The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-05-12

tue entire population of one half of the
American States! And that all this will
assuredly result from the contemplated
chanSe OF the Constitution, is obvious.
LIST. From the fact that the "IIigher
Law AboIitionists, who inaugurated this
movement. are n sect whose semi elir
ious and semi-political creed, not only has
It's foundation elsewhere than upon the
b'oIe platform but their teachings are
IN direct con,ravention Of the most decis-
i've declarations and injunc;ions of the
word Of God.
There is nothing more decisively taught
IN the Book Of God, than that the Lord
Jehovah himself, as the direct Lawpiver
OF Israel, his own chosen people, and in
view OF their being located in that good
ly land which lie had promised to their
fathers, did, by statue law, authorize and
! regulate SLAVERY as a permanent institu-
tion among them. 1t was he who sai,
"of them (the heathen) ye shall buy
bondmen and bondmaids.' And ye shall
take them as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherct them for
possession They shall be your bond.
men forever But the doctrine that these
men are so anxious to proclaim through
tie Tract Society, is, that the relation of
master and servant is the concentration
oi all viiIanies.' This they have been
long and vehemcntly teaching through
other channels. Again, God himself bv
direct Legislation Incorporated slavery in.
to his church, as then constituted and
that unqnestionably for the purpose of
securing higher advantages to the slave
through the increased responsibility and
consequent fidelity of the master. And
these results are everywhere seen at the
South greater interest felt in both the
spiritual and the temporal welfare of the
slave than there would be were he not
the masters possession 'iuheri
lance also to his children.' And yet, be-
cause the Constitution of the United
/ States, though it does not establish slave
! ry where 1t Is not. protects it where it is,
DIR. Cheever declares that such cons,i.
tuition ought 10 be cxecra,cd and outlaw.
ell 10y the whole human race : and that
the nation accepting it are on the way
to perdition.' And because the South
ern churches receive, rs did the Apostles,
masters and servants together as mem.
Oers, the anathemas OF the said Doctor
and his coadjutors are ceaselessly poured
upon them. Those mems doctrines are
also in direct conflict with the teachings
OF Christ and his Apostles. The divine
injunction is, thai all servants under the
yoke count their own masters worthy of
all honor and do them service Those
men teach them TO count them worthy Of
all dishonor-they themselves even sha.
( ping for them the dishonorable and CD
: probious epithe,s And instead of being
subject and doing Service they instruct
them to run dway,-nay, .hey eren as
sist them in their escape, and then glory
in the deed But these are the doctri-
nes which, if permitted, they will publish
through the medium OF the Tract Socie-
ty,' as they have done in various other
ways.
End. There is no other sect or denom-
ination so intensely 'sectarian' as this new
eclectic abolition sect
This il evident from the facts lst.
That no other sect has ever striven to
procure the publication OF its peculiar
tenets through that Society. Tbs sect
'hc oI IlS eNlTcIlc
views an essential condition of it's contn-
ued adhesion to the Society ! end, All
the other 'sects' or denominations readily
yielded the peculiarities Of their creeds,
that they might unite with their christian
brethren in dtfusing among theI fellow
men, in all parts of our country, those
evangelical truths in which they we're all
agreed. This sect deems other evan.
gelical doctrines Of little importance in
comparison Of its peculiar creed ! At
least, its leading men procI'im it better,
that all the publications of that Society
should be shut off from the whole South,
than that they should be deprived OF that
channel as a means Of disseminating
their dogmas !! !! See DIR. Wayland's
and DIR. Ray Palmer'S Letters.
II follows, then, irresistibly, that under
their control the american Tract Socie
~ won!d become more intensely 'sectari.
an than any other society or organizr lion
at present existing.
8. There is no other sect which so
ruthlessly creates divisions, or whose pc
culisr tenets would so certainly inhame
the minds Of men, array brother against
brother, section against section, break
society's bonds assundar, rupture the sev.
eral christian denominat atoms, and inscribe
even upon the eartL's surface the most in
delbIe dividing lines (! Already have
those men taken their position, from
which Dr. Palmer informs US They cannot
and ought not to recede. The whole
South have also taken their stand. The
Bible platform is theirs. Nor will they
taste even Of the new wine from the
chaIice which those self.conslituted cup,
bearers would present to their lips.
So certainly then as these men succeed
ih either Of their attempts-that Of pub.
fishing their tenets under the Constitu
tion or orer it, every distinctive feature Of
the American Tract Society will speedily
undergo radical change. Instead Of