, 1862-08-12
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JUSTICE OF THE ALM1G HrY.

IGSIAOH U& THE ALUlGH
It seems to be decreed that the American
people must lose all they have made or &C.
quired from the sin Of slavery, and suffer
in their own persons all the anguish thev
hare wrongfnlly put upon the African
race L is impossible to compute in dol
lars and cents the aggregates Of the vast
balance Sheet but we cannot avoid tho
conviction that the sum total Of profit that
has been derived from slayeholding, slave
trading, and slave driving, from the dav
thetirst cargo Of Africans were landed at
jamestown, down to the da9 when the last
OF the race shall be emancipated, is to ha
swept awayin thevortex Of civil war viii,
probably, compound Interest at six percent
70 date. If 80, who ahau gainssy the JUS,
dce Of the Almighty1 But the dread &C
count does not stop here. Dollars and
cents can be replaced The accumulated
wealth, which the sun heholds in his course
from the Atlaaic to the Pacific to-day, is a
tribe in the lifetime Of nation. There is
an account Of b1oodshed and tears, bodily
torture, separation Of husband and wife.
parent and child, extending over period
OF two hundred years. Have We nothing
to balance it in our own sufferings, in the
tale Of every battle field, in the mortality
report which every day brings Us from
some quarter7 We have used men and
women as so much raw material, to be
worked up into cotton and sugar, till We
have been able to compute without shud-
der that the average life Of slave on =
plantation in the cotton and sugar States
is about seven years. Do our hospitals On
the Peninsula show nothing to correspond
with this fact in the alarming waste Of
human life?
There is philosophy in this war which
We would do well to comprehend. They
tell us England is on the eve Of great CO.
lanities by reason Of the var in America.
England is entitled to great calamities, for
putting upon us the original sin. Let her
take her just share, and bear it as she NAV.
e the Lord, thy God, am Jealous
God, visiting the iniquilies Of the
fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation.' Eng
LAID gave us slavery and took
cotton for her pay. # she has made rope
enough out OF it to hang herself let her CIV
aloud to GOO for mercy, and not rail at us
for being the instruments in His hands to
ca1Ty forward the DEGREES Of everlasting
justice. Let John Bull to his knees with us !
But what shall be the penalty Of the
Shareholders themselves in this general SET
1ement? What is the balance due from
Them In the great clearing house7 If |
those who are only responsible as ac-
cesser1e5-those who long ago put away
the sin from their own doors-suatr
SO much, what must be the reck-
oning for those who have traf1eked
IN human flesh, welded the scourge with
their own hands, and taken The sword at
Last to perpetuate and extend the horrjd
crame? "No unto thee Chorazin Wo INTO
thee Be.hsaidai It shall be mora to1er.
atle for Tyre and Sidons in the dav Of Jude.
ment, than foryou And thou, Capernauc1.
which are exalted to heaven, shalt be
brought down to hell" Before the slave
holding classes shall see the sword again
shcatl1ed they will, in all probability, be
coiltcrated from human society, or re-
duced to condition not less wretched th,u
shat OF the slaves whom they have SO long
and so 1mpIons1y ma1treated. "Itremble
1or my country said Jefferson, "when I
think that End ;s ine+ md +;o+ H.:
viii not sleep forever" He is 5ustl Let
US endure with humility that which He
puts upon us, and strive no longer, to our
own hurt, to thwart His -imnlutabIe de-
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