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NO-RWALK HOTEL, (LATELY TIIE ALLIS HOUSE, ) EDWIN PECIK, PROPRIETOR, A LEASE of this well-known and popu- lar House having been purchased of Mr. Allis, will be continued, as heretofore, as afirst class provincial Hotel. NO pains ta— king or expense will be spared to render this in all respects a quiet and genteel, as it is a beautiful rural retreat. Permanent and transient guests accommodated upon reason- able terms. W A good Livery Stable connected with the Hotel. U GREGORY’S POINT - H O T E L ,- - Norwalk, Conn. D. H. NUTTER, . ........ PROPRLETOII. Hr. ALLIS HOUSE, (formerly Union House,) Opposite N. Y. & N. H. Depot, in Union-st, Newv Haven, Conn. L. P. ALLIS, PROPRIETOR. JAMES G. HARBOUR, SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL D E N . T I 5 Office at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut. Architecture. SIDNEY M. STONE, _ ARCHITECT, Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail Drawings, and superintcnd the erection of public and rivate buildings. Office in Mar- ble Block, ‘liapel-st., New Haven, Ct. tf52 E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man— ufacturcr of Tin, Copper, and Sheet Iron Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, \Vooden and Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort- ment of House Keeping articles generally. EL BISSELL, Auctioneer, will give 0 articular attention to sales by Auc- tion, of Ilatenl Estate, Personal Property and Household Furniture : terms low. WM. 0. STREET 8t 00., Importers; wholesale 5nd retail dealers in nannwnnn, IRON, Steel Cutlery, Guns, Agricultural Imple- ments, Oils, Paints, _Window Glass, &c. c. s. nocnwoon, Fashionable Draper & Tailor, and GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING EMPORIUM ! N o. 3 Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct. 0.3. ottoman, Dealer in Foreign purl Domestic DRY GOODS, CARPETINGS, Carriage.'l‘rimznings, Cloths, Cassimercs, SatluctlS, Vestings, and Tailor-’s, 'l‘rimiuiugs, by the Yard, Piece or Package. Sheetings, Shirtings, Jeans, doc. At the lowest' possible prices. _ NORWALK, CONN s. n. ohmsrnau a. 00., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Flour, Peed, he, 14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn. G. a. G. M. HOLMES, DEALERS Ix Groceries, Provisions, Z‘iour, FEED, we. 'No. 1?. Main Street, Norwalk, Conn. GEO. HOLMES. GEO. M. HOLMES. III-rm msuasmca company, Of Hartford, incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual. Cash Capital $1,000,000 Insure against loss and damage by Fire, on 'l‘crms adapted to the lqu;Ir-rl,unrl canal-Itself. With the laws Of Compensation. GEORGE R. COWLES, Sore Agent . 13734 For Nor-walk and vicinity. Gas Piping, Fitting, 61c. SEWING MACHINES REPAIRED. HE subscriber is prepared to attend all , calls in the gas-fitting line, and will also he in readiness to repair Sewing or other Ma- chines. Charges reasonable and work thor- ughly and Dromntlv done. - ofll THEODORE GLOVER. LADIES and Children’s FURS, at DISBROW’S. REMOVAII. tablishment has been R E M 0 I” E from Mr. John F. Bennett's, tO Bunting’s Bakery, Main-st, where he will be glad to see all his old customers as well ‘as many new ones as will favorhim with a call. South Norwalk, Chas. R. Bennett; Winnifi pauk, J 03. C. Bundle. ]) Gutta Percha & India Rubber CEMENT ROOFING. ‘HIS article has been thoroughly tested by builders, Architects, and others, and the experience ofyears has proved it to be the cheapest and most durable roofing in use. We call attention to the following facts : lst—It is fire and water proof. 2d—From its great elasticity his not inju- riously affected by extremes of heat and cold. 3d———It is adapted to all kinds of Roofs, constant repairs, as is the case with metal and other roofs. 4tli—-The cost is only about One-Half that of Tin, and it is twice as durable. It is readily applied to Old Shingle Roofs, without removing the shingles, which is a great desideratum to parties who do not wish to risk having their ceilings and furniture ru- ined, while repairs are being made. Leaky Tin and Metal Roofs are readily re- paired with Gutta Percha Cement, and prevented from further corrosion and leaking thereby insuring a perfectly water-tight roof for many years. . Specimens Of the Rcofing can be seen by calling on the subscriber, at South N orwalk. All orders b ' letter will receive prompt at- tention. . F. HUNT, South Norwalk. INSURANCE. ' .THE subscriber having taken the agency of the New England fibre and Marine In- surance. 00. of Hartford, is prepared to insure all kinds of property against loss or damage by fire, on as accommodating terms as any other Company. ‘ - ' ‘ The New England Fire and Marine Insu- rance Company has been recently established with a paid in capital of $200,000 and has a surplus of $6,295.00. ' JOSEPH W. liUBBELL, Agent for N orwalk and vicinity. N orwalk, Feb. lst, 1850. E. QUIN'I‘ABD a. SONS, Cabinet Makers .41 their Olrl Established Ware Rooms, Ecol Side the Bridge, OPPOSITE PHCENIX BLOCK. 1 AVE now On hand the largest and best assortment of Cabinet Furniture,Chairs, Looking Glasses, Mattresses, etc, ever Oflcred for sale in this place, which we have just pur- chased for cash, at extremely low prices, and intend to sell accordingly. We also keep constantly on hand, Ready tfo ‘Ilfude Coffins of all sizes and descriptions, from the most costly Rosewood to the plaincst ever used. _ From our long experience in the Underta- king Business, we are confident we can give perfect satisfaction to all who may need our services. ' 37 Graceries Cheaper than ever F _0 R G A S H l HE subscriber would inform the public generally, that he still continues to sell the best Of Groceries, Provisions, etc, at his old stand, No. 4 Skiddy’s Block, as cheap as the cheapest. He Offers great Inducemcnts to cash buyers, as he has as large an assort- ment of groceries Of the best qualities as can be found at any store in the country. He would invite the special attention of all to his stock Of‘ , COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS, which are of the very best quality, and will be sold cheap. The public are invited to call and examine and judge for themselves; . A. MOREHOU SE. SOUTH NORWALK Ladies and Gents’ Boot ck: Shoe Store. ' ‘HE subscriber, having taken the business .I. and stand of Stevens d: Tristram, is pre- pared to supply every article to be found in a first class Boot and Shoo Establivhment, for in- dies, gentlemen, or children’s wear. our Own sales, and warrant all work sold by us. Always on hand, or made to order at short notice, Gents‘ Patent Leather Boots, Shoes, (fie. ; Ladies" Gaiters, (be, «he. ; Children‘s Gaiters, and Shoes, (to, d’:c., (EC. , Rubber goods ; a large stock kept constantly _ on hand. Repaz'finlyI done neatly and apporti- ARVEY STEVENS. ently. . . Norwalk (NO. 3, Ely’s Block), April South '7, 1860 runwrwunnr HE subscriber is now prepared to offer to the public, at his old stand, as good an assortment of Cabinet Furniture as can be found in Fairfield County, and at lower prices, FOR CASH, than the same qualit of goods can be obtained at any other Estab islimcnt. ' The stock consists in part of Marble Top, Extension, Dining, Card, and ' Quartettc Tables; Bookcases, Bureaus, Sofas, Tete—a-tete