Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-25

where. But you will look 10 vain through
the New Testament for one word TO show
that man should have only one wife. St
Paul writes great deal about marriage aud
its laws; and his only limitation, as 20 num-
Der, is in the case Of Bishops A Bishop, he
says, should be the husband of one wife.
This rather implies that others might have
more. Vainly will you look in the Bible for
any rebuke Of polygamy vaiuly, also, for
any rebuke of an absolute monarchy. Are
we therefore to agree that they are right,
and roll back the tide of civilization till the
sharp black rocks of barbarism reappear2
We expect no catalogue of crimes from
Jesus. Love God and man." points a re-
buke az all. From this general method he
sometimes departs, as when he guards his
followers not to be masters-"for ye are all
brothers" Also, be tells them, to take care
and not be called Rabbi /. e., Reverend.
We are then reminded in this pamphlet
Of the example Of Abraham but why his
slayeholding is a whit more respectable than
his having concubines, or than his making
out that his wife was only his sister, so that
she might be more attractive to the king,
and be safer through her shame, we are not
informed.
We are then fernished with quotations
from the ancient Hebrew slave codes. But
why the old Jewish laws protecting slavery
are more to be respected than those which
inflicted the death penalty for marrying a
foreigner, or picking up sticks on the Sab
bath, we are not told. Suppose "man-
servant and "maid. servant are mentioned
even in the Decal0gue-so, also, in the same
mans wife is called his property along
with bis OK and ass. Is that a sound icon !.
jugaP idea2 In that same Decaogue we
are told that God is jealous, and visits the
sins of fathers upon their children which is
TO ascribe him low, selfish passion, and
also injustice. We are told therein that he
made the earth in six days, which science
Irefutesi and are bidden keep the seventh day
boly, a command which our Swedenbor-
giau breaks every week.
Then in the New Testament, suppose Paul
did return fugitive slave; it only shows
that there was already on him some of that
moral scrofula which was afterward called
religion in the church. Nothing can be so
irreligious as religion, when proselyting.
So Paul circumcised people to please Jews.
Is that Swedeuborgian Christianity He
told slaves to remain slaves; so he told peo-
pie they had better not marry. Will the
Rev. New-Churchmau accept both?
Having decided that slavery is Just and
divine, and that slowness in the popular
mind to perceive this, is the cause of all the
trouble, our Herald proclaims a compro.
mise. He says:
Here, then is the remedy, the last and
the true one-The Constitution must be so
reUfsed and amended as to permit, sanction and
defend this institution in eUery State and Ter
ritory-in eUery spot and place that is guarded
By The american f1g."
Covington, which is now in full view of my
window
That is rather significant Our modern
Daniel opens his window toward the New
jerusalem over the Ohio, and worships the
god he finds established over there by the
laws of the Medes and Persiaus.
He has no taste for higher law with a
den of lions behind it. He need not have
told us on what prospect his window looked;
nor did we need the confessions which ap-
peared in yesterdays NeW Church Herald,
that this pamphlet was written in Wheeling,
Va, printed at the expense of two gentle
men in that city, aud circulated by liberal
donation from a gentleman in Baltimore.
But we left that lady waiting. "If" he says,
"a lady from Covington would come over
here TO visit friend, and bring her child,
with servant to take care of it, our laws
would declare the servant under no obiiga.
tion to return" [Here the ferveut and
mutual devotion attaching owner aud slave
is sgain forgotten. "Being thus brought
over by her mistress even for a single hour,
al! claims to her services would end And
this is but an example of the comfy and
neighborly regulations existing along this
whole border, from the Atlantic Coast west
ward" That word neighborly is suggestive.
One once asked Jesus who was a mans
neighbor; Jesus somehow made the neigh
Dor TO be any victim of oppression or wrong,
and he who relieved him to be "neighborly.h
1t seems that the Lords later revelation
through Swedenborg Gas interpreted by his
fhn Nl,o n;,rI,
boIs, and to defend their right to do what
they please with the man, is to be neigh
borly. Poor, maltreated, wounded lady of
CoviDgton-sO cruelty defrauded of the ripht
10 own, possess and hold body and soul an
other lady of Covington; of the right to
sell her children; to chain and beat her in
the streets Of Cincinnati-behold the New
Church Samaritan who pities you, and sets
you on his own beast "This state of things
can not remain, and should not under COM
mon Federal Government which claims to
provide for the peace and welfare of all, ac-
cordiDg to the principles of justice, religion
and equity"Q) He believes this plan and
remedy feasible: "Let the people of the
South" he says, "tell their brethren of the
North just what are the terms on which
this Union, 80 important to them and to US,
and to the interests of the whole civilized
world, may be reconstructed and saved, and
if the terms involve nothing more unjust or
severe than the recognition, legalization and
protection of the institution of slavery, the
conditions will be complied with so soon as
the question shall be opened up and under
stood in all its relations and bearings. A
majority of the Northern people will be
ready to apply the remedy here proposed, so
soon as the question is brought to a stern and
positive issue, the reasons and advantages
fully explained, and the conviction secured
that this or separation is the only alterna-
tive"
Alas how well "that old serpent" knows
the ugly proverb-AH men hare their price
God help the People to give it the lie
THAT Northern men, when removed from
the influences of fanaticism, bigOtry and ig-
noranee, have no constitutional objections to
slavery, is evident from the fact that almost
every one who removes South becomes an
owner of slaves, if he has money TO buy
them. These men are, however, apt to be
hard masters, from not having learned how
to treat servants. This knowledge will bt
more rapidly gained when these eunrighteoul
and oppressive restrictions are removed tron
the institution, and it is permitted to e
wherever it pleases.
'0n the ground here proposed, the. State
that have gone out can return with no los
| of honor, and all will be most happy to wei
come them back.
"Here is the true remedy. In this way
the progress of dissolution may be arrested
at once, the Union reconstructed and saved
and this long-agitated question being settled
at last, the whole world will breathe NOR
freely and be happier ~
Here l close the review Of this pamphlet
which calls on America to, say: "Get the
before me, slavery Thee will worship
thee I will serveF' reserve for anothe
Sunday the consideration of how Jesn
dealt with compromise, and the moment
Gus result Of it. 1t is true, as this pamphls
affrms, that the crisis has come when thi
nation must bow down TO slavery, OF, as
nation, rise like Gabsiel with his foot upe
the fiend's neck. This is one solution-cor
sistent, clear, as always is the logic of Luc
fer. .-
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