The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15

tl0nlsm had only kept silence these twenty
years past, the number of such families
would be tenfold as great. Fanaticism al
the North is one chief stumbling block ir
the way of the gospel in the South. This
is one great grievance that presses to- day
upon the hearts of our Christian brethren in
the Southern States. This, in q measure
explains why such men as DR.. Thornwell
of South Carolina, and DR.. Palmer, (g) OF
New Orleans-men whose genius and learn.
ing and piety, would adorn any state OF
station-are willing to secede from the
Union. They feel that the influence of the
Christian ministry is hindered, and their
power to do good to both master and slave
crippled, by the constant agitations of Abo-
litiOnism in our national councils, and the
incessant turmoil excited by the unscriptur-
al dogma that slaveholding is sin. They
hope that under some other government
they may have that peace for the prosecu-
ton of their Masters work which the Con-
stitution of the United States has hitherto
failed to secure for them. Whatever may
think of secession as a remedy for the evils
complained of, in my heart do not blame
them. My soul is knit to such men with
the sympathy of Jonathan for David
Whatever be the result of this contest, the
union between their hearts and mine, &C.
mented by the word and Spirit of God, can
| never be dissolved. Earth and hell cannot
dissolve it. Though my lot is cast in a
colder cline, yet in the outgoings of that
warm affection to which space is nothing,
will ever say "Entreat me not to leave
thee, flor your people shall be my people,
and your God my God," and though we
may be separated in body for while by the
dark gulf of political disunion, and by the
absorbing strife for which every sound man
at the North will soon be called upon to
grid himsel-the long, long rest of eternity,
will afford abundant opportunity for the
interchange Of our mutual charities.
1.-THE PRINCIPLES OF ABOLITION HAVE BEEN
PROPAGATED CHIEFLY By MISREPREsENTA-
TON AND ABUSE.
Having no foundation in Scripture, it does
not carry on it's warfare by Scripture weap-
ons. Its prevailing spirit is fierce and proud,
and its language is full of wrath and bitter
ness. Let me prove this by testimony from
it's own lips. I quote DR.. Charming of Boston,
whose name is tower of strength to the
Abolition cause, and whose memory is their
continual boast. In work published in the
year 1886, l find the following words
"The Abolitionists have done wrong, l
believe; nor is their wrong to be winked at
because done fanatically or with good inten-
tiOns;for how much mischief may be wrought
with good designs They have fallen into
the common error of enthusiasts, that of
exaggerating their object, of feeling as if no
evil existed but that which they opposed,
and as if no guilt could be compared with
that of countenancing and upholding it.
The tone of their newspapers so far as have
seen them, has often been fierce, bitter and
abusive. They have sent forth their orators,
some of them transported with fiery zeal, to
sound the alarm against slavery throughout
the land, to gather together the young and
old, pupils from schools, females hardly arri
we'd at years of discretion, the ignorant, the
excitable the impetuous, and to organize
these into associations for the battle against
oppression. Very unhappily they preached
their doctrine to the colOred people, and
collected them into societies. TO this mixed
and excitable multitude, minute, heart rend
ing descriptions of slavery were given in
piercing tones of passion and Shareholders
were held up as monsters of cruelty and
crime, TIE Abolitionist, indeed, proposed
to convert shareholders and for this end he
approached them with vituperatiOn, and ex-
hausted on them the vocabulary of abuse.
And he has reaped as he sowed.'
Such is the testimony of DR.. Charming,
given in the year 1886. What would he
have thought and saidif he had lived until
tuC yCdl 4SOO, duO occu GulS lttlc olItduxH
over whose infant violence he lamented,
swelling into torrent and flooding the land
Abolitionism is abusive in its persistent
misrepresentation of the legal principles
involved in the relation between master and
slave. Its teachers reiterate in a thousand
exciting forms the assertion that the idea of
property in man blots out his manhood and
degrades him to the level of brute or a
stone. domestic Slavery" says DR.. Way
land, in his work on moral SCIENCE sup
poses, at best, that the relation between
master and slave is not that which exists
between man and man, but is modification,
at least, of that which exists between man
and the brutes." Do not these Abolitionist
philosophers know that, according to the
laws of every civilized country on earth, a
man has property in his children, and a wo-
man has property in her husband? The
statutes of the State of New York, and of
every other Northern State, recognize and
protect this property; and our courts of
justice have repeatedly assessed its value.
If man is killed on railroad, his wife
may bring suit and recover damages for the
pecuniary loss she has suffered. If one man
entice away the daughter of another, and
marry her, while she is still under age, the
father may bring civil suit for damages for
the loss of that child services, and the Pc
cuniary compensation is the only redress the
law provides, (D. Thus the common law of
Christendom, and the statutes of our own
State, recognize property in man. In what
does that property consist? Simply in such
services as man or a child may properly be requi
red to render. This is all that the Levitical
law, or any other law, means when it says,
/" Your bondmen shall be your possession, or
property, and an inheritance for your chill
dren." The property consists not in the
right to treat the slave like brute, but
simply in a legal claim for such services as
man in that position may properly be re-
in the face of the Divine law, persist in de-
nouncing the very relation between master
and slave ''as modification, at least, of that
which exists between man and brutes."
This, however, is not the worst or most
prevalent form which their abusive spirit
assumes. Their mode of arguing the ques-
ton of slaveholding, by pretended appeal
to facts, is tissue of Misrepresentation
from beginning to end. Let me illustrate
my meaning by parallel case. Suppose 1
undertake to prove the wickedness of marri-
age, as it exists in the city of New York. In
this discussion suppose the Bible is excluded,
or, at least, that it is not recognized as having
exclusive jurisdiction in the decision of the
question. My first appeal is to the statute
law of the State.
show there enactments which nullify the
law of God, and make divorce marketable
and cheap commodity. collect the adver.
tisements of your daily papers, in which
lawyers offer to procure the legal separation
of man and wife for stipulated price, to
say nothing, in this sacred place, of other
advertisements which decency forbids me to
nuote Then T turn tn the records of orr
criminal courts, and find that every day
some cruel husband beats his wife, or some
unnatural parent murders his child, or some