Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-07

morality or slavery tnan 10r the lengtn OF
Chinese hair, rush vehemently into the on-
slaught upon slavery, and thus actuated by
selfseeking propeusities, ride into places of
political influence And this same selfish
spirit, ripenirg into fauaticism, often seizes
other factors of society than tillers of the
soil as political demagogues; it too often
iLvades the sanctities of the pulpit, and
has prostituted the press. Thus character
lied the war made upon the slave relation
is shoru of many of its best features and
looses much of its power.
8. Again. Opposition to slavery is, in
most insta nces, grounded upon and sustain
ed by a resort to abuse, malicious denuucia-
tions, and gross Misrepresentation. DR..
Charming, quarter of century ago, ad-
mits that his colleagues in Abolitionism
chad done much wrong, forthey had fallen
into the common error of enthusiasts, that
of exaggerating their object, of feeling as
| if no evil existed but that which they op-
posed, and as if no guilt could be compared
with that of countenancing and upholding
slavery. The tone of their newspapers has
often been fierce, bitter and abusive" -
What was true then, is truer now to hun
dred fold extent. Hear, also, what a Aa-
ming Abolitionist, S. S. Foster, said in a
Convention, concerning a portion of the
South: "The church and clergy, as body
are thieves, adulterers, manstea!ers, pirates
and murderers; the Methodist Episcopal
Church is more corrupt and profigate than
any house of i'll fame in New York City ;
the Southern ministers of that body are de.
sirous of perpetuating slavery, for the pur-
pose of supplying themselves with concu
bines from among its bapless victims; and
many of the clergymeu are guilty of enor-
mites that would disgrace an Algerine pi-
rate"
Language little less fendish and scanda.
lous than this, is now often on the lips Of
the rankest Abolitionists, and has some
times found utterance in Congress. See
speeches of Lovejoy and Sumner. No one
can deny, that besides denouncing and vii
lifying shareholders, the most prevalent
method of propagating anti-slavery views,
at the North, is to misrepresent and pervert
the facts and features of slavery. This is
done by the orators and writers, who taking
exceptional facts or cases, which may or
may not be true, and by skillful portraiture,
connected with inhammatory appeals to pas
sion, sympathy and prejudice, teach the
people, young and old, that it is true rep
resentation of slavery. Such without ex-
ception, is the method pursued by the most
popular speakers and most attractive anti
slavery writers of the North. Whether or
not, those who are the agents in the matter,
can be sincerely honest, may be doubted ;
but whatever may be true with reference to
them, the fact that the Northern mind, i'm
agination and heart are thus educated and
imbued with false sentiments and feelings
touching slavery, is unaltered. Hence a
system of teaching, so at war with justice
and propriety and morality, and which, if
applied to any or every relation and institu-
tion of society, would put them under the
curse of both God and man, betrays, in
this respect, the weakness of the Abolition
cause, and thus contributes to the defence
of slaveholding.
+. Still further: Organized and growing
opposition to slavery had led men away from
the Bible, and been allied to, and even pro-
ductive Of, principles and habits confessed
ly more horrible and pestilential, than our
slavery ever has been. Bishop Hopkins
long ago said : "The great revolution in
public opinion upon the subject Of slavery,
that has occurred in Old and New England
in the last half century, cannot be attribu-
ted to the Bible, nor to the Church, nor to
any new knowledge of the will of God, nor
to the discovery of any unknown principles
of moral action. All that belongs to these
was perfectly familiar to the Christian world
from the days Of the Apostles. And there
fore, no intelligent and candid mind can be
surprised to find that the most violent op-
ponents to slavery, in the United States, are
always ready to wrest the Bible and de-
nounce the Church, because they cannot
derive from either the slightest real support
in their assaults against the lawfulness of
the institution"
That this tendency is even more indispu-
table now, is evident from sermon lately
preached in Brooklyn, N. Y, in which the
Presbyterian preacher says: "1t is re.
markable and instructive fact, and one at