Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-10-15
Sc Casting Pearls before Swine. -

The Charleston Courier of Saturday last contains
five columns of closely printed matter, from of
its Editors, Richard Yeadon, ESQ.,, written in New
York, detailing an interview and arguments between
himself and Theodore Parker and William Lloyd
Garrison, in Boston, on the subject of slavery. Mr..
Yeadon, it seems, heard the Rev. Theodore Parker
preach in Boston-was introduced to him, and visit
ed him in the evening at his house, by invitation,
where he found Mr.. Parker, Mr.. Garrison, and 9th.
ers The arguments on the subject of slavery were
long, heated and able-gong back to the days Of the
Jewish patriarchs, and coming down through the
Mosaic and Gospel dispensations to the present time
We have read the details by Mr.. Yeadon with much
interest He found Mr.. Parker more reasonable,
more gentle, and more genteel than Mr. Garrison;
though both of them seemed to be utterly fixed and
hardened in their preudices and hatreds towards
slavery and the South. Mr.. Yeadon maintained the
institution Bible-established instuton-argued
to show the justice proprety, and fitness of it. from
the great republics of antiquity including that of
the Jews; and insisted that African, Southern slave
ry is beneficial to both races the white and the black
He gave various illustrations and examples showing
the attachment of slaves for their masters; and he
alluded also, in proof of the happy condition of the
African race in the South to their rapid and con-
slant increase, which far exceeds that of the Israel
ties while in Egypt. Garrison replied to these, and
many other views and arguments of Mr.. Yeadon
and though Mr.. Parker did not ge far Mr.. Gar
rison, yet in the main he sustained him. Both of
them very freely disputed the authority of the Scrip
lures, rather insisted that the Almighty did not
mean what he had plainly said ! "They both hold
themselves at liberty" says Mr.. Yeadon, sin the ex
ercise of the right Of private Judgment to reject all
Biblical teachings, apochrypha or unreasonable,
which did not square with their own fanatical and
sefrighteous doctrines and views" In other words,
they protesting Christians, but practical nfides.
Either they are too intelligent not to know that they
fatally in error; they deliberately refuse to
"come to the light" They substitute passion and
prejudice for investigation and pure truth. Yet
Theodore Parker is minister of the Gospel, and
Garrison processes to be a Christian! "Not every
that saith unto Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven. * Many will say unto
me in that day, Lord, Lord, have not prophesied
in thy name and in thy have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works And
then will profess unto them, l never knew you:
depart from me, We that work iniquity."
Garrison, and Parker and Beecher, and their fol-
lowers constitute the advance guard of the abolition
army. Ten years ago they were universally disre-
garded or despised now, they have attention, pos.
sess influence, and their power in support Of Pres
idental candidate is felt and recognized If the evil
should continue to increase and if the black Repub
licans should obtain possession of the government
what will these fanatics be able to effect ten years
hence?
We admire Mr.. Yeadon's spirit and ability, but
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gument or controversy with such men. "Give not
that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye
your pearls before swine, lest they trample them
under their feet and turn again and rend you."-
These men live by Misrepresentation and abuse of
the South. 1t is their all. By it they obtain their
bread and meat 1t gives them congregations, SUBJ
scrptions to their newspapers collections for Kan
and the "poor slave-the greater part of which,
in passing, invariably sticks to their fingers. They
are busy bodies, lovers of filthy lucre seditious;
stirrcrs up of strife demons in human shape. Trust
these men with the government ?-submt to their
rule ?-abde their action in relation to slavery? In
the eloquent language of Robert j. Waker-address-
cd not to the South but the North" better had
We tear the earth from its orbit and scatter it in
! burning fragments through universal space, than
meet the curses of our country and mankind, and
the horrors of that living death which would fol-
low the dissolution of the American Union, but
these horrors will assuredly overtake such
| as Giddngs and Beecher, and Parker, and Seward,
and Banks should be allowed to prevail. 1t is for
the North to decide this question. The South will
aid the there the extent Of her Electoral
vote; but she can do no more. If the end should
come she wiU do her duty, it may be with bleed.
ing and broken heart-butsh she aciU do it, solemny,
finally, irrevocably, before God and man. Ten mil.
lions of white people, and four millions of black
people, are living here in admirable harmony-mas.
ters and servants. They prospering beyond all
former example-they are contented and happy
They are living under a common Constitution, with
fourteen millions of Northern, Eastern, and Western
white people and free negroes. They have never
in:erfered with Northern institatons-they have
never encroached upon the North, and they
never will. The North now has 143 members of the
House Of Representatives, and the South but 90
showing loss to the South, since 1910, of 80 mem
bers. These members Virginia slaveholding State
! gave to the North when she ceded to the Union tha
magnificent Northwestern region now organized int
seven States. They have increased-ace have de
creased. What next? Power in the Union is moth
ing, compared with our honor as people and ou
Constitutional rights Power may depart from US
but our honor and our rights zoe ao neuer surende,
The CROP OF ToBAcco-We daily in receipt of cheer
ing relative to the prospects of the plantcrsant
learn that the frost has not been bad first reported
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