Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-02-02
From the New York Day Dock.
is Southern Society in Fundamental Contra.
Giction to ChristiaIltyi

Clctlon TO christianity!
We pdbish in another portion of our col
unns an able and elaborate communicates
from ,he pen of Rev. Dr.. Newton, on the pas
'nd pr'scH! position of the Old School Presby
ierirn Church, on this profoundly interesting
question, aud we desire to ask for it an especia
attention rom all classes of our numerous
readers, in both sections o! the Union. DR.
Newton has followed this with several othe
similar IS, all of which we would be hap
py to publish if we could make room for them
hut that which we do publish is certainly suf
hcIent to show that the religious organization
known BY n. title of the Old School Presby.
teran Church, is in direct and irreconcable
contradiction with the social organism of the
South.
The conductors of the Day Book, as is wei
known TO lis supporters, desire TO avoid the re
ligious aspects Of this great question, fo
,hcugh two Of its three proprie,ors are church
members, and as such feel the same common
interest in this respect in the question, they dc
rot wish c be diverted from the discussion OF
those greo! social and political bearings of the
genera question so Immediately pressing on
the porhor attention. But as the Day BooI,
is the only journal in the Union that has any
considerable circulation in all lie States, we
feel bound to place this communication before
our readers, IN order that those deeply interes-
ted in the TaIgions aspects of the subject may
zee exactly tbe ground they stand on and ex-
"ctIy the position they occupy, for the "Ofd
School" in this respect embodies the position
end the reasoning of III other orthodox nation.
al organizations.
Ii then has CONF 10 n'e--thp Christians Of
ths Norh. taknr thcir notions from those or
England declare ,nt Southern society is in
fundamental contradiction with the rreli rrip.
ciplc, Of Chu3tan noyuity, and ihcrofure cy-
efY southern chur.N opmLer, ithoueh tempo
rariIy on ground, Of oxDelmncy he may ply-
s,yoiy assect TO this condition Of thing, is
conscirntoustr bound 70 labor for it, fual oyc r.
throw and utter extraction This ia1 Startling
position, cer'atniy, for II AIMS dcnuiy blow at
the social safety and the very lIie of ten mill.
ions Of people and through the mos, potent in
s,rnmeu.aIiiv that ever did or ever can innu.
ence The action of mankind-their conscience
or religion. convicions. True, it is nothing
n~w-.it Is the position always held at the
North and, until recently, bv most church
members at the South but circumstances have
40 rbanged, Tat what was once harmless alb
.nendaus reality.
Si1Iy years ago, with half million OF ne.
eroes i, oar mid.t, and large norton of them
il otaiites where their labor did little more
thsn cover lhcir own suppoft the notion was
general, perhaps universal, that in some unde.
fined way they would intimately become ex.
,inct and the lotion that "slayerv," or the 50.
,isI relation then existing between them and
The whites, v,ns wrono. was an abstraction 10
which rsEa,ous oeonIe could olwnvs ,,tisfac,o.
ri!y n.utrallze or reconcile their consciences
nv the pledrc thevpa to labor for its final
cytinction. Bur in the mean fine these ne.
pro.s have expanded INTO four millions. and
eyery BODY knows that thew must always re-.
ynsjf an element of our nonul,,;on md m,re. -.
aver thot the nroduc. of th.;r Lbor has b..
coal. so npaftnnt, indeed so vital. to human
welfare and ,ae interest of modern civiliza,ion
th,, If some sunernatural mower should do
what the Colonization Society processes its de.
sire 10 do and Suddenly remove all these ne.
proes 10 Affica, that innumerable ships would
instantly SCI gai for that continent and bring
Them hack AGAIN! Or in other words, that
his necro element of our nonulation not onlv
rI,v,ys v;N rao,,;n here bnt il. nermanent ey.
i.t.nce harc is &, necess,tv of modern society
and Of human welI.beinq that cannot be dis.
n.n..d win
I,;,not alone that ,h;s r,.e and III. .x;s,no
relations rene,rote to the de,nsst dentbs of
,..s s2,,si ,,e Of the South. or nre incornorat.
ed ,vith every act and modify aysrv s,en in
the so,,al deyelonment of 6iteen States Of the
Federation. bur i involves their actual .r;s.
f,uce, their yerv life-even the material ore,.
rnec OF white men in certain of these States.