Indiana American., 1855-02-23

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main slave? We preach the gospel
TO arouse men, they to subdue them;
we TO awaken, they TO soothe; we to
inspire self-reliance, they submission;
We TO drive them forward in growth,
they to repress and prune down growth;
We TO convert them into men, they to
make them content 10 the beasts Of
burdenl
Is this oil that the gospel has?-
When credulous ministers assure us
that slaves have the means Of grace.
do they mean that they have such
teaching rs We have? Or that there
is any such ideal in preaching? The
power Of religion with US is employed
TO set men on their feet; to make them
fertile. self-sustaining. noble virtuous.
strong, and TO build up society Of
Len, each one Of whom Is large, strong
capacious Of room. and filed with YER.
satile powers.
Religion with them does no such
thing. Itdoth the reverse.
With them il Is Herod casting men
into prison. With us il is the angel.
appearing 10 lead them out Of prison
and set them freel In short, religion
with US is emancipation and liberty;
with them II is bondage and content
ment.
II is very plain that while nominally
republican institutions exist in both the
North and the South, they are estima-
ted by u very different spirit. and US
ed for diif.rent purpose. In the
North, they aim at the welfare Of the
whole people; In the South they are
the instruments by which few con-
troll the many. In the North, they
tend toward Democracy; In the South.
toward oligarchy.
II is equally plain that while there
may be union between Northern and
Southern States, IL is external, or COM
mercial, and not internal and vital,
springing from common ideas, COM
mon ends, and common sympathies.-
II is n union Of merchants and polit-
clans, and not Of the people.
Had these opposite and discordant
systems been left seperatc to work out
each It's own results, there would have
been but little danger Of collision or
contest.
But they are politically united
They come together into one Congress.
There these antagonistic principles
which creep with subtle influence thro'
the very veins Of their respective
States, break out into open collision
upon every question Of national police.
And, since the world began, a repub-
lican spirit Is unfit TO secure power
II generates il in the many. But an
aristocratic spirit always has aptitude
and impulse toward power. II seeks
and grasps II as naturally as a hungry
lion prowls and grasps its prey.
For tifty years the imperious spirit
Of the South has sought and gained
power. II would have been Of but
little consequence were that power
still republican. The seat Of empire
may be indiilerently on the Massachu-
setts Bay or on the Ohio. on the lakes
or on the Gulf, il il be the same EN-.
pire, acting in good faith for the same
democratic ends.
But in the South the growth Of pow
or has been accompanied by Il marked
revolution in political faith, until now
the theory Of Mr.. Calhoun, once scout
ed, is becoming the popular belief
And that theory differs in nothing
from outright European Aristocracy,
save in the forms and instruments by
which IL works.
The struggle, then, between the
North and the South is not one of Sec
tons, and of parties, but Of principles
of principles lying at the founda-
tions of governments--of principles
that cannot coalesce, nor compromise;
that must hate each other, and con.
tend, until the one shall drive out the
other.
Oil how little do men dream Of the
things that are transpiring above theml
In Luthar's days, how little they knew
the magnitude Of the results pending
that controversy of fractions monk
and naughty Pope How little did
the frivolous courtier know the vastnes
Of that struggle in which Hampden,
Milton and Cromwell actedl We are
in just such another era. Dates will
begin from the period in which we
liyel
Do not think that all the danger lies
in that bo!ted cloud which flashes in
the Southern horizon. There is decay
and change here in the North. Old
New England, that sucked AmSican
liberty, is now sucking wolves to de-
YOUR IL.
What shall we think when Presi-
dent Of Dartmouth College goes over
TO Slavery, and publishes to the world
his religious conviction Of the right
fulness Of il, as a part Of Gods dlsci-
pllnary government of the world
wholesome TO man, as u punishment
OF sins which he never committed, and
TO hquidate the long arrearages of
Hams everlasting debt! and avowing
that, under favorable circumstances he
would buy and own slaves A South
ern volcano in New Hampshire, pour
ing forth the lava Of despotism in that
incorrupt and noble old fortress OF lib.
erty. What College 20 educate our
future legislators
What are we TO think, when old
Massachusetts, the mother of the Rev
olution, every league Of whose soil
swells with the tomb of some heroic
patriot, shall make pilgrimages thro'
the South, and after surveying the lot
of slaves under system that turns
them out Of manhood, pronounces
them chattels, denies them marriage,