Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-02-11

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hsve some difficulty in bringing them. up to
the scratch.
The London Times Defends Slavery on
- Scrptural Grounds.
Let honor!Se given where it is due. There
is one branch of the. Federal attack which
stands noblY pre-eminent amid the general
disaster. 1t has never lost day whenever
summoned it has marched to the field and
overborne Ill opposition; it has not abandon
ed gun, or left so much as dead body or
knapsack-not drum or trumpet on the
field. It bears charmed life. and has not
even suffered wound-.no, not even in its
selfesteem. 1t has never yet had to execute
a rapid movement to the rear, or to spend
months of inglorious and unhealthy inaction.
The catastrophe that hurls back en- army,
staggers brave generals and drives cabinet
to its wits end, only raises to higher pitch
the moral confidence of these warriors. They
assemble their forces, who iinmediatelyipre-
sent themselves with unthinned ranks and
unblanched brows. They are as ready for
action az ever, and from inaccessible positions
they discharge yolleys which cannot even be
replied TO. Could the war be sately left in
their hands there is no doubt of its speedy
and complete results, for it is war Of exter-
mination which they wage. These soldiers,
without fear or reproach are Messrs. Tying,
Chccrer and Beecher, their colleagues and
.he thousands who march under their banners
to the institute, the church, or conventicle.
Ills f,om the pulpit and Ire .platf0rm that
they .fulmiaatc. ortr he North Anaerican con-
tinrn!. From this proud elevation they de-
nounce the shortcomings of the policy and
the baclsidinss of their. cause. They pre-
9ictea TIC ,rr.rses, which only confirm their
own superior fidelity and good sense. Had
they been attended to the war would now be
over They preached the emancipation oi
every slave in The I'nion not as q qualified
rltllre contingent measure Of policy, but as
III arlrUiurr uug ruu fruua1,t
be carried into instant eject. For this not
even arms were required The South would
have done its own work. 1t would Instantly
lisre passed through an ordeal only second
10 that which shall one day change all things.
1t would have been wreck, ruin, q waste !:
but from that levelled platform would have
risen new people, new institutions, i'll q
word, new States. The blasted and desola-
teal rcy;rn would indessl nave been regei era
te.i, i,r Mr. Eeccher undertakes, on behalf of
hjn,ser and tis assembled friends, TO supply
the physical resources necessary Fl. tie pro-
ress With abolition for their principle and
the war power Coz their pre:e-nstnral
agency, they lad no inisgiYing az 20 :he Tsault:
The rcasoE why Lincoln an,: hi, nell had ali
failed was, that the, wera not thorough cor
vert, to abolition, and dill not place entire
confidence in "wsr power
These gentlemen preach not zoF an infaib-
ble or an established church, fcr no such
church has vet ientured TO bc as dogr,atic
and positive on this r,in! ss they are. They
preach with the bible il their hands. In that
book there is not one single text that can
be rermiltedto prove slavery unlawful, though
there is much which naturally tends to its
mitigation, its elevation and it's final eutinc-
ton. Tn the New Testament we have an
epistle writlco by The man who represents
The last revealed phase and development of
the Gospel, sent by The hand Of runaway
slave, who had sought a refugc with the wri-
ter, to his lawful master, to the purport that
the master and his slave were to get on bet
ter and do their duty to one another more
thoroughly for the future. The same writer
tells his recent converts that if they Gre slayeG
they must make the best of that condi zion,
and not try to escapeit, at least by any means
contrary to the laws of the country. The
only possible doubt about the exact meaning
of his advice is, whether the slaves are to re-
fuse their liberty, even if it be offered, cor
whether they are merely To remain true to
their masters, eren if chance presents the op-
portunity of escape. The coa.ertwhich SAYS
that faithful and dutfnl Christian slave be-
comes the freedman of his heavenly master
clearly proves that slave who refuses tae
offer of freedom hasa high .Scriptural argu.
mont for his choice. II it be e.id that slrre.
~ ia at variance with the spirit Of the Cos.
pei, 20 also are n good.many things which
are not W. laid under the ban Of abolition,
or threatened with the war power" ShnP
tuous fare, purple and fihc linen. WEALTH,
ecclesiastical titles, unmarried clergy, good
clerical incomes, and many other things sre
contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or, at
least can be pro1ed so as easily as slavery.
But the Roman Catholics have just as much.
to say for sny one of their peculiar doctrines
as the abolitioniats have for their one article
of a standing OF falling community. Wheth'