The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-02-27
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and hell cannot dissolve it. Though my lot il
cast in colder cline, yet in the outgoings Of
that warm affection to which space is nothing,
will ever say, "Entreat me not 10 leave thee,
for your people shall be my people, and youf
God nv God;" and though we may bs sspars-
ted Ii body for while BY the dark gull Of po-
liticsl disunion, and by absorbing strife fof
which every sound man at the North will soon
be called to grid himselt-the long, long rest Of
eternity, will afford abundant opportunity for
the interchange OF our mutual charities.
1.-THE pEtxcfpLEs OF ABottTtoS HAVE skEs
PRoPAGATED Chiefly BY MISREPRESENTATION
AND ABUSE. ,
Having no foundation in Scripture, Il does
not carry on its warfare by Scripture weapons:
It's prevailing spirit is fierce and proud, and its
language is full of wrath and bitterness Let
me prove this by testimony from its oSyh, lips,
| quote DR.. Charming. of Boston, whose mama
is tower ofstrehgth to the Abolition cause and
whose memory is their continual boast. In
work published in the year 1885, find the fol.
lowing words:--
"rhe Abolitionists have done wrong believe;
nor is their wrong to be winked at because done
fanaticslly or with good intention; for how much
mischief may te Wrought with good designs! They
have faeii into the cotnnon error of enthusiasts.
that OF exnggerating their OBJ ect, feeling as II
no evil existed but tnat which they opposed, and as
If no guilt could be compared with that OF coun-
tenancing and upholding II. The tone Of their.
ne wspapers, so far as have seen them, has often
been fierce, bitter and abusive. They have sen1
forth their orators some ot them transported " ith
fiery zeal, to sonnd the alarm against slavery thfe
The land to gather together young md old, pupils
from school, tema les hardly arrived at years o.
discretion the ignorant, the exctable, the impetu-
ous and to organize these into associations for the
battle against oppression. Very unhapily, they
preached their doctrines the colored peopla and
collected theni inlc societies. To this mixed and
exciteable multitude minute, hearrending descrip.
tions OF slavery were given in piereipg tones of
passion; and Shareholders were held up I'D ifansters
of cruelty and crime. The Abohtichiste, Indeed
proposed to convert slaveholders; and for this end
he approached ierii With vituperaton, and exhaus.
ted on the III The vocabulary Of abuse And he has
reaped as he sowed"
Such is the testimony Of DR.. Chauning, Civ.
en- in the year 1886. What would he have
thought and said il he had lived until the yesr
1860, and seen this little strsart, over whose In:
fant violence he lamented, swelling into tor
rent and flooding the land?
Abolitionism is abusive in its persistent mis-,
Of the legal principles involved
in the relation between master and slave It's
teachers reterate, in a thousand exciting forms
the assertion that the idea af property in mao
blots out his manhood and degrades him to
the level Of brute or stone. Domestic sls-
very" says Or. Wayand In his work ou Moral
Science "supposes; at best, that the relation
between master and slave is not that which
exists between man and man, but is modifi.
cation, at least, Of that which exists between
man and the brutes." DO not these..A AboIitionist
philosophers know, that according to the laws
ofevery civilized country on earth, q man has
property ia His children, and a woman has
property in her husband? The statues OF the
State Of New York. and of every other North
rem Safe, recognize and protect this property,
and our courts ofjustice have repeatedly "a
sessed Its value. If a man is killed on a rail-
road, his wife may bring suit and recover dam
ages for the pecuniary loss she has suffered,
If one man entiee away the daughter OF In
other, and marry her, while she is still under
age, the father may bring civil suit for DANA
ges for the loss OF that childs services, and tho
pecuniary compensation is the only redress the
law provides.* Thus the common law of
Christendom and the statutes of onr own
State, recognize property in nan. In what
does that property consist? Simply in such
services as man or child may properly be REQUIRED
to reuder. This is all that the Levitical law.
OF any other law means when 1t saws, aYour
bondmen shall be your possession, OF itfbpberty,
and an inheritance for your children" The prot-
erty consists, not in the right to treat the slave
like brute, but simply in legal claim for such
services as n man in that position NAV properls
be required to render.t And yet Abolitionists,
in the face fthe Divine law, persist in denoun.
cling the very relation between master and
slave las modification, at least, of that which
exists between man and the brutes."
THIS however, is not the worst or most prev
allen form which their abusive spirit assumes.
Their mode ofarguing the question of slavehold.
ingby pretended appeal to facts is q tissue Of
Misrepresentation from beginning to end. Let
me illustrate my meaning by parallel case.--
Suppose undertake to prove the wieksdness
of marriage, as it exists in the city of n York.
In this discussion suppose the Bible is excluded.
or, at least, that it is not recognized as having
exclusive jurisdiction in the decision of the auss-
ton. My first appeal is to the statute law or
the State.
show there enactments which nullify the
law OF God, and make divorce marketable and
cheap commodity. Icollect the adye ertisements
Of your daily papers, in which lawyers offer TO
procure the legal separation of man and wife
for stipulated price, to say nothing, in this
sacred place, ofother advertisements which ds4
cency iorblds me to quote. Then turn to ths
records OF our criminal courts, and find that
ever day some cruel husband beats his wife. or
some unnatural parent murders his child, or
some dlscontented wife or husband seeks the
dissolution of the marriage bond. In the next
place turn to the orphan asylums and hospi-
tails, and show there the miserable wrecks Of
domestic tyIanny in wives deserted and children
MANNED by drunken parents.t In The last pfscsj
60 through our streets, and into tenement hou.
ses, and count the thousands dragged children.
who, amid ignorance and filth, are training for
the prison and gallows.
*If the fw went further, as il ought to. and
punished tie minister who performs the smarrisee
ceremony, the offence would not be SO often r.
peated in this community
with a manifest design to pre- djudiee the stu
dent against the idea OF property in man. DR..
Wayland adopts marvellous "Definition of ths
teachers look at it. ''1hs abstract right Of ,essi.
" s The right 70 use something in such manner as
choose bu, inasHuch as this right Of nss is
common TO AL men. and zone may chosss "a usc
his property In such way az TO deprive his nsieh.
Dor o this or sone other right the rigbtto uss a.
choose is limited by ihe fastnEfion that do not
mteriera with The rights Of my neighhar. The
tige. o. properly tnerticTe when thus sesiriessd.
do uot ute i % u interfere with the ricts of nv
nsighbor "--page 229 Il that 90, Dr. "Wayiandt
Has man right. II he chooses. 70 take his horse
into the woods, @hero bis neighbors viii nes be
tsn rbcd by his crnety aad there turtare or stayys
the p,,r bsasti Does the inaster,s claim "a rrop.
er.y in his servant involve claim to use Tint sey.
want just he chooses, with 10 other restriction
than tbs otiayea n,entioui No sir, she ahs.sa ct
night OF prt2sty 10 the right 70 use coma thing or
.sen, and ussNslth be- restrictions which lie Divine
lay tsuPoseas sxsch restrlct ions 20 much farther
than my ncislseor's rights. this u Chrs,iaD phi