Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-03-26

shows that he Is no Inhdel, and By no
means affected with incredibly Bul
TO return to ;he proposition, il IS abso-
lutely incredible how any man IN his
senses could have ven,ured such q mon
strous declaration. Why, my friends.
| DO not believe there is a score Of you
here tonight, however much you may
differ from me on certain aspects of he
question, Who believe slavery TO lie
right. Did It ever occur to YOU, that
you were on the broad road to lnfiIeII-
tyl III fact, that you are already sus-
pended over its yawning abyss by
hair, more alleuuated than that which
held the sword of Damocles2 That
the only hope for YOU Is the balm of
pro-slayery gospel, dispensed by the
physician Of the First Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn! To make belief
in American slavery as a divine insti-
tuition the punctHa3 SalieRS. the starting
poim. of life of faith, lis denial the
gate that leads to utter per.ilion that
TOO, by q minister, eXhausts my aston
ishment. Bul II Is here, and mus; be
met. Well, then, to 60 no further back
American abolluouIsm Is the daughter
Of BRUSH the discussion and accom-
pIishment Of West India Emancipation
originated, 10 a very great extent, the
auu-siavery movement Cf the United
States. Were the aboliiionists Of Great
Brllian intidels! Wilberforce, Clark
son, Sharpe, Stephen, Stanley, and all
the men o. that generation, or any part
of them. or did they ever become inf
dels! Did not the churches of Great
Britain with one united voice ultimately
concur and do they not believe with
US, and against Afr. Van Dyke and his
associates, that a.ery is moral wrougl
Ia the year eighteen hundred and
flfly-seven au address was prepared
and sent by the Protestants Of France
10 the churches of this country, upon the
subject Of slavery; in this address they
declare, d" With respect to ourselves we
feel II incumbent upon US 10 say pahIlc-
~, that there IS not one partisan Of slav-
cry among Us. There Is not among Us
one single Christian who is able to re-
concile with the law of love and hoIi-
ness the possession of man by nzaH-
(they evidently were ignorant OF Mr..
Van Dykes husband and wife illuslra-
tion)-the sale in the market-place Of
IN mortal beings, the barbarous rupture
Of the family tie, the suppression of
marriage, The inegitabIe multiplication
of immoral relations. Nearly SIX
thousand signatures of French Protes-
tants were attached TO this address
We lave vet 10 learn that the Protes-
tauts Of France are iHflLcLs. Similar
addresses. were in preparation in Swift
zerlaud aud Germany, ut whether they
were completed aud sent we are not
informed. The address Of the French
found its waV iuto bur few of the iour-
nails Of this country, and lhe great mass
Of protesting Christians are Yet igaor-
ant lLa. such u document IS IN exist
eace.
= Is our author ignorant tlal there are
IA our own land Presbyterian churches,
win a ministry numbering more than
seven hundred. and a CORRESPONDENT
membership. who declares slavery a
sin against God. and admi. no slave
holder to thcir cummunion2 Has he
forgotten the entire Methodist Church.
which, however Inconsistent in prac-
uce, has never gone SO far as TO en-
body the doctrine Of the " immaculate
conception of slavery iaro their creed &.
tu TIE opposite Or the New School
PresbyterIaus, who have eXpunged, as
the Ola School have, the early les,I-
nonv Of the Presbyterian Church agaius;
slavery as the crime Of mau-s.eatug
How has he overlooked the great mass
Of Congregaronallsts, Weslryans, the
FreewIl Bablists, etc, etc; all Of whom
assert its sinfulness. and deny that il
has any sanction either in the CID or
New Testament | do hot say ,hal
these denominations have do e their
whole du,y, or any thing like il, upon
this subject, but they are all included
IN The definition which he has given Of
abohu0uISm-th belief that slavery is
morally wrong. l affirm thar The man
who gives such a definition, and then
proceeds to assert that tins belief leads
by logical necessity 10 iufIehty, and
attempts 10 prove it, u,ters a viler slam
der against me Church Of God Than
any Inhde Of this or any olhcr age has
ever mouthed, is himself guilty OF lnfi-
dalitv of the very worst aud most dan
rerous character. and ,ha, such asser-
u5as from the mouth of orthodox minis
ters will 90 more 10 produce infdelily
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