Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-10-30

COUNTRY.
"Thus saith Tie Lord, if the rulers and
the people walk not in my counsels, and keep
my statutes, will break you up"
One Of the counsels of God is this HE
tells you what kind of agreements to make,
and when you have made an agreement YOU
must keep it, if you do it to your own hurt
All the contention, and strife, and war, in
this world, proceeds from mans not walking
in the couusels of God. The people of this
country made an agreement to deliver up fu-
gitlyes from labor. Has that agreement been
keptf Therulers took an oath, in the pres
enCe OF God, that they would do it. Has
this oath been kept7 Can any man with
truth say thar it has Then you have not
walked in Gods counsel You say that sa>
very is sin, and the agreement ought not to
be kept. What is sin2 1t is disUbedience
to Gods commands. Now does God tell you
thou shalt not buy man 2 On the other
hand he tells you whether you buy or hire
you do the same thing so that if il is a sin
to buyit is sin to hire and whether you
buy or whether you hire, it is his service YOU
buy or hire, and in either case if you put him
to some employment that is honest, useful aud
truthful, you commit no sin. - You say that
he gets no compensation for his services Is
that fact? No--the negro does get COM
pensation and as Northern minister who
lived here some time, and saw for himself ad-
| mitted, he received more than he was worth
And it is what any man of sense and without
pref udce will admit, All the difference is
this, that the muster acts as the banker and
guardian of the negro, and lays out what the
negro earns for the benefit of tue negro and
his family. All that ouhave done is to change
the negroes banker and guardian, aud in
Of hU0 bou
changed it for the worse. If you entice a
mans servant or property from him, by the
promise of freedom or better pay, you are
just as guilty OF stealing in the sight Of God,
as If you were to come in the night, and take
it from him while he is asleep
Another counsel oi God is to separate
yourself from sin and all who commit slu.-
lie does not tell you to exterminate them. but
to go away from them, and let them alone.
Now if the Northern people believed thai the
Southern people were IL wicked and sinful
people, they ought to have separated from
them, and they would not have been thUus-
ands OF millions in debt as they are now. and
would not have lost SO many lives as they have
lost. Where large portion Of a people
breaks of aud sets up for themselves, those
that remain had better let them 20, than un-
dertake to cOerce them back for it generally
takes twice us much to cOerce them back and
to hold them, as they are worth whereas by
letting them go and makinga judicious treaty
with them you might reap all the benefits of
the former Union.
This is very evident from the late example.
The Northern States carried on a trade of
three hundred millions year with the South
ern. BY making war on the South they
blocked up that trade aud took upwards of a
thousand millions year from Their pockets
HN what IN IIOinO NJ b,,k
to desUlate and destroy that which would
have yielded them three hundred millions
The Northcrn people were in the situation of
the man who had the goose that laid the gold
en- eggs, and they have repeated the same
folly.
Howl ye, rich men of the North, "for thus
saith the Lord, as We have done unto these
Southern people, SO shall it be done unto
you" If you do evil unto your neighbor,evi
will be done unto you. and God also says you
SHALL not do evil that good may come-and he
say woe be unto that man who calls good evil
aud evil good, and that is just what the party
in power have been doing. They have been
robbing and numbering, and calling it doing
justice, restoring Union. The Union is just
as much restored as amarillo column that has
been rent asunderand then hooped with bands
of iron. Justso much Union, and no more
"Righteousness exalteth nation, but sin
is reproach to any people" The assassina-
tion OF President Lincoln was the act of an
individual. Thus saith the Lord, no Joker
shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven" The |
hasty execution of Mrs. Surratt and others, |
was the act of the executive, and may be said |
to have been the act OF the nation.
The people of this country have lost the
knowledge OF who their sovereign is. There !
cannot be two sovereigns in the same State
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sovereigh; the State is not sovereign, and if +
each State is sovereign the National Govern
ment is not sovereign. The truth is this.
each State is sovereign over its own territory, |
and over its own people, and that sovereignty |
is expressed by majority of its legal voters.
And the State never abdicated Its sovereigns
ty but it did delegate its authority to certain /
persons mentioned in the Constitution Del |
egated authority eau be recalled by the SOW /
ereign delegating it The Southern States |
recalled this delegated authority, and their
citizens are loyal and not disloyal.
There are quacks in government as there |
arc in all other professions. One who is ig-
norant of the counsels of God is aquack. and !
if he gets into power we will have bad Gov |
ernment. We have been governed by quacks |
for the last four years 1 once asked man
who was member of one OF our State Con- |
ventions, what was our government, and his
reply was that it was government. He
might as we'll have said that it was a horse or
a cow, for one answer would have been as
definite as the other. Now was that mau fit
to send to convention.
see that these quacks or abolitiouists are
advocating negro suffrage. Why. one half of
the white people of this country have not suf-
ficient intelligence to vote chrrectly. In fact,
any man whp is ignorant of the counsels of
God, is not fit to be statesman or ruler of
the people, and the people ought to know the
counsels of God, and they ought to know
whether the man they vote for knows the
counsels of God That man or that woman
whom Cod does not educate 10 Ettln ba..a,.