Lounges; Mahog- any and Cane seat Chairs ; Gilt and Mahogany Frame Lo Ok- ing Glasses, &'c., &c. , OOFFIN WA REROOMS ,- whcre may be found a full assortment of Cof- fins, which will finished in the best possible manner, and at short notice. > W A hearse will be furnished when de- sired. A. RENOUD. Westport, May 1st, 1858. , Hardware and Cutlery. Mechanic’s Tools, Farming Utensils, Guns, Pistols, Iron and Steel, Window Glass, Paints and Oils. M. C. STREET & 00. have in' store and are constantly receiving direct from the manufhcturcrs, a large supply Of Foreign and Domestic Goods, under the above dcnominations,which makes their assortment of articles suited to this market, equal to any in the State, and which will be sold either wholesale or retail on as favorable terms as can be purchased in New York. WVILLIAM C. STREET, A. H. WILCOXSON. Notice. ‘HE subscriber having secured the agen- cv for the sale of Finckle & Lyons Sew- ing Machine for the Towns of N orwalk, w’estpon, Redding,Ridgefield, Wilton, New Canaan, Darien and Stamford, he will be prepared to exhibit and operate said Machine in the course of the. coming week. The Ma- chine, considering its great range of work- manship, is probably the best Family Scwmg Machine in existence; and any person wish- ing to get one will do well to wait a few days, when he can see and judge for himself. , GEO. H. RANDLE. P. S.—The Machines may be seen in Oper- :Ition at the Store, of George Hoyt. I'ancy Goods, ac. , ‘ fine assortment of Fancy Goods, Pocket . Cutlery, and a new lot of Rodger’s Scis- sors, just received and warranted to be a first rate article. Clocks of all kinds. We have ‘also the agency of Merrill’s Oriental Pomade, something new, arid needs onl ' to be tried to be appreciated. A. JACK. 0N & BRO. At the Old Stand in Main Street. HE office of C. F. Mueller“: Dyeing 43- f whether steep or flat, and is not in want of , o Our goods are manufactured expressly for ' dispatch. m©mamm©3p9aa LADIES' AND CENTS OYSTE R 8t ICE GREAM SALOON Skiddy's Block, Main-st., Nor'walk. N e W HARDWARE &. PAINT STORE, Main Street, 5‘ Opposite I. H. Campcll’s (.‘onfcctioncry, 'IIIARVIN a PROWI‘I‘T, Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang- iIIgs,,Window Shades, &c. A. JACKSON 6!. 330. “7 OULD respectfully announce to the public and their old customers, that they have recently made extensive additions to their stock of goods. We are now prepar- ed to offer anassortment not to be surpassed in Fairficld Count , in quality or price. We would call particu or attention to our stuck Of Watches, which is lar er than ever before.— We have a fine lot of adies‘ Swiss Watches, III gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to $75, winch we can recommend as being cor- rect time keepers. Also, Gentlcmcn’s Watch- es, In Silver and gold cases, at any price from $5 to $100. We buy of the best importers in New York, and altoo'cthcr for ,cash, so that our facilities for selling cheap could not be greater. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and latcd Wares was never better than at pres- ent, and comprises all of the latest styles that are manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO. Mr. J'. Hessian, Professorof Music Is now prepared to re- new his course of instruc- tion to all those who may desire his services. Instructions given on the Piano Forte, Organ or Mclodcon. Pianos tuned and repaired. All orders left at his residence, Main-st, and store of A. H. Camp, N o. 17 Main-st, N orwalk, will be promptly attended to.- 1y32 1101130 8:. Sign Painting, GILDING, GLAZING, to, &c., SOUTII NORIVALK. HE subscriber will execute all orders in Plain or Ornamental Painting in the most satisfactory manner, and at reasonable )riccs. . Also, For Sale, his present residence (with his business if desired), comprising ahouse nearly new, with garden, trees, shrubbery, &c., and ashop thereon. Terms easy. Ap- ply OII the premises, opposite Quintard do Smith’s Carriage Factory, to GEORGE IIODGES. 1yl9 J.N.LOGKWO0D&OO, West Side of the Bridge, LYNES’ NEW BLOCK, 1 EEP constantly on hand, a large and varied assortment Of Ladies’, Gents‘,and Children’s GAITEliS, BOOTS, SHOES, 850., all made under our own personal supervis~ ion, of the best material and iii the most workmanlikc-manner. Our assortment of Ladics' Gaiters undoubtedly comprises—both in extent and quality—n finer assortment than can be found at any similar establishment in' the County. In Gent’s Boots, Gaiters, Shoes, etc, we have a larger and better assortment, we are confident, than was ever before offer- ed in Norwalk. IVC are prepared to manu- facture, to measure any article-in our lz'ne,and at the shortest notice. Misses’ and Children’s Shoes, Rubbers, etc., in endless variety, A fine article of Slippers for Gents‘ wear. REPAIRING—iii all its branches—done neatly, quickly, and cheaply. May 7th, 1860. House I’ainting, GLAZING, GRAINING, GILDING, ETC, C. C. BROTHER’I‘ON S prepared to execute all orders in the above line of business with ncatucss and All orders for PAPER HANGING, will be executed in the best manner, by an eeperz'enced workman. . Orders left at the Store of E. W. Olu'chcster, or at the subscriber’s residence, on Mar win Street, will meet with prompt attention. C. C. BROTHERTON. General Blacksmiihing. CARRIAGE MAKING a REPAIRNG ,- And Horse Shooting Exchange. HE subscribers have made arrangements for carrying on a general Blacksmithing, Carriage Making and Repairing; and also, for the Shoeing of Horses, in which,depart- ment, we have the services Of a man thor- oughly competent and experienced, whom we will warrant not to be surpassed in this line of his vocation. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. E. M. MERRITT & CO. E. M. MERRITT. G. W. MnnnITT. Watcr-st., N orwalk, Conn. '~ Whitney’s Photographic and Fine Art GALLERY, N onwanx, CONN. ATE E. B. Tnonrsox’s. E T. Whitney would inform the citizens of Norwalk that he has established himself in the Gazette Building, and will furniéh them with Photo- graps, Ambrotypes, and all kinds Of Pictures taken by the sun, from Miniatures, to life size; colored or plain; in the hi hest style of the art. E. T. “’11 TNEX: D. B. WOODBUIIY, Operator ‘ tf‘29 Wagon and Carriage BUILDING AND REPAIRING, N New Canaan, at the Old stand of the subscriber. Every description of Wagons "made to order, and ten per cent. cheaper than any other shop inthc county. All kinds of ’Fnrm produce, and Oak, Ash, and' Hickory Plank taken in exchange for work. tf29 E. L. ARNOLD. ALBERT nmnrnn, MERCHANT TAILOR, DJ OINING Store Of Knapp its Lyncs, Main-st, Norwalk, Conn. The public- are respectfully invited to call [and examine the lar e and varied assortment of ,READY JllADlt CLOTHING, French Cloths, Cassi- meres and Vestings, also agencral assortment of Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, consisting, 'in part, of Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Shirts, Col- lars, Cravats, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, &c Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings by the yard or pattern, and cut free of charge. Particular attention paid to Children‘s Garments. NORWALK Steam Sawing and Plaining . .M I I. I. . - . prepared to execute all orders for PlaQ nin ; Scroll and other Sawiiw; manufacture 