New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-18
CHARLES OCONOR AND THE SOUTHERN
APOSTASY.
n "a, Editor Of TAs NJ " Tribuss.

MAMMAL end revealed religion AS late a. 1887 there
was printed an Address to the People of North Caro-
" lina by III Board of Managers of the Manumseion
"Society Of N c., on the Evils Of Slavery, at
Greensborough, the very County town where the Rev.
Den.l North il row incsrcerated for preaching the
sentiments Of that Address in GafoId County. Ia
this AddItss 10 copy Of which have before mel, the
writer's calling themselves the friends of Liberty and
Eouaify, :" and printing their names, maintain these
five propositions:
'PRorosI1roS /. Our Slave System is radically evil
"iI IL is fruitful source PRIDE idenes and tyranny
"v IT. iDcrea;es deprsvity N the human htsr whe II nn
dgseeu TO human nature, and destructive oil INC
IL contrary to the plain and simple maIin Of the Chd'
tisn Revelation, OF religion OF Christ"
They say also, P. 81:
owe believe thai. all men are created equally
and unaenshs entitled to liberty, the ch'd o. STARE
II as much entitled 10 HIS freedom AZ proper age as
the chad Of free person, and &c snch ought 70 nave n
We bod thai Lotos which determine the contrary are
caplts y unjust and such IA in truth NJ hSmaa L1tS
tvye has Just right 10 enact, .loee hueh laws nus
be oIrosed To the WILL of the Am'gh'y uove'no. u
The IIjverte and bis uW uuet lie supreme ahu
h, nee " believe t1at this UH OF the supreme OelnS
| constitutes the only proper duth0'py by "hch
MAJ unis, ION should be regulated On tms tuoect We
v ould say with Plato, that No mortal can u thsia"
IN rnr oee urees made il conformity with the dlVlhe
btL-tbat is 10 human authority can give Habcuy vi
Justice 10 law which violates the la" OF naVu vi
any other principle in the u'H OF tne Anhsnly hioi
| OF he World Such lave must therefore De u cIIse
n,,,nd Of "a blessing TO those by and for whom thty
| have been enacted. Neither are they sanctheu oy
Tie principle of necessity, since tins great truth st
remains ! Tint which is morally i7r0ng, cannot Do
| polific0Hy right"
On page Ga, after an examination oil the IA" ana
| III, nos, 81 in reference to Slavery, they add:
"Snrev q serious and sober-thnl ing Christian VIII,
with iLor Scriptures aud thousand others OF similar
import before hs eyes, attempt agan 10 rom Sno
Siore U with Christianity. No, bTethTeni yon hno
y, mr. hearts To be evil by unlustly aud unmerclfy
.nsIavipc your fellow creatures; by living N pdmpeei
a,e and affu- nee on the labors toi, aud sweat or
NAV We rot say the feSh ana bfood, o the poor Al
rican DO not insult the common sense OF mankind, ana
mt tbst religion which you pToiees to love TO th5
bush BIZ IIosttutlg the mild and gentle DO ;nhes 81
the gospel TO The support OF PIlhcpe anu &c
bIcb shock every Datye idea which manAlhd nave Vi
uatuIal anc universal Justice!
These ere the theoretical views Of Southern Chris
tisns and Southern politicians up TO rhe year 1853.
But in that year. 1885, certain Ne~-England dyine7,
,arnx with the definition that SiaDe,S rs that 0rti-
fcioi relatioR cirt Institution, By rhch one man
IS ,nrf,ttd ph property IN the labor Of dHotheT
arputd from bose premises IN their definitions, that as
man u ny juttly have property III the sbors oil his
wife and CHI dreD this propert ycam in tie labor OF
another is not of itef snfu and that Slavery there
fore II lot noIum in This was the beginning OF
| "A Z
| In the year following, 1884, Al the South the REV.
James Smiley preached The opening at the meet
ing If tie Synod OF Mississippi, at Port GIBSON and
il it he argued the righteousness oil slavery from we
! BIZ le. The seTnion strongly condemned by The
leadr members II the Sy nod containing IA and
! upttripturBl views Many nttllile nt men belonging
10 u cenp regatioD who sayehoders, joined IN
espr. ssious of condemnation Of the new d'etnne.
