Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-02-07

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interestof the fif,ginent OF thd Hlcmocratic
party nthis denioeranc county ot Belmont
80 far as fuyorihg Secession, We will furnish
our extreme Southern friends an example
by which TO illustrate DIR, Van Dykes mol
tion of the Inns Of al cirfiissd adtjoils. y
For our Seceder friends We will suppose a
case.-s No fiction -eii her--a gentleman. OF
high standing in the South, aud Il candidate
for high office, if you please, once had a
wife but she sustained to him at the samc
time the relation OF chattel proper,y--of
both Stare, and ,oite. The wife giycsto the
master the birth Of two lovely daughters. =
He educatss the daughters, and makes
noble efforts to Introduce them into civilized
society above their position as chattels ac-
cording to the laws of Southern Slavery.
All this wa ,very well. The master succeeds
in.haying the'educated ddaughtermarried into
respectable society, all this still better. And
now the said master-fathcr dies solvent.
Thisis especially Jortuadtc.H Butswpose
again, he dies asolvent except these and
a few other chattei relativeS in whose veins
the masters blood fows Now hiscrcditors
press the laws Of Southern civilization. Aud
then. remember, the law Is ''parfas seq,atur
uentren, Wife, daughers, ald grand CHI
dren too--al must be knocked of under the
hammer. And now, according to DR. Way
land--is not this "a modification at least Of
thdt ,clich erists betceen ran and the brutesf
Is DR.. Wayland's Moral Science indeed abo-
lition misrepresentation and abuse" of
slaveholders? So must it be, II this ser
mon of "cogent and ,reH sust1iaed drgu-
ment aqd inst abolitionism' be true
But in spite Of this cogent logic, the laws of
J no civilized country will register wife and
children in an inventory Of goods aud chat
tells personal, except the laws of barbarism,
alias Slavery.
| We must be excused in declining to follow
the track and the logical windings Of the
next specimen Of ''cogent argument taken
from the marriage relation When the
marriage relation according to law is formed
, by force; or when the relation of the mast
or and the servant Is formed BY the free &
full choice of both, then it viii be possible to
II talk sense in argueing by comparison. But
: when wives are made one way and Slaves
3 the very contrary, we shall be excused in
9 declining to pay our respects to poltico-
G clerical nonsense!
pass e the ,Ad aIp prop9'siqnt, ,i,.a is !.
, cases ond 5y a logical process, to utter INF
\ belongs to the religious part .of this double
: ! headed sermon. This proposition has nc
4 politics II, t., We are now, after all the DO
: litical stunlping, led very gravely into the
II theological arena And Just now upon the
I threshold. we must not ignore the yer,
serious fact that, of all the processes OF, thi
earth, tho theological illogical process" il
4 the most transcendently labyrinthian. u
\ In the discussion Of this third proposition
g Dr. Barnes, of Philadelphia, is placed a
:. the head Of the list Of infdel makers
l. Speaking of abolitionism, the author says
n '"It does not try Slavery by the Bible
n but as one of its leading advocates has re
!. Gently declared, it tries the Bible by th
l. principles of freedom. II insists that tn
n word Of God must be made to support Ger
q tain human, opinions, or forfeit all claims up
,e on our faith. That I may not be suspecte,
O. Of exaggeration on this point, let me quot
h from the recent work Of Mr.. Barnes pass
,f age which may well arrest the attention o
!. all thinking men. - i.,i -.
'. Barnes, on which the author founds tn
Ne above charges ~ oHi
' "a There are great principles in our nature
,e as God has made us, which can never b
ii set aside BY any authority of a ,rofesse,
IN revelation. Ii a book claiming to DO rev
r. elation from God, by any fair Interpretation
D, defended Slavery, or placed 1t ON the sam
0, basis as husband and wife, parent and child
,f guardian and ward, such. a book would no
and could not be received by the mass o
at mankind as divine revelation. :"
k Now let us calmly try the Pro,Slaver
y Doctor, and the Anti-Slayery Doctor. I
E. the charge made in the sermon sustained
al Does DR.. Barnes, or his Christian, Anti
s. Slavery brother refuse to try Slavery by tn
10 Bible? Remember, we are not now tryin
a intidels, or infdelity. There are iufdels o.
Or both sides Of this question -Pro-S SLAYER
Or and Anti.Slavcry. .......'l '
h Let US state the question between the tw
ID Doctors fairly--tor they are representativ
N men-each for his party, pro and anti.
Ir Barnes says-God has implanted grea
o principles in our nature, which even reyela
70 ton cannot obliterate-or rather ga. pro
e Jsssed revelation cannot set aside. I" Now
D, reason Is given man by his Creator. Does
5, protessed revelation set reason in man aside
" Van Dyke says revelation does set this asid
), in our search after truth-that is, this i
10 his argument. f.g..,., -
q On this subject hear very learned Pres
Is byterian Doctor Of Princeton Theological
Or Seminary, and a man who was on the Pro
Slavery side of the question. I quote thu
., very first sentence Of DR., A. Alexander OF