed, this cosmopolitan and catholic
spirit of Hab Wa and Sam Wo q Co. those easy
polytheists, bears but too melancholy resem-
bance to the Democratic profession of faith, as
contained in the Baltimore platform. There
are, in this great Temple of Polytheism
dieties for every colour and for every cline, and
piO"oSf
not find there some altar to adore. 1t is pan
theon in which every god has shrine, from Ju-
piter even to the light fingered Mercury. The
Prince of the Powers of darkness equally as the
Powers of Light, are worshipped there, remind
ing us of the polite devotion of the Mexican lady,
who lighted white taper to the Virgin and a
black one to the Devil, prudently remarking, that
she snew not to which ofthe two she might fall.
If the Southern planter, initiating the pious zeal
of the modern pilgrim, shall go up, with his votve
offering, to the holy city, he will be met in the
vestibule and conducted to place of worship on
which is inscribed in flaming capitals, 1.-The
Compromise and Negro Slavery aptly illustra-
ted by a Yankee Marshal about to deliver tu-
gitive negro up to his master. Around this altar
many voices are heard to excaim, ''Great is
Diana of the Ephesians." utwhen that mixed
and piebald multitude led on by Joshua Giddings,
Garrett Smith, Preston King, Robert Rantoul and
others of that household of faith, present them
selves they are conducted by an archprest of that
political synagogue. whom we at once recognize to
be Benjamin f. Hallett, to a ueiled altar. So
soon as the curtain is drawn, can understand
their furious devotion, for in threatening charac-
tiers we read the inscription that calls it forth:
"We hold these truths to be sefevident;
That all men created equal;
That they endowed by their Creator
With certain inaienable rights;
That among these fc
Liberty and the pursuit OF happiness
Before this sanctuary the heterogeneous crowd
of men and women, saints and sinners, negroes
and white people, may revel in their widest
gies. Their hopes brighten, for the night grows
Hofo +I,o &c a.;
country has the doctrine of equal rights and liber
~, as an inalienable heritage of man, been pro-
claimed by great party, ramifying through the
whole country.
Such incendiary notions have, until now,
been abandoned to the abolition conventice,
Black spirits and white,
Red spr is and grey
Mingle mnge, mngle.
There never was announced proposition that
contained more error and less truth, than the one
above quoted from the Declaration of Indepen-
denee and now partof the Democratic platform.
All men created equal! In what does this uni
versal equality consist In bodily, OF inteectu-
al vigor, in virtue Whilst it will be imposs-
BILE to discover one feature of equality that per-
vades and characterizes the human family, the
proposition, in its unbounded latitude, proclams
equality in everything. 1t is plain that there is
neither physical, mental, nor moral equality
among men, nor is there even political equality,
except such may be established by law IN
less it be that natural right in people exercise
political power, which grows out of capacity to
use it discreetly andfor the public good.
All men created equal! Take the blue-ey ed
Anglo-Saxon, with his fine natural capacity for
civilization in its highest forms,
Upon whose brow every god has set his seal
and contrast with him the idolatrous savage of
South Africa The first, with each revolving
century, mounts higher and higher in the scale
Improvement His course is upward as we'll
as onward. Worshipping according to the pu-
rest rites of christianity, he has adorned his coun-
try with palaces and temples and standing upon
pedestal of his own erection, has entered the
storehouse of nature and brought to light her
most curious and useful secrets. Creations of
genius and forms of beauty illustrate his career
and follow him wherever he goes. But his great
est triumph is that in the exercise of his political
freedom, the Anglo-Saxon has devised gov
eminent complex in its parts, yet orderly in its
movements, for the protection of liberty which
he knows how to appreciate and knows how to
protect. But the other repels each advance of
improvement. He is sunk in the same degraded |
condition of barbarism as his remote ancestors, |
and continues like them to range the forest in
wild and savage freedom. Instead of artificial
habitations to protect i'm from the Indictment sea-
sons, he is compelled with the wild beast to take
shelter in a cave, where, ignorant of all language
except a rude and imperfect jargon, he enjoys
that equality and freedom which we told is
the brthright and heritage of all men, Such is