The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-09-13

be mulattoes, and your daughters
shall go about the streets mourning
their confidence betrayed. Crush
the Nigger! Make one all-killing ef-
fort more! It is your highest, holiest
duty. Rise! and crush the Niger!
Herodin the Family.
By HORACE GREELEY.
Ipresume half the good sermons
ever yet preached might have had for
their text, "The fool hath said in his
heart there is no God" In that
foolish, blind presumption turks the
impulse to every wrong, every trans
gression. Men generally admit, in q
listless, soulless way, that the uni
verse, this world, and all who live in
1t, are the subjects Of omniscient
moral sway, but scarcely one in a
dozen sin his heart" believes it. II
all did believe it, how could there be
hypocrites in the church. libertines
by the family hearth, or villains any
where? How could there ever be
robbers in the mountain pass, wreck
ers on the perilous coast, or slavers
on the stormy main, If men really and
heartily believed in the existence and
rule of an all-see;ng, omnipotent
God? -.----..-. .---.---.-----
Every age, every nation developes
some vast wickedness. Intemper-
ance, lewdness, gambling, and hun
dred other manifestations Of mans
proneness to evil. appear and disap-
pear like physical epidemics; hardly
is one eruption Of evil crushed when
another appears and begins to run
its measured round Ill were called
to say what crime is to-day most
fearfully prevalent among us, II
should indicate the destruction of
unborn children.
/ speak not here of the murder of
the children of lust and
sin, and whose destroyers have the
wretched excuse of seeking to pre-
clude disgrace and shame. Guilty as
these unquestionably are, they are
not so criminal in the sight of Heav-
en- as the married pair who conspireI
to blast the germs of offspring in the
mothers womb, and thwart the bene-
ficent command to increase and mul-
tiply given to the progenitors of our
race. If there be crime more das-
tardly and unnatural than all others,
surely it is this.
OF course, excuses or apologies
have been invented for this, as for
other varieties of murder. The pa
rents are too poor to rear more chill
dren on their scanty means; the
mothers constitution is too feeble to-
endure the trials of child bearing and
DC. The first of these, ifl
valid at all, will justify the killing of
the child born last March as well as
the child to be born next November;
the second is direct impeachment
OF the Divine assurance, Gas thy day
so shall thy strength be-" In short,
there is no palliation for any sort of
child murder which is not essentially
repetition of what "the
fool hath said in his heart"
1t has for years been noted that
our old New England element is less
prolific than formerly-that families
of six to eight children are as infre-
quent as those of ten to twelve were
two or three generations back. tt
is further noted that our immigrant
population do not share in this ster-
ility, that our Irish born neighborsI
have more children to the family
than their Yankee neighbors. learn
that the Roman Catholic priests are,
to a considerable extent, to be cred
ted with this disparity-that, having
lad their attention called to the di-
ninution of births among US, they
nave discussed its reasons. and sys-l
applied themselves TO
guarding their fiocks from the con-
agion. / believe it is generally,
through the confessional and other .
wise, enjoined on married Catholics !
hat they, under no circumstances
md on no pretext whatever, conspire
gainst the lives of their unborniss
hildren. ~sii = % 81 Ia
Shall not Protestant pastors be in 8
pired b. this examplei Their op-
may be less direct and I
alpable, yet they are sufficient. Why
hould not every settled clergyman
reach pointedly against the crime
a question? Is any in doubt as to
q existence2 Let him confer with
no or threeapopular physicians, and
e will doubt no longer. Nay; he
rill be astonished by their testimony
8 to the extent, the magnitude of g
his offense against God and human
y, country and family.
WHAT eminent physician will pre-
are trac; of sixteen, twenty-four
r thirty-Gwo large, fair pages, set
ng fcfth in convincing array the
lc:al, physiological and religious
which should secure {
eneral avoidance and adherence of
lis species of infanticide?-Independ-
Ut.