Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1856-03-13
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tracts IRON the eloquent Thanksgiving Sermon
delivered by this philantbropic Christian Dr.
vine, and now give his views upon Southern
Slavery, which we recommend TO the atten-
tion of those fanatical Abo!itionists who seek
10 destroy the temple OF liberty, IN order TO
crafty their own morbid sympathy. The
three thousand New England CIergymeu may
here receive profitable lesson, while they
endure wholesome rebuke. On the subject
OF Negro Slavery, he says: ~
Nor, on the whole, have we any more seri.
Gus apprehensions Of disaster from that ever
lastingly yexed question of Southern SL0uerv.
The cry of danger 10 our FEDERAL Union, from
this cause, is, at most, the false alarm OF over
slept watchmen, who in the somnsmbu lisIn OF
a half dream, mistake the sigLs Of winds
through the banner, for the steaIthy tread Of
armed men, or The far peal Of trumpets. We
do not say that this great coniederacy can
never, for any cause, be rent into fragments,
and instead Of one glorious commonwealth,
there arise on lis ruin, with all their anarchIal
and revolutionary accessories, two smaller con-
fede!acies, like the miserable milit,ry repub.
lies Of South America. Cause may, indeed,
arise in the providence Of an ayenging God,
which shall rock our proud nationality into
dust, and bury in the grave OF our free insti-
tutions, at once the Liberties of all people, and
the hopes of world. This all may happen,
as we shall insist upon, from the operation of
the principles Of the lext--lhat God will surely
dispace and destroy every instrument that
works not out the purpose OF lis establishment.
We might say, indeed, that this Union eau
neper be disSolped; because il is The result OF
great organic law, which makes 1T, as The dil-
ferent membJrs OF common body, by the
great principle Of a common life, one and in
dissoluable forever-not conglomerate of
States, but great and composite Nation
Nevertheless, as violence may destroy COM
mon life by observance Of its members, so
this Union, while il cannot be peacefully dis
soired, like an ice hill in the sun, may yet be
rent into fragments, as mountain Is rent by
an earthquake. We do not say that this shall
never happen, but this we do say, with the
cleaIest, The calmest, and the most assured
confidence, that this question OF Southern
Slavery is not the earthquake that has power
| to sever us.
There has been, indeed, since Solomoh's
time a regular descent Of men, "from whom,
| though brayed in a mortar, among wbeat, with
pestle, yet foolishnesS will not depart."-
lmpractcabe and malignant fools, who, like
| Herostral US, would gain for themselves immor-
tai infamy, by the destruction OF glorious
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And such are the mep, WHO, ior the sake OF
black men scattered thlnIy over the continent,
would destroy this confederacy; and for the
abstract and imaginary right OF poor frag-
ment OF race 10 whom lis exercise, II prac-
tcable, were destructive and disaSterous-
won Id madly destroy the last hope Of worlds
salvation, aud bring down, upon all races, the
| burden of ancestral bondage, adamantne and
forever. Nevertheless, with such men, The
great Anglo American mird has no sympathy
whatever The question of slavery is, con-
feSsed.y, perplexlng aud disturbing thing in
our body politc, and about men differ hon
estly and widely, but :heir is one greater aud
graHder question, about which the over
wheming and increasing majority of this peo-
Pile never have differed, never will differ, and
that is a steadfast aud inferiJie purpose, to
preserve nth all their energies and their hearf s
best blood, their gtorious Union indissOIube and
toreper!
Slavery is confessejly an evil, which no man
more deeply feels, and more iugenously ack-
nowledges, than the intelligent slave holder 10
when The evil was a birth rghl--and 10 ge.
rid Of the thing without disadvantage 10 Tie
Two races is q problem perplexing all Christian
philosophy. II true 10 ourselves, The God v ho
hath relieved US frem sorer evils will work out
this problem, and IN he end make manifest to
the world, His hidden purpose OF wisdom an,l
love in that myst arious llspensatlon whereby
these children oi Africa have been permitted O
bondage. Meanwhile about expedienlS for ie-
moving this evil, SO that the GIack man and
the white man shall be mutually advantaged,
: there may be-9md till God reveal his own hid
den wisdom there must be-bonest and hearty
differences; and yet none but fa2aiic or a
fend, ever thought seriously, FOR one moment,
ofsolving the problem by dissolviHg the Onion
for, in the first place, such dissolution, so iol
from freeing The slave, would leave him more
hopeless bondmon in great southern mil
ilary coniederacy. And secondly even if il re.
suited in The abolition Of slavery il would bt
treating an evil on :he old heroic plan Of set
ting fire 10 house 10 get rid Of broken sash
or cutting off mans head TO cure his arm o
paralysis. D..
Oh, No! No! indeed Mol Our national bar
may be driven, by Gods storms, into ship
wreck, but it will not be on this poor petbl
of negro slavery, we break up piece meal. =
We have already escaped thousand nigh lie
dangers. W hen the old thirteen colonies aroS
l against British oppression there were thTe,
millions Of people, scattered along wild sea
board, and even then, they braved the pres
sure Of diSsevrTed counsels-of party jealouSie
--ofSlate quarrels- of sectional enc roac hmeni
on q central goyernmenl-oi destroyed citie
of stagnani onme rce--oi burned and bligh
hares,s--of pralysed indus;ry--of crusin
burden OF deb;, and Of disafected and -diSSo
lule soldiery. All this great burden they Dor
trlumphantly, through the long conflict wit
the mghticst war power Of the world And
thus and then, nation only IN form and name
: with little OF the vitality ol her subsequent ma
tional iie--America only grew stronger unte
this pressure in all those elements that nov
/. constitute her glory; tell me, il now, Siandin
erect and mature in the full grandeur of he
Il strength, she cannot, against the empty brent
i Of a thousand fools, bear onward unbroke
nay unbent. this poor fardel OF slavery. OF
away with the doubt, let Il come from wb,
y quarter it may; let it assume what form il vii
) OF philanthropy OF religion, it should be iran
}. pied sternly under foot as Kissing reptile
and the man who even in a whisper dareS
speak OF disuaion ns possible and practices
e thing, should be spurned from the face ofa
Q honest men into iDlamy and exile, asa traiiC
J. to his Country and an infdsi 10 his God.
10
MA Correspondent OF the N. Y. Miro
tbinksita pity that Horace Greely has uot
x middle name beginning with o., that his III
IS lials might represent his manners.
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