The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-01-23
CADlz OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JANU AIRY 30, 1861.

tft| u GttlF EiEuty WutCti ottO
main ain u necessary. even by the shedding 0
blood. Now, Il Ia not for me to decide who o
all these are the truest TO their own principles
Il is not for me to decide whether the man wh,
breaches this doctrine 10 brave words. amid ap
pianding multitndes in the city OF Brooklyn
or the one who, iL the stiffness ofnight and IL
the lace Of the laws terrors goes tn practise ih'
preaching at Harper's Ferry. s the most con
sisient abolitionist and the most heroic man. u
Is not for me to decide which il the most i'm.
poriant par OF the tree; and II the taee he poi
s,nous, which 9 the mo 'niuro the root
or the branches, or the lrui,2 But IN he''
to night, in God's name; and by his help. t'
show that this tree o aboli,ionism is evil. ant
only EVIL, root and branch, flower and leaf, aht
ruit; that it .prings from. and is nourish,d b,
an utter rejection Of the Scriptures; that i pro
duces no real benrfi, 10 the enslaved, and is III,
fruit ul source Of division and s;riE, and infidel
ity in both Church and Stare. . have four dis
tinct propositions on the subject TO mention
four thesrs to nail up aad defend:
!. AbOli.ionism has no foundation In ih'
Scriptures.
II It's principles have been promulgated
chiefly by misrepresentation and abuse.
III L leads, in mul,itu les of cases, aud by
a logical process, TO utter infideliiy.
Nv. IL is the che chief cause Of the strife thai
aRitatos and the danger that threatens oul
country. .a ..- ..... ~.
T. AB lLrTtoNrsM HAS No FOUNDATION IN SCRIP
TUnE. r--H
Passing by the records Of the pairiaiehal age
and waving the question AZ tn those servants
in Abraham's aml who, in the simple hut ex
pressive language OF Scriptures. "were bought
with his money! LEI Us come at once 20 the
tribunal, If that law which God promulgated
amid the emnities Of Sinai. What said The
law and the testimony TO that peculiar penplt
over whom God ruled. and Tor whose in>,i'u
tions he had assumed the responsibility? The
answer is in the 25th chapter Of Leviiicus, ir
these words. r- .s H7
''And il thy brother that dwelleih by thee I've
waxrn poor and ge sold unto the, ihon shalt
not cnmp.l him to serve as bond Servent but
as a hired servant and sojunrner he shall be
with thee, and shall stive thee unto the veal
Of jubilee, and then shall he depart fIom thee
bnth he and his children with b m" ..
80 iai, you will observe, the law refers te
the children OF I.rael, who, by reason OF power
ty, we're reduced t. servuude. Il was thsil
right to he free at the year Of jubilee. urless
they ch"Se to rem iin IN perpetua ,ndage Tor
which case provisions !, made in other and dis
tinct enartments. But not So with slaves o
foreign birth There Was no year OF juhi ee pro
vided Tor Il EN-. For what SAYS the law?--
Read u A 46 verses of the same chapter.
"Bah thy bondnea and thy hopdmaids
which thou shalt kave shall be Ui the heaiher
that are rnund ab nut you or them shall yt
buy bondnen and hondinalds. Moreover, %
T. e children af the strangers that do sjourn
mong you-oi them shall ye huy and OF th,il
hmll'eS that are wi'll you which they heget il
,"ur land; and they shall he your possession.-
And We shall take them as an inheritance oi
your children after YOU TO inherit them as
!H'ssessieni they staail bs yeur bondmen iorev
err
There it is, plainly written in the divine law
M Legislative enactment, no statute framed b,
legal skill, was ever in"re expl cit and incala
lie Of peryrrStnn VIII n the aboli,i innist tell,
me tnai slaveholding is sin. in the simplicity u
my faith III the Holy Scriptures. poin him tc
this sacred record. aud tell him in all candor
AZ my text Dies, tha his teaching bla>Ihem
The name of God and Ills doctrine. When ht
begins TO doat about questions and strries o
w"cs, appealing 10 the Declaration of lnde
p"ndrnre, and asserting that The idea OF pro
perty in man is an enormity and crime, still
h'ld him to the record saying, ''Ye shall takt
h>m as an inheritance for your children afieI
you to inherit them for possession" Wher
he wakes aarn-hs he always does il hIs OPP
pohel quotes Scriu,ures, (Which is the great
test to ir the splits whether they he Of G
the very spear OF llhuriel to revea! heir Ut
charac,er,) when he gets angry, and iHgins t,
pour oui his evil snrlnisIngs and abuse upon
>aveholders--l obey the precept which says
from such withdraw ihysel'," C. morting my
sell " ith thus thought; that the wisdem God
is wiser thar men, and the kindness OF God
kinder than men Philosophers may reason
and lelaimeIs NAV rave nil donmsday, rhe,
never can convince me that God, in the Levitt.
cal law, or any n'her law. sancti,red sin; and a.
know, hom the plain passage have quot ed
and many more like j., that He did sanction
sIaveh'ld ng among his ancient people, know
also. by the logic of that TAI h which believe
the Bible 10 he his word that >iaveholding Is
not sin. There are men even among PROCESSING
Chsistmns. and no lew mini ,rers of the Cos
prl who an wer this Argument from the Old
Testament Scr,p' ures by a simple denial o
their authority. They do not tell u h w G, d
c 'uld ever or anywhe eonntenance tha, VIII ch
is morally wrong. but they content themselves
wiIh ying that the Levnical law is no rule o
action tor us, and they appeal from the decision
to what they consider he higher tribunal oi thp
Gospel. Let us therefore inin issue W tn them
BE- lore the bar OF the New Testam mt Scrip
lures. IL is a histor { truth, acknowledged N
all hands, that, at the advent OF Jesus Christ,
SLAYER, existed all over thecivilized world, and
Was in inately inteiwove with its social and
civil institutions. In Judei, in Asia Minor in
Greece. in all the countries the Saw UT or his
Apostles preached the Gospel, sayeholling was
just as common as |, is to-day in South Caro-
lima. Il is moi alleged by any one. or At least by
ny une b " NJ anv pre- effSlors to scholarship OF
canor, that The Roman laws regulating slavery
weie even jas mild as the very worst sta III Oh
which have been passed upon the subject IN
modern times Ii will not be denied by any h, n
es and well informed man thai modern ciyil'za.
t"n and the restraining Influences Of the Gus
pei have shed ameliorating influences upon
the reia ion between master and slave, which
was utterly unknown at the advent of Christi
anity. And how did Jesus and his Apostles
treat this subjec? Masters and slaves met
I hem at every step in their missionary wu,k k,
and were even present in every aud ence 70
which they preached. The Roman law which
gave the iull pnwer OF lie and death into he
hand, vas familiar TO them, and all the
evil, connected with the system surrounded
hem every day MS obviously as the light Of
heaven; aud yet ii is a rema kabe act, which
the abol Iiuni>t does not, becau.e he cannot de
ny, that the New res, IN Mt is utterly silent
IN regard to the alleged SIN illness Of slavehold.
ing In all the inlru ,ons oi the S,vlour--n
all the reported sermons OF the inspired apps
InS..-tn al tha lag tbap IN 1
the Holy spirit Ia write hr the hstIuc ion OF
coming generations there IL OF one disliIc,
and explicit dehunriauon OF slaveholdng. moi