Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-22
: God Hath Made of one Blood"

IeN. MI. an Dykt, oI l'i"oAi ~ ""'N'''
defending slavery for divinely author
lied and commendable institution, was
distributed broadcast over the land
by those of like sentiment. An extract
from one Of Pof Lewis letters will indi-
cate their profound christian spirit;
"Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars
hill and said: God who made the
world and all things that are therein
/ He who is Lord of Heaven and earth
/ He hath made Of one blood all nations
to dwell upon the face of the earth, hav-
ing determined their appointed times and
the boundaries of their dwellings, He
who admits of any inspiration at all in
the Bible must acknowledge it here. II
my where we recognize the divine voice
sneak. ng through man to man, we must
see tbe ev ;ience Of it in this majestic
utterance from lars hill. The time and
the place give it a peculiar 81 gnlteance'
The Alhenians, it is we'll known pr'ded
themselves extravogantly on raoc. Ihey
claimed TO be the Am0chHoneS the ma
tive born, the pure Attic. No other
blo,,d Mingled with theirs, or was allowed
to mingIe, The barbarians, the nations,
or heather, as the Jews would have ex-
pressed it, were their interiors. On
this very ground Of inferioriry of blood,
the greatest Greek philosophers had
made an argument to prove the right of
slavery. Their poets, their orators, had
all fed the same idea. No humiliation
had weakened it. 1t kept its strength
under the Spartan euhjasatIdn-undeF
the Roman rule.
But now here comes a strange man
from the barbarian land he stands on
that ancient hill, the seat of their most
holy and conservative court; in the face
of their strongest prejudice, in defiance
Of their Attic pride, he says, " God, the
High Ruler OF us all, cur Sovereign
Lord and King, He hath made OF one
blood all nations to dwell on all the face
Of tLe earth" lie left this new and
n. ighty truth to sink down into their
astonished souls. Its application to slay-
cry was OBVIOUS enough no one who
chose to look tina, way could fai! to see it !;
but the apostle wished to give il a still
wider bearing. His object was not to
preach merely political jubilee, but 10
give the truth, in its earthly aspect,
higher ground and higher effect, by
showing its connection with the heavenly
and divine. 1t was TO lead the soul to
that eternal basis Of all philanthropy, Of
all true love TO man-that all-embracing
article, that men, all men, the lowest
men, are the 'oilsprings Of Sod" ANNA
ted by life originally inbreathed by
him, made in his image, having IN this a
sight Of truths SURPRISING sense, a vision
dim though it be, Of the immortal ideas,
and thus, in the low es. and most animal
forms Of suuken humanity, still allied
to the eternal, the uncrcated, the divine.
1t is summed up in lhat, which, if il
had not been said ny Paul, some would
not ave Lesitatcd to call Pantheism -
" for in Ge4 we lice, and n7jpe, and ere
This was the law aid testimony" he
proclaimed, then went lis way. God
hath made" not OF similar blood, non
of the same blood, but OF one blood,
Of one lite, all ua,ioLs 10 dwell On al
the face Of the earth.
l, th!s sublime declaration consistent
with slavery ia It's merccnary sense, il
lis claims Of ownarsAip; Can one sucl
beina own ano,her saeh being as hi
property, for lis g. Can he say 0
I'm as he would Of a Lorsc, OF an OK, Ii,
is mine; lie, his children, and his chill
dren's children are improperly? The,
live "Lot for themselves but for me
They live, not for God, 10 serve God il
their own free will and selfhood, but 70
me, for NY gain, my worldly profit, 70
that thing call my pleasure, my hap
piness, or my good. II there is some
thing that cannot he got out of lin
something too interior for me 10 reach
lie may have il, or he who made hin
may have il but for all the use IL =
be thus obtained, for all earthly IA
producing uses certain hey al. u.
property, and he is miae
ANDREW Johnson ON THE SECEs
sIoNIsTs.--Iu recent speech at Wash
ington, Mr. johnson, referring to the lat
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