Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-14

avs under It 30 long az the tonstiL1-
ton recognizes Slavery and the laws
under and in accordance with the Con /
stitution protect it, they should be o5eyed-
When the people get tired Of returning !
fugitive slaves, and sick Of the curse Of
slavery itself, they should amend the
Constitution and get rid Of the evil We
must obey even wicked and unjust law, /
regularly enacted, until it is repealed, or |
declared unconstitutional by an adequate |
tribunal
9Th ouestiou-aIf Jesus Christ were
to come and tell you to go on the side
Of JEFF Davis, would you say shame
on such Jesus and spit upon him as
the Jews did r
In such an imaginary and impossible
event, we should .consider the spiritual
or incarnate presence, claiming 10 be
Jesus Christ land we say it with all rev
erence), as an impostor. Were We q
believer ia His divinity, or one who re-
CARDS him as merely good man, We
should believe any authority claiming to
It Jesus Christ, as base imposture if
it we're to give such command. Be
he the Son Of God or only righteous
and justiee-loving man, be would be hos
tile to 'the sum Of all vilIainiss,' Slave
~, and its offspring Secession and Re
beIlion, and 10 JEFF Davis, the head OF
the Confederacy acknowledging Slavery
as its cornerstone. We would say
Shame on him" and though We should
not spit on him, we would say get thee
behind me, Satanr' We would regard
him as the Dsyil who tempted Jesus,
and not as Jsss Christ who delivered
the Sermon on the Mount, and enjoined
the observance Of the Golden Rule, on
mankind
| 9th Question-"Do You believe the
Bible 70 be the inspired word Of God,
and regard it as the iHestimable gift Of
/ God TO mann
We do. We regard il as too holy,
| Just, and humane to be quoted in order
to justify an Institution and system utter
/ y at war with all its teachings.
7th Question-'Js il supplementary
to quote from the Bible IN the halls Of
Congress7'
No, not under the present regime. II
used 10 be, in the days when Mason,
BarksdAle, Barnett, wigfall, q" Bully
Brooks, 4 Co browbeat and cudgeled
Representatives and Senators for con
demning slavery; but under Republican
rule there is different state Of things
The Bible has superseded the bludgeon,
bowie knife, and pistol in Congress-
The instance You quote that prompted
this question, you garble and pervert,
and give false meaning TO.
Sth Question you think It right
for abolition mObs to destroy democrat
ic printing Offices aud mnFder so-called
'eopperheads2 "
We think all mob Law and murder to
be wrong no less now than when Lovejoy
was murdered and bis pristing Office de-
ssroyed; when Cassius NJ. Clay's Office
was thrown out Of doors near the Capitol
of Kentucky; when Bailey's Office was
mobbed in Cincinnati-sll BY pro-slavery
mobs; or when the destruction Of free
soil printing Offices and the murder Of
free-soil editors was the pastime Of the
border-ruiiiaus in Kansas, during the
halcyon days Of Buchananism, that al
good democrats" are praying to euioy
again. We are opposed to the destrue.
ton of Copperhead printing Offices
firstly, because we are in fAver Of Law
aud order; secondly, because 1t enables
Democratic proprietors to get new
Offices at the public expense, as Greene
Of Vineennes did
We have now responded to the Re.
porters easechism. If Il has any more
questions to propose, as it intimaIes, We
shall endeayor TO answer them.
The Rebel organ at Henderson com
plains that we did not reply to an article
Of May 10Th headed Abohiionism, .
containing certain "facis and argu-
ments' We saw the article, but have
mislaid the paper containing il Our
recollection is that IL was made up of
the staple Bible quotations used by pro-
slavery writer's and speakers 10 justify
slavery. Everybody has read and heard
them a hundred times. The Reporter
produced no new fact nor argument nor
quotation to sustain its Idol
A very short answer can be given.
taken from that fountain whence the
Reporter and all pro-slavery speakers
and writer's draw their authoritv--ihe
Bible.
We quote from the Sermon on the
Mount-St Matthew VII c., 10 v; There
fore all things whatsoever ye would that
men should do TO you, do ye even so to
them; for this is the law and the proph-
cts.
Also, St Luke VI G., 81 v. "And as ye
would that men should do to ycu, do ye
also to them likewise"
Also, Romans XIII C., 9v.; Levidens,
XIX. c.; Is v, Galatians, v. c., II v; st
Mark, XII c, 81 " Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself"
We might fellow the Concordance aud
trace the Scriptures through, aud quote
our paper full to show the essential SIN
fitness of Slavery, but it viii do no good
Every man whose heart is right knows
that it is wrong, and that there is moth
ing good in it, One might as well
quote Scripture to the "dull, cold ear of
death, as to persons welded to Slavery.
They are welded to their Idol, let them