Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-05
God Among the Nations.

by request we make the l0llowlnS eA
tracts from sermon by Rev. X. A
Caruthers, of the NJ E. Church, from tn,
text ''Thou shalt arise and have mercy
upon Zion; for the time to favor, yea, the
set time is come. For thy servants take
pleasure in her stores, and favor the dust
thereof-Psalm 52-l3-l4."
IFrou. the Pitsburg Christian Advocated
The revolution bS which Oppression by
subverted Liberty began in the South
That policy which gives to single slave.
holder, with his five hundred slaves, as
much political influence as three hundred
Northern matching Southern
stakeholder against Northern township
that has kept in the halls of Congress
of free people more than a score of mem
/ bers, who stood there only as the repre-
sentatives of slaves-a system which
/ makes a man of the 'same blood" with
ourselves 10 be property, as dog is prop
erty, and gives to property manhood, as
Daniel Webster and John c. Calhoun
were men. This has throttled American
liberty, baptized her soil with the blood
of slaves, until the genius of Liberty, like
the revolving glory of EzekiePs vision,
seems ready to leave us to our fate.
That such revolution has taken place
is made to appear from few facts in his
tory. The Declaration of Independence
was southern document, written by a
Southern man, who was himself demo-
crat. Thomas Jefferson was the acknowl-
edged leader of that political school. Yet
he framed that instrument, and it met
with the appreciation of every heart that
was not baptized with toryism, and its
noble sentiments became the rallying cry
of nation struggling for freedom. Could
that document be read in the South now?
Could it have been read there within the
last dozen of years? Does it now receive
the endorsement ofthe whole Democratic
party? Was its doctrine the doctrine of
that Administration out from whose Cab
met, the sanetum sanetorum of the nation,
went forth such traitor knaves as Davis,
Cobb and Floyd.
The Discipline of the NJ E. Church,
dating back to 1874, originated in the
South The Church at that time was con-
fined principally TO Maryland, Virginia,
Georgia, North and South Carolina. Men
from these states voted that, 1--WE view it
as contrary to the Golden Law of God, on
which hang all the law and the prophets,
and the unalienable rights of mankind,
as we'll as every principle of the Revolu
ton, TO hold in the deepest debasement,
in a more abject slavery than is to be found
ip any part of the world, except America,
so many souls that are all capable of the
image of God" ..
This doctrine was taught in their
churches, and the General Conference,
that always asked, What shall be done
for the extirpation of the great evil of
slavery 2" held her sessions, with the ex-i
ception OF a single instance, in slave ter
ritory up TO 1920. Yet now the Discipline
of the NJ E. Church cannot be tolerated
in the land which gave it birth, because
that portion of the nation has revolution
lied and sent the Discipline and the Dec
iaration together to seek the protection of
Northern bayonets.
Methodism, which in her inmost heart
endorsed the principles of the Revolution,
was the first to fall before the encroach
ments of the slave power. In the Gener
al Conference of 1874, that despotic spirit
gave the terms, slcc,cn6 or die The Church
maintained her purity, but her national
unity was sacrificed to the Moloch of Sla-
very. DdulGl w GDSlCT OOlll Ndl-
houn, in prophetic language. pronounced
the division of the N. E. Church as the |
opening wedge for the dissolution of the |
Union" And how fearfully now does
the nation tremble while the demon of
Slavery is pressing the same cup to her
lips which eighteen years ago the NJ. E.
Church was forced to drink. The Pres
byterian Church, next in influence, strug-
gled long to maintain her denominational
unity, but at what price? The resolu-
ton of DR.. Jqpkin, offered in the Assem-
bly, years ago, set forth in substance,
that the Presbyterian churches were Or
ganized on the basis that slaveholding
was no bar to Christian communion"
They maintained their unity, but they
stood by unmoved at the cry of those
whose blood stained the heel of the op-
pressor. But her hour came at last
Methodism recognized Slavery as a sin,
and battleing that sin, she fell Presby-
terianism ignored the sinfulness of the
iystem, and fell before it as purely po-
itical idea.
Next in the order of its victims came
he great National party, once lead by
Thomas Jefferson, but which had long
ince succumbed to the dictation of the
'ppressor, and (if ]. C. Calhoun is to be
has lent itself to be the tool of
he Southern despots. No longer willing
o serve the interests of Southern trait
rs, at the Charleston Convention the
Northern Democrats threw off the South
I'm rein, and Democracy cessed to be a
latlonal institution. The Southern des-
'ots being no longer able to control the
latlon by ballots, appealed to the can
IONS power TO subdue by force those
Tho would not willingly concede to her
FISHES.
But the revolutionary treason is not
onfned TO the South; it has spread its
eayen throughout the North. The
knights of the Golden Circle" have in {
used the spirit of revolution everywhere.
bound together by the most solemn obi
ations, their secret, sworn purpose is to
ecure the triumph of the South, and to
rect a mighty empire around the Gulf of
fexico, ofwhich slavery is to be the cor
eP-stone.
OF this order $1,000 are said to be in
he State of Indiana, 10000 in Ohio, co.
"