Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-11-27

en- serving purposes. This material she confines with
in circle Of her own "a circle barred by either igno
rance prejudice, or profound hypocrisy 1t is sub
iected to laws fixed by her cant measured alone by
the beared vision of fanaticsm, Or what is quite as
probable by less elevated and in respect to the gen.
eral spirit of her pictures and the end she achieves
five to Judge ofeither, by rule of calculation more
truthful than her philosophy and more charitable than
is the scale by which she measures the institution of
lslavery-it would be fair to assume that her purpose
to study which will be the more eectual against
the Institution Of Slavery-Truth or Fiction. Having
read her studied her aim, and measured her strength
by the drapng of her argument having noted her en-
tire want of candor on the side, and her startling
lack of probability the other, either as regards
the institution ITSELF or the incidents inseparable from
it, we are prepared to enter judgment against her,
which, were she not a wife and mother-a woman
our pen would blazon her by the side of char
acter she has herself but mperecty drawn in her own
book
There is scarcely anything in the history of day
and generation SO interesting as the progress of the
great moral movement, both of mind and matter-that
is according to the Apostles of the new Social and
Evangelzing order The otterng of the pillars OF all
old established opinions the uprooting Of old truths
and old errors-tis plain they say almost to the bnd
and especially to the deaf and dumb that mighty prn-
ciples are at work Whether for evil or good, is not
for us they say-Iving as we do under the shadow of
that great abhorred Heaven accursed insttuton--to
Judge. 1t is plain too-we to those who are
basking beneath the light of that supernal fire which
CLOVIS with such intense heat the other side of Ma
son and Dxon's line-that great moral change in
the social condition of man and society, is at hand
There the Apostles, Horace, William, Lyman,
Harriet Grace, Seba, and host more in petticoats
and breeches, who have been for decade or la
boring with assiduty that is recommendabe, to re-
the scales from the eyes of the poor bedarkened
and beclouded minds of the Southern and women.
Why have they not demonstrated beyond cavil that
golden age is coming, in which men and shall
lie down together under the simple dominion of reason
when the passions flesh heir to shall be purged of
the baser DESIRE and the spirit purity shall sit with
its golden pinions folded in the hearts of men, and
perfect equality, and amy shall reign, and the spirit
of Christ alone shall be their law Have they not
discovered that society at present organized is
awful humbug that the exclusive right to the possess
ion of property acquired by system of laws is
against humanity, and should be visited with con
fscaon for the benefit of an agglomerated whole =
Surely these Apostles have discovered much and no
among the least ofther efforts and discoveries, is thu
idea that, unless every man lends hand to draw from
the edifce of slavery one prop he is predestined t.
damnation and fire seven-fold more intense than
that in which the three men of old were tried.
Fanatics ofanother sort there may be. They ma
not see in this new Evangelism, much else than re
viva of Desm-of that skepticism which feeds pass
t ions and warns licentous habits which furnishe
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their free qualification 1t may be- that these latte
fanatics disnclined believe in the sudden ez
S tincton of vice. and the triumph fvirure They ma
think this to be the dream the poet the hop
of the moralst than the natural march of human pre-
gress They may believe that seeds sown in the pc
tca as in the natural world will yield their destine
e fruit Hence it's that they may have but little fat
H. in the new Evangelism and hope of success in tn
s governance ofmankind by the theory of laws it
o professed this age has discovered The new
ofnspred revelation has failed may be- to conyinc
hem that Christ would not have failed to denounc
during his Earth Mission, all that cursed the g
lie of His Father Begirt are taught TO beIiey
lie He was by Slauery-to have walked by day and scI
by night amidst this Er-to have seen its nhumanit
I'd unreproved to have known of the horrd and DISCUS
I'd ing vices it is said to engerder to have the hi
to man misery and very refinement of that accomp
MES it we say, for Christ to have seen this, and
of to have denounced t--ay to have passed Judgment
he expatriaton from the land against it's Strange
But it is not we that will step into the defence of
es institution nearly old the record of man TIL
his has passed through the mutations of time and the
rabe changes of human society," and yet stands befo
Id the God of the Prophets and Apostles vigorous
rt it is possible for any human institution to be- H
st this institution the curse of God upon it If So
may say, that the Curse whatever it may be- is less
be dreaded Judging by the past than that univers
"a irregion which is the prevailing sentiment in Il
minds of our Northern BRETHREN who pride themsev
lis upon preaching and praying in the market place.
yet who coin ingots of gold of the labor of the pc
no white earhcrushed sisters and brothers, who
NO from the cellar the garnet, the loathsome allies
# pursuit of crust of bread bone as the shades
ed night aid to conceal from the eye of the Cody
that nakedness, for the exposure of which by Ham,
of his two brothers, he cursed Ye sanity no:
rs. point US to the half starved slave, will ye
le' There may be fanatcism for an DID, as for ne
IN revelation and fthere is to be for the supr
TO macy feither wisdom would seem to Indicate that
OF battle ground is within the selection of those who no
to the ancient teachings having only the
81 but the law with them, they may and prudence su
hu gests it, employ the power of that compact which,
81 certain purposes makes people, crush the
P ther OF lies, and to burn his progeny The curse
slavery has not yet botted the sum- nor has bias
ed the trees deadened that plant upon the grow
OF of which, the commerce of country rests and fro
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