The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-03-06

not, let him show the connection. | advise Mr..
Van Dyke TO benefit his soul by attending the
Boston univirsaries next May; line sn, OF course
! the religious anniversaries, such as he would Ap-
provr, not OF course, that Ofthe Ameriesn Anti
Slavery Society not Of tho Church Anu-Sla-
very Society! Let him look upon the multitude
OF earnest, intelligent, and conscientious chris
tsns, who throng these assemo ies from all parts
/ OF New England; let him hear the authentic ad
dresses from the represntstive men al hey three
thousand ministers; then let him visit New
\ England where every village has its neat white
church well kept and well attended Taking up
/ his pilgrim staff let him then traverse certain
sections OF Virginia Marylan North Carolina,
Souih Carolina etc visit the old waste pl7ces
| OF his own church and other churches, aud then
! come bone and Ereach upon New England inn,
deity, He knows, however, or ii he does not,
! do. for was born upon the New England mus
| that in6deltv, far as il has prevailed mas
been the child ofUntariansm and unversalsn
and has not in any sense, originated in Ihe anti
! slavery enterprise Theodore Parker was
! PaTkrrite before he was an ahOlltl mist, ms
/ theological opinions were in no sense tue result
OF his views upon this question, and the very
same NAV he said Oi others. But to see the abb
surdity of this third statement, compare Mas
sachusetts with South Carolina! beg pardon
| Of Massa Chusetts Compare then it you choose
a congregation Of those rom Mr.. Van Dyke
calls infides. listening to DR. Claiming, or The
odore Psrker, developing their system oi rsll-
gion, with an audience in Columbia or Charles
ton, hanging with delight upon the lips OF Rev;
! Mr. Prentiss explaining upon the gorlss OF
that benevolent mud Divine Institution The or
! eign Slave frade' beg thousand purdons
oflhe infideIs The infdeity Of New England
! is infinitely in advance of South Carolina ortho-
| dOxy. The Southern States OF this Union are
| the great strongaOlds oil Salans kingdom, the
seats OF irreigiOn, impiety, and all wickedness
have breaihed the pestiential taste OF that
moral mpunity all over the land, and have done
! HI, IL i at
csuse OF Christ than all the infdels that New
Eng md Fas ever Produced. "Are you aware
! CT the language which addressed TO us
from all sidesl This is it, 'Protestanism ac-
- CmmCdates itself willingly to slavery. In the
| United States, this odious institution rockons
numerous defenders among christian bodies II
is preached tor it is prayed Tor and for it every
| effort is made to conquer new territories. And
! this slavery for which so much is done, is the
sale of families in detail, is the rupture otthe
marriage tie, is he annual prostitution OF men
| women and children, selected for this odious
purpose from the man farms Of Virginia and
| Kentucky, is, in word, amonstrous fact which
| is not only revolving to religious minds, but
which outrages the first principles of humanity
| And American Protestanism accepts this fact;
they find it to agree with the Gospel; and doubt
less the Protestants OF Europe think as they do
otherwise, they had long ago uttered a loud
cry Of grief and reprobation. Did not INTEL
| ligent Protestants in Syria declare, last winter
| that the news which came from the United
States Of the banishment of free colored people
| from their homes, OF Mr.. Fee, and others, from
Kentucky, and OF Northern men of all classes,
who were peacefully pursuing their avoca tions
had done more to injute Protestanism in Syria
than all the Jesuits ever sent out by the Propa-
panda at Romei Missionaries in all parts of
the world declare tina they are constantly met
with reference to slavery in the churches OF
the Uni ted States, as an argument against our
religion From oil parts OF the christian world
comes up a united testimony as to the immense
evil which this system Is doing the cause OF e.
