Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-09-04
Justice Of the Almighty

1t seems to- be. decreed that the Ameri-
can people must lose all they have made
or acquired from the sin of slavery, and
suffer in their own persons all the an guiSh
they have wrongfully put upon the Afri-
can race. 1t is impossible to compute in
dollars and cents the aggregates of the vast
balance sheet, but we cannot avoid the
conviction that the sum total of profit that
has been derived from slaveholding. slave
trading. and slave driving. from the day
the first cargo of Africans were landed at
Jamestown, down to the day when the last
of the race shall be emancipated. is to
be swept away in the vortex of civil war
with probably, compound interest at
six per cent. to date. If so, who shall
gainsay the justice of the Almighty
But the dread account does not stop here.
Dollars and cents can be replaced. The
accumulated wealth, which the sun be-
holds in his course from the Atlantic to
the Pacific to-day, is trihe in the life
time of nation. There is an account Of
bloodshed and tears. bodily torture. sepa-
ration of husband and wife. parent and
child. extending over period of two hun
dred years. Have we nothing to balance
it in our own sufferings in the tale of
every battle field, in the mortality
report which every day brings us from
some quarter? We have used men and
women as so much raw material, to be
worked up into cotton and sugar. till we
have been able to compute without shud-
der that the average life Of slave on a
Il Ckok4 -.
bout seven years. Do our hospitals on the
Peninsula show nothing to correspond
with this fact in the alarming waste of hu-
man life?dI 1ois' 10 tgfff
There is a philosophy in this war which
we would do we'll TO comprehend. They
tell us England is on the eve Of great ca
lamities by reason of the war in America.
England is entitled to great ealsmities, for
putting upon us the original sin. Let her
take her just share. and bear it as she may.
II the Lord, thy God, am jealous God.
visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon
the children unto the third and fourth
generation." England gave .uss slavery
and took cotton for her pay. If she has
made. rope enough out it to hang herself,
let her cry taloud to God for mercy. and
not rail at us for being instruments in his
hands to carry forth the dscrees of everlas-
ting justice, = Let John Bull to his knees
with us!
But what will be the penalty Of the
slaveholders themselves inathis general set
tlementg What is the balance due from
them In the great clearing house? If those
who are only responsible as accessories
those who long ago put away sin from their
own doors-suffer so much, what must be
the reckoning of those have trafficked
in human flesh welded the scourge with
their own hands and taken the sword at
last 10 pefpetrate and extend the ihorrid
crime? .. Wo unto thee Chorazinl Wo un-l
to thee Bethsida! 1t shall be more toler-
able tor Tyre and Sidon in the day Of
Judgment. than for you. And thou Caper
naufi, which are exalted to heaven, shalt
be brought down5to hell.p Before the
slayeholding classes shall see the sword
again sheathed,they will in all probability
be obliterated from society. or reduced
to a condition not less wretched than that
Of the slsvesoiwhom they have SO long
and impiodsly msltreated. .ss4s'I tremble
for my county, said Jefferson. when /
I shink that God is Just. and that his JUS
tiee will not sleep forever" He Is just
Let us endure with humility that which He
puts upon us. anjsstrive no longer. to our
own hurt, to tbwart His immutsble DEGREES.
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