'of oors, Sash, Blinds, &c., do, in the best and most expeditious manner, and at satis- factory prices. Orders by mail rom tl at- tended to. 1y17 TIMOTHY .FI C . TH’E subscriber has fitted up and is now. . language of our text. . ' NORWALK, CONN., Character and Influence of Abolitionisnl. A Sermon Preached in the First Presby- terian Church of Brooklyn, on Sabbath Evening. Dec. 9th, 1860, by Rev. Hen- ry J. Van Dyke, before an immense au- dieuce. Before delivering the following sermon, in his opening, the reverend gentlemen prayed God to bless our Southern brethren and re- strain the passion of the evil among them; that the master might be made Christ’s ser- vant, and the servant Christ's freeman, and so both sit together united in Christian love in that church founded by Christ and His Apostles in which there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond nor free, but all are one in Christ J csus. ' He also prayed that God would bless the people of the 'Norhcru States, restrain thcyiolcnce of fanatical men, provide for those who, by the agitation of the times have been thrown out of employment, keep thespeakcr himself. from teaching any thing, which was not in accordance with the Divine, will, and-disabuse the minds of his hearers of all prejudice and passion, so that they might be willing to be convinced of the truth. ' His text was chosen from Paul’s First Epistle to Timothy, sixth chapter, from the first to the fifth verse, inclusive: 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not. blas- phemed. ' _ . 0 And they that have believing masters let them not: despiSe them, because they are blfetiltlhemnl; bu; ey are a an rather do them service because t beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness. . 4. He is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings, evil surmisings. 5. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, sup osing that gain is godliness; from such withdraw t yself. I propose he said, to discuss the character anti influence of abolitionism. With this view I have selected a text from the Bible and purpose to adhere to the letter and spirit Of its teaching. We acknowledge in this place but one standard of morals, but one authoritive and infallible rule of faith and practice. For we are Christians here; not Papists to bow down to the dictation of any man or church ; not heathen philosophers, to grope our way by the feeble glimmeriugs of the light Of ’naturc; not modern infidels, to appeal from the written law of God to the corrupt and fickle tribunal reason and Im- manity; but Christians, on whose banner is inscribed this sublime challenge—“To the law and to the testimony—if they speak not according to this word'it is because there is no light in them. Let me direct your special attention to the There is no dispute among commentators, there is no room for dispute, as to the meaninrr of the expression “servants under rlieyolw.’ Even Mr. Barnes who is himself a distinguished abolitionist, and has done more perhaps than any other man in this country to propagate abolition doctrines, admits that “the addition Of the phrase “under the yoke,” shows undoubtedly that it (i. e. the original word doulos) is to be understood here as slavery. Let me quote another testimony on this point from an em- inent Scotch divine, I mean Dr. McKnight, whose expositions of the epistle is a standard work in Great Britain and in this country, and whose associations must exempt him from all suspicion of pro-slavery prejudices. ' He introduces his expositions Of this chapter with the following explanation: “Because the law Of Moses allowed no Israelite to be made a slave for life without his own consent the J udaizing teachers, to allure slavery is unlawful. This doctrine the apostle con~ demned here, as in his other epistles, by en- joining Christain slaves to honor and obey their masters, whether they were believers or unbelievers and by assuring Timothy that if any person taught Otherwise he Opposed the wholesome precepts of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of the gospel which In all pouits is conformable to godliness or sound morality and was puffed up with pride without possess- ing any true knowledge either of the Jewish or Cliristain revelation.” Our learned Scotch friend then goes on to expound the passage in the following paraphrase which we com- mend to the prayerful attention of all whom it may concern: Let whatever Christian slaves are under the yoke of unbelievers pay their own masters all respect and obedience that the character of God whom we jvor- ship may not be calumniated, the docrine of the gos- pel may not be evil spoken of as tending to destroy the political ri hts of mankind. And those Chris- tian slaves who ave believin masters, let them not despise them, fancying that t ey are their equals be cause they are their brethren in Christ: for though all Christians are equal as to religious privileges, slaves are inferior to their masters in station.— Wherefore, let them serve their masters more dili‘ gently, because they who enjoy the benefit of their service are believers and beloved of God. “These things teach, and cxhort the brethren to ractlcc them." If any one teach different] by a rming that under the gospel, slaves are not ound to Serve their master,but ought to be made free.and does not consent to be made free, and does not consent to the wholesome commandments which are our LordJcsus Christ’s and to the doctrine of the cups] which in all points is conformable to true morn it he is pufi‘od up with pride and knoweth nothing e ther of the J ewish or the Christian revelations, thpngh he pre~ tends to have great knowled e of both; but is dis- tempcrcd in his mind about id e questions and debate of words which afford no foundation for such a doc- trine.but are the source of envy, contention, evil- speaking, unjust suspicion that the truth is not sin- cerely maintained, keen disputings carried on con- trary to conscience by men wholly corrupted in their minds and destitute of the true doctrine of the gos- pel, who reckon whatever produces most money is the best religion; from all such impious teachers withdraw thyself, and do not dispute with them. The text, as thus expounded by an Ameri- can abolitionist and a Scotch divine (whose testimony need not be confirmed by quota- tions from all the other commentators), is a prophecy written for these days, and won- derfully a plicablc to our present circum- stances. t gives us a life like picture of abolitionism in Its_prInCIplcs, Its spirit and its practice, and furnishes as plain instructions in regard to our duty in the premises. Be- fore entering upon the discussion of the doc- trine, let us define the terms employed. By abolitionism we mean the principles and ' measures of abolitionists. And what is an abolitionist? He 13 one who believes that slaveholding is $111, and ought therefore to be abolished. This is the fundamental, the clIaracteristic,the essential principle of aboli. tionism—that slaveholdmg is sin—that hold- ing men in involuntary servrtude is an in- fringement upon the rights of man, and a heinous crime in the. Sight of God. A man may believe on political grounds that slavery is an undesirable system, and that slave labor is not the most profitable; he may have va- rious