Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1861-02-14

              t-4. ll ID D) IT llD 1U 1U0 VOL. VII. MOUNT VERNON OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1861. NO. 15. MRU Mil IIP F i i n i ill ! .if v,1 - i ! Si I. saw. 8 APF W. L. S1MOM. a a j, ju, w a A. T V A a ATTORNEYS AT LAW. office-No, j, Kuiaik bduoiko. w vamci w.o.oooru. VANCE fc COOPER, ATTORNEYS AT IAW, MT. VRItNON, OIHO 7 31Ieiouthasteornerof Main end Chestnut it posit Knot County Bnk. PlS tA. C.OXNT JOUND. RUUBI DONNEY 4c HOUSE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW ASB SOLICITORS IN CHANCER r, 59 MAIN ST., PEORIA, ILLINOIS. Particular attention given to Real Estate and Collection cases throughout the State. n4fl-ly WALTEH H. SMITH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, MT. VEItNON, OHIO. Vie High gtrt, opposite th. Court IIous. HENRY 8. MITCHELL, Attorney and (toiinsHlor at Law AND NOTARY PUBLM. OPnCE-WorthBido Kremlin Block, . . MT. VERNON, OHIO. imhit w. cotton. w. ... sani. COTTON & BANE, ttorne)' & Counsellors at Law, 1t. Vinton, (ihin. IfTILLattend to all business Intrust! to their w Year, in any of the Courts. OFFICE, N. E. Corner of Main and OinbierSH. ever 1 vie I Merchant! auoring cso ". Oet. lth ISSS.tf D. C. MONTGOMERY, . IITQHKEf AT UWi BOOTH BUILDING OVER MUSIC STORE Mnnnfc Vornnn.Ohlo; Special attention given to tlie Collecting of Clelmf, and the purchase ana aai oi real I hare for sale unimproved lendi ai follows, 840 acres ii Osage County, Missouri, 80S acres in Warren County, Missouri, 802 acres in Bt. ran-eis County, Missouri, also US aores and one 40 ..r.l.tln Hardin County. Ohio, and SiJacresin Mercer County.Ohio. March 1 . '59, 16-tf. SASH, DOORS AND BL1 D . j. A. Anderson, MaNUrACTnHKK AND DtfAMtB IN SASH, DOORS, AND BLINDS, 7n. Jones' Ware House, High St., between Main and R. R. Depot, Mount Vernon, Ohio A LL KINDS of work constantly on hands and ..mntaii. All orders nromntlyexecutod. J-jV- Pry Pint Lumber, Shingles, Latb, Ac, alway hand. April 36,1859, 24 ly. DR. D. M'BRIAR, OLECFLLFOItlHE VV cltiiens of Mt. Vcrnonj Ohio, and vicinit), thmi.h. hunernianentlv located In Mt Vernnn for the purpose of Practicing his Profession in the la test and most substantial styl of the Art: and I aonMm tothoso who may favor me with their patronage, that my work shall and will compare HlAlITV AND DIIHABIUTV, with ny in theState. I would also sny to those who realtlicted ajith Diseaned Mouths, that 1 am prepared to treat all discuses of the inoutb under any fcrm; also, to upenitoon Hair Lips, single or double. The biwtof roforencesoanbogiven. OFFICE Over Russell A Sturgcs' Hank, 3rd ivr below Mr. Sporry's Store, Main Street, Mt. Vermn.Ohio. CABINET BUSINESS. rpkea pleasure in announcing to tne cmitnee J. Mt. Vernon and vicinity, that he continues to .arry on the CABINET MAKING BUSINESS, la all its branches, at his old stand, at the foot of Main street, opposite Buckingham's Foundry, where will be found Bureaus, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, Wabtands,Cupkoards, Ac, o. UNDERTAKING. 1 have provided myself with a new and elegant Hearse, and will be ready to attend funerals whenever called upon. Coffins of all kinds kept on hand ai4 made to order. J. 8. MARTIN. FbJ'aa Stt. Read the Following Good GOODS AT COST AND'NO HUMBUG! HAVING purchased the stock of goods lately owned by Wm. Oldroyd, it is my intention to disposeof them positively by the 1st of March, The took consists in partof Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, fancy Goods, Notions, Ao. School Books and Stationery ! Promiscuous Books and Bibles. One hundred fross Oldroyd'i superior 303 Steel Pens jnst received and manufactured to order by Uillott. A large assortment of Wall Paper and Window Blinds ! which will be sold 20 per cent less than can be bought in this place. Coal Oil Lamps, Burners & Chimneys Ann lot of OVAL GILT PICTURE FRAMES, th cheapest by half ever sold in this market. We have agood assortment of goods just received frm th East, all of which must be disposed of. Repairing of all kinds don up in order and rcmptness. Store on Main street,opposite the kenyon House, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. ov 21 '0, n3-3m S. D. LINCOLN. TIIC HOOFING. CEMENT ROOFING All kinds of Tin and Cement Roofing don to order, and warranted to give satisfaction. Also, manufacturers of all kinds of Tin, Copper and Sheet trot work, and Railroad, Steamboat and Hotel Bag gag checks. J. H. SMITH, Jai T, 1890o3I 117 Seneca it., Cleveland. SHERIFF'S SALE. Zalmen Ludington vs. Joseph B. Welsh. BT VIRTUE of a writ of order of sale Issued out ' of th Court of Common Pleas of Knox County, , Ohio, and to me directed, I will offer at public sale at th door or tn uourt nouse, in n. ernon.on Saturday, 23d : day of February, 1861 . between th hours of 19 o'clock, m. and I o'olock p. as., th following desorlbed real astute, to-wit: Lnniaad beim in the second quarter. 