The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-11-04

quirsr proposes a. one OF the necessary
measures to quiet the country and crush out
free soil agitstion that the United States
Senate shall expel "Wade, Sumner, Seward,
and all other aiders and abettors." At the
last session Of Congress they tried the
bludgeon upon opposition Senators; 1t the
next session, If Buchanan 10 successful, they
will but make the usual advance in Slavo-
~ aggression and tyranny by resorting to
the expulsion Of the leading Senators Of the
opposition.
For the Gate City.
Attack uPen the Presbyterian
Church.
MRssss. EpnoRs In the Times Of Sat-
urday appeared an article frem the pen OF "A
Presbyterian" and, a. the Times editor
informs us, an go. s." Presbyterian, prom
ising more from the same sable" and vigor-
Gus pen.
That article is in reply to one Of your own
relative to the connection Of the Southern
branch Of our Church with Slavery, and the
writer would indicate that oil in the North
connive at an evil which, though some think
in accordance with 'Bible principles and
Bible example, (just - Brigham Young
does his kindred institution of Polygamy,-
see Sam. Xxx, 8, and Kings xl, 81 is yet
believed by many others to BE- tho "sum Of
all villainies,'' and the blacklist stain upon
the escutcheon Of our beloved country.
Happening myself to be member - hith-
erto, al least, in good standing, believe
Of the Presbyterian Church and an 0. S.
Presbyterian ct that, and moreover . paying
Subscriber to the Times and : Democrat
twill the TimSs "bet that's liep'') l have
thought might perhaps be excused in obtru-
ding upon you few lines defining the posi-
tion Of some others OF tho o. s. Church who
think themselves actuatsd by Bible prinoi.
Piles, and also the old Democratic principles,
mot Of Calhoun, Douglass and Atchison, J
but Of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson.
We Republican Democrats seek not to inter-
fere with = solitary slave in any slave State,
but, in the words Of democratic Jefferson,
we ssssek to stop the increase Of this great
political and moral evil" (Sse JeGerson's
Notes On Virginia, Boston Ed, PIP. IL, 80
and 06.E The Supreme Court of Missouri
has decided that Slavery is condemned BY
s'reassu.and the laws of nature" Madison,
in Consrsas, in May 1888, said Of Slavery
SIT 10 to be hoped we may destroy It, and 80
"save ourselves from reproach and our pos.
"terisy from the imbecility ever attendant
"upon codAsry filled with Slavery" Wash-
ingtou in letter to Lafayette in 1913, wrote:
81 trust We shall have confsdssasy Of free
estates" And my Bible Gays Of oppressors,
in Isaiah, SO; o: "Is not this the part that !
"have chosen, Ito undo the heavy bsrdena
"and to let the oppressed 60 free, and that
syou break every yoke; j" and in Isaiah, 5; I:
"rhe Lord looked for judgment and behold
Oppression" See, also, Psalms IL; 81
Deut. "a; IA and l5--Ex. q; 81, and q
hundred other passages, all Of them much
more severe upon Slavery than upon the
kindred institution Of Polygamy, ~ any can
did, unbiased Presbyterian might have seen.
My experience, reaching through many
years Of connection With the o. s. Church
has been that she has mot taken that decided
stand against this increasing evil that 70.
g.rd for her christian principles demands. =
can inform ~A Presbyterian" however
that some Of us have dared to read aud com.
ment upon the Bible ourselves, and that very
practically. Icould, il necessary, point Ou
. member Of the o. s. Church, who i,
pledged to the sum Of $500 for the cause O
the "laboring white men," and have hi
word for j. that il necessary he will make i
81 900, and that, too, yearly.
Depend upon it, my dear Presbyteria,
brother, that the People have been trampls'
upon too long. A reaction 10 taking place
Stand aside from the track Of Freedom car
or most assuredly il will crush you.
| In conclusion allow me to advise ga Pres
byterian" that II he desires peace and bar
mony in the Church which he undertakes 1
represent, the less he traducss the rrincipls
Of Freedom and the interests Of the workin
/ men Of the Free North and the South, an
the principles, too, Of many Of the 0.
Prssbyssrians Of this place, the better.
An 0. 8. PRsssYYxsrAx.
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