Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-04-28

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wipe it out.
Suppose. now. this system. all reei,-
ing with lust. incest. crime and adul.
terry. is brought out and placed under
the blaze of Christianity. Whatsoev-
er We would that men should do unto
you, do We even so unto them: for this
is the law and the prophets. This is
the condensed summary of the whole
Bible. Who has the hardihood to say
that the practice Of slaveholding Is
consistent with this injunction7-
What, in the New Tcs,iment. is the
classification of Shareholders? 1t places
them with murderers of fathers AMI
murdereis of mothers.
Everywhere the Bible inculcates a
spirit of generous magnanimity. "Ie
that are strong ought to bear the in
firmities OF the weak, and not to please
yourself" Slavery, | know, claims
this attribute, and talks about It's chiv
airy and magnanimity. And is it not
magnanimous to cheat poor, igno-
rant, degraded man, ont of the entire
earnings Of his whole liie-rob him Of
his wife and children, and then Justify
it by saying that they are an inferior
race? Admit the fact of inieriority-
does it therefore follow that it is right
to Cypress them? Every page of the
Bible flashes its anathcmas against the
oppression of the poor and hopeless
The chivalry of the Bible is to help
the weak, to protect the deienceless,
and rescue those in peril. This, in
deed, is the idea OF the olden chivalry
:. Witness the incident in the romance
of Ivanhoe. The true knight, enfee-
bled by sickness, rides into the lists to
meet powerful antagonist-and in
whose defence? For one belonging to
a race as despiscd and degraded then
as that of the the African now is
This chiyalry we recognize as having
something manly and noble in it
But, from the chivalry that robs moth
ers of their children; that applies the
scourge to helpless women, to secure
their labor or make them surrender
their chastity; which sells boy for a
harlot and a girl for a pair of shoes;
which, by superior knowledge, combi-
nation. and legal enactment, reduces
millions of human beings to the condi-
tion of brutism, and then by false
teaching seeks to delude their con-
science, and cause them to believe that
their enslavement is in accordance with
the will of God-from all such chiyal-
~ l ask to be delivered.
The Bible sanctions Slavery, and, If
the Bible, then God. What kind OF
an ideal of Deity has that religionist
who holds this doctrine? The ancients
divided their vices, and made one OF
their gods the divinity of each. The
, advocate of Bible Slavery takes sys-
TEN that concentrates in itsefall crime,
and makes Jehovah its patron Deity.
l do wish that Slavery would leave us
an ideal Of the Supreme Being that is
not polluted with its Shiny touch. Ii
is said of Goldsmith, as writer, that
. there was nothing that he did touch,
!. and nothing that he touched that he
did not beautity. And it can truly be
said Of Slavery, that there is nothing
that it does not touch, and nothing
: that it touches that it does not detile
= 1t has perverted the Government, vio.
lated the national faith, muzzles thu
press, debauchcd the church, corrupted
Christianity, and seeks to change tn,
glory of the invisible God into n Mo
loch, and transform the eternal anC
+, loving Father into patron Of cruelty
. lust and injustice; and then, with th,
:, impudcnce of the strange woman wipe,
its mouth. and says, have committed
no sin. | should be ashamed Of sucl
q God as that! Ii is TO me utterly in
comprehensive that any one cai
sincerely believe that the Bible sane
tions the system of American Slavery
and leave that point.
a But this fanaticism goes still farther
5, and arrogares to itself rrerogative
;, which God himself never claimed, an,
e what, be it spoken with reverence, tn
o Supreme Being himself cannot dc ; an,
IS that is, to make right and wrong
J. Before all law and above all law, hu
is man anil divine, is the idea Of righ
1t and wrong, eternal, indistructible.- -
1t The Omnipotcnt does not claim tn
= right or power to annihilate this dis
Ia. al
is idea, which sits cnthroned, absolut
: and supreme, higher than the Highest
n The supreme Legislator never under
l. took, by mere arbitrary enactment, 4
/, obliterate this distinction. and pu
N darkness for light. and light for dark
). neSs-hItter for sweet, and sweet 70
t bitter. His own conduct is con,rollc
st by His perceptions OF what is right an
Y, wrong. Human statutes cannot d
a what Divine legislation never at
% tempted to achieve. Can you, by
l. Congressional enactment, change tn
al laws that govern the material world
RS Can you make the Potomac roll bacl
E. to its sources amid those far.off hills
or calm the ocean. when. moved from
IN its depths, it lifts its crested waves o
n high, and dashes them in broken spra
h against the bectling crags? Much les
is can You annul the eternal distinction
is between right and wrong. The at
Id tempt is and must forever remain ut
E. terly vain and impotent.
&c The gentleman from Georgia tn
'u other day called our attention to til
ne sublime spectacle Of State after Stat
n emerging from 4 Territorial condition
b. and wheeling into line as sovereig
ly States in this Confederacy. In thi
in process. according TO the gentleman