The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-09
An Abolition Bible-What Are We Com
Ing tor

Several OF our pious contemporaries Of the
Satanic abolition school are particularly unc-
tuous over very remarkable prophecy" which
they aver has lately been exhumed from the
pages of the Old Testament by an eminent di
vine in Boston. This wonderful prophecy is
said to be in the fourth chapter of Haggai, and
from it we cut the following choice morceau:-
And 10, behold, because OF the sin of the South hcr
mighty men shall be babos, hor gates shall be dc.
sroyei utterly, yea, utterly destroyed shall
be her gates and hor rice fields shall be wasted
saves set free
1T would be curious fact to find out If some
one could tell us whether this was invented by
the editors Of the Independent, or if it were the
work Of the Rev. Horace Greeley, extemporized
as a little pious exercise in the intervals be-
tween the arranging of his gambling affairs.
Probably the latter. A few years since Mr..
Arson Burlingame-who is just now airing his
abolitionism off in the Flowery Land among the
Celestials- a blasphemous speech in Con-
gress that perhaps may afford key to the
new prophecy. In this speech he declared
that the Boston aboltionists whom he re-
presented-and who probably are as Simon
Pure a stripe as the Becchers, the Grecleys and
the Cheevers of these parts-would never be
content "till they had an anti-slavery constitu-
ton, an ant-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery
Godw Now it seems very likely that this re-
markable prophecy about South Carolina Mig
gers and rice fields is part of chapter from
the first instalment of the long promised "anti-
slavery Bible" This and other circumstances
some of which we shall refer to present
ly-would seem to indicate that the said
'Bble' is in an advanced stage of pro-
gress, and forms part of combined
English and American abolition scheme
to create a revolution among us, destroy
the government and the country, and at the
same time pollute the morals Of the people by
corrupting the fountain Of Holy Writ. A
striking evidence of the depravty that follows
such courses, and the retributive justice seen in
the authors themselves, being the first to fall
under their own malign influence, is exhibited
Just now in the melancholy position of two Of
the leaders Of the school. One Of them, who
is stated preacher Of the Gospel, has com
menced an active agency in the circulation of
immoral publications by advertising them wide
~ in the columns of his own religious journal.
The other, who formerly preached SO long as
he could find audiences to listen to him, has
latterly gone into the lottery business, and is
also running about the city and offering to
make gambling bets with everybody he meets.
He even approached us with his immoral
schemes, when he well knew, or might have
known, that we had conscientious scruples
against every species gambling.
But n tho Dnu tnxt nf fha now Rihla Thara
are two or three little circumstances that make
it improbable that the above quotation can be
in the fourth or any other chapter of the
Prophet Haggai. In the first place, the book
contains only two chapters, and, secondly, the
word "rice' does not occur in the Bible at all.
Rice is supposed TO have had it's origin in
Eastern lands, either on the banks Of the Nile,
in Ethiopia, near the Euphrates. or in India,
and possibly it may have been an article Of
| food in the days Of the ancient Hebrew law
| givers; but neither Moses, David, Solomon,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, nor any Of the minor
| prophets has ever mentioned this Oriental
escuent. The inspired writers, we know,
recorded simply the naked truth. They We're
utterly incapable of invention or misrepresen-
tation But with the abolitionists all things are
possible, and we are glad to be able to
throw some light on the path of these new pro.
phets. A noted abolition leader in England
grocer who has made some money in vending
tea, molasses, soap and putty, has lately COM
menced the publication of the Bible in num-
bers, one of which is before us We find in the
ninth chapter Of Exodus, and the thirty-second
verse, the word 'rice." BY looking at
any correct copy Of the Bible it will be seen
that the word 'ricc" does not occur in the chap
ter at all. As 1t will be several years before
this work is all finished at the rate it is now
appearing, in numbers, there will be abundance
of time to make any further interpretations in
matters relating to Southern slavery, rice plan
| tations, cotton culture, &C., &C.; and who
knows how far they mean to go? Do they in
tend to give us Fremonts proclamation, an ac-
| count of the rout of the rebels at Port ROYAL
| or The race of the little Villain from Bull
run, with the disaster to the wagon which he is
SO reluctant to pay for?
| Some may be disposed to look on this new
version of the Bible as mere literary curios-
! ty; bpt we see 1t in far graver light Some
two hundred and sixty years ago Theodore
| Beza and others issued an English translation
Of the Bible that is known TO Biblical students
and book collectors rs the "Breeches Bible"
In the third chapter of Genesis the first pair are
represented as sewing fig leaves together and
making themselves "breeches." There is still
another edition of the Bible where tho word
vinegar" appears instead Of vineyard" This
Is known as the "Vinegar Bible" Now, by the
aid of the abolitionisis and an ambitious grocer
whose legitimate business is to deal in rice cof-
fee and sugar. We have .Ricc Bible" See Tx
odus, chapter nine, verse thirty-two. What
shall we see ncxt9 When will there dawn
upon a benighted world complete edi-
ton Of the long expected "Anti-Slavery
Bible!' AS yet we have only some Sc
lect portions. When completed we shall
probably have all the chapters of tie Pro-