The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-09

they can be, and rather better, perhaps, than
any committee would report them, and they
may as well proceed Let them just split the
church at the seam. 1t is a mere question OF
geography, as everybody knows, There is
nothing to be lost, either in religion or good
morals, by any division that is required The
only thing, it seems to us, that Christian
ministry can do, where their Gospel is not re-
ceyed, is to shake the dust of their feet as a
testimony against that place, and leave 1t.
Christ enjoined no compromises for the sake oil
national organizations. church is congre-
cation of faithful men, that love one another,
not a segregated association of variegated
transgressors, balancing each others iniquities
and toleratng them for the sake of indulgence
and IMMUNITY, respectively. f.
WOUNDS BRUISES AND PURIFYING SORES
The pro-slayery papers, which we receive
among our exchanges, have been kept for some
weeks past up to the boiling point of indigna-
ton at the reception given by the English and
Scotch abolitionists to Mrs. Stowe and her
travelling companions. No terms of courte-
sy are kept with the nobility and gentry
of Great Britain, in commenting upon their
participation in the honors accorded to Uncle
Toms ambassadors extraordinary. The names
of the Duchess of Argyle, Duchess of Suther-
land, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and
the Earl of Shaltesbury, are used as 1t they
were oaths in the curses layshed upon the for
eign agitation Of our domestic institution. Some
of our religious journals are not whit behind
their secular brethren of the press IN the use
of hard words they are even more liberal OF
unhandsOme epithets, and indignant denuncla-
ton of Mr. Stowe in particular The ChriS
tian Banner, published at Fredericksburg, Va,
is severe upon the anti-ieminine, anti'repnb-
lican, nti-philanthropic, and anti-christian
career of this wonderful prodigy of female in
telect and feminine deception" Mr. Hunni-
cut the editor) gives us to understand, that he
abates the antithetic bitterness of his cut-and-
thrust criticism upon account of the sex Of the
offender; and contents himself with saying,
that Notwithstanding, Uncle Toms Cabin
may hatch as many deUilS in Edinburgh rs
there are shingles on the wretched cabins of
that city, we doubt exceedingly, if ever a pain
full sensation il ever felt in the South, or even
a harmful mouse brought forth by the fair au-
thoress of Uncle Toms Cabin, though she go
full nine months, and one month over for good
count seeing she seems to be something extra
of acoman" What Mr. Hunnicut would say,
if the book had given him any painful sensa-
lions, and if he were not patient, Christian,
courteous gentleman, restrained by self-respect
and reverence for womanhood, it is not hard to
imagine, and we are accordingly glad to have
escaped the breaking of the dam. The overflow
OF. his fullness is quite enough of the kind
The Presbyterian of Philadelphia, whose ed
itor was formerly citizen Of the Old Domin-
ion, married in the city Of fredericksburg,
and, consequently is prepared to udgo righte-
ously of the condition and treatment of slaves
in the South, is as calm and free from pain
full sensations" IA his brother of the banner
but seems unaccountably troubled TO account
for the extraordinary celebrity that Mrs
Stowe has acquired. She is not Wilber-
force, Howard, a Mrs Fry, or Mis- Dix.
or anything else that he would like her Ia he
He is offended at the worlds Judgment, which
some how honors her more than it does thoa
sands Of Others, whose philanthropy he prefers
to hers; and he is particularly disgn-tei with |
that British philanthropy which, negIeciing
the oppression of its own poor gives it, sympa.
thies so freely to the suilerngs Of ours He |
goes to extremes himself in denouncing the |
British people for the wretchedness Of their in
iustrial classes but as he complains of foreign
we are led to infer that this il
only by way of retaliation, and that if the inn
pudent hypocrites of Europe would but let us
alone, they might grind the faces of their poor
n peace for him. There is doubtless some
hing in that, 80 that if any good il to come
,ut of the quarrel, it must be upon the Prlnci-
ole that, where rogues fall out honest people
get their own :" whereupon we thank Provi-
dence and take courage. Thou shalt in any
wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin
upon him. is a commandment that receives II
punctual observance from these pious people ;
whether they are equally obedient to the other
member of the sacred text, "thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thy heart" is matter of
less consequence to the parties to be benefited
by the quarrel, than to the persons engaged in
it. The cross-indictments will be tried together,
and public justice will be indicated by the
verdict whatever the motives and merits of the
lihgants may be and we are contented 1t
is a very pretty quarrel as it stands,p and we
are az willing rs Sir Lucius O'Irigger to sec
ond or fight for either Of the principals in the
duel. Success to both sides mutual destruction
is the highest service ye can render to the right
and We ardently desire that the conflict may
wind up like the tragedy of Hamlet, with all
the actors piled up in one grand cadaverous
fabledu upon the stage. Preach your gospel
Tor wrath, if not for conscience sake in season
and out of season, and for whatever ends you
prefer, but at any rate cry aloud and spare
not The subject is something fresher and the
interest more immediate than the sins and
plaques of ancient Egypt, which would other
wise occupy your attention too exclusively The
wlckedness of our slavery is a very fair subject
Tor the eloquence of n phlanthropist, whose
shirt was madc in sixteen hours, for sixpence,
by one OF his own fair countrywomen and tho
shirt itself is just rs fair theme for the over
How OF Christian sympathy on the part of those
who never pay cent in their lifetime to the
woman that washes their own dckcys Ban
ners, Heralds Observers Crosses, and Evan
gelistSt pitch into each other heartily. We are
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