The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-03-17
Letter of DR.. Cartwright, Of New
Orleans, 10 Rev. Peter Cartwright
OF Illinois.

Oh AkGsHSzSs
DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 4th, 1851.
DEAR SIR;-In travelling for health and recre-
ation, find myself in the new and beautiful city
Of Davenport, ON the 4th of July and know no:
how better to celebrate the day than ty giving
expression to few thoughts suggested by read
ing your Autobiography. The work is interest
ing and instructive, as it gives some account of
the labors and suffering3 of those early pioneers
who planted Gospel vineyards in the great wes-
tern wilderness, in the face of difficulties suffi-
cient to have appalled, the Apostles of old. The
only tools they worked with consisted of the
Bible and Hymn Book; the rules to direct their
labor were contained in a little pamphlet called
the discipline, and the history Of the fruits OF
their labors was summed up in little annual
tracts called ''Minutes." The only sins they
preached against were sins specified in the BIZ
ble With these simple means, a few illterate
preachers Of the word of God, (asIt is written
and plain to the comprehension of every man
aud woman) ina very short time made more
converts to Christianity in the valley of the
Mississippi, and planted more churches than
did the Apostles themselves in the whole Of
Europe and Asia.
Of late years, however, the grapes in many OF
the richest vineyards are turning sour. Wher-
ever this is the case, have satisfactorily ascer.
tanned that the laborers in the vineyards have
been using other tools than the Bible and Hymn
Book, and striking at other sins than those dcs-
gnated as sins in the revealed word of God
There was a man hung yesterday in sight of
this growing city, and not permitted to see the
light Of the glorious Fourth for killing his wife.
On inquiry find that the rising generation, in
several of the schools and and colleges at the
northeast are mostly taught to sEun, and the
oudest thunders of the pulpit roar against, is
not murder or any other sin that the Bible de-
nounces. but a new sin lately discovered by an
ariscratc iunta of Exeter Hail. London, the
sin Of slavery According to the doginas Of EX-
eter Hail. slavery is not only sin against God,
buta sin so henious that it would be doing God a
most acceptable service to abolish it. According
Ia the Bible the law from Mount Snia was con-
fided to the sl4veholding Jews; the Saviour Of
mankind began and ended his earthly pilgrim
age in slave. holding country, and in no in
stance preached against slavery as a sin. By
preaching Exeter Hall dogmas from the pulpit,
and insisting upon them as if they were Gospel
truths, and by instiIlng them into the minds OF
the youEg Of schools and colleges as a most es-
scntial part Of education, the people were led
into angry contentious and most Of the church
es have been divided and split into irecc0ncila-
bic fragments. The only remedy for the evil
Is to go back to the text books OF the early pio-
ncers, and preach no other doctrine than the
doctrine contained in them. The Bible has no
thing to do with slavery or any other political in.
stitution. 1t is to reform the heart Of fallen
man, to cast out sin from the inner man, and
thus to Danish evil from society," whether slave
or free, democratic, monalc chal or despOtc.-
Hence it is adapted to all forms of government,
II would NOT be Divine Book if it we're only
suited to some oort;cplar form Of government
No matter what thn government The revealed
word nreached in IFS Duritv is ali potent 70 han
| ish sin You know this 10 be true because in
early wears of your ministry YOU preached the
Trcemcn-both fell be ore it. and were conycr.
ted to God.
! Whereas the nraanhjnr Of kbo1itionisu, or
Any other species of politics. never did and ncy
er can convert a singie soul. Instead of purify.
inc the heart as Bible preaching does. it SONS
the seeds of infidelity and feeds the evil passions
which true religion sIhdues. The doctrine that
slavery is sin arainSt God is nowhere taught in
tha Bible Int Is simnlv an ingenious uolitical
device Of the aristocrats of Great Britain to O.
verthrow our RcuuhIican institutions and Ia de-
strov onr Northern manufactures. You and I
reside in the same Great, happy, prosperous. and
| Christian country. whose Rennblican eyalnnle
tbe ,nnnorcbiste and nriviIencd classes of F,rone
GO much fear. You live in the northwest and
T in tba southwest The distance from London
thronrb France GERMANY and Austria to the
Turkish dominions. is not so great as the dis.
tonca hatwecn vour home and mine vet our no-
Etirol ntrrosts are as identical now as thpv VOID
bo # va were both brck on cur native James
river and Potomac. but it is the policy of Great
Britan to make ms baiieye otherwise if She can.
| gInnco her statesmen have added a new com
mand to tba decalorne. They forbid slaveholl-
inc thev denounced slavery as n sin, and have
orro rizad societies both in Eu,one Hna Anlerico
| to enlist the symnathies of the world AGAINST
| tha oIIacod sin ami nrocurr its immediate aho,i
tin, Tho ohol;tonists nronnr ragard Won rs
oro or thnic rvorst ano,nies hncause Won do NOT
concur uitb tI,am in tba means usod to abolish
SI.vorv ynn arc onnoged to snv valiant meas
nroc to hlot ont the aIIeocd sin. and in favor Of
Ioolino wifi tha Gin # Il he q sin as other sins
oro dco)t with bvs;mnlv nrcochinn the royea :
word nf God in its Main sense and readinc-
Pnt why class slavery amona the sins at all
on,s;1or;no If is mot so classei in the B;blaP-
WIN, look ior II TO fail un,ler the nreaciino Of
thn Sosnal considering that II l. NOT denounced
10 s;n in ho,v writ and stands on the same
G1otinr os the institution of morriagop You aid
not dsrive your belcfin the sinfulness ofsIayory
from onvth;ng Won rcod in the bible and I an,
snra Won diJ not derive il from tho writings lee
tnao: or nreachinr of the modern abolitionists
Won bronpbt the belief with YOU from Virginia
and ID tho South, In former times. a great many
neonIn @ in the slave holding states REGARDED no.
pro sIavcrv rs n social moral and n0liticol evil
TTrhov wcrc led to this Lc!ierprincipaIly from alb
e+ract or theoretical reasoning. founded on the
aSsnmntion s, that the negro was being in every