Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-06-05
CORRESPO NDENCE.

II,
harges may be which we have already pro- !
,c sed. we have still farther, and more seii- a
,us to lay against your editorial course, and !
against your party. /,
You place yourself in contact with, and
in wicked antagonism against Christ, against ,
the spread of his gospel, and the knowl-
edge Of his word without which the saliva
ton Of sinners is hopeless. do not say
YOU design all this. Your designs and mo-
tives leave with you and your Judge. II is
against your public course | bring the charge.
This is my right deem it my duty. Thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and
not suffer sin upon him.''-Lcv. 10, II.
That the gospel and an open Bible, with
the unrestricted privilege OF access to them,
are designed of God for every human being
every immortal soul-eve,y. tribe, race,
people. YOU will not deny. That it is the
solemn duty of the Church, and every
Christian to extend to every human creature
the Bible, and full and free gospel, you
cannot deny That any thing which with.
holds the Bible, or seals it up from the
benighted-t any barrier thrown in the
way Of free and full access to the gospel and
all its privileges, is contact with Christ
and AN ontayoni.m TO his kingdom. YOU
cannot deny. That all who raise such
barriers-that aid, encourage, sustain, per.
petuate such, incur Gods displeasure, war
against Christ, oppose the progress of the
oosncI and identifv tbemselves with tbe
so'pD' ''r .a o! "I ,s. VII III .",
enemies OF the cross--ahu that all Sucii
must fall before Christ and the progress Of
his gospel. as his enemies and opposers, you
o,nno, dor,.
'"mo nv 80 It'll.
mat TINS Is apphcap'e 10 your course ana
that it fairly represents your antagonism to
Christ, and the very gospel you profess, the
following fucts will show
I /. Slavery and the slave power raise and
sustain barriers to tho spread Of the gospel,
in its freeuess and fullness and to the circI-
. latiun and free use OF the scriptures, which
God commands every one to search, and to
, which every soul has divine right.
/, 2, You and your party aid, abet, sup
, poit and encourage slavery anf the slave
. power in withholding the Bible and free
pu,pe' 'i''' ''"''" ,' 'o"" ,
$ thus, you stand against Chllst, his gospel
and his Kingdom.
8. By this antagonlsm yon and your par
y arc ~ hostility TO the dnd Of heaven to
. Jesus Christ, and TO- the Higher Law--to
$ the goospel, OF salvation, to the interests OF
b the Church and religion, and the salvation
oi slnners--to personal, civil and religious
liberty, and to the rights OF man conse'
quently, lighting against God, yon cannot
prospor-,-sooner or later Chrst VIII conquer
C YOU, aud ransom his poor whom you enslavt
q whose souls y9n murder by roo6Ing then
= OF the bread OF life, and whose kedeemel
you insult and botray Tor he has said-."!n
Q nsmuch as ye have done 1t to one Of the
q least Of these my brethren, ye have done I
h unto me" The slave, is the purchase q
Christi blood as much as you.
You have now our charge, the counts ast
Q the specifications. Now the testimony; an,
}. then the Judgment.
Since you are particularly fond Of the Y
;, Y. Observer, an old friend of the slave pow