Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-02-15
, you. You profess to be a. Christ

see yoa. You profess to be a. Christ
ian, vet in no wise do you follow in
the footsteps of your Master, or are
actuated by the spirit Of His religion.
His was of peace, yours OF the sword.
His was forbearance, yours assault,
even unto death, upon your friends
and country. lie purchased no wea-
pom, even to be turned upon Hisoene.
mics; while yours is the religion of
the Bowie-knife and the rifle. His
was mercy, yours is murder. You
would turn the brutal negro upon the
unsuspecting white man and the de-
fenseless white woman, and see them
gloat on murder and rapine. He
would gather little children to, his bo-
som, while you would consign iauo-
cent white girls of your own race, to
the brutal embraces Of Africans. !,
therefore, cannot address you as a
minister of the Christian religion, or
a follower Of Jesus, !; but as q heart
less, unfeellng, uncompromising knave,
too wise to act without q deadly pur-
pose, too little religion to be a bigot
or a fanatic, but possessing the power
to make fools and fanatics of others.
In your church, but recently, you have
raised money to excite insurrection in
my native country, and when the
damning deed is done, say with hypQ;
critical cant, I" I did not do it; that
no force should be used except moral
suasion." You send men to- apply
the torch TO your neighbours dwelling,
and excite black men TO murder white
men, then say you only wish to liher-
ate the slave Such conduct no rea.
son can justify, no honest Christian
can approve. Jesus Christ lived in a
province of the Roman Empire, and
never excited feelings of anger in man
against his fellow man, and never plot
ted treason against the government
under which he lived, but said, :" rem
der unto Caesar. what is Casar's, SER
wants be obedient unto your masters" "
and that, too, when there were sixty
three millions OF white slaves 'in the
Empire. '&a} }&' = g1G sw I5e a..i,,,,,
D. If, sir, your excuse for such conduct
is, that you wish to confer a boon upon
the human, race, why prefer the black
and interior race to the white why
spare the one and butcher the other {:
Or, if philanthropy must be exercised,
why no, begin with your ,ssinoral sua.
sion,' your Bowie knives, Sharp's RI
Aes, and bloodshed in Africa, the pa.
rent country, where the field is wider
and the harvest ripe /? But,asir, turn
in at home and look upon yourself
cleanse tirststhe Lazer house of your
great Eastern cities before you begin
the work to reform Kentucky and Vir:
ginia :. and when your work Is, finished
at home, it not partial to color, we
would invite your philanthropic efforts
to Asia, to 400 000, 1000 beings more
degraded than the African Of your own
country. Why excite men to ifanatical
deedsiwhieh must both destroy: 3 the
country and themselves? 70, Why, press
the Southern States to disunion, when
destruction will fall alike on Both
North and South ? If this Union il
dissolved we must Of. necessity be en-
gulPhed in the maelstrom of European
politics and European wars, and sc
down. forever as a nation or a repub:
lie. ,..-.' ~ '.''''''9'' q sh ,s'i.@;11dnq
+. Pause then sir, and lift che veil o1
the future which is just before you, and
stay the fanatical hand now lifted to
strike If yon do not, like Macbeth,
yourtown sleep will besmrudered. and
the sleep OF thousands. ,e,Y You shall
never wash the blood of, your, relatives
from your own hands, the hands o1
your wife Or the hands Of your sister
Harriet lrlIi!et vBeecher Stowe. - Cali around
yon Senator Seward, Wendell Philips
and Fred Douglass, and visityoarttirs
victim ma liiifaticc asylum ii Gerri!!
Smith. Call aoprayerjmeeting 81 and ID
pray old Brown and his rconfederates
out of Pnrgatory, perhaps from hell
where all OF you, should have gone be
j fore.n Ask God to, forgive You 70,
your wickedness wash your filthy gar
ments, go thy way and sin no more
sin no longer against your conscience
and your country's constitution. o. NJ
longer lie against nature and common
sense, and make negroes your equals
while,i you will not give your sons II il
marriage, and negro husbands forr you
Idauphtprs. ~ r'3nda u! GI07j
= our knowledge of natural bistor,
can but convince you Of thel truthful
ness of tie BEST authorities that there il
no identity origin, no equality il
mental or'9physicale organization, and
that the negro has, beepfwhat he is, fo
four thousand years, and will be th'
same for four thousand years to come
1.-THE white man has1,scarcely proved
the problem Of sell. .government-th,
negro never has aud never, can. =,
1.}Esn9d9JQSofN. MCDOWELL, n. D.
I Prot Surgery in Med. College of Nc
! H. 'Tnn3 only liberty:ea says 1a:ic,eve
and witty author, is d night-cap.iogI'
ut men Visit, third ot:,tEeirTliyes
1.-THE land 6f sleepAth only land wber'
'|tIney are free and equal, ,aao e.saai,t:si
AtrsnAca@nR Her nI'' in this s}aat5ef: *: Offers Offers
4 reward for Wisconsin Christian
\ who can be, recognized "by Che swoflt
as such, without tlie aid dsi6ffffa sdschurcl
f|label y' sti;t 2nivafE .aoitev4s.- - .;6i
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