Year: 1860

tions arising out of its perpetuity; and here our
correspondent sees a moral question, which he
tails to see in the other case! No matter if sla
very be all he claims it TO be, unjust, oppres-
sive, arbitrary, burdensome; no matter SO far as
our argument is concerted, if it robs men OF
their natural and inalienabls rights; for Rome
did all that in the case we cited, and if the Sa.
vor himself did not interfere with the one,
why should those who preach in his name,
meddle with the other?


What makes the case worse, is that in our
country the legitimacy of the government is
acknowledged by the people, and those that
would practically nullily its laws, are loud in
their professions of attachment to the govern
ment The truth is, slavery cannot be reno
we'd except by political action, by la,o; and if
our correspondent does not like the laws as
they are, it is his privilege, as ctizOn, to in
yoke political action. He may 60 into the po-
litical caucus or mass meeting, and mount the
stump" and relieve himself of any amount of
condemnation Of slavery, and the laws that re-
late to the may denounce it as the "sum Of
all villainies," or ''the mightiest moral sin Of
the age" and come down on the constitution Of
the United States as an agreement with hell.
and get as many votes as he can by that sort OF
rhetoric; and he shall hear no word of complaint
from us, for su,h is the wont Of politicians.
But we do insist that when congregation has
assembled on the Sabbath to worship God, and
listen to the preaching of the Gospel Of Jesus
Christ, the minister has no business to treat
them to melange 0: that sort; nor is their any
warrant in the example of Christ for so doing.


With Phillips, Parker and Garrison, we have
nothing to do, They may, or they may not be
pre- eminently sympathisers with God and the
poor. But we will say, that we know man
who is not an abolitonst and who was never
whose head is white with the fosts Of more
than sixty winters; who leaves his com oTtable
home and from year to year travels far and
wide, preaching the Gospel of infinite love in
schoohouses, private dwellings,, log cabins and
the open air. receiving therefor not enough to
pay his eXpenses-and persevering still for the
love Of truth and duty, and falterIng not amid
the peltng rains and the burning sun; and that
man, in our judgment, gives quite as much ev-
idence Of his sympathy with God and the
poor" as Beecher. Chaplin or King, who sit on
cushions Of velvet and go out to deliver "sen-
saion discourses," we'll spced with "hits" at
slavery, at the rate offrom fifty to two hundred
dollars each time they are repeated. Others
may judge differently, but we happen to think
there are other ways in which ministers may
eSince their love OF God and men quite as well
as in preaching sensation discourses" on sla


very We are happy to know, that the mas


Of our clcrgymen North, agree with us in tht
position we have taken in regard to the impro
priety of making the Christian pulpit the areni
for the discussion of the endless question of sia


very. We know not, that the publication 0
our sermon was necessary, even as word o
canton; for so far as we know, the few anon!
them who "pitched into" this subject durirE
the last campaign, got their fingers so hadl,
burned, that they will not be likely to repea
the experiment in the year to come. We hav
dwelt thus long, because we desire to fpjSL thi
matter. Our correspondent admits the logic o
our sermon TO be good. We have shown it
premises to be correct and thus endeth tn


matter. ID.w.