The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-01-10

that the sword must sheath itself
in the hearts of brethren, to salts
fy the logic of their distempercd
dreams. These cold glaring skele-
tons have paced the halls of our
Legislation throwing their abstract
propositions into the form of law,
which from its nature was never in
tended to apply to the people they
were legislating for, nor indeed
practically to any phase of humani-
ty. In their delusion have believed
Legislation had q creative, as well
as controlling power, and imagined
that if they could only reduce their
notions of abstract right into con-
crete form, the people might par
take and become perfect.
This class of men have ever gone
as far as to say, they worship no
God, whose ideas of moral govern
ment are not identical with their
own, and if they ever reach the
mansions of the blessed, and the
Infinite Creator of worlds and of
men has as high an opinion of
their ability and judgment as they
havc,therc will be q revised statutes
of the upper kingdom in process
before they have been two days.
This class of men have done not q
little to bring about the present
state of affairs in our country, Pro-
Tossing christianity they have en-
teren our pulpits and preached ha-
tired and violence toward their
brethren. If they enter the pulpit
on q week day, they give as a lee
turc, if on the Sabbath it is q SER
mon. Like Giddings their great
leader, they are ~harlcquins and
meuntebanks. AS q politician he
has ridden his hobby into Congress
as a lawyer protesting to be a de-
fender of abused humanity he has
saved to himself u fortune, as q
lecturer he has taken the hard
earned dollars of the poor laboring
man with the sordid grippe of a mi
ser, and as u preacher, doors of large
and popular churches have swung
wide open to him and he has in tho
sacred desk, advertised in the name
of religion, the malignant hate ant
v~itupcration which is almost with
out a parallel in annals of moderr
civilization, until at last the Soutl
believes that we hate her men, he
institutions and laws with q deadly
hatred, so that to remain with u;
will be death, to separate at best NJ
worse and she resolves to meet hcl
fate sword in hand. Many of oul
states have passed laws and rcsolu
tions which are little if any shor
of q declaration of war upon her.
To do this has been one ofour sen
Stations. The South in turn ha
re- aliated and blotted many of he
statute books with en- actment
. which magnanimity should wip'
off ut once and forever. We ar
, both in the, wrong &why should W
, thus defantly stand apart threaten
t ing an appeal tothe sword. 1t is
shameand ana utrage upon the spiri
which founded our institutions
that the men of the North and tn
, South, both sections dotted owe
p with the battle fields of the revolu
, ton should assume such an att
= tude towards each other. Hav
we lost all faith in human nature
: Have We no trustin the divine powc
of christianity. Have we no fait
in the development ofthe right an
true in mankind Are we in
n moment of passion, going to abar
d don the triumphs of almost a cen
fury of peace, and appeal to til
- barbarism of the sword to settle
question of right and wrong?
c But some one says, slavery is
r moral and social evil, and must W
yield? Stop a moment my hast.
friend. The world is full o. mora
d and social evils, we find them here
It and twincd in our social structur
r they defy force. If you push wron.
# to violence, it may take advantag
of your own weak points. Yo'
cannot shoot virtue into o mar
3 thouph YOU bring to bear upon hir