Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-12
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We have frequently put questions to
the abolitionists, but up to the present
time are without an answer. We will
again put our questions and call upon the
party or its representatives for an answer.
The questions are these.
1st. If slavery is the sin that aJoli-
tioniSts have declared it to be, how did
God permit us to prosper 50 abundantly
for seventy-fve years?
ID. IF this is Gods ware created by
him to crush out slavery, why does lie
permit the rebels to triumph over our
army so often?
81. Are the Abolitionsts in favor of
the Constitution of the United States?
4th. Do the Aboltionists want the
American Union restored under the pres
ent Constitution of the United States?
9th. If they do, why do they want the
war prosecuted to free niggers?
9th. If the niggers were all free to-day,
by State Legislation aud their own acts,
could they not be again enslaved under
the permits of the Constitution?
7th. What do aboliticnists propose to
90 with the niggers in case they become
free?
Sth. Will abolitionists allow niggers
to vote, and exercise all the rights and
privileges of white men?
9th. If not, how can they be called
free and equal, as the abolitioniSts declare
they ought to be?
10th. If they are to be made free, and
are already equal to the whites, as claim
ell by abolitionists, by what authority can
Mr. Lincoln colonize them?
1lth. Would it be right to drive from
our country persons we consider our
equals?
18th. Is it right to expend the public
money, in these times to colonizc niggers,
who, the a5olitiontsts say are so intelli-
gent and could be made so useful?
18th. Wherein does God declare it to
be the duty of the white man to kill his
brother to free the "heathens that are
round about us?"
14th [ the abolitionists are in favor
of freedom, free speech, free press and
free homes, how do they Justify the arbi
trary arrests and Imprisonment of white
citizens?
18th. Must your own race be sacrificed
to free the heathens?
10th. Wherein do you find this law or
commandment other than in an abolition
bible?
18th. Do you believe that George
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
or jackson ever went to Heaven?
18th, If they did, in you opinion, can
not other good men like them-s?ave
owners though they be-go to Heaven?
10Th. If they can, is the system of
American slavery as wicked as you rep
resent it to be?
Goth. Is the northern church purer to
day than it was ten years ago?
2lst Do not its members more fire.
quently backbte and defraud each other
to-day than they did twenty years ago?
22d. If preaching the abolition of the
niger has so purified our people, why is
it that brother in the church will rise
up. against brother, and the one attempt
to destroy the other? Why will one min :
ster slander anotheS
23d. Is it right for ministers to preach
in the pulpit, what to them may seem
proper?
24th. Ifso, and a man believes slavery
to be right, would it not be his duty to
preach in favor of it?
25th. Has not the condition of the AT
rican been improved by the system Of
American slavery?
Goth. If his condition was worse in his
native land than it has been during the
enslavement, whercin does the enormous
crime consist in his present condition?
9th. Does not the condition of Mexi-
co warn us against the mingling of the
white and black races?
2Sth. Did not the equalizing of the
races in Mexico degrade the superior race
without materially benelittng the inferior
race?
Goth Who can deny this latter ques-
tion unless they can deny history and
facts?
These and many other questions must
be answered satisfactorily before we can
endorse the ianaticsm OF the abolition
party. Its members claim all the perfec-
ton, religion, honesty and virtue that the
world affords. And we can testify to
our own knowledge, that more prolific
family for corruption and wild fanaticism
does not exist. Take its members and
individuals, and " on will find them teach
ing more inidelity, free love, all other
folloS of man that can be found in every
other party.-FreepoH (W) Balletin.
Rev. WILLIAM DOVE (colored) of Chi
cago, has been carrying on a series of Sc
ductions, among young females Of his
congregation, the factsof which have just
come to light Dove has flown.
TINE is the bell-ringer of the Universe
: lie strikes the hours even now, presently
| he will peel the chimes,