views as to-tlIc rIglIls of Slaveholdcrs under the Constitution of the country; he may think this or that law upon the Statute books of Southern States 13 wrong; but this does not constitute him an abolitionist unless he believes that slavcholdmg is morally wrong. The alleged Sinfulncss Of sluvchold- ing, as it is the characteristic doctrine, so it is the strength of abolitionisui in all its ramificd and various forms. It Is by this doctrine that it lays hold upon the hearts and con- sciences of men, that It comes as a disturbing force into our ecclesiastical and, civil institu- tutions, and by exerting religious animosity [which all history proves to be the strongest of human passions,] imparts a peculiar inten- sity to every contest rule which it enters:— And 'ou will perceive It 15 just here that abolitionism presents a proper subject for discussion In the pulpit—for it is one great purpose of the Bible, and therefore one great duty of God's ministers in its exposition, to show what rs sin and what is not. Those who hold the doctrine that slaveholdin is sin, and ought thereforcto be abolished (ll 'er very much in the extent to which they re- duce their theory to practice. III some this faith is almost without works. They content themselves with only voting in such a way as in their judgment will best promote the ultimate triumph of their views stand off at what they suppose a safe distance as Shimeu did when he stood on an opposite hill to curse King David, anti rebuke the sin and denounce divine judgments upon the sinner. “servants under the yoke” that they ought not to count their own masters worth of all , . Others Others more prudent, go into the‘ very midst of alleged wickedness and teach- honor—that liberty is their inalienab e right TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1861. u: 44..— ——which they should maintain, it necessary, even by the shedding of blood. Now, it is not for me- to decide who of all these are truest to their own principles. It is not for me to decide whether the man who preaches this doctrine in brave words, amid applaud- Ing mulitudes in the city Of Brooklyn, or the One. who in the stillness of the night and in the face of the law’s terrors goes to practice the preaching at Harper‘s Ferry, is the most heroic man. It is not for me to decide which is the most important part of a tree; and if the tree be poisonous, which is the most in- jurious, the root, or the branchesprthe fruit! Brit I run here tonight, in God’s name, and by His help, to show that this tree of aboli-v tiomsm is evil, root and branch, flower and leaf and fruit; that it springs from and. is nourished by an utter rejection of the Scrip- Cnslavcd, and is the fruitful source of divi- sion and strife and infidelity in both church and State. I have four distinct propositions on the subject to maintain—four theses to nail up anddefcnd: I Abomionism has no foundation in the Scriptures. . . 11. Its principles have been promulgated chiefly 11y misrepresentation and-abuse. ' byIHl . .t ileads, in multitudihgd 1cases, and a ogica process, to utter s it . " IV. It is the chief cause of the aim: that agitates and the danger that threatens our country. . I. ABOLITIONIS)! HAS NO FOUNDATION IN THE SCRIPTURES. , Passing by the records of the patriarchal age. and waiving the question as to those servants in Abraham’s family, who, in the simple but expressive language of Scripture, “ were bought with his money;” let us come at once to the tribunal of thatlaw which God promulgated amid the solemnities of Sinai. What said the law and the testimony to that eculiar people over whom God ruled and or whose'institutions He has assumed the responsibility? The answer is in the 25th chapter of Leviticus, in these words :— “ And if thy brother that dwelleth by thce be waxen poor and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel Im to serve as a bond servant; but as a hired ser- vant and a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee, and then shall he depart from thee,both he and his children with him,’ ’ _ So far, you will observe, the law refers to the children of Israel, who, by reason of poverty, were reduced to servitude. It was their right to be free at the year of jubilee, unless they chose to remain in perpetual bondage, for which case, provision is made in other and distinct enactments. But not so with slaves of foreign birth. There was no year of jubilee provided for them. For what says the law? Read the 44,46 verses of the same chapter :— . “Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which thou shalt have shall be of the heathen that are round about you. Of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover, of the children of stran ers that do sojourn amon you—of them shall ye uy and of their families t at are with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your posses- sion. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a posses- sion, they shall be your bondmen forever." There it is, plainly written, in the divine law. No legislative enactment; no statute framed by legal skill was ever more explicit and incapable of perversion. When the ab- olitionist tells me that slaveholding is sin, in the simplicity of my faith in the Holy Scrip~ tures, I point him to this sacred record, and tell him in all candor, as my text does, that his preaching blasphemes the name of God and His doctrine. When he begins to doat about questions and strifcs of words, appeal- ing to the Declaration of Independence, and asserting that the idea of property in men is an enormity and a crime, I still hold him to the record, saying, “Ye shall take him as an inheritance for your children, after you to in- herit them for apossession." When he wax- cs warm—as he always does if his opponent quote Scripture [\vhich is the great test to try the gepirits whether they of God—the very Sp or of Ithuricl to rev 1 their true character]——when he gets angry, and begins to pour out his evil surmisings and abuse up- on slavcholders—I obey the precept which says. “from such withdraw thyself," comfor- ting myself with this thought: that the wis- dom Of God is wiser than men, andtlre kind- ness of God kinder than men. Philosophers may reason and reformers may rave till doomsday, they never can convince me that God, in the Levitical law, or in any other law, sanctioned sin, and as I know from the plain passage I have quoted, and many more like it, that He did sanction slaveholding among His ancient people, I know also, by the logic of that faith which believes the Bi- ble to be His Word, that slavcholding is not sin. There arcmcn even among professing . Christians, and not a few are ministers of the Gospel who answer this argument from the Old Testament Scriptures by a. sim 1e denial of their authority. They do not te 1 us how God could ever or anywhere countenance that which is morally wrong, but they con- tent with saying that the Levitical law is no rule of action for us and they appeal fromits decisions to what they consrder the highest tribunal of the ’Gospel. Let us, therefore, gin issue with them before the bar of the ew Testament Scripture. It is a historic truth, acknowledged on all hands, that atthe advent of Jesus Christ slavery existed all over the civilized world, and was intimately interwoven with