The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-01

7f THE IMMORAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY. g
Whatever conflicts with mans moral nature
IS detrimental to the three elements of his be
ing. 1t seems TO be the order of the Div;n,
Legislator so to weave His laws as to max,
their operation dependent on each other. Fo
Instance: The mouth has distinct dutystr
perform on the food in it; the stomach has it,
appropriate Office; the Laeteai system has
likewise, its individual employment. But i
the mouth fails to meet it's design, anotbe,
junction being impaired, will fail in its ascrlb
cd service. The last mentioned participant
will be delinquent because the presidents
were. Or, if we go to The suns and SYSTEM Of
the boundless Universe, we find the same con
Inection and dependence of law. As with ali
the Creators works the same great principle
bolds true with man. He is a triplex being
His three natures differ in marked deoree
yet all are wonderfully and sympathetieaIIy
associated. If laws that govern the physical
oeing are transgressed,, the intellectual and
moral beings sympathise. The inseparabIe
connection OF Gods laws, is, then, seen.l If
one law of our nature is more sacred than
another, it is the moral law. Slavery, the
great crime of our youthful. intellectual and
promising nation, clashes with the highest and
most sacred Law of our being, and therefore
entails its deleterious effects on the entire he
ing. We will treat of this fragrant evil after
the following order: 1st, Its disastrous in.
nuence on progression. End Its effects on
our Churches First, then, its disastrous in
tiuerce on progression lit is seen that if it re-.
tards progression, its influence is immerall-
Never has nation had long and prosperous
existence that has openly violated, as a nation.
the supremacy of the moral sentiments and
intellect It might have prospered for while
The sun beams of happiness might have fall
on within and without it-but its prosperity
has been short lived penalty followed trans.
gression, and eternal oblivion has been the
consequence. Point me to nation that ever
had happy and prosperous being, that made
man q slave. We. find invariably, that, the
summit of its glory was ephemeral; that its
eliminating point was soon passed-beeause
OF the enormity ef the crime and violation
Slavery is direct outrage to the moral senti
ments e' and intellect; and as they are constitu
ted supreme as eternal nature acknowledges
their snpremacy-and as every power of the
mind is placed under them, they should sub.
nit to their guidance. Slavery. then, ,ruptures
Ihis established harmony, and therefore is a
powerful enemy to progression. This terribleI
'courge outrages the moral being, is in the
Very teeth of justice; tramples on lis dicta.
ions; spurns its authority; crushes its sacred
lotions of right; SCOTS at its laws OF human
brotherhood. Intellect perceives, from the
overthrow of harmony between the MORAL
aeulties and slavery, that the latter is wrone. ~
nd as it investigates history, or sees the in-l''
of the moral sentiments. it safely
redicts cessation to progress, and the ruin of
he nation Then. we find that We iisreeardlA
he supremacy of the moral sentiments' and Io
ne intellect; what, then, do we regard or F
oey 10 sustaining the abomiuable institution a
Slayery2 Simply and truly the animal ma n
that we have, in common
18th the brutes; and those that use their in, h,
nence to maintain this nefarious commerce, Ito
ROW away their humanity, and obey the oil
rnte IN preference. So far, then. as the pro on
'nsities are obeyed, so far progression in the yc
Is, sciences and morals cease. Now to you
no hate man because God has seen fit to DR.
stinguish him from you by color,to you that en-
ert your powers to keep him under degra de
ng vassallage-you are traitors to our conn toI
2! You are giving it into the hands of me
varice and Destruction; you are choking the biz
ogress of our youthful nation; yea are
angling our fair skies into ominous clouds of to
rknesS, ruin and desolation; you are turning fus
suspicious Republic into a center of pol on
ion; our institutions you are dilapidating; pli
r churches you are demoralizing. This is tor
ideal. The leaven works slowly, but the
, is coming, when the whole will be leaven all,
Already has it sent oat its dark harbiu an,
RS No! this is not visionary. These are for
rnal and immutable principles, which have Gsri