6th town , aleaad lllfe range, U. S. Military tree! in Knox n . ai. 1 . ..-I. .1... . . ienniy, vdiq, hq wii ,v wudh ui iu uw ur nreel ef laud la Clinton township, In said Knox eceaty, formerly owned and occupied by Jacob Otetblager, aad by him left to his heirs, and which cue afterwards purchased at Sheriffs Sal by Jo-, seek B. Welsh, aa lies cast of the eaat line of a por-tia ef said tract, conveyed to Richard Harding by . (aid Joseph B. Welsh, by deed dated April 11th, USt, and recorded la Knoxeounty records of land title la book 11 peg 3, and cast of th eait line f aportion of said tract conveyed to Garrett Brown by Kid loseph B. Welsh) nfereooo I hereby had . ty th deeds of said Crothinger,and the Judpement and other proceedings in waich said sale was made , te said Joseph B, Welsh, and to th said deeds to Richard Harding and Garret Brawl, and the plat . . aadsarvcys theretc attached. Said original traet , Ic estimated to eon tain lOtMcrc more or Us and . the parcel thereof, above described, ic estimated to ' eeataia 143 aores and 93 poles mor or less. Ap-: i Micad It f ,687. . . JAMS3 S. SHAW, Sheriff. . , Va If all wS prf 4,50 . . BBilNABDeVBUBHIDOE, UinOGRAPnERS, . i Eenr Tnleir f Style, . . 1 . BANK BTREsT, V , CfyetiU WtideU Bnttt, QUtiaM, Okie. w. a, 13 an. , GOODS AT The New Store! G. & W. D. BKOWN1NG A re Just opening an additional stock of NEW AND BEAUTIFUL GOODS Just pdrchased at the vary lowest figures and of too latest NEW YORK STYLES, Which they are now prepared to offer their Friends Cuitomars and the Dublio. on teams as favorable as any House in this section of theoountry inthil particular laty ao nm imtna to oe mnauni. Among their new stock will be found FRENCH REPS. CA8HMIERS, MERINOS, VALENCIAS, MOHAIRS, DELAINS, FRENCH ENGLISH PRINTS and a variety of OTHER STYLES OF DRESS GOODS too numerous to mention. They would also call particulnr attention to their STOCK OF SHAWLS, which for their styles and quality, AT THE PRICE are not to be exceeded. They bare also a fresh supply or RIBBONS AND DRESS TRIMMINGS. A fine assortment of LADIE'S AND CHILDREN'S HOODS. Please call and examine them, For Gentlemen, tney navea good iresn stock oi MEN'S WEAK, which for price and quality art not to be beat in tms market, SO THEY THINK! They have also on hand a good stock of LADIE'S, L'UIDUKK.VS and Ufc.vn.Mlk.VS Hoots etncl Slioos of nearly every kind which they are offering at rtry Nov. 15, '60-n2 tf. LEGAL NOTICE. In rhe Court of Common Pleas of Knox county, Ohio. Nathaniel II. Barker, pl'ff, vs George Quier and Lydia his wife, Timothy M. Bartlett and David Reck. The said David Rock who is a non resident of the Stat of Ohio, and supposed now to reside in the State of Iowa, is hereby notified tent on tbo 3uth day of October, A. D. 1860, the said Plaintiff filed his amended petition against said Defendants in the Court of Common Pleas of Knoxcounty,Ohio, the object of which is to obtain Judgment on a Kromissory note, made by said Quier to saidBart-:tt, May 30th, 1859, and payable Msy 30th, I860, for $210, with intorojt from date, also to foreclose a mortgnge on lot 44 in Norton's northern addition to Mt. Vernon, executed by said George Quier and Ly dia, his wife, to secure said note, and for sal o of said mortgaged premises.. Said Petition sots forth that said note and mortgage was assigned by said Bartlett to said Plaintiff long before maturity, and that since the oxocution of said mortgage said David Reck ha acquired some interest in said real estate, by virtue of a protended sale mndo by said Ueorge Quier as tno executor ot one Mary jiiitton, deceased. Said Ruck is further notified that unless he plead, answor or demurs to said petition on or before the third Saturday after the expiration of six weeks publication ot this notice, the allegation