The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-15

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You, gentlemen, say that slavery is n
sin. Abraham, Z" the father of the faith
full" had thousand slaves who were
"bought with his money!
You say slavery is sin. The divine
law said "Thy bondmen and thy bond
maids, whom ye shall buy of the heath
en-, shall be your slaVes forever" You
say slaveholding is sin. All the teach
ings of the Savior-all the sermons of
the apostles-all the pistles-the entire
New Testament-are silent rs to its sim
fulness. On the other hand, we have
seen that they clearly affirm its lawful
ness. They teach the slaves not to steal,
not to run away, not to commit any vio-
lence; but TO be obedient to their mas
ters, with all fear and godliness. You
set yourselves up above Christ and his
apostles. You reformers of the teachings
of the New Testament! Who are you?
Trandecendent mountebanks of n quack
philanthropy, who 60 about in the midst
of your debauched and deluded flocks
clothed, not in the Saviors robes of
"peace and righteousness" but like Jack
the Giant Killer, in a coat of darkness.
Instead of feeding your people with
"Jread flVe," you feed them with blood
and gunpowder. One of your number
(Beecher,) in late discourse in Boston,
said: We need more Jloodshed. Blood
as the Wine of the nations. God feeds
them on blood"
Then pour out your own purple current,
ye snuflng, yelping bloodhounds! The
lives of three hundred thousand brave
men have been sacrificed upon your affairs.
Their graves, now fresh, will remain ever
lasting remembrances Of your guilt
Look over your congregations, and sec
the sobbing hundreds of widows and or
phans. They are the victims of your
crimes, and of the like Of you. Your ap-
petite for blood is not yet appeased-
You are the leeches without bowels, that
ever cry, more? You are the evolves in
sleeps clothing" You have not only
dragged the blessed gospsl Of peace down
into pool of Blood but you have inn
paled humanity as hell.
Under your preaching, the vor popu6
is not the vOr Del, bnt the voT diaboE.
The besotted throng who have drunk of
your spirit are nearer devils than men.
The "sword of the spirit" in your hands,
is Vulcan sledge-hammer, breaking hui
manity to pieces on the anvil of death.
Hammer away, ye grim and ghastly Ii
tans! Hammer but beware The time is
at hand when returning reason of the peo-
pie will pound you to dust on the invisi-
bic anvils of truth! When the people re-
turn to drink Of the pure fountains of the
gospel, of peace and love- what will be-
come Of your occupation of "war and
murderw Who will hear you preach then!
Remember the punishment of Tantalus !!
Remember Milo, who was wedged to death
in trying to split an oak You have driv-
en- black wedge into the proud oak of
your country. Remember Milo! You
have betrayed the kingdom of heaven"
into the war and carnage of this world"
Remember Judas lscariot! under the min
istrations of abolition preachers, both
Church and State are demoralized and
destroyed. In your day and mine, the
Church will not recover from the ruin and
shame you have brougt upon it-our
country, fear never! Nations may die;
but not often is there any resurrection for
them. To find our glory, must we turn
our eyes backward TO the past? Can we
only say Of our country as Lucan in his
Pharsalia, said of Pompey-" Sat mag
nj aominie u0Jra"-it stands, the Shad-
oW of mighty name. If it had died,
like some ancient States, of old age, there
would be some poetry in the thought.
Or if it had porished in an honorable war,
for the glorious principle of self govern
ment and constitutional liberty, we should
be consoled. But to be stabbed to tho
heart in vulgar quarrel about negroes,
is too much ior human nature to endure.
Did ever nation die so ingloriously be-
force3 To see a proud and prosperous
country assassinated in its glorious youth,
by mob of bawling abolition preachers
and colporteurs! The thought is enough
to drive man mad Are you sure that
the people will not wake up some day in
their wrath, and drive you and your
bloody altars into the sea? Will not tho
ruin you have invoked fall upon your own
heads9 1t is the eternal law of justice.
You have profaned your own altars-ex-
pect not the people to respect them as
holy. In becoming ministers of war and
carnage, you have ceased to be ministers