Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-07-11

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recorded, rule to slaves as well as mas
ters.
This allusion to the golden rule reminds
me of an objection which will be urged
to much that have advanced. It will be
said that slavery is sin against G cd, and,
( therefore, that all reasons drawn from our
material interests, for favoring or abctting
it, must go for nothing.
If it be sin, 1 agree that there is an
end to my argument, but what right has
the Abolitionist to pronounce it sin /
say aboltionist, because the pastor of the
First Presby byterian Church of Brooklyn,
in sermon preached within week, de-
fined an Abolitonist to be one who holds
that slavery is a sin. accept the defni-
ton, and according to it many ol our best
Christian people must be accounted Abo-
litlonists; for it is astonishing how extern
sivcly the religious mind of the North has
admitted into itself the suspicion, not to
say conviction, that slaveholding is a sin
If sin, then it is violation of some
Divine law, for sin is the transgression of
the law.
Now, I deny that any such law has ever
been revealed. The burden of showing it
is on him who alleges, and when it is
shown, l agree it shall rule out all that
has been said or can be said for q Union
; founded on slavery. bind myself never
to raise my voice again in behalf of such
Union. But, so far from any such law
being found plainly written for our in.
struction. whoever will study the Patriar-
chal and Levtical institutions, will see the
, principle of human bondage, and of prop
erty in man, divincly sanctioned, if net
divinely ordained and in all the sayings
Of our Saviour, we hear no injunction for
{ the suppression of slavery which existed
, under his eyes, while he delivered many
: maxims and principles, which, like the
D golden rule, enter right into and regulate
the rei"'on. So do the writings of Paul
. abound wiz. regulation, bat not with in
a, j.. .siens tor Its s,~nressior 1s
t. the Aost accredited con. co'On' Il VIC 90 10
10 suit divin,s really wise andIgsSoiss' OF con-
I'd midst; or what is better, study and B., our
ed the Scriptures for ourselves, we shall fai
or to find law MGch, fairly interpreted anc
or applied, justifcs any man in asserting, il
&C. or out Of the pulpit, Nat the negro SLAYER,
Is, of the United States IS sinful Wha
o. right, then, ask again, his the Abolition
nd ist to cheat tender consccnes into hostilit
lat to an institution on which our Union
re- founded in part! Good peope say we d
in not wish to disturb slavery where it exis
ted by local law, but believing it to be sinf
We and ineXpedient, we will not submit to
- 10 his master. Such people soon come
its conceive that the more unlriendly tn
en-, can feel towards slavery the moro har
ow- speeches they make about slaveholdeI
m the more they help on the irreprossi|
IL. conflict, the better will they recOmme
bic themselves to God. In some churcl
=. it anti-slavery sentiments have become ess'
all tal to good standing. According to so
be. ecclesiastical councils, ii would seem Il
out the great duty of the American Christi
the is to war with his ncighbor's proport
ior- and if opportunity presents, to help st
do and hide it.
OURS Alas alas for the times upon VIII
aisc we have fallen.
new We must arouse ourselves and re-as!
the the rights Of the STAKEHOLDER, and add 81
{ an guarantees to our Constitution as will /
the tcct his property from the spoliatior
It be religious bigotry and persecution, or
T, or we must give up our Constitution
Union. Events arc placing the alter
oncc tive plainly before us Constitute
over Union, and liberty according 10 ,Amei
from lao; or cSe, ertmction of Stare pr0pC
rnal negro .trccdon', dissolution Of the IN
n in. anR anaychy and confusion.
.oplo Can any man, even though his Il
do has been poisoned by the sophisms Of
C in fdcs and AbolitiOnists, seriously cont
the plate the alternative with composurc
Germ, indifference We hear it said, let S
tn it. Carolina 60 out of the Union poacoa
pco- say let her 60 pcaceably, if she go al
their but why should South Carolina be dr
r i'm. out of the Union by an irrcpressible
feel Hict about slaveryl Other States vii
r our sure to follow sooner or later. The '
how Of disintcgration, once fairly cstablis
Ioyed will not end with South Carolina, nor
uiac- with all the slave States. Already
st the SEQ it announced, on the floor of Cong
at we that the city of New York, tired ol
reap connections with Puritan New Eng