New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-22

tudes peculiar to Southern oratory. His logic,
rhetoric, elocution, everything, ever to bis dog.
matte theory Of Slavery, are all his own. He is
the great champion Of Slavery in that branch Of
the PRESBYTERIAN Church TO which he belongs, and
nisns considerable influence at least in bis own
vicinity.
This gentleman has been excited to write several
,e,,ers 70 The Christian Obserrer Of Philadelphia,
the occasion being tract from the pen OF the Kew.
Albert Barnes on the subject Of "The Church and
Sayery." In these letters, DR.. Ross, in style and
manner altogether bis own, discusses the present
condition of the great question Of the day. we DO
not propose to controvert his positions, but
simply to make them known to our readers.
Enough that they are extensively indorsed
at the South, and at the North Also
if his assertion is to be credited-aud he has the
merit of saying in plain language what he means.
In his first letter he distinctly admits as starting
point that when understood, if the Bible does
mot sanction the system, the master must cease
"to be the master; the slave must cease to be the
slave He must be free and equal in political
land social life." He says in so many words, that
in former days Southern well as Northern men,
L" in the church and out Of it, not haring sufficient
"ly studied the Word Of God, and under our own
and French revolutionary excitement booking
only at the evils of Slavery, wished it away from
"the land. ras mistaken public sentiment"
The Slavery agitation, in the opinion of DR.. Ross
has wrought out certain resnts, which be proceeds
10 describe. The first result is in substance
that "the most consistent Aboitonists, ind
ing that God and the Bible "wOud not speak for
them but against them" " have now turned away
"from the Word, in dependency, and are seeking,
somewhere an Abolition Bible an Abolition
Constitution for the United States, and an AbOli-
"ton God" A second result of this agitation in DR..
Rosss opinion, is that Mr. Barnes, and many 9th
ers are vainly trying to make the Bible speak against
slayeholding "You get nothing" says the Rev.
Doctor, 'by torturing the English version. Peo-
"ple understand English. Nay, you get little
"by applying the rack to the Hebew and Greek
"even before tribunal of men, like you, who
proclaim beforehand that Moses in Hebrew and
"Paul in Greek must condemn Slavery, because
sit is rolation Of the first sentiments Of the Deesa
"ration Of independence" "You find it difficult
"to persuade men that Moses and Paul were
"moyed by the Holy Ghost to sanction the philOso
"phy of Thomas jefferson" This, Sir" he
exclaims, sis the second result you have gained BY
"your agitation. You have brought thousand
"Northern ministers Of the Gospel, with yourself
"to the verge of the same denial Of the Word of
God, which they have made who are only little
"ahead Of you, in the road you are travelling
We might almost reply to this with one of tho
Doctors own oracular grunts Of Good" which
ornament his flaming paragraphs. But We must
come TO the gst of the Doctors first letter. As q
third result, be says: Meanwhile, many Of your
- most pious men-e. g. Lord Of Buffalo, Lord of
" Dartmouth, Adams of Southsde memory, &C.
"yOur soundest scholars and most sagaciOus Observ
"ers Of Providence, have been led to study the Bible
"mOre faithfully in the light Of the times. And
" they are reading it more and more in harmony
" with the views which have been reached by the
Z" highest Southern statesmen-tO wit, Calhoun,
" JEFF. Davis, Stephens, TOombs, and David Atchi-
"son-to w.t. that the relation of master and slave
" is sanctioned by the Bible; that it is relation
belonging to the same category as those Of hus-
L" band and uife, parent and child, &C.; that the
relation of Slavery, as system of labor, is only
" one form Of the government ordained Of God over
[" fallen and degraded man; that Slavery, as a re-
Z" lation suited to the more degraded or the more
Ignorant and helpless types of sunken human
"ity, is, like all government, intended as proof
of the curse of such degradation, and at the same
I" time to elevate and bless" "This view of
Slavery is becoming more and more, not only the
settled decision of the Southern, but Of the best
Northern mind"
As the fourth result of this agitation, DR.. Ross |
says that the Southern STAKEHOLDER is now salts
fed as never before, that the relation of master
and slave is sanctioned by the Bible; and he |
feels as never before the obligations of the Word
of God. He no longer, in his ignorance of the |
Scripture and afraid of its teachings, will seek
TO defend his common-sense opinions of Slavery /
" by arguments drawn from Types Of Mankind,
{" and other infdel theories; but he will look, in |
" the light Of the Bible on all the good and evil 1
- in the system" With no false ideas Of
created equality and unalienable right, but with
" the Bible in his heart and hand, he will do
" Justice and love mercy, in higher and higher |
" rule" This, Sir, is the fourth result I
:. Of your agitation to make tho Southern \
" master know, from the Bible, bis right to be
" master, and his duty to his slave" "Sir, are you
" satisfied with these consequences of the sgita-
" tien you have gotten upl am" 81 rejoice
q" that the sober sense, North and South, so
" strangely asleep and silent, has risen up to
" hear the word Of God and to speak it to the |
a." land. rejoice that all the South now know
A." that God gives the right TO hold slaves, and |