Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23


ing in ''rebelli, n a-ainst the eiicts,e Godi' Mr..
Williams cannot slow any "elict I God" against
slavery But. an "edict of Coz in favor Of
slavery can be produced.
We do not approve Of lugginYthe scriptures
into political arguments: bat. szce the "Rev.
VIM r Williams. ID. D." has thSIsht proper to
refer 70 Divine Authority 10 supply bis treason,
we may be pardoned for referring TO the Bible
for a refutatiOn OF his heresy and Aalse teachings.
And the Lord spake unto Ny s, in Mount
Sinai. saying [among other thingst
Both thy bondmen, and the bofimaids, which
thou shalt have, SHALL be Of the be- theu that are
round about thee: of them shall X buy bondmen
and bondmaids.
Moreover, Of the children Of, the strangers
that do %sojourn among you. of thef shall We buy.
and OF their families that are wth YOU, which
they begat in your land, and the4 shall be your
possession.
And We shall take them as an Inheritance for
your children after you, to inheSt them for a
possession, they shall be yonr bonfnen forever"
-LEvITICUs XIV: AZ, 40, 46.
This, we take it, amounts TO an tedict of God"
in favor of ''human slavery" IIteed, il would
seem TO be particularly applicablesto the case IL
hand, we having 1.-The heather rof7d about US
In such numbers and Of a kind so1yell fitted by
nature for a state OF bondage" awe might, if
our space would permit, produce many more quo
tatiOns from Holy Writ against lllr. Williams
assumption. but, we trust, the ab4se will prove
sufficient for the occasion.
"But," the "Rey. VIM. X. Williams. ID. D."
would say, ''you are quoting from :he Old Tesla
ment-frOm the Mosaic Law-tlat is all done
away with newi' We should repSs TO our rese-
rend friend that the Almighty c4ld not have
commanded what was morally wrc4 at any age
of the world. The principles OF ritht and wrong
never change-never have chang1d-God, who
Is "the same to day, yesterday aIE forever, i" is
an interchangeable God" and ~ would not,
could not, have commanded the t~raelites 10 do
what men might not properly do D. all time to
come. The Israelites might hak, done many
wrong things, but God never commanded them
to do anything wrong.
But admitting. for the sake of The argument
only, that the Mosaic law is obsolete, what sup
port for his Abolttionism and his Interference in
political affairs can Mr.. Williams flld in the New
TESTAMENT When the Saviour GAS on earth,
''human slavery" in its worst conceivable form,
existed around Him; vet, in ali tllt is recorded
of His sayings. there does not aRear a single
word against slavery. Among the tns especially
mentioned by Him, this does not tppear. Mel
ther did He, in any way, seek TO Interfere with
the human laws then in operation .tyrannical as
they were. Even when 1t was atfmpted to in
duce Him to commit himself agaif { the paving
of tribute TO Cesar, He rebuktH those who
made the attempt by commanding Sem to ''ren-
der unto Caesar the things which Lare Caesars.
and unto God the things whichr are Gods"
Would not the "Rev. VIM. r. Will tmS, ID ID ="
do well to initiate his blessed Mastta. rather than
90 about d~abbling in the dirty wat,is of politics,
and endeavOring to stir up a spirit II bigOted hate
against those of his fellow men wh4se chief sin,
in his opinion, consists in the factSthat thew are
doing just what the Almighty conn., landed Moses
and the children of Israel to dog sNe think so.
Let him follow the example of thf Sayioura and
of Paul who instead of opposing &Iisting laws,
and preaching abolitiOnism, entrea3d the people
to obey 1.-THE powers that be- AID servants
(slaves) to he obedient to their masters" If
Mr.. Williams dislikeS the Old Testament, let
him read the New, and try to uend his evil
ways, and correct his false notions Of religious
duty.
What we have quoted from Mrz Greeley and
his Reverend friend, Williams, shdys very con
c%lusively, tina. they and their disciEes desire an
'improved" Union-an Abolition Ut.ion-not the
Union of our fathers, which these Isodern moral
sages regard as "making bondage Tor the Afri-
can as the corner stone of f~reedonIk or the eau
casiaD." Rather than have il fOun led on such a
corner stone" these pious patriotfSould prefer
that white men should have no "freSdom" at all,
and this is what the doctrine of / the Adolf
tiOnists amounts tO-freedom for tn: negro, even
if it should deprive white men of feedom, and
break down 1.-The freest and bests government
ever instituted by man." How llnl shall such
an atrocious sentiment rule the Nkthern mind?
How long will Northern men tOlerte the open.
bOastrul. and shameful preaching ot:uch treason
to their race, and To their GovernIsent2 Nous
EDITORS? &