of said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. ISRAEL A DEVIN, Jan I0'61,nl0-w6-4,50 Att'ya for Pl'ff. SHERIFFS SALE. Eliia nibb'.tt.", by her guardian, Robert S.ipp, vs. Henderson Ilibbitts ct si. Pursuant to an order of sale issued from the Court of Common Ploas of Knox county, Ohio, and to me directed, I will offer at publio sale, nt the door of the Court House, in the city of Mount Vernon, iu Knox county, Ohio, on Saturday, the lOth day of Feb., A. D-, 1861. between the hours of 10 o'clock n. m.and 4 o'clock p. in. of said day, the following described real estate, (subject to a widow's dower,) to-wit: The S W quarter of the N E quarter of section II, Tp 8 and Range 10, containing 40 acres, raoro or loss. Tbe E of the N W quartor of seetion 1 !, Tp 8, and Range 10, containing 80 acres. Tho West . of the SE quarter of section 11, Tp 8, Range 10, excepting from said quarter the following tract of land, sold and conveyed by John Hobbitts and wife toObediah Tucker, by deed dated April 16, 1849, beginningat a white oak, at the S W corner of the west half of the S E quarter ofsoction No 11 in Tp 8 of Range 10, thence east on the soction line, 20 rods, more or less, tn a stone No 1 placed at a black oak thence a north easterly direction 60 rods, more or less, to a stone placed as a corner witli four notches in, thence a north westerly direction 50 rods, more or less, to a stone corner No 2. Thence south 65 rods, moroor less.to.the place of beginning Tho tract so sold off estimated to contain 13 acres, the whole supposed to contain 60 acres; and also the following described tract conveyed by Obediab Tucker and wife, to John Hibbitts,by deed dated April 16, 1849, being ir, the N E corner of the S E quarter of section 11, Tp 8 and range 10, and more 8articularly described aa follows: Beginning atthe E, oorner of the above described tract, thonco south 15 rods, more or less, to a stone No 2, thence north westerly to a stone No 4 on'th Mohican river bank, thence up the river to the line dividing the eaat half of the 8 W quarter of seetion H, Tp 8and range 10, thenc east 10 rods, more or less, to the place of beginning, oontainicg one acre mora or less. Tkrhs of Sale Ono third in cash on the day of aale, one third in one year, and one third in two yoars, the deferred payment to be secured by mort- Snge on the premises, and to bear interest from the ay of sale. Appraised subject to widow's dower at $2360,00. JAMES S. SHAW, Sheriff. jan lU-no lu-aw-fo.au THE UNDERSIGNED, a resident and practicing Physician of Knox county for the last twenty yean and of the city of Mt. Vernon for the last nine vears. oroDOses 10 ireai, ii cnuea on in me on set ef the disease, all the various kinds of Fever our city and vicinity are subject tn, successfully or no charge mod for services or medicine. Also Bilious Colio, Cramp Colic, Diarrhoea, Choi era-Infantum, Croup, Cholera Morbus and Cholera, (it its season ) on the above principle, uiptnena, (putrid or malignant sore throat) acarlantina, In-flamation of the Lungs, Ac., will be treated with success or no oharee. Cancer of any kind ordescription, Cancer Warts Rose Cancer. Nodes. Wens. Moles on the face or neck, Blotches on the face or neck, aay or all of these will be removed without the knife, and cured or no chars mad for treatment. Recent cases of Felons cured without lancing. ' Particular attention will be given to all kinds of female disease or weakness. Also to th healing of old sores, Ac, ao. A cure will be guarantied in all cases of th gen erative o trans. N. B. Private consultations rati and strictly COMFIDRNT1AL. OFFFICE O Via test of Mnin-st., Mt, Ver non, Ohio. DH. J. Ii. OFFICE. Iv22 II I 1S-U . ROAD NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER-sons eoneerned that there will be a petition presented te the Commissioners of Knox county at their regular session in March, 1861, praying for a new county road commencing oa the road leading rrom Mt.- Vernon to reder loktown, near Ihomaa Robinson' ba-ni thenoe east on th section tin until it strike th township road leading to th rarrysvlll road, so called. jao31-nol3-4w Mant PititioNim. 