Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-02-14
BY, MOLANAHAN s DILL. u. IE3HIIfl.


One % the principal agenetes ov which tbs
s1traorainsry revolution N the public senti-
ment o. TIE North has been brought about is
~. church. The history Of anti slavery IN
thie connection, however, iH too extended 70
admit ~ ANYTHING more than q narration Of
-snsrsl facts. Il is sufficient to say tbot ~,
.bolitio1ists have bad the co-spera tion. - :
1orfion ID he religious aects Of lhs free gist,,
aver since the year 1870, since which tins
Sbeir conferences, sessions, assemblies sad
r,esfinrs have been the theat-rs OF the most
raneorous discussion, abCSiYe debate and II.
presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches
and divided into antsgOnistic parties fhe
American board Of foreign missions. IN.
Ameriean home missionary society. the Amer
iesp tract society, and every other beDevolsns
orrsnization which embraces within itE srone
TIE good Of the common country. They have
thus preventet the dissemination Of the bible.
toe establishing OF missionArleU, the distribu-
tion o. tracts, and Interrupted all efforts that
have been made for the Christian elevation -
ths slave or the welfare OF tie master. Ia.
stead Of that feeling Of attachment and deVo-
ton to the interests Of religion which vas
formerly felt, they are now srrsvsf s~ainut
each o'her, two hostile bodies, whose soir oe
cupation is individual abuse. poiitiesl bsr-
aneues, and the PROCLAMATION Of ths saers3
desk Personal holiness has given Wsv 10
party spirit and while mems hearts around
them are blazing with the csrn1Hties of tbeif
own fallen nature, ministers have forgotten
their vocation in preaching havoc. uubverting
the scriptures ans setting up as the God az
worship the comfortable negroes OF tbs Soutb.
Their sentiment is: " Il the Bible tolerate,
slsvery for an instant, away with II. And
God himssf-if he sanctions his hell. nor,
monstsr--eTsn be is unworthy Of respect. y
The blaek Eortrait OF southern slavery has
been indelhbly painted upon their imasina-
tons until the pure, solid, consistent religion
OF our forsfathsrs no longer exist, Tbsss
reverend Pecksnifs can hardly bear 70 iook
upon a southern man without a feeling OF re-
Vengs; they seldom look at a Bible without
muttsring 3 blssphemy, and cannot speak Of
TIE South and its institutions without Isttinp /
out their dream Of blood and desire.
Witaess some Of their efusions. The Rev.
Bsnry Wright, pastor Of a Congregational |
church in Massachusetts,, said;
aWho is the God Of humsnitvg Hei,nol /
TIE God Of slavery. He il not the ca az I
Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods.
shame on the nation, shame on its politics, /
shame on iss religion shame on such a Cod. /
scorn bin. He is nos my God. will never
bow to his shrine. nv head shall 70 OF with |
nv bat when take it of 70 such God as 1
that.
"It The Bible sanctions slavery, the Bible is
a ssif-svident talsehood, an enemy Of nature I
and Of nstHre's God.
'Ths question il often put 10 ne. would vou
believe slavery to be right il God should de- 4
clare it right2 No would fasten the chain |
upon The heel Of such God, and let the nan
90 free. Such God is phantom . rChesrs. I
The Rev. Daniel Foster, one Of the chap
lains Of the Massachusetts legislature in
1855, said:
ale stood on that floor as an orthodox clsr-
gymsn, but be would as soon exchange With 1
the devil as one OF those hireling priests
hose traitors 70 humanity. NE professsd
church Of Christ is false, ard its hirslins
priesthood unworthy Of cOB6ieBcep
The Rev Mr. GTisIoid. Of StoniHgton. said:
"F0r the ehgrch which sustains slavery, |
wherever it be, an ready 70 say will vel
tome the bolt, whether it come from heavsnor
'rom hell, which shah destroy it. Its preten.
iieHs to Christianity are the boldest effrontery
and the vilest impos -
Ire Rev Mr. Howell saws, WIEN Epsa king
u the Bible arguments in Behalf of slavery:
" Give up ny advocacy Of abolition? Never
wiz sooner, Jonas-iiks, throw The Bible over
board, and exercise If as the Newgate Cslen-
lar, dsnounce God as a stakeholder and his
.ngsls and bis apostles as turnksys to slave
rivers"
The Rev. Mr.. Blanchard, in a speech in The
Detroit convention:
Damned to the lowest hell all the pastors
ind churches Of the South, as they were a
lody Of thieves, adulterers, pirates and MUIR
ersrs-tbat the Episcopal Methods. church I
s more corrup' and profigste than any bawdy
.ouse in the Union-thst the southern minis
eTs OF that body are desirous Of perpetuating
lsveTy for the purposes Of debsuchery, and
hat every clergyman among them is guilty OF
Dormitiss that would shock ssvsge.o
InlE same Rev. Mr.. Blanchard, in discus
ion in Cincinnati, 1S45, in reply to Dr. Rice,
Fho hpld up to the sbolitionisfs' imitation the
Xampls Of the "angel OF the Lord who sd- A.,
Ised Hsg6r, the slave Of Abraham, to return
D her master, !" said: " Well, if the angel did
o advise hsr, think be was a rufian
We might quote sentiments Ike the above
d hbitHm; bat these are sufficient to show
be drift OF portion, at least, Of the clerical I
lind at ttR North.
What has been the inausncs OF these eleri- u
al fanatics? 4? They have contributed to the :
ormation OF revolutionary societies through
ut he length and breadth Of the land, and in 4
tied az men to join in The holy crusade. Ap- G
ealing 70 their congregations, they have
'orked with honied phrase and fattsring ca
ssses upon the tender imaginations OF women, |
ntil they have learned to look upon slave
older az sort OF moral monstrosity. Sew i
x parties havs been turned into abolition =
uss, while little children in the Sunday
-uooih nave peeh tauEhr mat A. Is. stands
" abolition, from books illuminated with
-aphic insignia OF terror and oppression {
tth pictorial chains, handouts and whips, in
le act Of application to naked and crouch
x slaves. This latter remark is truer Of the
ast than the present generation bat we see
le influence around ne in the millions Of !
oung men now constituting the bulk Of the
sPublicsn party, who may trace their opin-
ms upon the question Of slavery, &c the early {
-eiudices thus acquired.
John Randolph, OF Roanoke, once said,
hat the worst government on earth was a c
'vernmsnt Of priests, and he next worst !