The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-10-07
Rev. DIR. Tying said :

| The human race, not merely the American nation
but The whoe human race for all time 10 are In
there death human liberty IA ion to The
eentnR most ty ranny that ever Cursed
the earth, If the Rebels win. The civilized world be-
holds the specacle knowing that this IL not merely
question OF resistance TO the sneroachments OF African
Slavery hut that the interests of the whole world, for
| all future time, hinge upon our victory or defeat
Rev. DR.. Ninton said:
But If slavery he abused by denial to the slave OF
social rights, personal dignity, family ties and he
reduced TO a ehaei that may be bought sold, his
ma rfiage untitled, the person Of either violated
then the civilization becomes debased the social law
Is setat nangbt, Power, more unlimited arbitrary
power, was erclsed In inquirng into the effects OF
sneh Slavery, DIR. Vinton himself by quoting
from Jefferson,
Rev. Mr.. Sloane said:
Doubtless many blind eyes would be opened by the
rebellion, many lips lons scaled upon the subject OF
perhaps hu ndred to speak out boldly to day where
there year ago yet there danger lest the
Church would yet be unfalt hful, and the ministry
while rating many sins OF which viewer guilty
would omit that which above all others had
brought about the Present depiorable conflict.
Rev. DR. Cheever said
The present war the elimination and develop
ment of slaverr. God had chosen in former times
to afict nations for their sins by the sword
famine, wild beasts and pestilence and IL would
escape these things must work for the abolition OF
Slavery.
1t would be easy to multiply our ex-
tracts, but these must suffice. 1t would
be easy and amusing, too, to point out the
extreme skill with which here and there a
preacher managed to manufacture and
emit discourse wonderfully free from all
illusions to Slavery whatever. Credit to
whom credit is due! High credit to the
performers who can make entertaining and
instructive the play of Hamlet with the
part of Hamlet omitted by request He
must be no ordinary person who could sit
down in his study and could say: Now, In
this Concio Al Popuium which | am
about to construct, there must be no Anti.
Slavery fanaticism. This, clearly, is not
one of the sins Of the people which | am
called upon to rebuke. Verify, will de-
nounce avarice and incompetency and IN
temperance, which undoubtedly have
brought this Judgment upon US
We wish it to be distinctly understood
that in printing the foregoing excerpts, We
do not mean to violate the secular propri-
cites by indorsing the sentiments avowed
and the opinions expressed We are graf.
flied by the tone of them but we may be
wrong, and all these religious men may be
wrong Only We say that il would be re.
markable If speakers of piety, thought
culture and conscience, called to such a
work as not once in hundred years is il
given man TO do, summoned in the hear
ing Of God to declare His wsrd amid the
horrors and humiliation Of internecint
war, should one and all sound the same
key note, and yet that note be false one
We are still told by divers croaking foil
that the war has nothing to do with '.nig
gers nor with emancipation, nor Will
Slavery As sin, nor with Slavery as al
economical and political blunder See how
all these ministers could not, for the live,
Of them, think SO See how their pointe,
fingers al 90, with the unerring precision
of instinct, to the liyid and swollen plague
spot, and how they all cry out, BY author
ity and with their Bibles before them
'Heal his"' Certainly, il they ar,
laundering, these physicians with diyIn
dipomas, how shall Others rightly deter
mine2 II the piety and the morality ans
the incorporated virtue of the land is al
: wrong, the heavens may we'll be hung witt
black, and day changed to night Tn
blind are leading the blind, aud the ditcl
. is just before us
And yet, let us not view with suspicio
p that intens patriotism which asks Us, i
: these emergencies, to free ourselves fror
> all moral considerations! This is not
war with which Slavery has anything I
do and therefore let us never mention il
4 This is a war for the flag, for the Union
for the Patent Office, the Capitol, tn
Treasury. the Presidents House, an
y Pennsylvania Avenue! What pity a
, these good clergymen should have been =
!. much mistaken!