M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-10-02
Rank InGdeliIY.

| To show the rank infidelity of the Repub-
lican party it is only necessary to quote oc.
cassionally the blasphemous sayings OF some
of its leading spirits. We do not say that
all, or even majority Of those who fight un.
der the disunion flag of Fremont, are tine
tured with such sentiments, but we arc per-
fectly safe in sayingithat most fthose who
direct the movements OF the party, including
Greeley himself, are worse infidels than Tom
Payne and equally bold in avowing their in
famous doctrines. They belong to the same
class of infidels who flourshed during the
French revolution-the men who renoun ced
God and renounced and vorshipped the God
dess of Reason. Hear, for instance, what
Parker and Garrison and Burlingame
says:
Rev. Theodore Parker says:- a
81 do not believe in the miraculous origin
Of the Hebrew Church, or OF the Baptist
Church, or of the Christian Church, nor the
miraculous character of Jesus. take not
the Bible for my master. nor vet the Church,
nor even Jesus of Nazareth for my MASTER
lie is my best historical dial of human great.
ness. not without the stain of his times and
presume of course, not without sin, for
men without sin exist only in the dreams of
girls" u. '... '.4T.."s. ."|
In commenting on the above ebulition of
Rev. Parker, Lloyd Garrison uses the follow
ing startling language;
Ihaye carefully looked over my last arti-
Gle (see LiberatOr, Feb. 20 aud | can but
find single expression that begins TO com.
pare in point Of profanity with the above
extract. said, if God had the power to
abolish slavery and would not he was "a
very great scoundrel.' Now, did ! recognize
the eris'ence of an infinitely holy being, and
then should speak ofhim in such manner,
you might call it profanity; but as believe
in no God, my statement amounts simply TO
this;
Any being whatever, having the power to
strike the chains from the limbs Of the slave,
and should refuse to exercise it, is scoundrel
Il should have sa id deUil. And if there is
a man, not fend in human shape, who
does not respond to this sentiment it is be-
cause his humanity is swallowed up in his
theology No doubt you would argue with
me, that the man who will not do all in his
power for the abolition of slavery, has more
of the devilish than OF the divine in his ma.
ture; but God may be deaf to the cry of de-
spair, may even command his serviles to rob,
ravish and murder, as did tabled 'Israel's
God,' and we must yield to this omnipotent
fiend unlimited reverence. This is one Of
the penicious effects of belief in God. He
may do whatever he pleases whether it be right
or wrong, angelic or devilish, and it is right
because he does it! The immutability OF
Justice is no recognized. Right, justice,
truth, are arbitrary aflairs-not the present
will or opinion of changeable being-nuw
one thing, now another. Belief in being
whose word, whatever it Is, recognized as
law involves a contempt for the eternal, I'M
mutable principles Of justice and truth"
Hon. Aanson P. Burlingame is not open
in his avowal of infdelity--but no one but
an unbelieyer, who has no reverence for sa-
cred things, would utter such sentiment as
the subjoined: '.'' '
"The times demand, and we must have,
an anti slavery Constitution, anti-slausry
Bible, and ANTI-sLAvERY GoD r. -sz r. 10
1.-THE people Of the country desire 10 place
the national government in the hands Of a
party led by such men, and holding such
sentiments, let them by all means support
John C. Fremont.-Hdrrisbargh Union.'9,