New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-31
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.4NDOTER POLITICS.
Ce.respopdebee Of Ire n. Y. Tribune.

substantial citizens from the different parishes, out
with theological students. and scholars Of Phillips
Academy. After singing two hymns of liberty from
the Plymouth Collection and prayer, the Professor
announced his text:
lies. 80 AZ ADVANTAGE of r are not isuosIt Of
Lis devices" Cor, xXL. II.
We are taught in Scripture, said the speaker,
glaDcDg his keen eye round the house. that who
ever else may sleep, the Devil is always awake
Their, after citing few apt passages, we see.
lie continued that with good men. as well
as with bad, Satan Is constantly busy. These
warnings addressed 70 good men, to pOus Chris
flaws. With nations, too, rs with individuals he
is constantly busy This was enforced by brief
tut vivid exeg,sis OF Dan. x, l2-l3 (See
BaruesS Notes on that PASSAGE
All the phenomena of history confirm this Scrip
urc d, ctrne. Evil never sleeps Good is often DOR
mant. Men prone To evil. Christian nations
sanciifed only in part. Hence evil spirits lind /: easier
70 influence ,hheG! than good spirits
We must then. bot in our individual and in our
national capacity, both personally aud politically. be
on ur guard lest Satan get adv antage of u.s. for
are not certainly we should not be ignorant of his
devices"
The speaker said the object OF his discourse
would be to apply this principle to the political
duties of religious men. sketch Of his remarks
is n follows:
is Liberty for all or Slavery for the many. The
two principles have gone on side by side as long as
they possibly can. One must prepOndcrate. Lib
erty is the principle OF the Gospel Slavery Is the
principle of Heathenism ln all heather republics
the masses were always slaves aud 1t was slavery
independent of color. Our British ancestors were
sold in chains in Roman markets, and great pagan
doctors like CELSIUS aud Galen, publicly affirmed IN
their writings that they were created tor that ex-
press purpose and were not fit for anything else.
There never was a republic of treemen, except
under influences OF Christianity. The conflict,
therefore in its essence, IL conflict between the
genius of Christianity and the genius OF Heathensm
Therefore the Devil has been particularly Interested
10 destroy or pervert this nation. Satan did all he
could to destroy in the Old Country the good seed
that was to be sown here. But he only wnnowed
the wheat. and shook out all the chat aud all the
Door weak kernels. After it was planted, he tried
10 root il up BY Indian wars, by French inyasioils,
by famine sickness and terror.
Finding this vain. he sOwed tares among the
wheat-theolOgica errors, political theories, Wltca'
craft delusons alienation and strife, and hnally
war with the mother country. But instead OF blow
ing out the fire of Liberty with one pun OF his
breath he blew only the Goals aud ashes into his
own face sensation / and the flame went up all the
more clear and bright.
He had still one resource left. Il is his master
piecc-Slavcrv. Introduced by the mother coun-
Try. the element was deeply fixed. All tue states
except South Carolina and Georgia We're Wiling W
give il up Satan persuaded them to give way TO
these two, who had done little or nothing Tor the
Revolution They tolerated Slavery, and, ms was
"A poor diseased creature not expected To I'VE long
they would allow it few privileges. SO they made
q Constitution to that effect, yet so skillfuly
wOrded that il the system should suddenly vanish,
not word in the instrument would be suPerhuous
or need change. Here was the Devils chet dgnrre
Doubtless he was always thinking Ut the fable of
the peasant who bumhly begged Of the trees q
handle for his AK, and that being granted, cut the
whole forest down. And he could make ak handles
of any Of them at his convenience, and they no
mower 10 help Themselves unless they dissotre the
Union at least BETWEEN THE An AND THE HAN
DIE TSensatiOn and laughter
Some of Satan's devices" to make the matter
wore and worse are as follows:
|. Quoting Scripture
Wherever the good makes q compromise With the
evil it strips itself Of all its power, and gives to the
evil the whole advantage. Put healthy man IN
bed with smallpox patient, you do not make the
sick man better, but you will be sure to make the
well man -ck.
Slavery il Satan's smallpox patient, in bed with
free institutions. 1t is bis grand instrument for
perpetuatng heathenism III the very blood and veins
of Christianity Hence ne even quotes Scripture IN
its defense as he did in the temptation of Christ
But like Christ we will on swer Scripture perverted
Servants, obey your masters We will insist that
this text does not justify in Obeying the Devil
| because the Devil happens to be their master-for
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, aud him
only shalt thou serve [Sensatonl. Break every
| yoke and let the oppressed go tree" - Masters
| render to your servants things Just and EQUAL. y
| But servants treated as EQUALS are not SLAVES.
2. A very successful device of Satan is the idea
that religion must not come into politics. Who
have any interest to keep religion out Of politics ex
cept those who wish to serve the Devil by politics
What duties. privileges, responsibilities are greater
than cur political For what must we render a
more strict account TO God Our institutions
were founded by religious men for religious pur-
poses, and whenever the Devil can get politics out
Of the hands ofreGgiOus men, he has triumphed.
8. Another device Of Satan Is, that laws must be
obeyed till repealed, right wrong. Tyranny
ALWAYS establishes its usurpations by law. We
have had, recently, notable instance III Kansas
And if Satan can have his way the same tyranny
will be established in every State OF the Union
Witness Philadelphia, where the election has just
been carried by importing voters from a border
State. The assertion of this principle, that laws
however fraudulent aud wicked, must be obeyed, Is
the condemnation to eternal infamy of all our ances
tors whom We have been taught 10 revere. A des-
perate effort was made, in 1880, to crowd this
ialsehocd down the Threats Of the New England
people; but it signaly failed The very instincts OF
tie people, the very blood in their veins, taught
item TO reject it, Yet this principle is vociferously
advocated by Slavery EXtensioni.ts, in regard to
Kansas laws, while they openly threaten to nullify
all law that the least restricts Slavery. And to
such demagOgues are required to submit with
sealed mouths and tettered hands NO-by the
holy memories Of those who rose against the tyran-
meal enactments of the Stuarts the Strafords aud
the Lauds the Georges and the Norhs and the Cages
Of other dsys-we swear that We will not do IT :
BY cur love to our country BY love to mankin1,
by our love 10 GOd-We swear that We viii never