Some ent SO far say that Mr.. Smiley Ought not
10 be Permitted To preach. The sermon was
preached few weeks afterward at Oakland College,
IN he church Of which the Rev Mr.. Chamherm, t1e
President Of the College, was the stated supply Df'
Chamber lin exuressed hs strong dissent 10 the views
advanced, and many in the congrega ION, made up
chit fy Of ealtby planters, were greatly dspsas-o'
Mir Daniels owner of several hundred slaves, SAID 10
Dr ChamherlJp al the DOOR: 1--WE hold you responsi.
Die for hat from that lupIt-yOu are pla;en
"tbeIe to guard it-wby do you permit such sehti-
"ments 10 be preached We are all anxious enough
ia Of plantations and negroes without sanderng
ole Holy Ghost by claiming that the Bible Jnstles
Slavery" -.
This was the beginning Of Bible Slavery in this
country. The year after, Mr.. Smiley ampined DIS
sermon into book, now FAMOUS 10 on"ey y"
Slavery" ,
The Rev. Dr. Fuller, an eminent Baptist clergyman,
then Of Charle,ton $. Co. now OF Baltimore, ueAt ,l-
Low ed IN Scriptural apology for Slavery; theD Dr
win an, Wpaus OF the Mebod-t Church. Then, aud
not iii then taught by the clergy, poh'lcans IKE
| Charles OConOr cbimed in, ard mace the weikm
ring with tie Bible ride of Slavery and democracy
began 10 insert in its platform the divine nght oil prop
IoliticaIs naturally and logically reasoned: If
Slavery be not NAHUM IN se-~hleh our Minister ana
leo or ans tuOied in ethical Distinctions tell ur 1t
pot-tIep it NUT be boRHm in Sc. Taught by their
Ministers Of the North and South what Slavery - NOT
SouIle savei OdeIs aud politicians were not slow IN
teaching such positive Conclusion IN regard 70 IT, sails
factory % the reason soOlhngto their conscience AMI
! in u line with their interests Aud long before the
late tpeeeh Of Mr. ChaI les 0Conor III Tie Academy of
Hutc or Of Biz. Curry Of Alabama in the liOuse OF
| Re rertntanyes, they had embraced with will
| The position itafed BY the Rev. DR.. Adpsr, Ia tie
Soatern PIerby trim Review, the position OF the
! South, IL there ierr8-:
.ri.ting isson between the white and the black
in e southern states and just sEd good
only but good for them. The relstion itself the
vr, possible for both the thus STRANGELY bIoas.
the ids Of The Of this relation would neees.a1J bs the
END o. al h wa s Of hi bf have say
ben Cod. In partly Isesi%pg them And enns as
end Of oil ability or heIPI to dwell peaeesby together
| 1bsr fine The relation H. rood"
il il 10 NAL y, tina when the ministers of orthodoxy
! with TIE n. Y OG,srrer ana DR.. Bethune in the van
! and the American Board and the nercan Tract So
! Cey On either wing, have 70 long marched to the
| muse minor mode, SLAVERY IS Not NAHUM IN ~,
that ot Clans should now move with more eXnltant
tread ia tie aiOr measure, SLAVERY IS BOSUM ~ ST.
Under u teachings 81 the bDaste1 oracles OF oIthO
dOXy Tor score " years past, lndorsed by The great
hstlnDary and Tract institutions Of the Church IN the
UIiieO Slsier il is easy to zee how " rational and
dhJsssionale inquirer" Ike Mr. O'Conor, " would
Gbd 40 difficulty in arriving Al his c0ncluriOn, eX-
pIeaeo with 70 much pluck and simplicity;
"1hat slavery not unjust that il is benign Ia Us iDan
encts upob The white man. and upon the black man that us
ordsreo y Datu that inuiion crested hS netnre it.
i i carries with 1t duties for the black and duties
for the whit" Which duties cannot be performed except BY h"
pe,eNHon md II reD'l"men pi.ae-the perpetisn Of III
,Sn brecs to foh races apd The effect Of hi. ss,e ION
i.no enyi'ted by admitting that isus prAed
Chr sian Aboonists will no rejoice 10 accept tbe
issue Offered by Mr.. OCoDor 10 the name Of the Pro-