its social and civil institu- tions. In Jndea, in Asia Minor, in Greece, in all the countries where the Saviour or his Apostles preached the Gospel, slaveholdtng was just as common as it is to-day in South Carolina. It is not alleged b any one, or at least by any one having an pretensions to scholarship or candor, that the Roman laws regulating slavery Were even as mild as the Very worst statutes which have been passed upon the subject in modern times. It will not be denied by any honest and well in~ formed man that modern civilization and the restraining influences of the Gospel have shed ameliorating influences upon the rela- tion between master and slave, which was ut- terly unknown atthe advent of Christianity. And how did Jesus and his Apostles treat this subject? Masters and slayes met them at. every step in their missionary work, and were even present in every audience to which they preached. The Roman law which gave the full power of life and death into the master’s hand, was familiar to them, and all the evils connected with the system surrounded them every day as obviously as the light of heaven, and yet it is a remarka- ble fact, which the abolitionist does not be- cause he cannot deny, that the New Testa- ment is utterly silent in regard to the alleged sinfulness of slaveholding. In all the in- structions of the Saviour—in all the repoftcd sermons of the inspired A p o s t l e s— in oil the cpistles they were moved by . the Holy Spirit to write for the instruction of coming generations—there is not one distinct and explicit denunciation of slaveholding, nor one precept requiring the master to cmuucipatehis slaves. Every acknowledged sin is openly and repeatedly condemned and in— unmeasured terms. Drunkenness and adultery, theft and murder-rail the moral wrongs which ever have been known to af- flict society are forbidden by name, and yet, according to the teaching "of abolitionism, lainies—is never, spoken of except in respe‘ t- f'ul terms. HOWE Can this be accounted for ? Let Dr. Waylsind, whose work on moral science is’taughtin many of our schools, ans- wer this question, and let parents whose Chil- dren are studying that book diligently con« sider his answer. I quote from Waylaud's Moral Science, page 213: The Gospel was designed not for one race or for one time, but for all races and for all times. It looked not to the abolition of slavery for that a e alone, but for its universal abolition. Hence t c imdportantpbject of its author was to gain for it a lo oment m eveiytpart of the known world so that by Its universal i usion among all classes of socie- ty it might quietly and peacefully. modify and sub- due the evil passions of men. ln this manner alone could its object—a universal moral revolution—have been accouéplished. For if it had forbidden the evil. instea of subverting the principle; if it had proclaimed the unlawfulness of slave and taught slaves to resist the oppression of the r masters, it would instantly have arrayed the two parties in dead- ly hostility throughout the civilized world- its an- nouncement wou d have been the signal of servile war, and the very name of the Chr stian religion would have been forgotten amidst the agitation of universal bloodshed. We pausenot now to comment upon the tures; that it produces no real benefit to the. this greatest of.all sins—this sum of all ' ~17 admitted fact that Jesus Christ and his Apos- tles pursued a course entirely different from that adopted by the Abolitionists, including the learned author himself, nor to inquire whether the teaching of Abolitiouism is not as likely to produce strife and bloodshed in these days as in the first ages of the church. but we now call attention to and protest against is the imputation here cast upon Christ and his Apostles. Do you believe the Saviour sought to insinuate his religion into the earth by concealing its real design, and preserving a profound silence in regard to one of the worst_ sins it come to destroy? Do you believe that when be healed the Centuri- on’s servant, (whom every honest commen- tator admits to have been a slave.) and pro- nounced that precious eulogy upon his Inas- ter, “ I have not seen so great faith in Israel” -—do you believe that Jesus suffered that man to live on in sin because he deprecated the consequences of preaching abolitionism ? When Paul stood upon Mars’ Hill, surround- ed by ten thouSand times as many slavehold— ers as there were idols in the city, do you believe he kept back any part of the require- ments of the Gospel because he was afraid of a tumult among the people? We ask theSe Abolition philosophers whether, as a matter of fact, idolatry and vices connected with it were not even more intimately interwoven with the social and civil life of the Roman empire than slavery was? Did the A ostles abstain from speaking against ido atry? Nay, who does not know that by denoun- cing the sin they brought down upon them-‘ selves the whole power of the Roman em- pire ? Nero covered the bodies of the Chris- tian martyrs with pitch and lighted up the city with their burning bodies, just because they would not withhold or compromise the truth in regard to the worship of idols. In the light of that fierce persecution it is pro- fane trifling for Dr. Wayland or any other man to tell us that Jesus or Paul he (1 back their honest opinions of slavery for fear of “ a serviic war in which the very name of the Christian religion would have been for- gotten.” The name Of the Christian religion is not so easily forgotten; nor are God’s great purposes of redemption capable of be- ing defeated by an honest declaration of His truth everywhere and at all times. And yet this philosophy, so dishonoring to Christ and His‘Apostles, is moulding the character of our young men and Women. It comes into our Schools, and mingles with the very life blood of future enerations the sentiment that Christ and is Apostles held back the truth, and suffered sin to go unrebukcd for fear of the wrath of man. And all this to maintain, at all hazards, and in the face of the Snviour’s example to the contrary, the unscriptural dogma that slnvcholding is sin. Brit it must be observed in this connection that the Apostles went much further than to abstain from preaching against slaveholding. They admitted slaveholders to the commu- nion of the church, In our text, masters are acknowledged as “ brethren, faithful and be- loved, partakers of the benefit." If the New Testament is to be received as a fuithfuPhis— tory, no man was ever rejected by the apos- tolic church upon the ground that he owned slaves. If be abused his power as a master, if he availed himself of the authority cou- ferrcd by the Roman law to commit adulte- ry, or murder, or cruelty, he was rejected for these crimes, just ,as he would be rejected now for similar crimes from any' Christian Church in our Southern States. If parents abused or neglected their children they were censured, not for having Children, but for not treating them properly. And so with the slaveliolder. It was not the owning of slaves, but the Inanner in which he fulfilled the duties of his station that made him a. subject for church discipline. The mere fact that he was a slavcholder no more subjected him to censure than the mere fact that he was a father or a husband. It is