Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-07
Mr.. M'COrmick,s Lecture,

This Reverend CD individual, who
seems to be proud of the fact of his be-
ing a fugitive from justice, lectured in
the Town Hall on Thursday evening of
last week, upon the Constitutionality
and immortality of slavery. He intro
duced his ingenious perversions of the
Constitution and abuse of the institu-
ton of slavery, with a lengthy and sol
emn prayer, for the purpose, no doubt,
of better enabling him to ingraft on the
minds Of his hearers, the intolerant and
bigoted dogmas of a diseased and fanat-
ical imagination. But before he had
progressed very far in his remarks, his
"~cloven foot was exhibited in the bit
ter and malignant name in which he
assailed and denounced his fellow-man
who is connected with the peculiar in
stitution of the South, and who differ
with him in their opinions. He forgot,
while branding them as '~Fmurdercrs,"
" Atheists" and "Infdels," invoking
hostility and discord where there should
be peace and harmony, and stimulating
a blind persistence to peril everything
that is dear to us in government, the
mission on earth of Him who was ''meek
and lowly," and the tenor of his prayer
which was that, His example might be
followed. What a deplorable, sad dis
grace it is, in this enlightened age, that
such hypocrisy is c~ountenanced and
permitted to go unmaskcd-that relig-
ion should be poisoned and made sub
servient to the depraved appctitcs and
wicked Vaccinations of such knavish,
speculative, philanthropic, moonstruck
theorists? If Christ was now upon
earth, what would be his treatment of
these slaves of fanaticism and pcrvcr-
ters of Gods word?
Mr.. Mccormick is an aboiitionist of
the Beecher, Giddings, and Garrison
school, and advocates the entire aboli-
ton of slavery, but instead of viewing
it as a practical question, in which the
and property of millions, and
the peace and prosperity of the country
are deeply involved, he deals in nothing
but dogmas, incapable of proof or refu-
tation by any system of reasoning, any
appeal to argument, or any resort to
experience. He prays and breaches for
he abolition of slavery, but offers no
'~ational or practicable mode, by which
t might be done, without producing
consequences worse than even its enc
mics ascribe to its existence, and still less
ny mode of c~ompensating the owners
f slaves for the loss of their property.
These considerations never enter his
nind-hc seems to be elevated at the
1ea-of-haxin@ the "Moolly heads"
catered, and thinks the wool would
ement the Union tighter! Well he
lay think-a fugitive from Justice {
spending upon the contributions of t
hose to whom he breaches his insur- |
dictionary doctrines for his maintenance
he risks nothing, and sacrifices moth
nS-the emancipation and flooding OF
he North, with four millions OF lazy, ,
de negroes, would not deprive him Of t
ny property, nor render his fields dcs- {
late, and it is unnecessary that he !
hould take any trouble to inquire into +
he practicability of the project. But i
much better would it be for this f
individual-for religion and !
christianity, and for the happiness and
of both the North and the South, +
he would turn his talent and ability
0 some other purpose, than raving at :
he people of the Soulful he would ,
ook to his own picty, and seek the sal =,
alton of the numerous miserable, dc !
free blacks in our own midst ? .