The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-01-31

You have spoken In Just indignation OF
The begging, whining, blubbering Southern
politicians. Let us hear-let the people
hear-what SoutherR Parson says-thc
Rev. DR.. Palaer, of New Orleans, a native
0fSouth Carolina let their great heart
thfob to his stirring appeal
s",nc have, no doubt, read his magnifi-
cent address, Of which some thirty or forty
thousand copies have been printed, but all
have not. Let me give lev paragraphs.
The tcxt is cmpbatically in point; mark
it:
Shall the throne Of iniquiiy have fellowship
with thee which frameth mischief by a law
aPsalm xciv. 20.
All the men of thy confederacy have brought
thee even to the border; the that were at
peace with thee have deceived thee, and ,re-
vailed against thee; they that ate thy bread
have laid wound under thee there is none
understanding in him lobadiah VI
So literally true are the words of the
text, addressed by Gobadiah to Edom, "Al
the men of our coniederacy, the men that
ut the very time they have deceived anu
laid around under w." Even beyond this
the enrichiny commerce which has bui t
the splendid cites and marble palaces oil
England as well as OF America, has been
largely established upon the products oi
our soil and the blooms upon Southern
fields, gathered by black hands, have feU
the spindcs and looms of Manchester and
Birmingham not lSss than of Lawrence and
Lowell Strike now blow at this system
Oflabor, and the world itself tottcrs ut the
stroke Shall we permit that blow to fall:
DO we not owe it To civilized man to stand
in the breach and stay the urh.tcd arm!
If the blind Samson lays hold of the pilars
which support the arch of the world in
dustry, how many more viii be buried b, :
meath its ruins than the lords of the Phi :
istinesy "Who knoweth whether we are
not come to the Kingdom for such a time
as ths?''
Last Of ali, in this great Struggle, ice de-
+, fc',d Tie cause of God and .'ci,y,on. The
abolition spirit is undcniably athcist:c
The demon which erected its throne upon
the guiliotine i'll the day, of Robesp.e re
aud Marat, which abolished the Sabbath
and worshipped Reason in the person of
"A hatlot, yet survive, TO work other horrors,
of which those ofthe French Revolution
are but the type. Among people so gen
- II,
must be worn but il is the same old thread
bare disguise of the advocacy OF human
rights. From thousand Jacobin club
here, as in Faance, the decree has gone
forth which strikes ut God by striking at
all subo-dination and law. Availiug itself
OF the morbid and misdirectcd sympathics
Cf men, 1T has cntrapped weak consciences
In the meshes OF its treachery and now,
at last, has seated its high priest upon the
throne, clad in the bla,k garments OF dis
cord and aehism, so symbolic of its ends
Under this spccious cry of reform, in de-
mands that every evil shall be corrected, or
society becomca wreck-thc sun must be
stricken from the heavens, ifa spot is found
on his disc, The Most High, knowing his
own power which is infinite, and his own
wisdom which is unfathomallc, can afford
to be patient. But these sell constituted
reiormers must quicken the activity OF Jc-
hovah or compel his abdcation. i their
furious haste they tramplc upon obligations
sacred as any which can bind the consc
ence. 1t is time to reproduce the obsolete
idea that Providence must govern man, and
not that man should control Providence.
In tine imperfect state of human society, it
ers that are greater. AS in the physical
world, objects are moved forward not by u
single force, but by the composition Of
forces :: so in his moral administration there
are checks and balances whose intimate rea
tions are comprehendcd only by himself
But what reck they of this-these fierce
zealots who undertake to drive the chariot
OF the sun working out tho single and
false ide which rides them like night
mare, they dash athwart the spheres, utter
ly disregarding the delicate mechanism of
Providence; which moves on, wheels with
IN wheels, with pivots and balances aud
springs, which the great designer alone can
control This spirit of atheism, which
knows no God who tolcratcs evil, no Bible
which sactioBs law, and no conscience that
can be bound by oaths and covenants, has
selected us for its victimes, and slavery .or
its issue. Its banner-cry rings out already
upon the air-"liberty, equality, fraterni
ty," which simply Interpreted mean bon
dage, cpnfiscation and massacre. With its
tri-color waving in the breeze, it waits to
jnaugurate its reign Of terror. To the
South the high position is assigned Of de-
Tending, before all nations, the cause of all
religion and of all truth In this we trust
we are resisting the power which wars
against constitutions and laws and com
pacts, against Sabbaths and sanctuaries,
against the family, the State and the church,
which blasphemously invades the preroga-
tives of God, and rebukcs the Most IIi.h
Tor the errors of his administration Which
if it cannot snatch the reins Of empire from
hisgasp, will lay the universe in ruins at
his feet. 1t is possible that we shall de-
cline the onset?
This argument, then, which sweeps over
the entire circle of our relations, touches
the four cardinal points Of duty IA our-