Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-04-08

| master often triumphs to great extent
over the system. If every master exem.
pliied the extreme capability Of the sys-
TEN for outrage and diabolism, an indig.
nant world would rise and wipe it out.
Suppose, now, this system. all reeking
with lust, incest, crime, and cruelty, is
brought out and placed under the blaze
of Christianity. Whatsoever ye would
that nen should do unto you, do ye even
so unto them; for this is the law and tina
prophets. This is the condensed summa-
ry of the whole Bible. Who has the
hardihood to say that the practice Of
slaveholding is consistent with this in-
junction: What, in the New Testament,
is the classification Of Shareholders 1t
places them with murderers Of fathers
and murderers of mothers.
Everywhere the Bible inculcates .
spirit of generous magnanimity. "Ye
that are strong ought to bear the infiimi-
ties of the weak, and not to please your
selves" Slavery. | know, claims this
attribute, and talks about its chivalry
and magnanimity. And is it not mag
nanimous to cheat a poor, ignorant, de-
graded man, out of the entire earnings
of his whole lfe-rob him of his wife and
children, and then justify it by saying
that they are an inferior race: Admit
the fact of inferiority-do it therefore
follow that it is right to oppress them ?
Every page of the Bible flashes its anath-
emas against the oppression of the poor
and helpless. The chivalry of the bible
is to help the weak, to protect the de-
fenceless, and rescue those in peril
This. indeed, is the idea Of the olden
chivalry. Witness the incident in the
romance ofIvanhoe. The true knight,
enfeebIcd by sickness, rides into the lists
to NEE. powerful antagonist-and in
whose defence: For one belonging to
a race as despised and degraded then
as that of the African now is. This
chivalry we recognize as having some-
thing manly and noble in it. But from
the chivalry that robs mothers Of their
children; that applies the scourge to
helpless women. to secure their labor or
make them surrender their chastity;
which sells a boy for harlot and girl
for pair of shoes; which. by superior
knowledge, combination, and legal en-
actment. reduces millions Of human be-
ings to the condition of brutism. and then
by false teaching seeks to delude their
conscience, and Cause them to believe
that their eAslavement is in accordance
with the will of Go od-trom all such chiv-
airy | asl! 10 be Delivered
The B DE sanctions Slavery, and, If
the Bible, then God. What kind of an
ideal Of Deity has that relgionist who
holds this doctrine: The ancients divi-
ded their vices, and made one of their
gods the divinity of each. The advocate
Of Bible Slavey takes system that con.
cantfates 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 Gold
smith, as a writer, that there was moth
iny 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 does not touch.
and nothing that it touches that it does
not dehlc. It has perverted the Govern.
ment, violated the national faith, mug
zlcd the press, dcbsuched the church,
corrupted Christianity, and seeks to
change the glory Of the invisible God in.
to Mol, ch. aud transform the eternal
and loving f4ther into patron Of cru
ell y. lust, and in ustice: and then, with
the impotence Of the strange woman,
wipes IS mouth, and says have COM
mit.ei no sin shouli be ashamed OF
such God as that 1t is to me utterly
incomprehensiOle that any one can sim
cerely believe that the Bible sanctions
The system Of American Slavery, and l
leave that oint.
But this fanlticism goes still f.rther,
and arrosates to itself prerogatives which
God himself never claimed. and what,
he it spoken ,.ih reverence, the Supreme
Being himself cannot do; and that is to
make right and wrong. Before all law
and above all law, human and divine, is
the idea Of right and wrong, eternal, in
desructible. The Omnipotent does not
: 4nI'il LiS 4A-is vi " duuluIldto
tl.is distinction. He himself bows to
this idea, which sits enthroned. absolute
and supreme, higher than the Highest
The supreme Legislator never undertook,
by mere arbitrary enactment, to ohliter-
ate this distinction, and put darkness for
light, and light for ness-bitter for
sweet, and sweet f]r bitter, His own
conduct is controlled by His perceptions
OF what IS right and what IS wrong
Human statutes cannot do what Divine
legislation never attempted to achieve
can you, by Congressional enactment,
change the laws chat govern the material
world: Can you MAKE the Potomac roll
back to lis sources amid those lar, off hills
or calm the ocean, when moved from its
depths, it lifts its crested waves on high,
and d,shes them in b:oken spray against
the bcctIing crsgs: Much less can you
annul the eternal distinction between
night and wrong. The a,temp, is and
must forever remain utterly vain and
imTotent.
The eentl man from Georgia the other day
ealle, our attention to the sublime spectacle
OF STATE after State emerging from Terrific
rial condition, AMI Wheeling into line as soy
crajEn States ia this Conedcracy In this
proc 5, according to the gentleman, were
uniret the two principles OF expansion and