Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-03-31

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crime. and makes Jehovah its patron Deity.
do wish that Slavery would leave US an
: ideal OF the Supreme Being that is MT pol
: luted with its Shiny touch. 1t is said ol
Goldsmith, as writer, that there was moth
ing that he did not touch, and nothing that
he touched that he did no: beautify. And i,
can truly be said of Slavery, that there is
nothing that it does not touch, and nothing
that it touches that it does not dehle. IL
has perverted the Government. violated the
national faith, muzzled the press ,,debauched
l the charch, corrupted Christianity, and
seeks to change the glory OF the invisible
God into Moloch, and trans form the eter.
nal and loving Father into patron of
l'cruelty, lust, and injustice; and then, with
the impudence Of the strange woman, wipes
its mouth, and says, / have committed no
sin. | should be ashamed of such a Ged as
that! Ii is to me utterly incomprehensible
that any one can sincerely believe that the
Bible sanctions the system of American
Slavery. and leave that point. : 80.
But this fanaticism goes still farther, and
arroga,es to itself prerogatives which God
himself never claimed, and what. be it spo-
ken with reverence, the Supreme Being
himself cannot do; and that i, to make right
and wrong. Before all law and above all
law, human and divine, is The idea o. right
and wrong, eternal, indestructble. The
Omnipotent does not claim the right or
power to annihilate this distinction. He
himself bows to this idea, which sits en-
throned, absolute and supreme, higher than
The Highest. The supreme Legislature
never uu dertook. by mere arbitrary enact
meht, to obliterate this distinction, aud put
! darkness for light, and light for darkness
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. His
own conduct is controlled by His perceP-
tions of what IS. right and what is wrong.
Human statutes cannot do what Divine legis-
lation never attempted to achieve. Can you,
by Congressional enactment change the
| laws that govern the material world! Can
you make the Potomac roll back to its
i sources amid these far-off hills. or calm the
ocean, when, moved from its depths, it lifts
its crested waves on high, and dashes them
in broken spray against the beetling crags?
Much less can you annul the eternal distinc-
tor between right and wrong. The at
tempt is and must forever remain utterly
vain and impotent. ....-...... ...
The gentleman from Georgia the other
day called cur attention to the sublime spec
tacle of State after State emerging from q
| Territorial condition, and wheeling into line
as sovereign States in this Confederacy. In
this process, according to the gentleman,
were united the twoprinciples Of ofexpansio"&
popular sovereignty, and the gentleman was
reminded Of that grand chorus which an an
cient exile heard when there was poured
| upon his ear the voice Of many waters, and
the voice Of the thunders. and the voice Of
the Almighty, and the utieraoce of ocean
: AID thunder ind Of Iehnzaa- Wa. - Kar Pop
ui, c0r Dei." Sir, ] claim that the voice of
TRUTH and justice, and liberty, is the voice of
| God. When hear the voice of thousands
swelling upward, Ike the voice of many
waters and the voice of mighty thunders and
The voice o. the A mighty, il is that other
and better sentiment, "Let justice prevail,
though the universe crumbles" Aye, sir:
l too heard the voice of the people, and it
went surging through the streets of
Judea's proud metropolis. 1t swept
through the portals of Pilates Judgment
Hall, and echoed along its arches, crying
"Crucity him! Cruelty him." Was "For
PopuH roc Del" then! Did the gentleman
from Georgia hear the voice ofthe Almighty
responsive to the popular will. demanding
the crueifixion Of his own Sonl Did the ir
cry Of bl,od have the Divine sanction, sim
! ply because they had voted it, and because
they had law by which the Man of Naza-
rath must be Put to death. What an i'm pous
dogma!
! Bu; let US follow this expansion and uor
populi doctrine. We already embrace Utah;
there the voice of the people sanctions and
demands multiplicity of wives. Is it the
voice OF G ID! We acquire Cuba; and there
the voice of the people demands the union
Of Church and State, and forbi5s prayer TO
be uttered by the open grave Of "a friend who
breathed out his soul beyond the pale of the
Papal church.; and the voice Of the people
is the voice OF God Expansion. We sweep
onward. and take in Mexico; and in some
sequestered vale there is remnant of the
old Aztec race, with .heir Teocali surroun-
ded with human skulls. The voice of the
people here leads forth 4 pampered young
man, the tairest and best OF the nation
decorated with flowers, up to the consecra-
: ted hill, laying him on the sacrifcial stone
and with breast raised, the priest seizes the
knife, and drags it craunching thraugh the
, ribs, and tears out the heart, all reeking and
quivering; and this is the voice of God!
But we have taken in the continent, from
Esquimaux to Patagonia, and still we mus
expand. We ride for h on the Pacific wave
: and annex the Fejee Islands, and the voice
of the people here is TO feast on human flesh
and the voice Of the people is the voice o
: God. Is this an insane asylumt Is the De-
P mocracy struck with lunacy as well as fillet
d with ianaticism.
The Slavery Democracy p:ates and chat
ters about negro equality BLACK Repub
icans," and "nigger stealing" to use it:
classic phrase and improved photography
1t has, or affects to have, great horror o
: "aiggers." And any one who advocate
the principles of human Freedom, as the
: were enuncinted and laid down in endurin.
forms by the Fathers of the Republic, is
= "woolly head,' and these same Democrat
) have LEANED to speak of them with pecu
d liar nasal twist. Naso contcmnere adunco
J. You would suppose that these gentlemen
whose olfnctories are so sensitive and acute
D, never saw niger, unless in a menage re
IL; u. Il.