The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-01-23

the free. and where slaves are better clothed
and fed and instructed, and have better op-
portunity for salvation than the majority Of Ia.
boring people in the city Of New York II the
tongue Of sbolItionism had only kept silence
these twenty years past, the number Of such
families would be ten fold as great. Fanaticisrn
at the North is one chief stumbling block in
the way OF the Gospel at the South. This Is
one great griesance that presses to-day upon
the hearts Of our Christian brethren at the
South This in measure, explains why such
men ~ DR.. Thornwell, Of South Carolina. and
| DR.. Palmer, OF New orleans--lnen whose gen.
ius and learning and piety would adorn any
State or statinn--are willing to secede rom 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 ofabolitionisIn in our
national councils. and the incessant turmoil ex
cited by the unscriptural dogma, that savehold-
ing is q sin.
1.-THE PRINCIPLES OF ADoLITtoNrsk HAVE
BEEN PRoPAaATED CHIEFLY By aisREPREsEN
| TATf0N AND ABUSE.
| Having no foundation in Scripture, It does
not carry on it's warfare by Scripture weapons.
Its prevail ng spirit il fierce and PROUD, and its
language is ull OF wrath and bitterness. Let
me prove this by testimony from its own lips.
quote DR.. Claiming, OF Boston. whose name
is a tower Of strength 10 the abolition cause,
and whose memory j. their continual boa~t. In
a work published in 1886, | find the following
words:
'The abn'itionists have done wrong. believe;
nor is their wrong to be winked at berause done
hnatically or with good intentions; Tor how
much mischief may he wrought with good de-
signSl They have fallen into the coniaon error
ofenthusiasts, of that OF exaggera'ing their Object
o! feeling as ! no evil exis, ed bat that which
they opposed, as il no guilt could be compared
with that Of countenancing and uphOlding II,
The tone OF their newspapers, so lar as have
seen them, has often been fierce, bitter and abu
sive. They have sent forth their orators. some
of them transp RED with fiery zeal, to sound
the alarm against slavery through the land, to
gather toge her young and old, pupils from
schools, lem les hardly arrived at the years of
discretion, the ignorant, the exci'able, the i'm.
pe,unus and to organize these into associations
! for the battle against oppression. Very unhap
| PLY thsy preached Their doctrine to the colored
people, and collected them iuto societies To
this mixed ard excitable multi ude, minnie
heart rerding descriptions OF slavery were given
in piercing tones OF passion; and shareholders
were held up MS monsters OF cruelty and crime.
| The aholionist, indeed, proposed to convert
Shareholders; and for this end he approached
| them with vitupeIation and exhausted on them
the vocabulary of abuse. And he has reapcd as
he SOW ed"
| Such is the testimony Of DR.. Claiming, given
in the year 1886. What would he have tho't
and said il | had lived until the year 1860 and
seen this little stream, over whose infant vio
lence he la,hented, swelling into torrent and
flnnding tine land! Abolitonism is ahnsive in
its persistent Misrepresentation Of the lega! prin
ciples involved in the relation betw mast er
aud slave. They re,erate in thousand excl
ting iofmsTThe assertion that the idea Of prep.
eIiy in man blnts out his manhood and degrades
him to the level ora brute or a stone 'Domes-
'ic slavery" says DR.. Waylard, in his work on
Moral Sci"nce, 'snpposes at hest that the rela-
latinn between master aud slave ls not that
which exists between man and man. but is a
modification, at least of that which exists be-
tween man and the brutes." DO not these
holitionist 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 stat
utes Of the State of New York, and ofevery
other Northern State, recognise and protect
this property. and our courts Of justice have re
peatedy assessed its value. Ifa man Is killed
on q railroad. HE wife may bring suit and re-
cover damages for the pecuniary loss she has
suffered Hone man eniice away the daughter
Of another, and marry her while she is still un-
der age the father may bring civil sui for dam
ages for the loss of That child's services and the
pecuniary compensation is the only redress the
law provides. Thus the common law OF Chris.
tendon and the statues of our own State rec
oguiSe properly in man. 10 what does that
property consist? Simply in such services as a
man or chi may proE er'y b. requ red to render
This is all that the LeviIical law. or any other
law, neans when it says: Your honlmen shall
bc your possession or property and an inheri
lance for your children" The property consists
not in the right TO treat a slave like brute, but
simply in legal claim for such services as
man in that position may properly be required
10 render And yet abnhiionists in the lace Of
the divine law, persist in denouncing the very
relation between master and slave AS modifi-
cation at least Of ttat whi,h exists between
man and the brutes." This, however, is not
the worst or most prevalent form which their
abusive spirit assumes. Their mode Of arguing
the question of slaveholding by pretended ap,
peal to facts is ts> ue Of misrepresep aeion
from beginning to end. Let me illustrate my
meaning by parallel case. Suppose I under
take TO prove the wicke iness OF marriage as it
exists in the city ofNew York. In this discus
sion, suppose the Bible is excluded, or at least
that it is not recognised as having exclusive in
risdicton in the decision of the question Ny
first appeal is to the statute law Of the Stat.
| show their enactments which nulIify the
law OF God and make devorce a marketable
and cheap commodity. collect the advertise
ments OF your daily papers. in which lawyers
offer 10 procure the legal separation Of man and
wife fora stipulated price, to say nothing in this
sacred place OF other advertisements which de
cency forbids me 10 quote. Then turn TO the
records OF our criminal courts. and find that
every day some cruel husband beats his wife, or
some unnatural parent murders his child, or
iome discontented wife or husband seeks the
dissolution OF the marriage bond. In the next
place, turn to The orphan asylums and hos
pi ais, and show there the miserable wrecks of
domestic tyranny in wives deserted, and chill
dren manned by drunken parents. In the last
place, 60 through our streets and into our tene-
ment houses, and count the thou-ands OF ragged
children, who. amid ignorance and fiIih, are
training for the prison and gaows. Summing
all these acts toge her. put hem forth rs the
fruits OF marriage in the city Of New Y,rk, and
proof that the relation itself is sinful. Ii
were novelist. and wri ten book to illustrate
this susne doctrine, would call this ar,av OF
facts "Key." In this kew I Sav nothing abou,
the sweet charities and affections that q ,urish
in ten thousand homes, not a word ahout the
multitude oi loving k,rdnesses that charact erize
the da ly lie ol honest people, about the mstruc.
ton and Discipline, that are training children
a, ten thousand tite>ides for usefu ness here and