The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-02-29
Our own and offers wrongs.

OuE OWn An0 OtnCTS' "EOu6Ss
None are 80 competent to deal with tn,
wrongs OF q community ss those who live far
thest on This seems to be the idea at presen
prevailing between Us and our English cousins
Mr.. Spurgeon and others in England feel tha
they have great duty to do to set them right
To us of here in America it is as clear Al
sunlight that England ought to abolish churcl
rates, give the Irish agovernment of their owi
choice, and abolish the entail Of estates, which
begin in robbery, and which has for many cen
turies deprived the original inhabitants OF Grea
Britain Of their right to the soil. We think Il
a grieyous wrong to force a man to pay fol
lpreaching that he never hears, for repairing
churches that he never occupies, and for the
support Of Universities that his sons cannot
enter without abjuring the faith oftheir parents
! Our hearts bleed for the poor Irish, to whom
their English rulers says Macauly, Sustain the
relation that Cortez did to the Indians Of Mex
ico," and who have bad at some periods as lit
tie chance for share in the government that
rules them 'tas colored man to be senator oI
the United States" That the farmers Of En-
gland should be compelled to cultivate soil
that they can never own, and give its proceeds
to the descendants OF men who took it from
their forehthers by pllage and violence, makes
/
we feel that we must cry out against the wrong,
trem the pulpit and the press. We must re-
lieye our consciences of this great wickedness
We must fill all England with letters and docu.
ments calling for the liberation of her enslaved
millions, and il this will not do the work, we
must land Yankee army on the western coast
OF Ireland, to extort the justice. and freedom
which our remonstrances fail to secure. We
are more competent, at distance of three thou
sand miles, to tell what our English cousins
ought to do than they are themselves. .
And Visa versa, they claim to be more COM
petent to tell what we oughtto do. They are
alive in the cause of redressing our wrongs
They are weeping over us bitter tears. This
we learn from a late missive from Mr.. Spur
geon through the Wptehplan and Reflector. He
says he means to castigate us in his sermons
and letters. He will join hands with Johr
Brown to involve our whole land in insurrec
ton and murder. He will honor, as martyr
of freedom, one who has died as felon by oul
laws, and thus bear testimony against our ty-
ranny injustice and cruelty. He and those o
his ilk, three thousand miles of, know more
what ought to be done in America, than we do
and are quite as competent to rectify our wrongs
as we are to rectfy theirs They are as sure
Of having the oppressed Of our country rally
.around their John Brown standard of freedom
rs we are that the oppressed in Ireland anC
England will join our Yankee army Of liberia
ton whom it lands on the coasts OF the Emerald
Isle. Thus we are paying off each other in thu
same coin, and our English cousins are as zeal
Gus for the cause OF liberty in America, as W.
have been-from the days Of our Revolution
ary fathers to this time-to give liberty to th'
down trodden OF the mother country.
These are suggestive facts, and show that il
civil matters the laws of vision are reversed
and the clearness Of our perception of wha
ought to be done for the reorganization Of soci
ETY. is increased by the ratio of distance. En-
gland sees better what ought to be done in A
merica than what ought to be done at home
and America sees better what ought to be done
in England than among her own people. We
lave read many sermons OF Mr.. Spurgeon, ant
in none of them has he copjoned himself t.
the Chartists and Irish patriots, to do there
what John Brown attempted here. In none o
them has called on his Baptist brethren to re-
sist the laws which authorize the sale of theil
property to pay parish priests whom they never
hear. Is Mr.. Spurgeon ignorant Of the fact'
transpiring around him? II so, let him 90 tc
Pontypool and ask his brother Thomas, Bap
tst preacher in that town, how much the ex
else men got for his centre table when they
took it from him by violence and sold it to pay
the parish priest? Let him commence with thu
Chartsts and hear their story OF wrong, outrage
and suffering. Let him inquire into the rea
sons which impelled to action those Irish pa
triots whom England hung and banished. HI
will get from such line of investigation mate
rials enough for SO much preaching and le:te
writing, that he will not find time to mix him
selfup in the insurrectionary movements o
America. He will become himself Johr
Brown OF London, to further the cause OF Bri
tish freedom and justice, and by that time b
learn whether he can stand fire as well as tn
old Harper Ferry hero or not. q, .rs....
Nothing is more certain than that wronl
wrought into the civil society of which we form
part, and which addresses itself to us, not il
the abstract, but in the concrete of venerable
usages and innumerable circumstantial alleyia
tions, become a very different thing from lik,
wrong in distant community, of which W,
know things only in the abstract. An English
man cannot feel the evil Of his holding the Irisf
in suhjecton, because he thinks it for thei
good; and precisely so the STAKEHOLDER Of ou
country cannot see the evil of holding coloret
men in subjection. because he thinks it for the
greatest good OF them and the world. The En-
gisman glories in the noble families which re
feet lustre upon his country, and thinks they
amply compensate for privileges originally OBJ
tanned by robbery and the STAKEHOLDER thinks
the wrongs originally done to Africans, in co
ercing them to our shores, more than coulter
balanced by the good which has ensued to then
and all mankind. The Englishman pacifics hi
conscience in reference to the sufferings entail
ed upon the poor in the social system of hi
country, by the much that is doing for their al
pains by the same emolients. ae
Thus it comes to pass that English philan
thropists like Mr.. Spurgeon are so tender G
their own country's wrong, so law-abiding, S
much enemies Of all insurrectonary movement
and so patient to wait for the corrections {
time and reform; and so ready, on the othe
hand, to hurl fire. brands, arrows and death in
to more distant communities, so willing to fer
ment there insurrection and MURDER and to hea
unsparing maledctions upen the conservative
there who are practising the same law abidin
maxims which they are practising at home
Would that we could whisper in Mr.. Spurgeon'
ear the words of Paul to the Phillipian jailoi
"Do hysef no harm" We have no apprehen
sion to ourselves from Mr.. Spurgeons insurrec
tionary doctrines, but we have that he will cir
cumscribe his power to promote among us tha
pure Gospel which God has called him to de
fend .--Ne,o York Choonicle. 81 b. 1ta5 ri4sr
HTThe world is full Of inconsiste ncies bu
Religion and all that pertains thereto should
as free froin them as human nature will permit