upon the rccognizedlawfulness of the relation that all the precepts regrrlatiug the reciprocal duties of that relation are based. These precepts are scattered all through the inspired epistles. There is not one com- mand or exhortation to emancipate the slave. Tire Apostle well knew that for the present, emancipatiOn would be no real bles- sing to him. But the master is exh'orted to be kind and considerate, and the slave to be obedient, that so they might preserve the unity of that church in which there is no distinction between Greek or Jew, male or female, bond or free. Oh, if ministers Of the gospel in this land or age had but fol- lowed Paul as he followed Christ, and in- stead Of hurling anathemas and exciting wrath against slaveholders, had sought only to bring both master and slave to the foun- tain of Enianuel’s blood; if the agencies of the blessed Gospel had only been suffered to work their way quietly, as the light and dew of the morning, into the structure of society, both North and South, how different would have been the position of our country this day before God. How different would have been the privileges enjoyed by the poor black man’s soul, which, in this bitter contest, has been too much neglected and despised.— Tlren there would have been no need t6 have converted our churches Into military bar- racks for collecting firearms to carry on war upon a distant frontier. No need for a sove- reign State to execute the fearful penalty of the law upon the invader for doing no more than honestly to carry out the teaching of abolition preachers, who bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders while they touch them not with one of their fingers. No need for the widow and the orphan to weep in anguish of heart over those cold graves, for whose dis- honor and desolation God will hold the real authors responsible. N o occasion or pre- text for slaveholding States to pass such stringent laws for the punishment of the sc- Cret incendiary and the prevention of servile war. I shall not attempt to show what will be the condition of the African race in this country when the Gospel shall have brought all classes under its complete dominion.— What civil and social relations men will sus- tain In the times of millennial glory I do not know. I cordially embrace the current opin- ion of' our church that slavery is permitted and regulated by the divine law under both the Jewish and Christian dispensations, not as the final destiny of the enslaved, but as an important and necessary process in their transition from heathenism to Christianit ’— awlieel in the great machinery of Provi- dence, by which the final redemption is to be accomplished. However this may be, one thing I know, and every abolitionist might know it if he would, that there are, Christian families at the South in which a patriarchal fidelity and affection subsist be- tween the bond and the free, and 'where slaves are better fed and clothed and instruc- ted, and have a better opportunity for salva- tion than the majority of laboring people in the city of New York. If the tongue of ab- olitionism had only kept silence these twenty years past, the number of such families would be tenfold asogreat. Fanaticism at the North is one chief stumbling block in the way of the Gospel at the South. This, in ameasurc, explains why such men as Dr. Thornwell of South Carolina, and Dr. Pal- mer of N cw Orleans—men whose. genius and learning and piety would adorn any :state or station—arc willing to secede from the Union. The feel that the influence of the Christian min'istry is hindered, and their power to do good to both master and slave, crippled by the constant agitations of aboli- tionism inpur national councils, and the in- cessant turmoil excited by the unscriptnral dogma that slavcholding is sin. II, . THE PRINCIPLES OF _ABOLITIONISM IIAvE BEEN PROPAGATED CHIEFLY BY MISREPRE- SENTATION AND ABUSI. - Haing no foundation in scripture, it does not carry on its warfare by scripture weap- ons. Its prevailing spirit is fierce and proud and its language is full of wrath and bitter- ness. Let me prove this by. testimony from its ownlips. I quote Dr. Chahning of Bos- ton, whose namc is a tower of strength to the abolition cause, and whose memory is their continual boast. In a work published in the year 1836, I findnthe following words: “The abolitionists have done wrong, I bellve, nor is their wrong to be winked at because done fanati- cslly or with good intentions; for how much mis- \ VOLUME XLIV--NUMBER 8. x. chief'ma be wrou lit with good designs! They have fallgn into coriImon error of enthusiasts, that of exag crating their object, of feeling as ifno evil ex- isted Iit that which they opposed. and as if no guilt could be compared with that of Counteuancing and upholding it. The tone of their newspapefia 1‘0 far as I have seen them, has often been fierce, bitter and abusive. They have sent forth their orators. some of them trans orted with fier zeal. to scan the alarm against slIIivery throught c land. to gather together young and old, upils from schools. and fe' males hardly arrived at the years of discretion, the ignorant, the excitable. the im etuous. and t0 0" ganize them into associations or the battle against oppression. Verv unhappiiv they reached their doctrine to the colored people. and cofiected them In- to societies. To this mixed and excitable multitude minute heart-reading descriptions of slavery were given in (piercing tones ofpassion; and slaveholder! were be] up as monsters of cruelty and crime. The abolitionists, indeed, roposed to convert slavehol- ders; and for this end c approached them with v1- tuperation and exhausted on them the vocabulary of abuse. And he reaped as he sowed. Such is the testimony Of Dr. Channing, given in the year 1836. What would he have thou ht and said if he had lived until the year 1 60, and seen this little stream, over whose infant violence he lamented, swelling into a torrent and flooding the land? Abolitionism is abusive in its persistent mis- representations of the legal principles involv- ed in the relation between master and slave. They reiterate in a. thousand exciting forms the assertion that the idea of property in man blots out his manhood and degrades him to the level of a brute or stone. “Do- mestic slavery,” says Dr. Wayland, in his work on Moral Science, “supposes at best that the relation between master and slave is not that which exists between man and man, but is a modification at least of that which exists between man and brutes.” Do not these abolitionists philosophefs know that according to the laws of every civilized country on earth a man has prOperty in his children and a woman has property in her husband ? The statutes of the State of New York and of every other Northern state rec- ognize and protect this property, and our courts of justice have repeatedly assessed'its value. If a man is killed on a railroad his wife may bring suit and recover damages for the pecuniary loss she has suffered. If one man entice away the daughter of anoth- er, and marry her while she is yet under; age, thefather may bring a civil suit for damages . for the, loss of that Child’s services, andrthe pecuniary compensation is the only redress the law provides. Thus the common law of Christendom and the