The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

tefWPFd, tnat II TINS De Jruel, then it
follows beyond contradiction, that God
Is the immediate and direct author or cause
of sin an idea that cannot be admitted
for one moment, by any believer in the
Bible. God called it a 6eqst-''fnore sub
tile than all the beasts The Lord God had
made" AS Adam was the federal head
of all his posterity, as we'll as the real
head, SO was this beast, the negro, the
federal head of all beasts and cattle,
etc., down to creeping things-to things
that go upon the belly and eat dust all
the days of their life. If all the beasts,
cattle, ETC., were not involved in the
sin of their federal head, why did God
destroy them at the flood? If the crime
that brought destruction OIL the world
was the sin of A dams race alone, why
destroy the innocent beasts, cattle, etc.
When all things were created, GOO not
only pronounced them good, but avery
good;" then why destroy these inno-
cent q beasts, cattle, etc., for Adams
sin or wrong-doing? But, that these
beasts, etc. Were involved in the same
sin with Adam, is positively plain, From
one fact alone; and that fact is: That,
before the fall of Adam in the garden,
all was peace anG harmony among and
between all created beings and things.
After the fall, strife, contention and.war
ensued, as much among the beasts, cat
tie, ETC., as with the posterity of Adam;
and continues so to the present time.-
Why should God thus afiiict them for
another's crime, if they were free and
innocent Of that crime? God told Ad-
am, on the day of his creation, ssto have
dominion over everything living that
moyeth upon the earth;" but to Noah,
after the flood, he uses ue'y different
language; for, while he told Noah to be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the
earth, the same as he said to A dam, yet
he adds, 'iand the fear OF you and the
dread OF you shall be upon every beast of
the earth, etc., and all that moveth up
on the earth, ETC., into thy hands are
bitCl uCtlNSiCus IL bhNoC nttd SOhlbi-
ued in their s'primeval goodness" who'll
ly unconnected with Adams sin, is it
reasonable 10 suppose that God would
have used the language toward them,
that he did in his distractions to Noah?
1t is impossible ! The intelligent can
also see the Judgments of God on this
''uaforgiua5len sin, at the flood, at Babel,
at Sodom and Gomorrah, and on the
Canaanites, and in his law; and they
may profit by the example. They can
see the exact time IA. NJ. 235), ,cien men
the negro--ereeted the first altar on
earth; they had seen Adam, Cain, Abel,
and Seth, erect altars and call on the
name of the Lord. They, too, could
initiate them; they did then initiate; they
then built their affairs; they then called
on the name of the Lord; they are yet
initiating; they are yetprofaaiag the name
of.thc Lord, by calling on his name.-
And you, the people of the United
States, are, upholding this profanity.--
Who was it that caused God to repent
and to be grieved at his heart, that he
had made man win you place your
selves alongside of that being, and a.
gainst God ? All analogy says you ,oilt
But remember, that the righteous will
escape-the hardened alone viii perish.
The ways of God are al,oags consistent,
,oten understood, and always just and
reasonable. 1t is curious fact, but a
fact, nevertheless, and fully sustained
by the Bible; and that fact is this: That
God necer conferred, and never designed
to confer, any great blessing on the hui
man family, but what he alrayS selects
or selected white stakeholder or one of
white SIdUeholding nation, as the medium,
by or through which that blessing should
reach them. Why he has done so, is
not material to discuss now; but the
fact, that he aloays did so, the Bible
abundantly proves. Abraham, the
father of the faithful, and in whom and
his seed all the families of the earth
were to be blessed, isa notable instance
of this truth. For Abraham owned
three hundred and eighteen SLAVES. And
the Saviour of the world was of a slaue-
holding nation; and they held slaves by
Gods own laws, and not by theirs
how has it been in respect Of our own
nation and government, the United
States A government now declared
by thousands of lips, latterly, to be the
best, the very best, that has ever been
in the world. Who made this govern
ment? Who established it and its no
bie principles Let us appeal to history.
The first attack on British power, and
the aggressions of its parliament, ever
made on this continent, was made by a
stakeholder, from a slave state, Patrick
Henry, May 30, 1765. The first Presi-
dent of the first congress, that ever as
sembled on this continent, to consider
of the affairs of the thirteen colonies,
and which met IN Philadelphia, Sep
tember 5, IVA, was slave owner from
slave state, Peyton Randolph. The
only secretary that congress ever had,
was slave owner from slave state,
Charles Thompson. The gentleman
who was chairman of the committee of
the whole, on Saturday, the Sth of June
l776, and who, on the morning of the
10th reported the resolutions, that the
thirteen colonies, of right ought to be
free and Independent states, was slave
holder from a slave state, Benjamin
Harrison. The same gentleman again,
as chairman Of the committee of the
whole, reported the Declaration of In
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