The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-26
A FEW SOBER THOUGHTS.

Mr.. EDToR:-The present hour affords
a seasonable opportunity for sober contem-
plation We are living at an eventful era
In the history of the nation and in the his
tory of the world. We have passed through
several important crisises, but the present
transcends them all in sober significance
and awful grandeur A fearful demon of
destruction sits brooding DER our country's
dark horizon, and lightnings, "red with un-
common wrath" await the execution of his
dire vengeance. We ARE IN THE MIDST OF
REVOLUTION. The whole world is in mo-
ton. She is racked with pains and scorch-
ed with fevers; her once lack-lustre eve
now beams with unwonted brightness; her
foundations tremble beneath the tramp of
the uprising and the uprisen masses, who
cry with terrific energy, "Giue as liberty,
or aoeW give you death :" The events
transpiring in this Republic are invested
with thrilling solemnity, demanding our
special and Individual attention The fires
of hell appear to be blazing upon its blood
stained affairs The phylsctery of official
rank is enlarged to cover the iniquities of
American slavery.
The time was when scarcely religious
teacher in the land could be found so bra
zen-faced and impious as to blaspheme the
name of God by charging Him with being
the chief broker in the flesh and blood of
men and women; but now we have pro-
fessed ministers of the Gospel attempting
to prove the divinity of the accursed sys-
tenn. The moral world revolts at the idea
that snch a euctar hA l--+-'O1f, 'IIO
crimson cheek of hell itself turns pale
at the imputation of its completely with
slavery; yet some of the popular clergy of
our land, even here at the North, have
made the solemn announcement of its i'm
maculate conception. Mighty religious
organizations bow down before the dark
spirit of slavery, and by their deeds ex-
claim, so we come to do thy will, 0
Slavery y Look at the American Tract
Society publishing tracts by the cart
load against sleeping in church on the Sab
bath, against Christians participating in
popular amusements," etc, etc, and posi-
lively refusing to publish in tract form,
with its endorsement, certain passages Of
Scripture without comment) in which OPP
preston is denounced refusing to adopt,
at an anniversary meeting, resolution de-
nouncing the revival Of the African slave
trade l-resolving to crush out the agita-
ton of the slavery question Laughing
at the mandate, "Cry aloud and spare not;
lift up thy voice like trumpet; shew my
people their transgressions, and the house
of Jacob their sins Y And the American
Bible Society, American Sunday School
Union, Board of Missions, &c, rejoice to
bear her faithful company. At the morn
ing's early dawn and when the evening
shades prevail they come with garlands
gathered from the field of the black mans
blood and tears, and as they kneel before
its throne of human skulls, they sing
"Au hail the power of SLAyERY's nams
Let Christians PROSTATE fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord ofall!
As the wolf prowls around the fold
and watches the most favorable opportuni-
ty of bouncing upon the innocent lamb, SO
has the ravenous Black Power prowled
around the word of God and watched the
arrival of the hour when the church would
become so imbecile and corrupt that it
would stand by quietly and behold it drag
ged into the den of slavery and manufac-
tured into whips, and chains, and blood
hounds, set on to lacerate the quivering
flesh and drink the hot blood of crushed
humanity, to the song of the Mosaic dis
pensation and the golden rule.
St. Paul himself has been transformed
by our pro-slavery theologians from an en-
nent servant of Christ into bloodhound,
tapping the blood of the fugitive Onesimus.
But we grow sick of the picture. In
word, "Hush the negro" "No negroes al
lowed here" is the motto of church
and state Slavery must and shall be
preserved" is the language OF their
acts. The avaricious grasp OF the
nation after the judgment of God is with
! out parallel. I know that there are In
dividual churches and missionary organic
ations to which these remarks do not APP
ply; but these exceptions serve to make
the darkness and the devilism of the rest
more palpable.