7 ROAD NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY O.VEN THAT A PETI-tion will be vreecnted to th Commissioners of Knax county, Ohio, at their regular session on th 1st Monday ol March next, praying for a view to lay out a new road, commencing at th Coihoe-ton road oa th line of land belonging to Henry Errett and Joecph Hutchinson, Esq., and running north on said tin, so a to intersect with th western bank of Sohenok'i creek at tbe most favorable point to ceo u re a good road, Ac, the to run upon th bank of aaid creek co a to Intersect th Mt, Vcrnen and Danville road at th bridge, and also to evacuate tbe road running up tbe creek from Monroe Mini to th Danville road. jaaSl-aolI-tw , NEW THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OP ABOLITIONISM. Sermon Preached in the First Pmhyttrian Church of Brooklyn, by Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke. Th First Presbyterian church, corner of uensen ana Ulinton streets, Brooklyn, wis dermely crowded laHt evening with a highly Intelligent congregation, who listened with marked interest and attention to a diicourse from thoir pstor, Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke, on the Character and Influence of Abolitionism from a scriptunl point of slew. In hi opening supplication the reverend gentleman prayed that Providence would bless our Southern brethren and restrain the passion of the evil among them; that the master might be made Christ's servant, and the sorvant Christ's freeman, and so both sit tog tber united in Christian love in that chuich founded by Christ and His Apostlosin which there is neither Greek nor Juw, male nor Tomato, bond or free, but all are one in Christ Jusus. He also prayed that God would bless the people of the Northern States, restrain the vio leiico of fanatical men. provide for those who, by the agitation of the timet have been thrown out of employment, keep tbo speaker himself from teaching anything which wus not in accordance witli the Divine will, and disabuse th 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, iuclusive : 1. Let as many eervantsas are under the yoke count their owu master wordily of all honor, that the namo of Clod and lis doctrine be not blasphemed. 2. And thuy that have believ'rj; masters let them nnt despise thKmecuse thny are breth n n; but rather do them service, because they re faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the word of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrii e wb.ch is according to godliness. 4 1 He is proud, knowing nothing but doting about question and strife of words whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings. 5. Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the tru.h, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. ' I propose, he said to discuss the character and influence of abolitionism. With this view I have selected a text from tho Bible, and purpose lo adhere to the letter and spirit of its teaching. We 'cknoaledge in this place but one standard of morals, but one authoritative and infallible rule of faith and practice. For we are Christians here; not Papists to bow down to tbe dictation of any man or church: not heathen philosophers, to gnpe our way by the fccble glimmerings of tne light ol nature; not modern infidels, to appeal from the written law of God to the corrupt and fickle tribunal of reason and hu-manitv; but Christians, en whose banner is insciibed this sublime challenge ''To tbe law and to the testimony--if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them." Let us direct your special attention to the language of our text. There is no disputo among commentators there ii no room for dispute as to the meaning of the expression of "servants under the yoke." Even Mr. Barnes, who ii himself a distinguished abolitionist, and has done more perhaps, than any other man in this country to propagate abolition doctrines, admits that ''the addi tion :f the phrase 'undurthi yoke' " shous undoubtedly that it (i. e tho original word doulox) is to be understood here of slavery. Litt tne quote another testimony nn tbis point Irani an eminent Scotch divine, I mean Dr. Mc Knight, whose exposition of the epistle is a standard work in Great Britain and in this country, and whoso associations must exempt m in Irom all suspicion ol pro-slavory piciu- dices. He introduces bis exposition of this chaptei with the following explanation : ' Because the law of Moses allowed no Isra elite to be mado a slave for lite without his own consent, the Judaizing teachers, to al lure slaves to their party, taught that