Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-05-13
ASHLAND HOME" WHEELING, Nav 9TH.


bly, will be enticed to put the cup to their
lips, to drive away peace forever. and work
its work of death! How many will fulfill
the expectations of anxious parents and
friends, and prove a blessing 20 the world
by leaving behind them
Footprints, that. perhaps another
Sailing DER lies stormy main
A forhIorn and shipwrecked brother.
Seeing, may take heart again."
How many Of the youth that I now gaze
upon, in the morning of their days, when
.heir hearts were pure, listened 10 the voice
of the Savior? and how many Of those ia.
ces will be stamped by vice who might, had
the right kind of influences been thrown
around them, have been ornaments to so.
ciety, and whose hearts might Lave opened
to s~uestionings of God and of Jesus, and
their youthful brows have been sealed with
the seal of Heaven.
/ was aroused from these and kindred re.
Elections by the gentleman in spectacles as
cending the pulpit, and the intellectual feas:
that I had anticipated with SO much pleas
ure. suddenly vanished when he proceeded
to read from manuscript, in q dull, crawl.
ing, lifeless, monotonus tone, a dry, prosy,
undressing mass of trash. which he
doubtless dign fed by the name of an ad-
dress; but it certainly wanted life and soul
to reveal the gems, for, if it contained any =,
they were buried beneath the rubbish
Finding that | was in for il, for a full hour
and 4 hall, at least, | resigned myself to
late, with a firm resolve to let patience
have its perfect work. So buttoning up
my coat, I skunk into as tittl e space as pos.
sible, to proven: being deluged by the storm
of tobacco juice that swept around. Well,
after feeding US upon husks for an hour, he
gave US a very stale dish of peiitics-harped
upon that great and glorious. and beaull-
fully sublime document, the Lscomp,on
Constitution, which in his estimation was
the plaster that had been sprea1 BY phiIan-
thropic hands--blg enough to cover. ce-
ment, and heal ali The cracks Of the Union
all the wounds of political strife, by for
ever settling that vexed question, and es-
tablishing as a precedent that. in future
white men ("mud-sills," as Senator Ham
mond calls them) must make room for mig
gers, red deer, and wild Indians frightened
from the primeval forest by the crack of the
soul drivers whip the herald of Ciuiiza-
tion of the great slave oIigsrchy, that now
rules our nation. This is what the Rev.
erend gentleman meant, l suppose, but,
certainly he must have forgotten that he
was standing in a pulpit IN the character Of
a temperance lecturer. He must forgotten
his mission as q professed follower of Je-
sus, as a preacher of His gospel to every
creature, when he stopped from the high
station a teacher of the gospel should &C.
cupy to %stigmatize those who, as he ex-
pressed it, ''grosn over the ignorant slave"
Ignorant slave! indeed; just as though it
were a crime to be guilty of q skin not
colored like his own. But l cannot help
looking awsy beyond to the judgment seat,
where those Ignorant slaves and the Rev.
erend gentleman will be in attendance.-
Whose soul will be the whitest | do not
pretend to say; but should He who sittet b
upon the great white throne say to the
Reverend gentleman: Why did you despise
one OF these, the least of my disciples,
these poor, ignorant slaves! Why cid you
not instruct them! why did not you groan
over them, and weep and pray with them,
and feel for them as bound with them!-
How would he answer him! Would he say,
Lord, I preached and ~exPvundod thy word
for 10! these many years to my church (the
great brotherhood of thieves); l was ex-
ceeding jealous in thy name; | did not
stop from my high position to cultivate
the acquaintance of any but the high, and
most dignified and aristocratic of :he F. F.
v. scions of nobility, and was particularly
! careful that not even the hem of my gar
ments should brush against the 'mud-sills"
OF society. These poor niggers: why, as to
them, Lord, it would have been 9 disgrace.
wouiG have been kicked out of the church
and the city, and lost my fst salary. as
sure ysu ] couldn't think Of it; but, Lord,
in thy name | did many mighty works.
was particularly death on all who didn't
acknowledge my creed. and gave all worth.
less fanatics particular fits whenever oppor.
tunity offered, | assure you; but let me ad.
wise you not to be too familiar with these
poor ignorant niggers.
The Rev. gentleman certainly must have
forgotten that he processes to be a follower
OF that One who SO much hates oppression
that, when he came TO make his abode up
on the earth. he did not choose a plac,
among the great. but came among the low
est of the people. was born in a stable, wan
dered about the world, not having where I,
lay lay his head. He was not ashamed /,
weep over our sin-burdened world And W,
8 PITY the man so lost to humanity, who's
. soul does Eot expand enough to cause hin
!. to look upon the world IS one great brother
= hood, all actusted by the same interests
8 and earnestly striving :or the SAM destiny
. Even while ] write ] o help pityin,
= the liitlesess of soul Of any minister q
Christ Who could 70 stoop from his high pc
sition, and assscFats the pulpit BY hnguag
that wsuld be = disgrace even to q. 3oggerv