Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-07-30

N March, 1861, Mr.. A. II. Stephens, Vice
President of the Southern Confederacy, said, in
public speech The ideas entertained at the
time of the formation of the old Constitution,
were, that the enslavement of the African was
in violation of the laws of human nature that
it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and
politically. Our neW Government is founded on
eractly opposite IDEAS its foundations laid, its
cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the
negro is not equal to the white that slavery
su6ordtnation to the superior races has natural
and moral condition. This, our Government, is the
first in the history Of the world, based upon this
great physical, philosophical and moral truth. -
But Vice President Stephens is by means sat
sfied that the Confederacy should monopolze
the practical benefits of this "great moral
truth" He is a missionary and propaganda of
slavery, and is anxious that all Chrstendom
should participate in its benefits. He says 81
cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate re-
cognition of this principle throughout the civilized
and enlightened worid!" Here we see an entire
abandonment of the apologize strain. Slavery
is no longer an evil, to be got rid of it is a
blessing in which all Christendom is invited to
participate. 1t is no more crime to be palliated,
for the Vice President of the Confederacy adds
"To suppress slavery would be to throw back
civilization two hundred years. IL is not a moral
epa. 1t is the Lords doing, and marvellous in
our eyes 1t is by divine appointment" In
describes the peculiar institution as "in accord.
ance with the proudest and most deeply cher
ished feelings of his countrymen. A Governor
of Kansas declares that @ he loves it," and
votes for it because he loves it, The Pro-
fessor of Agricultural Chemistry in the Univer-
sty of Georgia remarks on g the providential
proportion of untitled lands of the South, and
| The unemployed potcer of human muscle an A fricd
| trace he exclaims, the growing demand
for negro, muscles, bones and brains, to the
good providence of God"
Thus the hideous and inhuman system which
Washington and Jefferson, Madison, Randolph
and Henry Clay and Benton, 1eplored as a sad
calamity imposed upon the South by less en-
lighted age, has now come to be justi6ed-nay
gloried in as the browning blessing of modern
civilization. Religion has been prostituted and
the Christian Church subsidized in its interest.
A new school of ethics and new type of Chris
tianity have been invented on its behalf. The
most hateful and cruel oppression, the most hor-
ribe barbarities. the most hideous atrocities
which cannot be even named without bringing a
blush to the check of modesty and causing the
heart of humanity to shudder, are clothed with
religious sanction by the new gospel of modern
Paganism. 1t is for the maintenance, the per-
petuation and the diffusion of this @ blessing y
that the Confederate States are now contending.
1t is for our existence a nation, and for the
overthrow and humiliation of this foulest blot
upon civilization that the armies of the Union
are in the field. We are not doubtful of the is
sue. ain such contest, the Almighty has no
attribute which is not at war with slavery. -
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