The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-04-26

them surrender their chastity; which sells
a boy for harlot and girl for pair Of
shoes; which by superior knowledge, com
bination, and legal enactment, reduces
millions Of human being 10 the condition
Of brutism, and then by false teaching
seeks to delude their conscience, and cause
them to believe that their ens.avenent is
in accordance with the will of God--from
all such chivalry ! 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 his
doctrine The ancients divided their vices
and made one OF their gods the divinity of
each. The advocate of Bible Slavery takes
system that concentrates in itself all
crime, and makes Jehovah its patron
Deity. / do wish that Slavery would
leave US an ideal Of the Supreme Being
that is not polluted with its shiny touch.
1t is said of Goldsmith, as a writer, that
there was nothing that he did not touch,
and nothing that he touched that he did
not beautify. And it can truly be said of
Slavery, that there is nothing that it docs
touch, aud nothing that it touches that it
does not defle. 1: has perverted the
Government, violated the national faith :.
muzzled the press, dobauched the church,
corrupted Christianity, and seeks to change
the glory Of an invisible God into No
loch, and transform the eternal and loving
Father into patton of cruelety, lust, and
injustice; and then, with the impudenco
Of the strange woman, wipes ito mouth,
and says have committed no sin. l sho'd
DO ashamed of such a God as that 1t is
to me utterly incomprehensible that any
ono can sincerely believe that the Bible
sanctions the system Of American Slavery,
and ] leave that point.
But this fanaticism goes still farther, and
arrogates to itself prerogatives which God
himself never claimed, and what, be it
spoken with reverence, the Supreme being
himself cannot do; and that is to make
right and wrong. Before all Jaw, and a
bove all law, human and divine, is the idea
Of right and wrong, eternal, indestructible.
The Omnipotent does not claim the right
or power to annihilate this distinction
He himself bows to this idea, which sits
enthroned, absolute and supreme, higher
than the Highest. The supreme Legisla-
tor never undertook, by mere arbitrary en-
actment, to obliterate this distinction, and
put darkness for light and light for dark
ncss-bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
His own conduct is controlled by His per-
ceptions Of what is right and what is wrong.
human statutes caIiaot do what Divine
legislation never attempted to achieve.-
Can you, by a Congressional enactment,
change the laws that govern the material
worldi Can you mako the Potomac roll
back to its sources amid those far-of hills,
or calm the ocean, when, moved from it's
depths, it lifts its crested waves on high,
and dashes them in broken spray against
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annul the eternal distinction between right
and wrong. The attempt is and must for
ever remain utterly vain and impotent.
The gentleman from Georgia the other
day called our attention to the sublime
spectacle of State after State emerging
rom Territorial condition, and wheeling
INTO line as sovereign States in this Con.
'ederacy. In this process, according to
he gentleman, were united the two prin-
,iples of expansion and popular sovereign
y, and the gentleman was reminded of
hat grand chorus which an ancient exile
heard when there was poured upon his ear
he voice of tho thunders, and the voice of
he Almighty, and tho utterance Of ocean
md thunder and of Jehovah was, "Vor
Pop,h vor Del" Sir, claim that the
,oice Of truth, and justice, and liberty, is
he voice Of God. When hear the voice
If thousands and thousands, and ten
lines ten thousand, swelling upward, like |
he voice Of many waters, and the voice Of
mighty thunders and the voice of tho AL
mighty, it is that other and better senti.
nent, "Let justice prevail, though the uni
'erse crumbles." Aye, sir; I too heard
he voicc of the people, and it went surg
ng through the streets of Judca's proud
metropolis. 1t swept through the portals
# Pilates Judgment Hal, and acht,oea a.
ong Its arches, c;y,ng, "Crucify him!
J,acliy himw Was" Vor Populi vor Der
hen! Did the gentleman from Georgia |
lear the voice Of the Almighty, responsive
o the popular will, demanding crucifixion
# his own Sonl Did their cry Of blood |
lave the Divine sanction, simply because
hey had voted II, and because they had a
aw by which the Man Nazareth must be
'ut to deathi What an impious dogma
But let us follow this expansion and vor
'opuii doctrine. We already embrace
Jtah; there the voice of the people sane
ions and demands multiplicity Of wives.
8 it the voice Of Godi We acquire Gu
"a; and there the voice of the people de-
nsnds the union Of Church and State, and
orbids prayer to DO uttered by the open
rave of friend who breathed out his
oul beyond the pale of the Papal church;
nd the voice Of the people is the voice of
rod! Expansion We sweep onward,
nd take in Mexico; and in some scques-
cred vale there is remnant Of the old
Iztec race, with their Tcoca!li surrounded
18th human skulls. The voice Of the peo
le here leads forth pampered young
lau, the fairest and best Of the nation,
ccorated with flowers, up to the consecra-
ID hill, laying him on the sacrificial stone,
nd with breast raised, the priest sezes the
nife, and drags ID craunching through the
bs, and tears out the heart, all reeking
nd quivering; and this is the voice Of