Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-02-02

beyond this-the enriching commerce
which has built the splendid cities and
marble palaces of England as we'll as of
America, has been largely established upon
the products of our soil and the blooms
upon Southern fields, gathered by black
hands, have fed the spindlos and looms of
Manchester and Birmingham not less than
at Lawrence and Lowell. Strike now
blow at this system of labor, and tho
world itself totters at the stroke. Shall wo
permit that blow to fall II Do we not owo
it to civilized man to stand in the breach
and stay the uplifted arm! If tho blind
Samson lays hold of the pillars which
support the arch of the worlds industry,
how many more will be buried beneath
its ruins than the lords OF the Philistnes!
"Who knoweth whether we are not come
to the kingdom for such time as this :"
Last of all, in this great struggle, De
d.fend The caxse Of God anil religion.
The abolition spirit is undeniably atheistic.
The demon which erected its throne upon
the guillotne in the days of RoBEsPIERRE
and MARAT, which abolished the Sab
bath and worshippod reason in the person
of harlot, yet survives to work other
horrors, of which those of the French
revolution are but the type. Among a
people so generally religious as the Ame-
rcans, disguise must be worn but it is
the same old threadbare disguise of the
advocacy of human rights. From a thou
sand Jacobin clubs here, as in France,
the decree has gone forth which strikes at
God by striking at all subordination and
law. Awaiting itself of the morbid and
misdirectcd sympathies of men, it has en-.
trapped weak consciences in the meshes of
its treachery; and now, at last, has seat
ed its high priest upon the throne, clad in
the black garments of dlscord and schism,
SO symbolic of its ends. Under this spe-
cious cry of reform it demands that every
evil shall be corrected or society become
y wreck-thc sun must be Stricken from
the heavens if spot is found on his
disc.
The Most High, knowing His own pow
er, which is infinite, and His own wisdom,
which is unfathomable, can afford to be
patient. For these self,constituted re-
formers must quicken the activity of Je-
hovah or compel his abdication. In their
furious haste they trample upon obligations
sacred as any which can bind the con-
science. 1t is time to reproduce the OBJ.
solete idea that Providence must govern
man, and not that man should control
Providence In the imperfect state of hu-
man society, it pleases God to allow evils
ul.,,,. v,.so,, o.no,s .naO aio greater. Al
in the physical world, objects are moved
, forward, not by a single force, but by the
composition of forces; so in his moral ad'
ministration, there are checks and bal
ances whose intimate relations are com
; pretended only by himself. But what
reck they of this-these fierce zealots who
undertake to drive the chariot of the sun
, working out the single and false idea whicl
rides them like nightmare, they dasi
athwart the spheres utterly disregarding
+ the delicate mechanism of Providence
| which moves on, wheels within wheels
, with pivots and balances and springs
II which the great designer alone can con-
troll.
6 This spirit of atheism, which knows n
It God who tolerates evil, no Bible whic
: sanctions law, and no conscience that car
g be bound by oaths and covenants, has Sc
J, lected US for its victims and slavery for il
: issue. Its banner cry rings out alresd
/. upon tho air-''liberty, equality" frate'
If nifty, which simply interpreted meal
e bondage, confscation and massacre. Wit
N its tri color waving in the breeze, it wal
n to inaugurate its reign Of terror. To til
N South the high position is assigned of d.
is Tending, before all nations, tho cause
a. religion and of all truth. In this tru
til we are resisting the power which wars
is gainst constitutions and laws and CON
&c. paots, against Sabbaths and sanctuarie
It, against the family, the State and Il
d. church which blasphomously invades Il
ar prerosatives of God, and robukos the Nc
We High for the errors Of his administratlo
it which, if we cannot snatch the reins
to empire from his grasp, will lay the VI
IN verse in ruins at his feet. Is It possil
nd that we shall decline the onset
de This argument, then, which sweeps o'
ns the entire circle of our relations, toucl
no the four cardinal points of duty To o.
rat selceS, 20 our SlaocS, 10 Me mO'hl, am
almighty col, 1t establishes the matt
he and solennity of our present trust,
m, 71reserVe and transmit Our ettStHg syst
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