Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-05
Nashiugtun gentiafl:


vi We shoulu ralner nave shiu not Itemhrha'
bic, that nearly all the in6dels Of the land are
10 the ranks of the Black Republicans. All
the soi-disant reverends who renounce and de-
nounce the God Of the Bible are among the
most noisy, INSCRIPTIONS and habitual falsiiers
Of that party They are men who suck sub
stance from dupes all around, but who af
ford no wholesome nourishment for BODY or
soul to any one.
These reverends have abandoned the teaching
of their aocks, the holy precepts and examples
of the Saviour; they have ceased to iucucate
charity and broiherly Kindness, the loving of
our neighbor as onrself; they have ceased to
warn themselves and their people to cast out
the beam from their own eye before railing at
the mote in brothers ese. The sermon on
the Mount is no longer heard in their churches?
Bnt in their stead a fierce aud unreleuting hate
towards unoherding brethren is daily preached
by those dogs in ioreheads but deer in heart
the Beechers, Siimans, Parkers Phillips's,
and ct id oDiae genus. For Bibles, Sharpe's
rifles are substituted, and for psalms and
hymns, doggerel instigating sedition and discord
have been substituted.
What crimes or sins has the South com.
mitted, and of which the North is innocent,
that a warfare should be carried on by the
North against the South with such unsparng,
relentless malignity villifying and slandering
the South, its people and all their institutions
W.. a l,f,,I 1 4
and leave them to Judge how lar the South is
justly subject TO censure and such vrulent hos
tility from The North; of the proprety If The
North passing sentence Of unmitis gated con
seance regardless even Of the aegis of the Con-
stitution.
THE CASE STATED.
DARN. subjec;iml 10 Great Britain as
colonies, the South linen. as now. we're without
shipping. Then, subsequently, Up - the
period OF the abolition Of the slave trade with
Africa. the importation Of slaves from Africa
was made By the English and the North
Upon these, aud these alone, does tie phole
stigma Of African siarery in this country rest.
The South is Tholly exempt from reducing
.freenseH 10 starery.
The North Is stepped 10 the eyes, crimson
dyed ,cih this enormous quilt.
The North mas received profits from this
guilty trade, which, being invested as received,
now exceeds the enormous sum of two thou.
sand millions of dollars.
With this enormous fruit Of its guilt in its
pocket, the North sits in judgment on the
South, making itself accuser, witness. Judge,
and executioner.
The offence charged upon the South is this
that the North having violently and wickedly
reduced many hundred thousand freemen to
slavery-having packed them, like herring, in
holds Of ships, where nearly one-fourth died
from suffering, and having brought them to
this country, offered them for sale to the South
slaves for life, they and their posterity, until
the will of their owners should emancipate
them. They furnished bills of sale puaran.
teeing all this, and each northern man, with his
own sign manual, gave receipt for the con.
sideration. The South, finding the negroes in
acknowledged, perpetual slavery to these north
ern men, who gave guarantee that the right to
hold the negroes and their posterity in per-
petual bondage was indsputabe, purchased
and paid the price for the guarantee.
With this admitted state Of the case, the
North not only refuses to restore these slaves
thus purchased when they escape to them. but
seek BY every thieving, sneaking and dishonor.
able means to steal and to entice away the
people who they themselves first enslaved and
then sold into slavery, but also do this in de-
hance Of solemn compact made by every
northern State, pledging its sacred honor to
its fulflment
Not only this, but they protest against one
Of these slaves going into any portion Of the
common and immense federal domain belong:
ing equally to the holders of the slaves as to
the northern men.
The South is condemned by the North, 1.-THE
Black Republican North,) to lose their slaves
when they escape to the North, TO have every
slave kidnapped, seduced, or stolen by the
North without reserve, hesitation or limit.
To have the slaves in the District Of Columbia
forcibly manumitted; in addition to the full
price paid the North for these slaves, the
North now requires, in addition, the abandon.
ment by the South, with their slaves, Of all
right or pretension to any portion of their own
domain, domain in which they are with the
North joint and equal tenants. This was GER
tainy no part of the original contract when
bills Of sale we're given for the slaves, nor is
there any trace of any such subsequent pro.
vision. The North would also prohibit the
Interstate slave trade or commerce, and pro.
hibit the passage of slaves from one State to
another.
The North itself held in slavery as many
negroes as it found profitable. How did the
Northern States get rid of slavery BY eman.