Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-11-09
Samples Of Abolition " Christi
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party Which IL represents, says:
"We have been waiting for three years
for a slave insurrection, but it seems that
we might as well expect a rising in a
graveyard" " Is not this a beautiful sam
pie of Abolition Christianity Wait
ing to hear" that women and children
have been butchered in cold blood by bru-
| tai negroes! Waiting to hear" that
defenceless innocence has been outraged
by the unrestrained lusts of barbarous
racel " Waiting to hear" that unborn
infants have been torn from their mothers
bodies, impaled upon pixies and paraded
as trophies of victory "Waiting to
hear " that fathers have been compelled
to witness the violation of even the dead
bodies of their own wives and daughters
all these things, and many more equally
horrible, this mild, humane and genial
Boston saint is GO Waiting to hear ~
Is there anything on Gods earth binder
than party ignorance, or fiercer than reIi-
gious fanaticism How it transforms
otherwise amiable people into demons, and
with INSCRIPTIONS hatred it lets hell loose
upon earths 1t presumes TO interpret the
viii of God as Familiarity as if its devotees
were upon the most intimate terms with
| the Deity. For instance Henry Ward
| Beecher, not long since, impiously decla-
red that God had chosen the Abolition
party as His instrument 10 carry out His
| purpose, and that it was the duty of the
party to rise to the platform on aChich God
| stands, and thence look forward and 50
/ determine its conduct? A few months
since Oliver Wendell Holmes published a
poem in the atlantic 1uOHthly, in which be
substantially informed God that unless be
settles this war upon the Abolition basis
| he (Holmes) wants to hear no more about
| Christianity. Lest we may be considered
as doing him an injustice, we quote the
! lines which admit Of no other fair inter
probation:
e. Lord strangle this monster that struggles
to birth,
Or mock us no more with thy kiagdom on
earth"
I We could multiply instances similar to
| tie above almost indefinitely, bat perhaps
the most monstrous specimen of Abolition
b!asphemy is the following, purporting to
be a dream, written by one Mary ii. {.
/ Booth
| a hundred thousand soldiers,
! Stood at the right of God;
4Ild Old John Bro,Ca he stood before,
Like Aaron, with his rod,
\ slave was there beside him,
And J,sus Christ was there;
| And over God, and Christ and all,
| The banner waved i'll air.
! And now, Pm dying, comrade,
And there is old John Brown,
| A standing at the Golden Gate.
And holding me a crown!
do not hear the bob~o'-link,
| Nor vet the drum and fife
i only know the voice Of God
Is calling me from life.
When it is remembered that this ban
ner, now waving over " God, and Christ
and ALL was only short time since re-
garded by these very people as 81 a faunt-
ing lie" as g hates polluted rag" &c,
&c, how strange it is to find it now ex-
halted in their iInaginations into such
heavenly supremacy And yet not so
strange after all, if we but recollect that
it now, under Lincoln, typifes all that
they have ever contended tor-that 1t is
no longer the banner of the Union and the
Constitution Of our fathers, but the blood
stained ensign of Abolitionism and dis
union-of white slavery and negro supre-
macy. They have a right, therefore, to
exalt it, and, in their impious rejoicings,
it is no wonder that they see old John
Brown and the flag in close communion.
Nothing could be more appropriate, as
matters now stand. Besides it gives a
practical turn to their blasphemous rawlings
to have them hold up horse thief and a
murderer as the representative of their
party, Barring their stupendous insults
upon Deity, and their impiety ir claiming
to be the interpreters of His will, we car
see no objection in their doing honor tc
their fallen chiefs, like old John Brown
even if they do shock the moral sentiment.
of mankind, and Crush in where angel.
) fear to tread. IN. Y. Day Book.
sE The wheat crop of Minnesota il
, stated to be 2,SOO,OOO bushels in excess
, this year over that of any previous crop
: At the same time that young State ha
: sent twelve thousand of her laborers int
the field as soldiers.
| ca In 1910 Judge Taney was s,
. feeble that gentleman, who had a Law
| suit, refused to give it to him for fear h
a would die before the case was tried
This was fifty-four years before the grea
t jurist died