Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-14
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table by friecd n ho IS always aiiTe 10 tht
necessity CT cosrg good. l, is simple ent
nnpreteudisg yotuue, written by ore o
those truly good men " hose lives attest Lbs
sincerity OF Their convictions. We know
| that when We Gaenr!on the name of II il
will revive blessed uen5-ies OF the eerIy
faith, the sIugieuess OF purpose, the sim
! pie miudedDess, the characteristic Gexo
ton of that esrinable baad of Christ's fol.
| lovers who laid the foundations OF the
| Methodist Church in lhis country. Tbs
book VT atiude To is An Appeal to CIris
ttanS oH the Subject Of Slavery, oy John
| HeVsey. We doubt not 1t vail be found,
IN It's stained sheepskin cover, on the hob
ct many an old log cabin in the country,
among the Farmers Aimaracks of Years
long goOe by, II has been read with
| Christian fervor and humble admiraricp
by many az old and exemplary sister ol
the faith VINO still adhered 10 tue discipli-
nary rules upon pialnness of dress sad
speech. 1t was truth founded or G Gespt!
teaching TO the earnest ard true uen We
! Wot OF, 10 days when Goa; of the cut OF
John Wesley was deemed Ihs fItest gsl .
ment Tor brother of the Church 1t was
time whea among Metho6,sIs yea mean,
yea, aod nay, nay IL vas before the sep
araLioo, the acrursed separation. on the
/ slavery question. Ii was a time when sin
was thought to be Clearly defined ic the
/ revealed Word of God. and Mason 4 Dix
on's line had nothing whaisver 10 lu with
/ II. If these Ministers OF Christ taooEht
drunkenness a sia in Massachusetts. tae7
proclaimed il so ia Tennessee. ToeE saw
| there DO difference in the SIN Of slavery,
whether repudiated with geutie but earnest
remoustrance by the Qoak=rs oi PeuusyI-
~, =
from South Carolina
In this hulnaIe and truthful volume old
John HERSHEY, Who was the saui or truth,
quoted extracts from = numo=r of speeches
made IN Ihe Virginia Legislature Of the
Wiu'er Of 1912, on 'he subject of Sia-
very, = suijecl which was To hin of pecu-
liar interest. 1t is Instructive to yieE Yi--
Rinia ihrengh This mirror Of the past-to
hear the echoes OF her voice ringing
through the past thirty years with ter
! riSie warning of the evils that are nov
upon her. If ''Ichabod" is written over
her portsis-if her ancient gIoty has de-
Parted-it is not for want of good and
| true sons who Told her that her ways led
to death and destruction. The LIST Is long
and brilliant Of those who FIRST drew The
breath of life upoc her soil, yet dedicated
themselves 10 the holy cause Of liberty
such as she never yet has known JefFer-
sou, Washington, Randolph, RDshtou,
Chandler, Marshall, Mcdowell, Boiling,
Berry, all have spyk words th4t it would
haze been well for Virginia if she had lis.
tened TO Aad first let US quote from a
speech delivered in The Legislature OF
VIrgioia, January 20th, 1892, by James
Mcdowell, Jr.. Of RockbriuEe county, af-
terwards Governor CT Yug.gla:
legislator, and marks its effects on our
national advance, but weeps orerit rs the
worst OF patrimouies! VINO shat looks 10
the unhappy bondage of oor uahappy
people, In tie mi!=t OF our society, an6
thinks OF its Incidents a7d rs issues, but
weeps over y as a curse upon him who
inhIc's cs upoa hin VITO suffers il?
''lf Am to judge from the tone of our
debate, from ice coaceszious % ali bands
expressed. there Is rot u4c in This body
not one, FeIhaPs, that Is even represent
ed here-who wouid not have Thank ed the
generations that have gone oefJre Us. ii.
acting as public meu, t6ey had brcngar
this bondage 10 a close: who would n.t
have thanked them, acting AS private men
on private nOuousr they had reijcqg shed
the property which their mistAkeu kind
ness has devOlved upon Us.
Proud AZ are the names for intellect
and patriotism, which enrich the votum es
of our history, AID reverenrisIIy as We
turu 10 them at this period OF waning rep
utatiou, that rame-that mau-above all
parallel, would have been the chief VINO
could have bloited oct this curse from bis
couutry-those above all Others, would
have received the homage of an eternal
gratitude, who, casting away every sugges-
non OF petty interest, had brokez the yoke
which in an evil hour had been imposed.
and had translated as a free g1Lgn. to another
continent, the outcGst and The wretcheG
being who burdens ours with his presence,
and defiies II with his crimes
| but, sir, it EAs been otherwise appoint
ed. Slavery has come duVu TO us from
our fathers, and the question nov is shall
| We in turn hand it over 10 our children ?
! hand it over TO them aggravated in everv
attribute Of evil? Shall we perpetuate the
calamity We depIore, and become 10 pos
terity the objects not of kindness, but OF
cursing2
"Sis, you may place the slave where ycu
please you may dry up to your utmost The
| fouut"ins OF his feelings, The springs of has
thoughts; you may close upon his mind
every aVtnue to knowledge, and cloud il
over with artificial night; you may yoke
him TO your labor as the OK which liTett
only to work, and Worketh only to live
you may put him uader any process which
without destroying his yalue as g slave
will dehAse and crush him as rariona
being; you may do this, and the idea Iha
he was born to be free will survive 1t RIl
| II Is allied to bis hope of Immortality; i
Is the etheriaI part of his nature which
oppression cannot reach; it Is q torch Ii
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