yangeica religion, testimony which is met by
| this defender oil the aith of Brooklyn, declang
all who will not accept it as div inc, and who
are Iuboring for its subversion, to be inhdels =,
| The men whom owedenborg says he suw in the
other world who were dead and did not know
| it, were wi sc in comparison with these delend
ers OF this atrocious wickedness. But, what oi
those men who have engaged in this enterprise,
and come during its progress to deny the lnspl.a-
ton Of the Scriptures and those doctrines which
we agree in esie eming fundamental to christi
anity2 There are few such, though believe
you could count them all upon your fingers
| ask, however, what occ urred in the great Ret,
ormation from Popery? Did all who abadoned
Rome, all who did good service IN tho cause
become evangelical christians! The objection
is stolen, Rome has urged it again anc again, IL
is her standing argument galnst the Re iorma-
ton. What is the repy9 Not the 2etorma-
| Reformation was n protest, is chargeabe with
the infdeity. My reply is not the anti-slavery
movement, bnt pio-slavery religion, against
which it ia a tremendous reaction, made these
men infdels. From the churches came the
strongest opposition, from the pupits the bitter
| est denumciations of them and their sacred
cause; this course of treatment produced its mar
| ural effect, and in few instances led to ex
tremes of practi ce and of language against all
religion, which the best friends of the cause de.
| plore, and do not defend, Romanism producrd
| ihe infidelity OF France German Rationalism
| is an uncean spirit from the stagnant marshes
of corrupt Protest4ntsm. The pro-savery
church in this land is the fruitful mother of un-
belief AS in the days OF Christ, and of Luther,
the worst foes OF chr istonty are those of its
own house. Once more fear within the walls
| OF Zion will the battle Of christianity have to be
fought; but blessed be God, it will be the last
conflict; the morning meth. Messiah Is on his
march; hear the thunder OF his chariot wheels
in the crash Of falling tyronnies, the wall of
despotisms, as they sink like the cities of the
plain, never to arise American slavery is
doomed. its foundations are heaving, its pillars
trem5le like those of Daeon's temple ''witE hor-
ribe convultous 20 and iro,r destined soon to
fall and bury IN its ruins pro- slavery churches
and pro-slavery ministers, beneath the remem.
brance, aye, beneath the contempt ofsmep. This
| is my answer to his third proposition
The fourth, last proposition, Nhich our author
| lay sdown, is ihis "Abolitionism," (the belief
that slavery is a Elm, morally wrong . sis the
chief cause of the strife that agitates and the
danger that threatens our country.n This state
ment is both true and false, true in sense which
he did not intend, false in the sense h whi ;h he
wishes 1t to be understood. Christianity is.in
| earnest, in deadly conflict with all folms of
wlckedness, with every manner OIL oppression,
a conflict which knows neither truce nor com.
promise until the battle is fought out and the vic
tory won, until the banner of the cross floats in
| triup shn nd
heard in heaven proclaming, now is come sal
valioH, the Kingdoms Of this world have beccme
the Kingdoms ofuur Lord, and of his Christ. ~
The language OF Christianity is, Il will over
turn, overturn. overturn it, and it shall be no
more until he comes whose right it is and will
| give it him."
| 1t has been the canse of much disturbance for
well nigh two thousand years; it has ''set a man
a, variance sgainst his father, and the daughter
against the mother, and the daughter in aw;'
| II has rent families natioAs, churches, produc-
| ed war, bloodshed iamnes, prosecutions, pes
! tilences, destroyed art, trade, commerce, man.
ofaclures. overthrowa proud cities, and turned
fat randsinto barrenness" "Think not that
am come to send peace on earth. | came not to
send peace. but sword" Messiah will smite
the nations with the rod of his anger, until they
submit and give that glory TO his name wich is
due. But, who Is to bame2 G'd's merciful
and benehcent scheme for the ameliOration OF
| the condition OF society, and the salvation OF
menl Or the wickedness and deeeiyableness Of
unrIgh teousness, which rejects the proffered
mercy2 Had men not persiA ted in embracing,
and believing, and promulga,ing the truth, we
would never have heard Of the prosecutions of
the early crishans. Had the Waldenses sub.
mitted 10 that lawful authority which was over
them, and succumbed to the prevail ing opinions
of the world around them, there would nave
been no bloody slaughter amid those gloomy
| Alpine businesses. We should 'neveT have
heard that noble outburst in their behalf OF the
great soul OF John Milton
"Avenge, o Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose
| bones
Lie scattered on the mountains cold
| SInirn hrrf fhn hlnod,, thntr