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

must 60 GOWN. mere Is 10 SaIetv lOr US
but in God, and none in Him but just in
so far as we work with His Word- and
keep that cover in ceaseless play. We
can 90 into the fight with no other weap
ons, and there is no hope until the rank
and file of Gods militia in the church
close up, and, like the Dukes Guards,
stand firm, aud, when the word comes,
launch themselves in Gods name like
thunderbolt against the enemy. The
work may be perilous-in the beginning
it always is-but it ceases to be so just
in proportion to the boldness, energy and
union with which it is prosecuted. Our
great work now 10 America is to rouse
the church and ministry, armed with the
and lightnings Of Gods
Word, against this complicated aud inh-
mite wckedness of slavery-co complicated
in so many directions and forms that the
hou. Of this occasion would not suffice
even to indicate them, and infinite in es
sence, in consequence, in perpetulty, from
generation to generation. You have 30
adequate conception of its debauching.
devastating, uncomfortable sway. 1t has
gone through The land, and through the
sweep of years, and through every sue
cesSive barrier reared against its progress,
removing them out OF the way, when the
time came for its blows to be struck, with
an almost sublimity OF ease and reckless
ness. 1t has taken captive the greatest
minds, suhorned the most enlightened
consciences, commanded the service and
debauched the principles ofthe most acute
and colossal legal intellectS, and retained
in It's behalf the greatest masters Of gor-
geous and Imaginative rhetoric 1t las
set the seal of compiiclt, guilty silence
upon the most orthodox pu'pits and the
saintiiest tongues with an undisputed and
submissive resignation as ever followed
the "N Of heavens fire upon Isaiah S
mouth for his celestial 'eloquence. 1t has
ofened consecrated lips 10 ig;sTSecG",~ aand and
forbid in the very. sanctuary even the
privilege of prayer for the enslaved, as
endangering the stability of the Union by
the possibility of an answer. Its empire
over meu's minds is complicated out of
every element of influence, and secured
by every security of sclhshnes5-cbniPii-
Gated as vast network Of law, monopoly,
prejudice, power, pride, perverted Scrip
ture, false and inveterate opinion, licen
tiouSness. truth held in unrighteousness,
and the unrighteouSncss enthusiastically
admitted and enforced as the iuttrpreta-
ton of the truth all these snares thrown
upon society, and, as the result OF the
completely Of the Church, conscience
scared as with hot iron, and the power
aud drcadfulncss Of that last stage Of So
cial, ecclesiastical, governmental, and ma
tional deliriuu, where crime is cnshrlned
as law and religion a judicial blindness,
the beng given over to strong delu>lcn
to believe Il lie. THIS monstrous sin, thus
fortified aud enthloned, is IA reproduction
of that Anomos, that lawless one, descrlb-
ed by Paul in fores hadowing the grim
fcatu es OF the apostacy lawless towards
God, yet full Of yipelouS venenous law
towards man; a power boundIess, absolute,
involved and Intricate Of statutes with all
the diaboical ingenuity and ensnarlng
technicality of entanglement and oppor-
tunlty of evil ever contrived in the worst
code out of Pandemo2ium. There is moth
ing like it now upon earth reproductive,
selfrenewing, with a capacity Of spinning
and fastening new webs Of law, of which
together with the venom of their work IN
the conscience and on the social frame,
and of the horrors of such nuisance,
poisonous spider as big as St. Paul's Ca
thedral, with the power of ejecung chain
cables from its ecclesiastical bowels, to
fasteu on it's victims, would be a faint en-
bem. A capacity also, Of darkening mems
moral atmosphere, and paralyzing their
moral sense. that is like the faculty Of the
squid with its ink bag, and for years has
been shrouding and perverting mems
moral vision as with the film of a cataract,
so hat they put darkness for light and
light for darkness. They have reversed
the elements both Of reasoning aud of in
tuition, and have taken the vIest, baSest,
most rapacious form Of cruelty against
man, and set it as the missionary provi-
dence of God, and the keystone of their
chosen social and religious institute, with
shouting5 of Grace, grace unto it.
There is no possibility Of exaggerat-
ing the te~ribleness Of the cnngeries Of
cruel opinions. propositions, arguments
and laws, concentrated IN this system, Of
the hideousness and execrable impiety of
which, examined by the Gospel, but es-
pecially when considered as having been
contrived and established u"der its light,
no symbol can convey any dcquate con-
ceptlon. The slave code of the United
States, with the sentence Of supreme ju-
dicial wisdom, piety ard jurisprudence
crowning it, that black men have no rights