The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-08-07

The Right Spirit.

human events, it becomes necessary for a
, Christian. Christian minister, 10 secede
from the Church or ecclesastic body to which
he belongs. a decent respect for the opinions
Of mankind requires that he should declare
the causes which impelIed him to the separa-
ton. We hold that being in Gods uni
verse has right to claim property In man,
except the original Creator, and that every IN
teIligent being has an inherent right-yes,
an naenabIe right-to himself, subject only
to the ri ht Of his Creator.
That every stakeholder who recognizes his
relation as valid whether formed by heirship
or otherwise, and continues it for the sake of
yain or for his own convenience or advant-
are in anv way usurps authority over God.
and exalteth hn2sell above all that is called
God.
That the claiming Of properly in is
sin per Sc the at OF claiming what God. or
W hat by right OF creation belongs to God. or
what by an inherent right belongs TO anoth-
er, cons flutes the sin and not merely the evils
that result from the execution Of that claim
That the General Assembly at its meeting in
Philadel phia, TWO years ago, refused 10 pro-
test against the Missouri Comp promise aud
since il neglected to express a sense Of in
diguaon at the brutal attack on Senator
Sumner. and the sacking of Lawrence and
the assassination of free State men in Kansas.
all of which occurred wHile they were in ses-
sion and since. it has decided that there is
no constitutional power vested in the Pres
bylerian form of government, except by way
of appeals from the lower up to the hi Cher
lJudicatories, to reach the sir of man stea ing
and subugating of an immortal being, created
in the image OF God, to chauel a mercan-
table commodity. and expel it from the bosom
of the Church, We are forced to conclude
that the General Assembly of the New School
| Preshyterians has prostiuted It's high ecclesi-
astical powers to shield and perpetuate slavery
! in the Church.
! That in view of the pos ton which the
sembly now occupies on this question, we can
not consent longer TO remain in connection
with the Presbyt rian Church. 1--WE love her
q ties more than all the dwellings, of Jacob
her ordinances are our birthright; in her
best friends and kindred dwell; but her weak
ness or unwillingness to expel gross sinners,
compels US to secede from her fellowship, and
EFFORTS from us the prayer, o, my soul come
not thou into their secret; unto their assembly
my honor be not thou united.
/ Here, Mr.. Editors is the language and sen
tment of Joel Wakeman and Nathaniel Ham
mond, two ministers of the Presbyterian
Church, who, under the conviction of the
sinfuness of Slavery have seeded from the
communi, of a proslavery church.
Rev. Abel Stevens clergyman of the NJ.
E. Church. in l843 said 1--WE believe that
slavery has no more constitutional right in the
Methodist Church than the Devil himself
and. strange To say. in 1856. in General Con-
f-rence, he declared that the Church was pro.
slavery. and notwithstanding slavery had sub
dred liberty of speech in w sh'nglon City
had felled Senator-had subdued Kansas
murdered the friends of freedom in the Ter
ritorv-he, in General Conference, voted to
continue slavery in the Church.
Notwithstanding the damning sin Of slave
holding there in our midst a few Phara-
saica Christians who involuntarilv endorse the
murderous assault on Senator Sumner, who
sympathize with the ratfian Brooks. aud en-
dorse the border guerilla in Kansas
have no sympathy for the murdered free State
men-can listen to the tales of distress, fam
lies turned out of their homes their houses
burnt and women and children sleeping in the
grass in the open prairies. with heartleSs IN
ditierence-that the bleckadng OF the Mis-
sour river, the sacking and burning of Law
renee. the obstruction OF printing presses, the
outrage Of giving inotfensive citizens coat
OF tar aud feathers, is en- Joined by the law Of
squatter sovereignty and under the Admins
tration of Frank Pierce, it is right that law
and should be preserved.
These men complain of prescription for
opinions sake, and say they are opposed to
the extension of slavery, that Kansas will not
be slave State. and at the same time. sup
port the Cincinnati platform. which swallow
ed he black Democracy for President. the
motto of which is-''Ex end the institution.
and let it cover the earth as she waters do the
great deep"
The question is frequently asked, Where
we tending, and what will the end be
The solution OF this question Is not difficult;
it is easily answered. The powers that now
be. will not order things otherwise; the exer-
else OF tyrannictl power has something more
than Ell. months TO run, and those months
will lass away much as the last eight; and
should the Cincinnati platform of principles
De elec ed-wi,ich may Heaven forbid-four
years more will be added to the reign Of
terror
South Carolina Is not treated, as in the days
of her open nulhhcation declaration. We
then had a PreSi ,ent who ruled South Caro-
lima: We now have something in the shape of
a President, that South Carohua.. rules; and the
Cincinnati Platform has already agreed that
South Carolina "a ay rule il.
President Jackson. when he learned of the
doiags in the South raised his hand and ex-
claimed. by the Eternal. I'll stop that ball. >
And So he did : it rolled no more. Should Mr..
Fremont be the choice of the People for Pres
iient. we may confidently look for an end of
the Kansas troubles; he would calm the tur-
bulence in that Territory As promptly IS Gen
jackson did the South Carolina Nultcstion.
or as ea>ty the phrophet healed Naman Of
the LepASv--and 50 would Franklin Pierce,
II he dared do it. JOHN Doe
PoLIrrCAL PREACHING Said one OF our
speakers the other evening, the old liners
were very much disturbed because cur