M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-04-17


be extinguished by the civil power,
whether used by a Democracy or Aris.
tOcracy, or Monarchy--but will -four
ell in spite thereof-both religion and
civil rights are best promoted by
Democracy. Where religion never
impresses its spiritual interests into
civil authorities -and under pure
Democracy, the civil power never in.
terferes with the spiritual affairs OF
the Church, but leaves God to be tho
suprems Lord of conscience.
Now for an illustration. Holding
that so long as man is depraved by
nature, that until the promised milien-
ium shall arrive--vice, crime and
immortality will exist among the Yeo-
pie. The Gosple dose not hold out
the idea that sin can be banished from
the world, until that day,,shall arrive.
MANY are called but few saved" SO
neither the ecclesiastical nor the civil
power contelnplates the entire eradi.
cation Of evil. To do this, mankind
would have to be extermlnated. The
object of government IS to restrain
ev:l-protect the weak against the
strong and mitigate and regulate
evils that cannot be fully eradicated
Our Saviour when upon the earth, al.
thought he lived and daily worked
among people who had slaves Of
their own blood and color-and con.
tr0lled their very existence--never
spoke word against the civil statutes
which tolerated such slavery. His
code was-"Servants be oOedient to
your Masters. Masters, be kind to
your servants"
But under onr Democratic Govern.
ment administered by the principles
of Democracy-snd aided by the in
Auence of religion--rapid strides were
made not only to mitigate and regu
late the evils of intemperance ahJ
slavery, bnt to finally eradicate them
While the license syAtem broke up all
dosgeries and tippling houses, it com
PEELED all who retailed ardent spirits
to abstain from selling to the regular
dram, ,drinker, to minors and pre-
vented all that species Of rowdyism
which now disgraces societyl And
an extra tax upon the manufacture
and wholesale ofthe spirituous liquid,
controlled to a great extent the gene.
raj evil. While the Church, in its
proper sphere, by the enforcement Of
its discipline--by the precepts and ex.
amples Of its members, aided in put
ting wholesome restraints upon the
evil, and kept it in as near proper
bounds as human wisdom could do,
and the Divine will permitted.
So with slavery. Under the inAu.
ence ofreligion and democracy, slave,
ry had been banished from the Allan.
tic to the Pacific from the Canada
line to these Of NJ ason and Dixon, and
and healthy anti slavery feeling was
spreading in all the border States |!
And ifthe Churches, which, Of their
own Tree will, had abolished the evil
had not endeavored to coerco others to
do as they had done, there would now
have been no slavery in any Of the
States bordering on Mason and Dixon
line. But failing 10 cOerce the South
cru Churches by ecclesiastical laws
to obOlish slavery, and excommunicat,
ing them as anti christian, and then
calling upon the civil law to aid in
doing what christian influence had
failed to do, the nation has been
plunged into civil war, and the very
foundation Of civil and religious liber.
ty endangered. Under the new dis
pensation OF uniting politics with re,
ligion, nearly every old Federal repro.
bate got religion, and reform?d-from
ba0 to worse. A new gospel WAS
preached--instead OF "love your ene.
mics, and 10 good to them that de-
spitefully use you" the injunction
was, "Hate your neighbor, for the
love of God" The Northern clergy
set up the negro free, as an Idol, and
fell down and worShiped him !! The
Southern clergy set up the negro as a
slave, and fell down and worshiped at
its shrine !! Both ignord the trne gos,
pei both grievcl away the Holy
Spir:t--and the spirit Of evil prevail,
ed, until God gave up the people to
their own passions. land threw away
the gospel --both trampled upon the
great chart Of our liberties, the Con
stitution--and both seized the sword
Whist the end will be, God only
knows. HARDsHELL;
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