Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-11-11

so feeble of conscience that they will not
eiect him; and the civil law
will instantly visit him with penalty
But the communicates of slave churches
not only live with a second, while their
first companion is yet alive, but with a
third, and fourth; nor is it any disquali-
fcation for church membership. The
church and the state wink at it. 1t is a
part of the commercial necessity of the
system. If you aciA sell men, you must
not be too nice about their moral virtues.
A a0edd5ng, among this unhappy peo-
pie, is but a name-a mere form, to con-
tent their conscience, or their love of inn
itating their superiors. And every auc-
tionoer in their community has the power
TO put aSunder whom God has joined
And marriage is as movable as misfor-
tune itself The bankruptcy of their
owner is the bankruptcy of the marriage
relation, in half the slaves on his planta-
ton.
Neither Is there any Gospel that has
been permitted to rebuke these things
There IS 90 church that ! have ever
known in the South, that bears testimony
against item. Neither will the churches
in the North, as body, take upon them
selves he responsibility of bearing wit.
ness against them.
&C further; | declare that there mus
be Christian public sentiment, which
shall make the family inviolate. Mer
sometimes say, cit is rarely the case thai
families are separated" 1t is false! 1
is false! There is not slave mart tina
does not bear testimony, ten thousand
times over, against such an assertion
Children are bred like colts and calves
and are dispersed like them.
II is in vain to preach gospel f,
slaves that leaves out personal chastit,
in man and woman, that leaves this pu
rity subject to another's control! o
leaves out the sanctity of the marriage
state, and the unity and inviolability Q
the family. And yet no gospel has born
such testimony in favor of them, as +
arouse the conscience of the South ]
ministers will not preach liberty to til
captive, they ought at least to preach tn
indispensable necessity of household viz
tue! If they will not call upon the mas
tiers to set their slaves free, they shout
at least proclaim Christianity that pre-
tects woman, childhood and household
The moment woman stands sell
poised in her own purity the momen
man and woman are united together b
bonds which cannot be sundered durin
their earthly life; the moment the rigt
of parents to their children is recognise
that moment there will be a certai
sanctity and protection Of the eternal an
Divine government resting upon fathe
and mother, and children; and SLAYER
will have had its death blow struck !
You cannot make Slavery profitable a
ter these three conditions are secured !
The moment you make slaves serfs the
become difficult legal tender, and al
uncurrent in the market; and famiit
are so cumbrous, so difficult to support,
expensive, that owners are compelle
from reasons of pecuniary interest,
drop the system.
r Therefore, if you will only dissemina
the truths of the gospel, if getting tim
/ priests out Of the way, and lying soci
. ties, whose cowardice ISLANDERS the gosp
r which they pretend to diffuse, you brir
a whole solar food of revelation to be-
upon the virtues and practical morals
y the slave, you will begin to administer
y remedy which will inevitably heal Il
evil, if God designs to cure it by NOR
means.
6. Among the means to be employ
for promoting the liberty of the slave, +,
must not fail to include the power of tr
q Christian prayer. When slavery sh
o cease, it will be by such instruments a
/ influences as shall exhibit Gods ha
d and heart in the work. Its downfall "
ie have been achieved so largely tbrou
u natural causes, SO largely through re,
IL ons as broad as nations, that it will be a
'e parent to all men that God led on
u emancipation man being only one e
Is mrnt among the many, Therefore,
81 have every encouragement to direct {
d prayers without ceasing to God that
I will restrain the wrath of man, insp
Oh men with wisdom, override all laws, a
d control the commerce Of the globe, so Il
IL the poor may become rich, that the be
may become free, that the ignorant II
On become wise, that the master and sls
e. may respect each other, and that,