under the gospel likewise involuntary slavery is un-lawlul. This doc'rtne the apostle condemn ed here, as in his other epistles, by enjoining Christiaj 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 holcsome precepts of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of tbe gospel, which in all points is conformable to godliness or sound morality, and was puffed up with pride without pos sessing any 'rue knowledge either of tbe Jewisti or Christian revelation." Our learned Scotch friend then goes on. to expound the passage in the following paitphrase, which we commend to the prayerlul attention of ail whom it mty concern." Let whatever Christian slaves are under the yoke of unbelievers pay their own m isters all rospect and obedience, that the character of God whom we worship may not be calumni ated, and the doctrine of the gospel may not be evil spoken or as tending to destroy the political rights of mankind. And those Christian slaves who have believing masters, let them not despise them, fancying that they are their equals because they are tlitir brethren in Christ, for, though all Christiana are equal as to religious privileges, slaves are in ferior to their masters in station. Wherefore, let tbem serve their masters more diligently, because they who enjoy the benefit of their service are believers and beloved of God. "These things teach, and exort tbe bretbrsn to practice them." If any one teach dilfer-ently by iffimiog that under the gospel slaves are not bound to serve their masters, but ought to be made free, and does not consent to the wholesome commandments which are our Lord Jesus Christ's and to the doctrine of the gospel which in all points is conformable to true morality, he is puffed jp with pride and knowetb nothing either of the Jewish or the Christian revelations, though he pretends to have great knowledge of both. But is distempered in bis mind about idle questions and debate of words which afford no foundation lor such a doctrine, but are tne source of envy, contention, evil speaking, unjust suspicion ibat the truth is not sincerely maintained, keen disputing carried on con trary to the conscience by men wholly corrupted in their minds and destitute of the true doctrine of the gospel, who reckon what ever produces most money is the best religion from all such impious teachers witnaraw thyself, and do not dispute with tbem. The text, as thug expounded by an Amen can abolitionist and a Scotch divine, (whose testimony need not be confirmed by quotation Irom alt the other commentaries,) is a prophecy writtoo fortbise days, and wonder fully applicable to our present circumstacces-It eivea us a life like picture of abolitionism in Its principles, its spirit and its praotic, and furnishes as plain Instruction in regard to our dnty In the premises. Befjre entering upon the discnisioo of the doctrine, let as de fine the terms employed, By abolitionism we mean the principles and measurosof ab litionists. And what is an abolitionist II is one who believes slaveholding is sin, and ought therefore to be abolished. This is tbe fundamental, the characteristic, the essential principle of abolitionism that slaveholding is sin that holding men In involuntary aer viiude is an infringement upon the rights of man, a benious crime In the sight or Uod. A man may believe on political or commercial grounds that slavery is an undesirable system, and that slave labir is not the most profitable; he may have various views as to the rights of slaveholders under the oonstitu tion of the country; ho may think this or that law upon the statute books of Southern States is wrong; hut this does not constitute him an abolitionist, unless he believes that slaveholding is morally wrong. The alleged sinfulness of slaveholding, as it is the characteristic doctrine, so it is the strength of abolitionism in all its ramified and various foims. It is by this doctrine that it lays hold upon tbe hearts and consciences of men, that it comes as a disturbing forte into our ecclesiastical and e vil institutions, and by exciting religi us animosity Ohich all history proves to bi the strugest. human pas sions,) imparts a peculiar intensity to every contest into which it enters. And you will perceive it is just here that abolitionism pre sents a proper subject for discussion in the puluit for it is one great purpose of tbe Biblo and