Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-14
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THURSDAY. FEB. IA, 1861.

j. ~""~V"s~"~ <D*s~1~t**~~% THURSDAY. FEB. IA, 1861. u EDITOR OF THE L1rcHY1MD ENQUIRER :-
 S;r:-The National Democrats have no ps
 per in this County, through which I can speal . I appeal to your love of fair play, to your mag ' nanimity; for confess I have no other groun 5 of clain,-to insert in your paper short serie
 of articles, setting forth the views, the aims an, the duties of Northern National Democrats. o
 course, you will comment on these articles a you think best. Still further, any compensation that you may demand for occupying the space il your paper, will be cheerfully made
 Democrats, have you read the discourse O
 Dr. Raphael, on Hebrew Slavery? Have yor read that of Dr. Van Dyke on Christian Slave
 y? The former proves that Slavery is justi6
 able by the Old Testament latter, that it is sanctioned by the New. Who doubts the com. petence and the honesty of ftheselearned represen. tatives ofthe two dispensations one of the Mosaic, the other of the Christian? Evidently the question is settled. The argument is exhausted. Black Republican newspapers may rave to their hearts content. Fanatic anti-slavery clergymen may dole out their anathemas, as much as they please
 It is all in vain. The Bible is the bulwark of Slavery. Light is breaking in. The ball is in motion. The Democracy of the North has a glorious mission to fulfil It is to dispel the darkness and error, to remove the prejudice and scruples that prevail in this section of our country, in regard to this Bible-sanctioned i'm stitution, human Slavery. The Democracy is the leaven that must leaven this whole lump. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom Democrats of the North you must be the sal vation of American Slavery-and so of Slavery in the world. For the glorious, heaven -sanc- toned institution is dying out everywhere else. Even the despot of Russia is becoming fanat- ic. Our own happy country is it's last refuge. Alas if it be overcome here, there is danger of it's ceasing from all the earth Democrats, in regard to Slavery, you are the Spartan phalanx of Leonidas, you stand in the Thermopyle of the world.
 Occupying this awfully responsible position, in order to fulfil your duty, you need to plant yourself on the true ground as regards Slavery. Away with all apologies for it. No m ore excu- ses for it, as if it were in any sense an evil We must abandon all mese defensive warfare, and assume the defensive. We must car ry the war into Africa, metaphorically now, perhaps literally hereafter. We must as-- sume that Slavery is right, is proper, is Chris tian. With Dr. Raphael and Dr. Van Dyke, we must take our stand on the Bible. What if nearly all the clergy of every denomination, north of Mason and Dixons line, are against us What if the Christian world outside of the Southern country has misinterpreted the Bible. On that very account, the Raphaels and the Van Dykes are to be hailed with the greater en- thusiasm, as the Luthers of this new Reforna. tion. If they are sustained and cheered, as I have no doubt they will be, by the Democracy of the North erelong they will be followed by Melancthons, by Zuingles, and by Calvins.
 Still further, as regards the true view of Sla- very, derived from the Bible, by these learned in general the slavery of the Old Testament, and that which existed in the time when the New Testament was written, was white slavery
 The argument of Dr. Raphael is applicable to, and fully vindcates Pharaoh in his treatment of the Jews, who were, as I humbly conceive, white This evinces the Doctors freedom from prejudice. Then the slavery which existed when the New Testament was written, was Ro- man slavery. The Romans in their wars in Britain. Gaul, Germany, and South-W estern Asia, took many eaptives which were brought to Rome, or to the other great cities, and sold into slavery. Many fair-skinned, blue-eyed Brit aims cf both sexes, were to be seen in the slave mart at Rome, in those days. Dr. Raphael will remember with satisfaction, that Titus, after the conquest of Jerusalem, brought an immense number of captive Jews to Rome, who were sold into slavery. This species of slavery, that of whites by whites, is the kind that was the most common in the time of the New Testament. l And of course it is this white slavery, that we are assured by these learned divines, is sanction ed by the Bible. This broad principle will in- deed sanction African Slavery but it is not confined to that. It not only justifes our South ern brethren, and saves them all the trouble they have been at, to draw support from the curse pronounced on Ham but it is amply suf- fcient to authorize the introduction of white slavery there and also here at the North, too, 1 if it shall be deemed expedient. Democrats, bJ
 taking this bold, Scriptural stand for white 1 slavery, we are brought into delightful harmony of opinion with the shareholders of the seuth'
 The Richmond Enquirer, that orthodox expo I nent of Southern sentiment, at least ef demo- cratic sentiment, said months ago :-" Until re-
 gently, this defence of slavery has labored un-
 der great difficulties, because it's apolegists, flor they were mere apologists,) took halfway Ia grounds. They confined the defence of sla very to mere negro slavery; thereby giving up the slavery principle, admitting other forms oi
 /" slavery to be wrong, The line of defence ii |" now changed. The South maintains that slave
 ary is right, natural, and necessary, and does no : " depend on difference of complexion. Tn, laws of the Slave States justify the holding Q