Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-26

Is i, makes nidels You have been wont 10 answer
They will not have God to rule over them. They
IL not have the Bible 10 control the great laws Of
their nature Sir, tina, i the answer And you
know that tie great instinct of liberty il only one of
three great Laws, needing special teaching aud guy
ernmenttia IS 10 say, the instinct TO rule the m
ziinet 10 submit to be ruled and tue instinct for
liberty. You know. LOO. that the instinct TO submit
the strongest the instinct 10 rule Is next and that
the aspiration for liberty Is the weakest Hence Yon
| know the overwhelming majority of men hive ever
been willing 10 be slaves masters have been next IN
number. while the few have struggled for freedom
The nit1e then. in proelaming Gods will as to
these THREE reat impulses will be rejected by men,
exactly they have yielded forbidden control 10 the
one or tie other OF them. The Bible will make inf
dels OF masters, when God calls To them rule right
OF give up rule if they have allowed the in-tns, Of
| power - make them hate Gods authority. Pharaoh
Fpoke for all iafdel rulers wien lie said Who is
tie Lord, that should obey his voice p
The Billie will make inldels Of slaves, when God
calls to them pire To be FREE if they have per-
mt,ed the instinct of submission to make them hate
his commands The lsraeliies, in the wilderness re-
senled ten times, in their murmurng, the sinYc in-
! stnrt in all ages. " Would TO God hal died in
| the wilderness. fon know al this, aud you con-
| demn these inhdels. Good.
But sir. yon know, equally well, that the Billie will
make nhdes Of men affirming the instinct of liberty
when q cd calls them to learn Of him how much lib
orty he gives and how he gives it. and when he gives
it-i they have Welded this law Of their nature
ns 10 mike them despise the word of the Lord. Sir
| korah Dathan, and Abiram, spoke out just what the
| liberty aud equality men have said in all time !" Yc
| Moses aud Aaron Like too much upon yon, seeing
| all lhe congregation are holy, every one Of them
wherefore, then, lit ye up yourselves above the com
gregafioa
| Verify SIR these men were intensely excited by
| the law OF our natnre-the great instinct OF free
dom. Yes, they told God, to his ttce, they had
| looked within and found the higher law of liberty
an eauaitythe etereal right in their institutional
| consciousness And that they would not submit 10
his will in the elevation OF Moses and Aaron above
| them.
Verify, sir you, in the spirit Of korah, now pro-
! claim anl say-"Yc masters and sc white men, who
are masters, North and South, We take too much up
on you seeing the negro Is created your equal, and
! by inaenablc right, is as free YOU and entitled
to all your political aud socalfe Ye take then too
much upon yon in excluding him from Your positions
of wealth and honorfrom your halls of legislation,
and from your palace of the nation-and from your
| splendid couch-and from your fair woman with long
hairo that couch aud in that gilded charot-whcfe
fore then lift ye up yourselves above the negro2'
Verify, sir kor,t Dsthan and Abiram, 81 id all we
have ever htarl from abolition platforms or now lis
ten - from You But the Lord made the earth swat
| loa up korah Dathan and Ablnm
agrce with YOU then, sir fully, that some men
have been are, and will be made iniacls by hearing
that God, in the Bible, has ordained slavery. But
hold this be argument against the fact that the
Bihe toes 90 teach, because, men made inldcls
by any other doctrine or precept. they hate to be-
eve.
Sir Il man has said all thi, better than you. And
cannot express my grel TINT you, in tie principle
/ LOW aYpNed, that every mn / interpret the BIZ
bic be chooses 10 reason and leel-you sanction all
the fdchty in the world ohliterate your Notes
the B5le and deny the preaching of your whole
e-so lar, rs God may, i'll his wrath, permit ton to
pung. O recall, the words oithe wisdom of your
liter day
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agree With you, that the Presbyterian Church,