Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-02-07

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10 do Justice 10 The sermon We inustmake
onc large Quotation--" In all the Instructions
u the Savionr, IN all the reported sermons
vfthe in-piret Apostles in all the Epistles
they were moved by the Holy Ghost TO
write for the instruction Of coming genera
tious, there Is not one distinct and explicit
denunciation Of slaveholding, nor one pre-
cent requiring the master to smancipate his
Slaves Every acknowledged yin is openly
and repeatedly condemned andin unmeas-
urcd terms Drunkenness and adultery,
theft and murder---all the moral wrong
which ever had been known to affect society,
are forbidden By name; and yet according
TO abolitionism. this greatest OF all sins, the
sum Of all villiaucies,is never spoken of exr
cept in respectful terms sn. a.r1o
While We do not admit the truth of one
single statement in the whole quotation, nor
enter here upon the refutation and as we
are now bu. analyzing the sermon to find its
argsment, we remark that whatever is init
in the shape Of argument, ii is this-I.et us
state It with logical precision, aud in syllo- |
gistical form--all sin condemned in the Bible
Is expressed by name, but Slavery is not, by
aap,e, condemned in the Bible--being
Spoken OF in respectful terms" therefore,
sssyery Is riglh and respectable-or is not
sin,
Now, the major is not true as the nu;I-
or and every tyro in theology knows. The
assertion is reckless. Nor is ths minor true.
This we will chow in another connection
let the. reader remember. The conclusion
is s,silly sopAisn. =,
utterly repadiatc il as having nothing
"oogent' s'jout II but its "cogc,a" presunp.
tioat Suppose, for arguments sake it does
Isoys something. Then a well known rule
OF logic co1e,,ty puts in It's test claims by
a,king tie author-does not your logic in
fact, prnve too much for YOU? The Bible
docs not name horeo racing, gambling,
dancing, theater gowing, house e-burning,
the Grecan and Roman games, eladiatorial
comhats, piracy, couute.ieitine, &c, &c.-
Does not the Doctor logic prove ali these
20 be right and one hnnlred and one more
things, Know, 10 Inn 10 lie wrong, 70 1bt
yighfY l sunpo1e ho viii never speak oil
ths-s things but as hr speaks of Slavery
.'rrosps Il. respectful ienis!'' o.. give up
hi, iosc. Pa..ins the a.gumen, under the
fret proposition, we take li,tlc specimen
more Of the author cogency in past state
escpg--t&k6 thlS---' t)nc thing kDOw, nnC
eyery sbo!i;ionist might know, Il he would
that there are christian families in the South
where Saves are better fed and clothed
and instructei--tha,l the majority of labor
ipg people in the City of Now York"
II thisstatelnent were true, for what-isi
made, and what does, It prove? Might no
Slavery be wrong, and al this and far NOR,
be true? Some ladies Of the South-chris
tianiadies too--may feed and clothe and in
stiuct their parrots or lapdogs better thai
hborers in New York. Does this prove tina
the poor New Workers should be either lap
dogs or Slaves? Is this made as an insinu
alton that Slaves are better instructed tha
Northern laborers? Or that Slaves in tn
South are better instructed than the fire
blacks in the Moth? Or that, in the aggrc
gate, even the white population of the Sout
sre better Instructed than The free blacks q
the North? Not even hero Is there truth
The documentcd and authentic figures tbro,
the mantle Of shame over degrading SLAYER,
In the North, more than one-ninth of tn
whole black population attend school,
larger proportion than is supplied by th
whites of the Slave States. Figures an
facts furnish no argument for Slavery. l