The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-27
,COTUMBIA. A.
Sunday Morning, May 3, 1883.
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rian, i'll the early ages of the world,
that God announced to Noah, in the
following words, the reason why he
had determined to sweep the world
clear of the degenerate descendants
Of those whom he had created in his
own image and likeness. In Genesis,
&c. 5, ", it is written: .r4--- .....-
ssAnd God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and
that every Imagination OF the thoughts
of his heart was only evil, and that
continually" III
And we are told that on this ac-
count, cit repented the Lord that he
had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart" and that,
therefore, he had determined to
sweep man from the face of the earth.
But the good Lord was long suffer
ing and lenient to those early sinners,
and made this startling announce
ment to Noah Of the judgment he in
tended to bring upon them one hw,-
dred and t,centy gears before he
opened the windows of heaven and
drowned every sinner on the face of
the earth.
The radicals of the present day are
just as great in their wickedness and as
persistent in evil as were those im-
penitent antedeluvians. Nay, we
rather think they are so much worse,
that although only about one-fourth
of one hundred and twenty years has
elapsed since they first entered upon
: heir unholy programme against God
and their country, that we should
not be surprised, any day, to see
them, at least if not swept from the
face of the earth by all actual and
material deluge of water, swept away
from every position and place where
they could possibly carry out, to the
injury of mankind, 'sthe thoughts of
their hearts" which are ssonly "evil,
and that continually"
And why not? The progenitors Of
these wicked men, under the name
of ''aboitionists,'' commenced their
nefarious plot6ngs against their coun-
try and their God, by making their
fendish declaration that the Consti-
tuition of that country was covenant
with hell, and by denouncing God
and the Bible for permitting slavery,
and blasphemously demanding an
anti-slavery God and an anti-slavery
Bible. Their canting ministers from
their ''so-called" sacred (?) desks
preached war, bloodshed and exter-
mination against q people of their own
blood, kth and kin, socially and po.
litically, because they preserved an in
stltutlon of labor, landed down to
them by their fathers. They used
their fendish oratory in ''iring the
hearts of crazy old women, and in
extracting large sums from the pockets
OF their hearers, whom they wrought
up to the highest pitch of fanaticisn.
They sent John Brown on his mission
OF wholesale murder and arson, and
when he failed, they canonized him.
They were determined to overturn
the grandest political structure that
was ever built by man; and further,
rather than fail in their develish
schemes, to carry the sword and torch
wherever in the whole country there
were men wise and patriotic enough
to oppose them. They, in the wick
edness of their hearts, were bent on
deluging this blessed land with the
blood of their own countrymen, and
devastating its fertile fields until it
should become barren wilderness
Such were the avowed purposes and
programme of the early disciples of
abolition teachers, G party which to-
day stands fully represented in the
radical faction which has crept into
power under false pretences, and by
deceiving their own people.
. How faithfully these ,devilish prr-
poses and programme have been car
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