statutes of our own State recognize property in man. In what does that property consist? Simply in such services as a man or a child may properly be required to render, This is all that the Le- vitical law, or any other law, means when it says, “Your bondmen shall be your poses- sion or property, and an inheritance for your children.” Tire property consists not in the right to treat the slave like a brute but simply in a legal claim for such services as a man in that position may properly be required to render. And yet Abolitionists,‘ in the face of the divine law, persist in de-' nouncing the very relation between master- and slave, “as a modification, at least, of that which exists between man and the brutes.” This, however, is not the worst or most prevalent form which their abusive spirit as- sumes. Their mode of arguing thequestiou of slaveholding, by a pretended appeal to facts, is a. tissue of misrepxcscntation from beginning to end. Let me illustrate my meaning by a parallel case. Supposc,I un- dertake to prove the wickedness of marriage as it exists in the city of New York, Inthis discussion, suppose the Bible is excluded, or at least that it is not recognized as' having exclusive jurisdiction in the decision of the question. My first appeal is to the statute law of the State. I show there enactments which nullify the law of God and make divorce a marketable and cheap commoditity. I collect the adver- tisements of your daily papers, in which lawyers Offer to procure the legal separation of man and wife for a stipulated price, to say nothing in this sacred place of other adver- tisements which decency forbids me to quote. Then I turn to the records Of our crim- inal courts, and find that some cruel husband beats his wife, or some unnatural parcnt murders his child, or some discontentcdhus- band or wife seek a dissolution of the mar- riage bond. In the next place I turn to the orphan asylums and hospitals, and show there the miserable wrecks of domestic tv- runny, in wives deserted and Children maim- cd by drunken parents. In the last place I go into our streets and into our tenement houses, and count the thousands of ragged children, who, amid ignorance and filth, are training for the prison and gallows. Summoning all these facts together. I pill; them forth as the fruits of marriage in the city of New York, and a proof that the re- lation itself is sinful. If I were a novelist and had written- a book to illustrate this same doctrine, I would call this array of facts a “Key." In this key I say nothing about the sweet charities and affections that flourish in ten thousand homes, not a word about the multitude of loving kindnesses that characterize the daily life of honest peo- pic, about the instruction, and discipline that are training children at ten thousand fire- sides for usefulness here and lory hereafter; all this I ignore, and quote on y the statute book, the newspapers, the records of crimi- nal courts and the miseries of the abodes of poverty. . Now, what have I done ‘2 I have not mic-stated or exaggerated a single fact. Audyet am I not a falsifier and slanderer ofthe deepest dye ? Is there a virtuous woman or an honest man in this city whose cheeks would not burn with indignation at my one s i d e d and injurious statements.— Now, this is just what abolitionism has done in regard to slaveholding. It has underta- ken to illustrate its cardinal doctrine in work of fiction, and then, to sustain the creation of its fancy, has attempted to underpin it with an accumulation of facts. These facts are collected in precisely the way I have described. The statute books of slavehold- ing states are searched, and every wrong enactment collected, newspaper reports of . cruelty and crime on the part of wicked mas- ters, are treasured and classified, all the out- rages that lIave been perpetrated “by lewd felllows of the baser sort," of whom ' there are plenty, both North and South, are eagerly seized and recorded, and this mass of vileness and filth collected from the ken- nels and sewers of society is put forth as a faithful exhibition of slaveholding. Senators in the forum, and ministers in the pulpit, ' - til this raw material into the more refin d slander “that Sorfthern society is essentially barbarous, and that slaveholding had its origin in hell.” Legislative bodies enact and re-enact statutes which declare that slave- lIoldmg is such an enormous crime that if a Southern man, under the broad shield;of‘thc Constitutions, and with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the country in his bond, shall come within her jurisdiction, and set up aclaim to a fugitive Slave, he shall be pun- ished with a fine of two thousands dollars and fifteen years imprisonment. This meth- od of argument has continued until multi- tudes of honest Christian people in this and other lands, believe that slaveholding is the sin of sins, the sum of all villainies. let me illustrate this by an incident in my own ex- perience. A lbw years since I took from the centre-table of a Christian family in Scotland by whom I had been most kindly entertain- ed, a book entitled, “Life and Manners in America.” 011 the blanklcafwas an inscrip- tion, stating that the book had been bestow- cd upon one Of the children of the family as a reward for diligence in an institution of learning. The frontispiccc was a picture of a man‘of fierce countenance beating a naked woman. The contents of the book were Americans on the subject of slavery. I dare not quote in this place the extracts which I made in my memorandum book. It will be sufficient to say'that the book asserts as uu- pi are studded with iron gallows for the pun- ishment of slaves—that in:tlIc city ofCharles- ton the bloody block on which masters cut off the hands of disobedient servants may be seen in the public squares, and that sins against chastity are common and unrebukcd in professedly christian families. . Now in Iny heart I did not feel angry at the author of that book, nor at the school- teacher who bestowed it upon his scholar, for in christian charity I gave them credit for honesty in the‘ case, but standing there a '9 professedly compiled from the testimony of~ doubted facts that the banks of the Mississip- ' stranger among the martyr memories ofthat glorious land'to which in heart had , so of- ten made its pilgrimage, .didéfeel that you} land every man in America was wrongedb the rcvilers of their native 18nd,. who feac foreigners that hanging and‘cutting Ofl'hands and beating women, are the . characteristics of our life and manners. ' ’ ' . > But we need not era to foreign lands for proof that abolitionism has “filed ‘on its warfare by the language of abuse. ‘The an- nual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society brings the evidence to our doors.