Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-07-23

wants say, ''the Lord have mercy on me ;Whnt
sort of people are these, they done stole the
blanket from my baby in the cradle; would
rather live with thousand Southern mas
ters than to live free with such people," I
asked one man that have, who is still with
me, If he was not going with his friends :;
he said they were none of his friends, he
had done seen enough of them people
God says, "DO unto others as you would
that they should do unto you, for as you do
unto others so shall it be done unto you."-
Now let us examine President Lincoln by
that rule. President Lincoln by his own con.
iessiOn, confessed that he had no authority to
do what he was doing to the Southern people,
but he goes to Congress of the Northern
States, which is certainly not Congress of
the United States, though called so, to ask
authority. President Lincoln may have been
deceived IN thinking that Congress had the
authority to give him authority but if he
had gone to the Constitution, where the au-
thority or law for both is laid down, and ex-
amined it carefully, he would have found that,
Congress had no authority to give him au-
thority to cOerce or punish State. Well,
as President Lincoln punished without law
tul authority, so he was punished without law
iul authority; he was killed or assassinated
by Booth, and, Of course, it was done with>
out authority or warrant of law. l speak of
these things in sorrow, not in rejoicing and
anger, and my object is to warn the people,
the Summers, the Wilson's the Wades, the
Stevens, the llOlts, the Stantons to receive
profit and instruction by the above counsel of
God. and put their house in order
And how is it with regard to what is called
the national debt? This Radical party COM
PEELED the Southern people to repudiate their
debt, so their own debt will be repudiated in
turn. Ne bond-hOlders, you had better be
getting your house in order. a debt con-
tractcd without proper authority is no debt at
all, Gas against the principally it may be
against the agent, and the people are under
no moral obligation to pay such debt, and
OF course there is no immortality in repu-
dating it.
Isee from the papers that the Union League
has been pitching into Mr.. Greclv. and Mr..
Greely into the Union League. When Peter
was doing what we call giving advice to his
Lord and Master, what did the Lord say p
Did he say, Peter get behind me, you know
nothing about it? No: but he said, '' Satan,
get thee behind me, thou art an offence unto
me-" Christ who could see, and who knew
everything. knew that Satan had entered into
Peters body, and was making use of the or
gans of speech of Peter, without the know
ledge Of Peter, for the purpose of tempting
hun. 1t | were to speak correctly, would
say that Satan speaking through the mouth
Of the Union League, pitched into Mr.. Gree
ly, and Satan speaking through the mouth of
Mr.. Greely, pitched into the Union League.
TO'use common expression, pot calling the
kettle black; or, Rcelzebub pitching into
Beelzebub kingdom divided against itself
cannot stand. God works, man works. and
the devil works. God made the white man,
the yellow man, the red man. and the black
man; God also made the horse and the ass,
and many other things, but it was left to the
cunning of the devil and the lust of man to
make the mule and the muattO.
No man can educate himself; every idea
or every suggestion that enters the mind of
man is put there by the Almighty or by the
devil. God teaches man !; the devil teaches
man; God, truth; the devil, error; God
puts good ideas in the mind of man the
devil comes along and pervcrts them or takes
them away-see the parable of the sower
God says owe no man anything; Jay
Cooke says n debt is blessing: the devil
working on the desires or lust of jay Cooke.
put that suggestion in his mind, and ask
the people whom will they believe, God or
Jay Cooke and the devil?
All the instincts, the desires, which we call
innate, are placed in US by God for our good,
and when used in accordance with the coun-
sells OF God, produce good results. The de-
sire for progress, the desire for knowledge
and it was this cIgcI desire for knowledge,
through which, Adam and Eve in the garden
OF Eden, were tempted by the devil to walk
contrary to the courscls of God 1T is in
similar way that the devil works now. Some
will tell you that they don't believe in tho
n- ,,t
they don't believe there is God Now it
does not follow because u man does not be-
licvc in the existence of a thing, that there
is no such thing. 1t only shows that he has
no knowledge Of such thing. Now, not
only believe, but l know that both exist for
| have talked with them in the same way that
Christ talked with them when he was upon
this earth.
God says, resist iniquity. There are two
kinds ofrcsistance-ac active and passive. The
Southern people tried the active. and failed.
They started in the counscls of God, but thev
did not continue in His counsels, therefore
they failed, for God says if you do rot con-
time in His counscls, lie will give you over
to the prosecutor. God is no prosecutor HIM
self; the devil and his children are God
and His children never pcrsecute. l re-
commend to the Southern people row to try
the passive, commit no inigui;y themselves,
and try and persuade Others not to commit
any. And il they are competed to do a thing,
do it, but not in the way that is in the same
spirit in which you are compelled, then the
compelicr commits the sin, and not the one
that is compelled. There are great many
things that we are compelled to do in this
world which is no sin in itself but the sin
consists in the spirit in which it is done.
We frequently hear man appealing to his
conscience to prove that he is right. Let us
examine and see what Office this thing called
conscience performs. l say that all it does is