Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-16
/ Textbook for the Rebels.

"PULP1T POLITICS; OR ECCLESIASTICAL Leo
| IsLATzoN ON SLAVERY, IN ITS DISTURBING IN
FLuENcEs cN THE AMERICAN UNION. By
Prof. DAVID CRR1sTY, Author of ''Cotton il
King Ethiopia Chemistry Of Agricultu
| ral,' Sc. Cincinnati: Faran & Mclean
publishers. " =* @'= e.
The above is the title of a most in
tensely pro slavery book, published bJ
the proprietors of the Cincinnati En-
qairer, and thoroughly redecting the
views of that paper. The book appears
to be brought out at this time for polit,
ical effect. The great fear of the writer
and publishers appears to be that slauery
dear slavery, may suffer in the present
effort to overthrow our government
In their estimation slavery is the lone
thing needful." 1t must be preserved
and cherished, and worshiped, what
ever else survives or perishes. They
think if we could only have slavery
enough, the glorious days Of Eden would
return. Thefollowing extract will show
how the author can fall down and wor.
ship this heathen god:
"The Trainers Of our Constitution n
found a barbarous people in their midst,
totally untitled for the rights of citizen
ship, and held in servitude under pre-
existent customs and laws. Slavery,
under the Constitution, was declared to
be the forbidden fruit which was to
remain untouched by the nation at
large. The declaration on this point
virtually was, Sin the day thou eatest
thereof, dying, thou shalt die The
serpent of abolition entered the garden
of liberty at the Northern gate, and
beguiled the inhabitants 'into sin and
ruin From the day that Abolition
ism put forth its hand from New Eng
land, in disobedience to the commands
Of the Constitution, to pluck the fruit
of the tree Of knowledge Of good and
evil, from that day briers and thorns
have been sprisging up, wherever the
serpent's trail has left it's slime, and the
ruin now resting upon cur Eden is
traceable, directly, to those who, adopt
ing Abolition sentiments, taught treason
to the Constitution in reference to the
institution of slavery"
In all our reading we have never seen
anything SO cringing, and, low, and con-
tempti5le, as this prostration Of soul
and body before the vilest form Of sin
that ever disgraced Gods footstoo
To let slavery alone, according to Pro
fessor Christy, is the only condition Of
political paradise. Just let slavery
alone to spread through all the Free
States, breathing its foul blight upon
everything that ia just, honest, lovely,
and Of good report, and extending its
curse even to the honest soil, and ',what
heaven below we should havel
Let all opposition cease to system
whose vocabulary does not even contain
the words father, mother, husband or
wife; which affords no protection to fe-
male virtue, whiie it fosters directly, in
manner and form, nearly every com-
.aandmen: in the Decaiosue, and which
now lifts up its arm to overthrow the
American Republic; let the system alone
to accomplish all its insolent demands.
all its hellish designs, all its blasting
influences upon the poor white popula-.
ton of the South; let it aioue till the
Golden Rule shall be expunged from
the Bible, the Declaration Of IDdepen-
dence denounced as the mad rawlings Of
a fanatic; let it alone till it has over
thrown our Government, and driven all
hope of rational liberty from this con-
tinent, and established irrevocable castes
men, depliving every man who
Lbors Of all the rights OF rational be-
ings; let it alone till it has put to death
every man who remembers them in
bonds-then the earth again becomes q
garden of paradise .....-
Is it possible that in the latter part
of tho nineteenth century, and in the
midst Of the wickedest rebellion this
world has ever witnessed, and this re-
bellion cuased, too, directly by and for
the system of slavery-can it be poss-
BILE that protested Christian mar, in
Free State, can seize this as the auspi-
cious opportunity to glorify slavery
through a large octave volume Of six
hundred ard twenty four pages? The
book, from beginning to end, is directly
to give aid and comfort to
the enemy. 1t INDUCES in the usual
slang against all nti-slayery men, call
ing them Abozitionists, and charging
upon them the entire guilt of the war
According to Professor Christy, the
rebels are in the right, rather than the
anti-slayery men of the United States.
There is no word in the, book, that we
have been able to find, condemning the
wickedress of slavery. The condemna-
tion is all on the other side 1t is de-
signed to be favorite authority among
those who claim that the North has
forced the war upon the country in or
der to interfere with slavery. The
book is calculated to inalme still more
and more the ignorant prejudices Of
Southern people against their Northern
neighbors. 1t is bosk which will be
everywhere commended by those whose
sympathies are with the present wicked
REBELLION, and everywhere condemned by,
the unconditional Union men of the
A9rocds, Aprii30.
What world of endless .hous ht is
contained in these words, NEVER and