— We have been accustomed to laugh at these venal exhibitions of fanaticism, not thinking, perhaps, that what was fun for 'us WastIk- ing death to our brethren, whose property and reputation we are bound to prefect; ’ The fact is, we have suffered a fire to be built. in our midst, whose sparks have been scattered far and wide, and now when the smoke 'of the conflagration comes back to _ blind our eyes, and the heat of it begins to scorch our industrial and commercial interests, it will not do for us to say that the utterances of that society are the ravings of a fanatical and insignificant few, for the men who coin it are honored in our midst with titles ind offices. . , Its President is a Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey. The ministérs who' have thrown over its doings the mom of our holy religion are quoted and magnified all over the and as the representative futon of the age; and the man who stood- np-lniits deliberations in the year 1852 and "exhaust- ed the vocabulary o abuse upon-1 the "com- promise measures, and the great: sutu- men who framed them, is now judgevin-our courts andthe guardian ofour lives and prop- e “I; will doubtless be said that misrepresen- tation and abuse have not been confined, in the progress of this unhappy contest, 1 to the abolitionists of the North; that demngo es and self-seeking men at the South havelgilelen violent and abusive, and that new ' rs professedly in the interests of the Son with a spirit which can be characterized as little less than diabolical. have circulated every scandal in the most a0 vated andirritating _ form. But suppose aI this to be ‘ ' ‘ ' - what then ? Can Christian men , instifyior palliate the wrath and evil speaking , ' ch are at their own doors by pointin to the re- taliation which if has provoked In their neighbors? If I were preaching to-day to a Southern audience it would be my duty, and I trust God would give me grace to perform it, to tell them of their sins in this matter; and especially would it be my privilege as a minister of the Gospel of peace—a privi- lege from which no false views of manhood should prevent me—to exhort and beseech them as brethren. I would assure them that there are multitudes here who still cherish the memory of the battle fields and council chambers where our fathers cemented this Union of States, and who still Stand by the compact Of the Constitution to the utmost extremity. I would tell the thousands of Christian ministers, among whom , are some of the brightest ornaments of the American pulpit, and the tens of thousands of Christian men Christ burns in me, my heart never can grow cold, that if they will only be patient and hope to the end, all wrongs may yet be right— cd. Therefore I would beseech them not to put a great gulf between us and cut off the very opportunity for reconciliation upon an honorable basis, by a revolution whose end no human eye can see. But then, I am not preaching at the South. I stand here at one Of the main fountain heads of the abuse We have complained of. I stand here to rebuke this sin, and exhort the guilty parties to re- pent and forsake it. It is magnanimous and Christ-like for those from whom the first provocation came to make the first conces- sions. The Legislative enactments which are in open and acknowledged violation of the Con- stitution, and whose chief design is to put a stigma upon slaveholding, must and will be repealed. Truth and justice will ultimately prevail, and God’s blessings and the bless- ings of generations yet unborn will rest upon that party, in this unhappy contest, whofirst stand forth to utter the language of concilia- tion and proffer the olive branch of peace. The great fear is that the retraction will come too late; but sooner or later it will come.- Abolitionism ought to, and, one day will change the mode of its warfare; and adopt a new vocabulary. I believe in the liberty of the press and in freedom of speech, but I do not believe a man has a right, be- fore God, or in the eye of' civilized law, to speak and publish what he pleases, without regard to consequences. With the conscious tious convictions of our fellow Citizens, nei- ther we nor the law has any right to inter- fere; but the law ought to protect all men from the utterance of libellous words, whose only effect is to create division and with. I trust and pray, and call upon you to unite with me in the supplicatiou that God would give abolitionists repentance and a bet- ter mind, so that in time to come they may at least propagate their principles in decent and respectful language. III. ABOLITONXSM LEADS IN numrrunns or CASES, AND av A women. Pnocnss To UT- Tnn INFIDELITY. On this point I would not and will not be mhunderstood. I do not say that ab‘olitiom ism is infidelity. I speak only of the tend- encies of the system as indicated in itsnvow- ed principles and demonstrated in its practi- cal fruits. It does not try slavery by the Bible; but as one of its leading advocates has recently de- clarerl, it tries the Bible by the principles of freedom. It insists that the word of God must be be made to support certain human opinions or forfeit all claims upon our faith. That I may not be suspected of exaggeration on this point, let me quote from the recent work of Mr. Barnes a passage which may well arrest the attention of all thinking men; There are great principles in our nature, a'l God has made a rofessed rev elation. If abook claiming to be a reve ation from God by any fair interg’rsl- tion defended slavery, or placed it on the same in as the relation of husband and wife, parent and child guardian and ward, such a book would not, here- pegyed by the mass of mankind as a Divmc revela- l .' The assumption that men are capable of judging beforehand what is to be expected in a Divine revelation, is the cockatnce’segg from which in all ages heresies have been hatched. This is the spider’s web which men have spun out of their own brains, and clinging to which, they have attempted to swing over the yawning abyss of infidelity. Alas, how many have fallen in and been dashed to pieces ! When a man sets up the great principle of our nature (by which he always means his own preconceived opin- ions) as the supreme tribunal'before which even the law of God must be tried—when a man says “the Bible must teach abolitionism or I will not receive it," he has ahead but loose from the Sheet anchor (fl faith. rue belief says,“Spcak. Lord, thy servants want to hear." Abolitionism says, “Speak,Lr_)rd, but speak in accordance with the prmcxplep of human nature, or they cannot be received by the great mass of mankind as a Divine re velation.” Tire fruit of such principles isjust what we might expect. Wherever the seed of abolitionisni has been sown broadcast a plentiful crop ot‘infidelity hassprung up. .111 the communities were anti-slavery exerte- ment has been most prevalent, the power of the Gospel has invariably declined; , _, when the tide Of fanatira‘sm begins to subsi ‘ the wrecks of church order and of Christian character have been scattered on the shore. I mean no disrespect to New England—to the good men who there stand by the ancient landmarks and contend earnestly for‘jlie praise is in all the churches, but who ride! not know that the States in which abolition. ism .has achievedits most Signal triumphs m at the same time the great stronghold ofhfi- delity: in the land? I have often thought ' that If some of those old pilgrim father: could ‘ Come back; in the spirit audpower of'Eliu’, ' to attend a grand celebration at. Plymouth Rock, they might'well preach on this text; “If ye were Abraham’s children ye would do the works of Abraham.” The ect 91pm. and women towards whom, while the love of truth—nor to the illustrious dead, .Wlible '
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