therefore one great duty of God's minis ters in its exposition, to show what is sin and what is not. Those who hold the doc trine that slaveholding is sin, and ought theremre to be abolished, differ very much in the extent to which thty reduce their the ory to practice. In some this faith is almost without works. They content themselves with only voting in such way as their judg m;ut will best promote the ultimate triumph of their views. Others stand off at what they suppose a safe distance, as Shimei did when ha stood on an opposite hill to curse King Uivid, and rebuke the sin and denounce di vine judgments upon the sinner. Others more practical, if not more prudent, go to tbe very mi ist or the alleged wickedness and teach ''servants under the yoke" that they ought not to count their own masters. worthy of all henor that liberty is their inalienable rightwhich they should maintain if necessary, even by this shedding sf blood. Now, it is not forme to decide who of all these are the truest to their own principles. It is not for me to decide whether the man who preaches tbis doctrine in brave words, amid applauding multitudes 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 in Harper's Ferry, is the most consistent abolitionist and the most heroic man. It is not for me to decide which is the most important partof a tree; and if the tree be poisonous, wqich is the roost injurious, the root, or the branches, or tho fruit? But I am here to night, in God's name, and by His help, to show that the tree of aboli'.ionism is evil and only evil, root and branch, flower and leaf and 'ruit; that it springs Irom and is nourished by an utter rejection of tbe Scriptures: that it produces no real benefit to the enslaved, and is the Iruitful source of division and strife in both church ami State. I have four distinct propositions on the sub ject to maintain four theses to nail up and defend: I. Abolitionism has no foundation in tbe Scriptures. II. Its principles have ken promulgated chiefly by misrepresentation and abuso. III. It leads. in multitudes of cases, and by a logical process to utter itiflde lit . IV. It is the chief cause of the strife that agitates and the danger that threatens our country. 1. AUOLITIOK HAS NO FOUNDATION Iff SORIP-TUItB.Passing by the record of the patriarchal age and waving the question as to those servants in Abraham's lamily, who, in the simple but expressive languige of Scripture, "were bought with his money," let us come at once to the tr ibunal of that law which God promulgated amid the solemnites of Sinai. What said the law and the testimony to that peculiar people over whom God ruled and for whose institution 4 He has assumed the re sponsibility? T e answor is in the 25th chapter of Leviticus, in these words: And ii thy brother that dwalleth by thee be waxen poor and be f old unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant; but as a hired servant and a sojourner be shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto tbe year ol jubilee, and then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with bim." So far you will observe, the law refers to the children of Israel, who by reason ol poverty, were reduced to servitude. It was their right to be Tree at tbe year of jubilee, unless they choie to remain in porpetual bondage, for which ciso provision h made in other aod distinct enactments. But not so with slaves of foreign birth. There was no year of Jubilee provided for them. For what says tbe law r Head the 4440 verses of tbe same chat t r. "Both tby boni men and thy bondmaids which thou shall have shall beol tbe heathen tint a re round about you. Of them Bhall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you of them shall ye buy and of their families that are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to in herit them as a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever." There it is, plainly written in tbt divine law. Ho legislative enactment ; no statute framed by legal skill was ever more explicit and incapable of perversion. When the abolitionist tells me that slaveholding is a sin, in the simplicity of my faith in the Holy Scriptures, I point him to thissa red record, and tell him in all candor, as my text does, that bis teaching blasphemes the name of God andH is doctrine. When ha begins to doat about questions and strifes ol words, appealing