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who would venture to set them at liberty
all ut once? Their Intellectual and moral
condition rendered them incapable of turn
ing such an advantage to their own benefit
and that of society; in their lebascment,
urged on by their hatred, and the desire Of
vengancc, which ill-treament had excited
in their minds, they would have repeated.
on large scale, the bloody scenes with
which they had already, in former times,
stained the pages of history. And what
then would have happened Society. thus
endangered, would have been put on its
guard against principles favorine liberty :
hcncciorth it would have regarded them
with prejudice and suspicion, and the claims
OF servitude, instead of being IooScned.
would have been the more firmly rivetcd'
Out Of this immense mass of rude, savage
men, set at liberty without preparation. il
was impossible for social organization to
arise, for social organization is hot the crea-
ton OF moment especially with such clc-
ments as these; and in this case, since it
would have been necessary TO choose be-
tween slavery and the anihilation of social
order, the instinct of preservation, which
animatcs society as well as all beings, would
undoubtedly have brought about a coutin-
ua'ion of slavery where it still existed, and its
rc-cslabishmcnt where it bad been DESTROYED.
Happily the Catholic Churcl, was wiser
than philosophers; she knew how to confer
upon humanity the benefit Of emancipation
without injustice or revolution. She knew
how to rcgcucrate society, but not by rivers
of blood"
! Let it be borne in mind that these re-
marks were made inrcfcrencc to white slaves
captured in war-to slavery as it existed
at the time when the master had the right
Of life and death ozr Ills slave, Which right
was exercised by QrlSTus FLAMIN1Us, who
slew his slave in he midst of IL festival;
when VEp1us Pono threw one of his to
the fishes, becaus he broke Il tumbcr.;
when the Spartansn 4 stampede assembled
all Of theirs, attMlemple of Jupiter, and
put them to death;whcn, at Rome should
Il master be assassitcd, every slave that he
had, the innocent al the guilty, had TO die,
as when PEDQa1usSEcUHpUs was killed,
: four hundred 6 slaves were executed.
Let it be rcmcnber;also that the Influences
of benign religion nrc the Instruments to
, "rcgenerate so@ety':o which BALMEs re-
tcrrcd, and not sto EhleSs assaults upon Il
sacred Constitutiom compact. How mild
and liberal the ssen7ents Of this danger
, Gus q CatholicGnpsa institution which,
rs 1t then existed wa crime and curse,
compared with sthe Of the Abolitionists
, SUMNER and GItp1sz and the Know Moth
lngs HALE and ENEoN, upon an institu-
ton uncondemllsd Christ, and bles-
, sing to the ncgra
But the poliaicaelations which the
| Catholic does orSmibear to the pcople 7
have the honor resent, it has become
: my duty to disd desAnd if in this land,
, famed for the pInie of its civil liberty
and liberty of 6nace, christian de-
nomination is to3be 'franchised and per-
: secuted, by an irf rfspible and inquisitori-
, al secret organ Mti what security, let
me ask, has theme weakest denomina-
f ton that the sa,lSAS. is not held in re-
J serve tor 1t! andso progress, until the
. contest IS narrowMsn to the two largest
denominations, yhein the STRUGGLE for
, supremacy, charHyd forgiveness shall
give place to vld and wrath. and the
: religion OF our sgi TO the scourge of
, the sword wheEle devout chroniclcr
! OF the plous deco one of these most
: chf'st'an armies, theological parody,
might sing, at th se of some eventfui
battle
mo" God DO pr9 the day is ours: Lu-
: theran has 4his rein;
Mcthod!st mas cried slarter; the Episcopa.
AND as s., we looked hem, we thought of
Seines enpurVpo bod
, And good Coligny's hair all dabbIed IN
/ his blood;
, And then we thou IL .oenoeo,ce ond I'll |
along our va |
Nememoer 81. Bar lw' was passed from
ana IN rememoerlf 'atrocities of some
second St. Barthol( pmassacre NAV not
men. transported D frenzied passions
OF distempered mn kget that it is writ
Ten, vengeance Is saith the Lord"?
Dear with me n time upon the Sc
GRE. feature OF th' Ordcr-a feature
WI wh'cn they profess AVE abandoned.--l
lhat IL was orgina scret organization,
no one can truthful Epy. Now, in the
name of all that is id what more doesI
any man know OF g&der Mt this mo-
meht than ne d'd he veil of secresy
was removed Ii show-men, they
pull down the canv pr the monkevs
nave oeen seen. III first article of ,
ialth IN our republic ID that all polit-
zeal power is derlve e the people. A
majority OF the pee p State are the .
State, for they cont political action. :.
If the designs of Il Bw Nothinps are
virtuous and politicd hodox. what oc- +
casion is there for. .;o,,, :, sooroa,-