The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-02-27

New YoIk, and q proof that the relation It's II
Is sinful, III were a novelist, and had written
book 10 illustrate this same doctrine, | would
call this array Of facts "Key" In this key
aay nothing about the sweet charities and sfiec
tons that flourish in ten thousand homes not
a word about the multitude OF loving kindness
that characterizs the daily life Of honest people,
about the instruction and discipline that are
training children at ten thousand firesides for
usefulness here and glory hereaher;--all this
ignore, and quote only the statute book, the
newspapers, the records Of criminal courts, and
the miseries of the abodes Of poverty. Now,
What have done? | have not miss;atCd or ex
sggerated single fact. And vet am not ial-
sifer and slanderer Of the deepest dye? Is
there a virtuous woman or an honest man in
this city, whose cheeks would not burn with in.
dignation at my one sided and injurious state
ments? But this is just what Abolitionism has
done in regard to slaveholding. 1t has under,
taken to illustrate its cardinal doctrine in works
OF faction; and then, to sustain the creation OF
its fancy, has attempted to underpm it with an
accumulation OF facts. These facts arc collect
cd IN precisely the way have described. The
statue books Of slavehOlding States are search
ed, and every wrong enactment eollated, news
paper reports OF cruelty and crime on the part
OF wicked masters are treasured up and classi-
fed, oil the outrages that have been perpetrat
ed by lewd fellows ofthe baser sort'--ofw whom
there are plenty, both North and South--are
eagerly seized and recorded; and this mass Of
vileneSs and filth, collected chiefly from the
kennels and sewers OF society, is put forth as a
faithful exhibition of slaveholding. Senators
in the brum. and ministers in the pulpit, dis
till ehis raw material into the more refined
SANDER ''that Southern society is essentially
barbarous, and that slaveholding bad its origin
in hell" Legislative bodies enact and re- enact
statutes which declare that slaveholding is such
an enormous crime, that If southern man, un-
der the broad shield OF the constitution, and
with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the
country in his hand shall come within their ju-
risdiction, and set up claim TO fugitive slave,
he shall be punished with fine Of $4,000 and
fifleen years Imprisonment And this method
OF argument has continued until multitudes OF
honest Christian people in this and other lands,
believe that slaveholding is the sin Of sins, the
sum OF all villanies. Let me illustrate this by
an incident in my own experience. A few years
since took from the centre table OF Christian
family in Scotland, by whom | had been most
kindly entertained book entitled Life and
Manners in America" On the blank leaf was
an inscription, stating that the book had been
bestowed upon one Of the children ofthe family
as q reward ofdiigence in an institution Of learn
ing. The frontispiece was picture Of man
of fierce countenance beating a naked
woman. The contents OF the book were profes-
sedly complied from the testimony of Americans
upon the subject OF slavery. | dare not quote
in this place the extracts which made in my
memorandum. 1t will be sufficient to say that
the book asserts as undoubted facts, that the
banks OF the Mississippi are studded with iron
gallows for the punishment of slaves-that in
the city oil Charleston the bloody block on which
masters cut off the hards OF disobedient SER
wants may be seen in the public squares, and
that sins against chastity are common and un.
rebuked in professedly Christian families.
Now in my heart did not feel angry at the
author oi that book, nor at the school-teacher
who bestowed it upon his scholar; for in Chris
tian charity gave them credit Tor honesty in
the case. But standing there a stranger among
the martyr memories Of that glorious land, to
which my heart had so often made its pilgrim
age, did feel that you and I, and every man in
America, was wronged by the revilers Of their
native land, who teach foreigners that hanging,
and cutting off hands, and beating women, are
the characteristics of our life and manners.
But we need not go to foreign lands for proof
that Abolitionism has carried on its warfare by
the language of abnse. The annual meeting o f
the American Anti Slavery Society brings the
evidence to our doors. We have been accus-
toned to laugh at these vernal exhibitions of ia.
naticism, not thinking, perhaps, that what was
fun for US, was working death to our brethren,
whose property and reputation we are bound to
protect The fact is we have suffered fire to
be built in our midst whose sparks have been
scattered far and wide; and now whln the
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our eyes, and the heat of it begins to scorch our
industrial and commercial interests, it will not
do for us to say that the utterances OF that So
ciety are the rawlings Of fanatical and insignif,
cant few; for the men who compose it are hon
ored in our midst with titles and offices. Its
President is Chief Justice OF the State Of New
jersey, The ministers who have thrown over
its doings the sanction Of our holy religion, are
quoted and magnifed over the land as the rep
resentative men of the age, and the man who
stood up in its deliberations in the year 1852
and exhausted the voca bulary OF abuse upon the
compromise measures, and the great statesmen
who framed them, is now Judge in our courts
and the guardian of our lives and property.
II will doubtless, be said that misrepresenta
ton and abuse have not been confined, in the
progress Of this unhappy contest, to the Abeh
ticnists OF the North; that demagogues and self
seeking men OF the South have been violent
and abusive, and that newspapers professedly ii
the interest Of the South, with spirit which
can be characterized as little less than diabol
cal. have circulated every scandal in the mos
aggravated and irritating form. But suppose al
this to be granted what then? Can Christian
men Justify or pallIate the wrath and evil speak
ing which are at their own doors, by pointing
10 the retaliation which it has provoked from
their neighbors? If / were preaching to-day
To Southern audience, it would be my duty
and trust God would give me grace to perform
il. 10 tell them Of their sins in this mat ter
And especia lily would it be my privilege, as
minister Of the gospel of peace--a privilege from
which no false views Of manhood should prevent
ms--to exhort and beseech them as brethren
| would assure them, that there are uultitudes
here who still cherish the memory Of the bat
tle.felds and council chambers where our faith
ers cemented this Union OF States, and who
viii stand by the compact Of that constitution
10 the utmost extremity. would tell the
thousands of Christian ministers among whom
are some OF the brightest ornaments Of tn,
American pulpit, and the tens OF thousands o
Christian men and women, toward whom Will,
the love of Christ burns in me, my heart neye
can grow cold that If they will only be patient
and hone to the end, all wrongs may yet b,
righted. Therefore, would beseech them no
TO nut great gulf between US, and cut off tn
very opportunity for reconciliation upon an hon
orable basis, by revolution whose end no hu
man eye can see But, then, am not preach
ing at the South. stand here, at one Of tn
!. in fountain heads Of the abuse we have com
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