The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-09-13

and practised fraud, serpentine, invetcr
ately intertwisted, upcoiling, and with
lambent, sibiIaut tongues and fangs pro-
trubing, reminding US Of the sight that
once in a South American wilderness
nearly froze Hunboldt's soul with horror
the spectacle of a pyramidal column of
living congregated snakes, .interfoldiug,
interk uotted, in one body, but With heads
aud necks shooting forth in individual
snaky vitality from the corporate 6olidity
and socialism. So do the very meanest
securities aud complexities in the slave
Systemszather strength and significance
from the eoDpacted, knotted, strong.
drawn unity of the whole on the basis OF
compromise, and of asserted constitution
al law, expcdiency being set in the place
of righteousness. but the malignity and
intensity of living covetousness and cru
city animating all the conyolutions, and
ever aud anon, forth from the friehtful,
never-resting, corded pyramid of serpent
life, there shoots out some new, glitterlng,
colossal American adder's head of fresh
and of far-darting statute, threatening
and wrathful, with all the consoli-
dated venom of the congregated
mass. The slave system being the
governing system and power, and the
constitution itself being interpreted ac-
cording to its acquisitions, the jurispru-
dcnce of that system is the ruling nation
al jursprudenc and the consequence
results that. by reason of the multiplied
ana vast related interests, the prevailing
sentiment aud sensibility becomes a habit
of cruelty and oppression, and an absolute
jealousy against equity, as being the ene-
my of the vested rights in this system of
iuiquity."
Tie doctor closes his address as fol
ows
In this conflict the churches of Great
Britain must assist us in the uncompro-
missing application of the Word of God.
There are two phrases that have done
good service from two great masters III
our country, the one of fervid and prac-
ticai pic.v, the other of philosophy, law
and practical craftsmanship phrases that
have cut us with the sweep of two
edged sword-the one phrase froa. John
1 Wesley, as to the practical diabolism OF
the system of slavery. that it il the sun
9uf ait viiiffainies; and Yiia other frof.i 1zerd
Brotg gbam, reprobating the Wild and
guilty phantasy that man can hold prop
erty in man. This latter is the grand
principle which we find in the Mosaic
statutes-the principle on which tue man
that holds fellow being as a slave, the
man that makes merchandise of man
which it is impossible to be STAKEHOLDER
without doing-is reprobated Of God as
a man stealer, and, alcng with the mur-
derer, is condemned to death. This i'm
possibility of righteous property IN
man. this righteous and inexorabie treat
ment Of slavery, according to the dictates
of natural and revealed religion, is the
destruction Of the system. Now, is 1t
not wonderful that at this day, under the
light Of Christianity, l 800 years after the
death al Christ. a crime execratcd by the
Divine law under the penalty Of death
along with that of murder, should have
been rescued from that criminal fellow
ship and received, under the Gospel, into
Christian communion, as if it were vir-
tue? Was there ever more malignant
aud extraordinary hallucination p! Can it
be continued, and the church IN which it
continues remain in the favor Of God p
A crime gibbeted by the law of God is
taken by Christian surgeons from the
gallows, is exhumed by Gospel resurrec-
tionists, galvaniaed into a hidcous life,
and set among the living guests at the
sacramcutal feast as suitable companion
with Faith, Hope and Charity And
those who undertake to thrust the t5rch
Of Gods flaming law within the skeleton,
beneath the mask into the CHASTITY face
of this crime, and by the law to drag it
forth beneath the condemnation Of the
Gospel, are themselves assaulted and de-
nounced as being greater sinners and in
fidels than those who, in the very Church
of God, practise and make profit of the
iniquity. | say it is an unparalleled
madness. There was nothing ever in the
worst corruptions Of Christianity SO bad
as this, In the deepest dep,hs of the
great apostasy, under the dou inion Of the
Man of Sin, there sever was the open,
unblnshng affirmation of Christian
adulterer, Christian lido ater, Christian
murderer; but under the Gospel we are
commanded to admit, as reality Of un-
blemlshed piety, the Christian slavehoid-
er, the Christian n-merchant, the
Christian child stealer, since every slave
holder is, by the very law Tat perpetu-
ateS the system and his property in it,
the stcalcr of every babe born of every
ve-mother, aud marks and claims it as