Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-31

be allowed TO determine for themselves
question Of duty within their own land,
dissolved the Cbristion union. The Com
gregational Churches Of New England
and the Presbyterian Church held the
most fraternal Intercourse for many years.
by means of delegates. interchanged in
their ecclesiastical meetings. After the
New England Churches had become me-
tamorphosed by the spread Of modern
anti slaveryism, their delegates came to
our General Assembly burdened with the
fruits Of their new light upon the matter
Of morals, proceeding from the iur non
Luceado Of Abolitionism. The General
Assembly listened to their new revelation
with Christian courtesy, and replied:--
Brethren, you can tell us Of no new fact
on this subject you can acquaint US with
no Just principle with which we are not
already familiar; and having the advant-
age Of closer contact and the burdcned OF
more immediate responsibility, we ask to
be allowed to manage this subject in our
own way by the help Of such wisdom and
grace as God may vouchsafe unto US
But this their conscience would not allow.
At meeting Of the General Assembly Of
the Presbyterian Church. in the United
States, held at Cincinnati, a delegate
from the Congregational Church, Massa-
chnsetts, again introduced this sulject.-
Being myself present on this occasion, as
delegate, can testify how absolutely
uncaled for was this action, and how
amazed was the Assembly at its intro
duction. Still the utterance was listened
to with decorons dignity, and the answer
returned: "When the General Assembly
expresses its wishes with regard to the ac-
tion OF those who are received by Chris
tian courtesy to her deliberations, she
expects them to be respected" Bu! this
did not comport with the ideas Of conr-
tesy or conscience inculcated by this in
termeddling ism, and so they dissolved
the bonds Of Christian Union!
have now passed in review some Of
the leading facts, in my personal expert
ence of the last twenty-five years, show
ing the essential nature Of Abolitonism,
and, as to its results, the too closely al
lied modern anti slayeryism. And in
view of them, ! ask whether this "harp
of a thousand strings" has not. under the
touch of every player, sounded ont the
same utterance, evermore repeating, l IN
deepest bass or sharpeSt treble, Dtsuh'oa!
| DiSunion! Through the grace Of God
! the PRESBYTERIAN Church has been able to
resist the folly Of Europe and reject the
error OF New England. In opposition to
the cry, "anti->laveryize your pulpit, or
disunion; anti-slaveryize vour colonlza-
tion, OF disunion; antislaveryize your
Temperance, or disunion anti-slaveryize
your missions, or disunion; anti-slavery-
ize your tract society, or disunion; anti
slaveryize your national churches, OF dis
union. In opposition to all such mar
row, false, one-idea ploughshares of de-
struction, the Presbyterian Church stands,
in ali her national breadth, for union un-
der the breadth of Constitutional law,
and yet the broader law and gospel of the
ever blessed Godl And now let me ask
your attention to fact which has come
under my notice since the preceding was
written. On the 28th Of November, last
month. the Synod of South Carolina met
in Charleston. The Synod is composed
Of the Presbyterian ministers in the State
of South Carolina and a lay delegate from
each Church, and they resolved unanimous
ly 10 remain in union whh the -Nationa!
Presbyterian Church. Why? Listen to
the first two sentences of the adopted re-
port. This Synod is one of thirty-three,
which compose the Old School Presby-
terian Church in this country. From
our brethren of the whole Church, annu-
ally assembled, we have received nothing
but Justice and courtesy" Nothing Jut
JUSTICE AND COURTESY! And it is all that
brethren of the South ask? Millions OF
| the North look to the little ensign
that floats in solemn soltariness far,
far southwark, rising above the dark
clouds of contention and division; what
other sign is there in all the Southern sky
so bright, so beautiful, so full of instruc-
ton, may not add. of hope Read its
golden lettering again! I'VE hare re-
ceiped nothing but justice and courtesyf"
What! Is there any body of men in
South Carolina who can use such Ian
guage of any Northern men? Is there
sober mindness enough in large body
OF clergy and laymen met in Charleston
to discriminate between justice and in
Justice, courtesy ard discourtesy? How
should this remarkable fact underscore,
as with dimond's point, the cause and
the remedy for orr National peril, which
| have been urging upon you! The cause
of all our trouble is unjust interference
with slavery by some, and discourteous
interference by ten-fold more; yet, alto
gether, very small number, compared
with the still masses Of the North, who
would be neither unjust nor discourteous.
Let the North know that all the South,
all that South Carolina! asks is, '.justice
and courtesy" And let the South know
that the silent masses of the North never
meant to endorse injustice or discourtesy
from any one. Thank God for the ac-
ton of the Synod OF South Carolina.-
! The anchor holasi
And now, brethren and fellow citizens,
are not your hearts ready to meet the
fullest claims of Justice" and the sweet
amenities of fraternal and Christian
courtesy" Is your heart against voul
Southern countrymen? Is your heart
with errorsts, infidels and blssphemers?
Is your heart with those who rail. and
taunt, and sneer. and veil, through the
press. or the popular lecture. or the