Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-03-07

and consequently, all forms of marriage
among them is rnockery Of an ordinance
of God. str I..i
Slavery, in its whole history, is a shocking
and revolving outrage upon the morality of
the saith commandment. God says, "Thou
shalt not kill" To involve in the guilt Of
murder it is not necessary that the master
should, as butcher, cut the throat Of his
slave; or,rudely knock out his brains with a
bludgeon. Murder may be committed by
very slow, and by very cool, and yet by a
very sure process.
For the right understanding of this COM
mandment DR.. Van Dykes confession of
Faith gives the following rule: THAT un-
der one sin or duty, all Of the same kind are
forbidden or commanded together with all
the causes, means, occasions, and appear.
ances thereof, and provocations thereunto !"
The most barbarous cruelty ever praticed on
earth has been, time immemorial, perpetra-
ted upon the unhapy victims OF Slavery
From the burning OF villages, and from the
wars stirred up among the native Africans,
in the procuring Of slaves, hundreds Of thou
sands have boen murdered. Myriads untold
have died in the middle passage. These
have all been literally murdered, and the
murder charged to the account of Slavery
Millions have pined away and died under
sugar and rice fields; their days shortened
was shortened by any process of cruelty on
earth. Slavery is a system of wholesale
murder; cool and deliberate, yet fatal and
sure; unequaled in its degrading cruelty by
any system of wrong on the face Of sin
smitton earth. The day of judgment alone
will unfold the long roll of its unnumbered
murdered victims
Doctor Van Dyke says in the creed of his
Church, that, oppression, gambling strik-
ing. wounding and whatsoever else tends to
the destruction of the life of any," are sins
forbidden in the sixth commandment.
General Eaton, Consul Of the United States
at Tunis, in 1893, writes thus: Truth and
justice demand from me the confession that
the Christian slaves among the barbarians
of Africa are treated with more humanity
than the African slaves among the Christians
of civilized America" John Wesley,
speaking of American Slavery, said: "You
have carried them into the vilest Slavery,
never to end but with death-such Slavery
as is not to be found with the Turks in Al
giers. ~
1t is not in place here and now to go into
details in regard to the murderous crueties
of Slavery The man must be stupidity
| ignorant. who, in the middle of the nine
teenth century, has yet to learn that the
whole history of American Slavery is 9
| history of oppression, crushing cruelty and
consumption of human life.
Slavery, shametully and unblushingly
| violates the sere,nh commandment. 1t, by
consequence and practically, abrogates mar
riage; and for its own interest institute:
4 universal concubinage. This may be though
too hard for us to say here in an argument
against DR.. Van Dyke and his favorite client
Slavery But the Presbyterian Church has
said it for us, and for our Doctor too. Tn,
Synod of Kentucky o. s. uses this langu
age, "Ihis system Of univerSat concubinog
produces reuolting hcentiousness Stud.
this language. Ponder Insignificant words
a The authors knew what they were writing
There is not such system; of licentious
ness, as low and beastly, on the face of tn
earth. Heathendom itself affords no sucl
example, not even among savages, Th
lowest extreme of barbarian pollution i
here reduced to system. 1t approximate
to the prolniscuous and unbridled intercours
among the brutes, nearer than can be foun
in any place, or among any class of the hu
: man species under the broad canopy of tn
a heavens This is not saying too much.-
= Slavery is, from the very nature Of its law
and Of necessity, a breeding SYSTEM as muc
as any cattle or stock growing system. Il
2 the license of its laws, whole race is d.
u liverd over to prostitution, and concubil
y age, without the protection Of law. Th
e result is recorded in the endless variety
u tints and hues of the tell-tale faces Of chi
y dren, glowing with the blood of masters an
n oyerseers; but doomed for their mother
's skin, to Slavery Tales that would tingle-
/ no, that would astound-might be told her
N Can Slavery bear the fiery ordeal Of its r
y hearsal-of the unfolding Of the loathson
10 roll of its iniquity? In how many families
II far South, can no Saxon blood be four
% coursing under skin of blushing hue?
ie And here, one fact is remarkable.
y, all the hundreds and thousands of childr
y, of mixed blood, not one hundredth, or pc
~ haps not one thousandth child is descend
from white mother And why? The /
o. of Slavery can answer, idrtus Sequtf
ne that slaves be made; but none but slas
Of mothers can breed them And this is
tie system. Southern Doctors, aided by Mort
Dr. ern political preachers, are now by all tn
N influence seeking to extend wherever it {
he be carried. Alas, for that portion of Go
lb- earth doomed to be cursed by its pollution
ps And this is the system, gentlemen, for I
he sake of the Union with the Southland
,b- consequence, for the sake of a closer I'm
e with Slavery--would vote to open ninett
nd free States to its polluting tread
he Slavery, in terms, is direct violation
of the eighth commandment: Thou shalt
of steal 1t begins in stealing of the N
'ot criminal kinda theft as much more cri
the nal than the stealing of horse, as ma
are better than horse. This is the pre-,
He ratio by which the guilt of the. .otfcnses
ese graduated. The penalty, fixed in the
are Testament law and sanctioned by positive
the afirmation in the New, fully confirms.
the steal man is as heinous and criminal,
yly; determined by The penalty, as murder
IND These are the two lone sins standing
r in prominently above all other sins, and in /
Old and New Testaments laid under
lid death penalty. He that. stealeth
nay shall surely be put to. death. f" The
nay was made for manstealers.
ponl Higher III grade of crime mortal cal
rity ascend. No crime can be more than cal
ther no criminal can have more lives than
!, as and to sssteal man or sell him or hold h
the as slave, ,forfeits that one life. Is Slay
then, 'sthe sum Of all yiliainies? :"
mn -..lo,s ,.oasop ha ,nadness unless com