to tbe Declaration of Independence, and asserting that the idea of property in men is an enformity and a crime, I still hold him to the record, saying, "Ye shall take bim as an inheritance for youi children after you to inherit them for a possession." When be waxes warm as be always does if his opponent quote Scripture (which is the great test to try tbe spirits whether they be of God the very spear of Ithuriel to reveal their true character) when he gets angry, and begins to pour out his evil surmisings and abuse upon slaveholders 1 obey tbt precept which says, "from sicb withdraw thy-sell," comforting myself with this thought that the wisdom of God is wiser than men. Philosophers may reason and is "orrners may rave till doomsday, they never can conv'ntj me that God, in the Levitical law, or in any other law, sanctiouod sin; and aa I know, front the plain passage I bave quoted, and tsany mora like it, that He did auction tlavt- boldinc amonr the ancient rjeonl. I know. also, by the logic of that faith which believes the Bible to be II is Word, that slaveboldin ii not sin. There) are men even among pro fessing Christians, and not a few ministers of the Gospel, who answer this argument from tne uid lestament Scriptures by a simpl denial or their authority. Tber do not to us bow God could ever or anywhere counte nance that wbioh is morally wrong, but tbey content themselves with saying that the Le vitical law is no rule of action for us, and they appeal from Its decisions to what they consider the higher' tribunal of tbo Gospel. Lit us, therefore, join Issue with them before tbo bar of the New Tostamoat Scriptures. It is a motoric truth, acknowledged on all hands, that at the advent of Jjsus Christ slavery ex isieu an over tne civilised world, and was in tima'elf interwoven with its social and civil institutions. In Judea, in Asia Miner, in Greece, in ajl the countries where the Siviour or his apostles preached the Gospel, slave- holding was j st as common as it is to day in South Carolina. It H not al eged by any one or a', least by any one having any pretension to scholarship or candor, that the Roman laws regulating slavory were even as mild as the very worst statutes which have been passed upon the suhjeut in modern times. It will not be denied by any honest and well inform id man that modern civilizition and the re straining influences of the Gospel bave shed ameliorating mlluences upon the relation be tween master and slave, which was utterly unknown at the advent ol Christianity. And how did Jesus and his Apostles treat tbis sunject r Masters and slaves met tbem at every step in their missionary work, and were even present in every audienco to which they preached. The Human law which gave the full power of lile and death into tbe master's band was familiar to them, and all the evils Conner ted with the systems surrounded them every day as obviously as tbe light of heaven; and yet it is a remarkable fact, which the abolitnnist does net because be cannot deny, that tho New Testament is utterly silent in regard to the alLged sinfulness of slavehold" ing. Iu all the instructions ol tbe Saviour In all the reported s 'noons of the inspired Apostles in all the epistles they were moved oy tne tioiy tjpint to write for the instruc tion of comini- generations there is not one distinct and explicit denunciation of slave- holding, nor one precept requiring the master to emancipate h'S slaves. Every acknowl edged in is openly and repeatedly condemn ed and in unmeasurable terms. Drunken ness and adultery, theft and murder--all the moral wrongs which ever have been known to afflict society, are forbidden br name, and yet, according to the teaching of abolitionism this greatest of all sins this sum ef all villainiesis never spoken of except in respect- iui terms, now can this be accounted or f Let Dr. Waylnnd, whose work on moral science is taught in many of our schools, answer tbis question, and let parentis whose children are studying that book dilligently consider his answer. I quote from Way-land'g Moral Science, page 213 : "ihe (iospel was designed not for one raco er for ono time, but for all races and all times. It lookod not to tbe abolition of slavery for that age alone, but for its universal abolition. Hence the important object of its author was to gain for it a lodsment in every Dart of the known world, so that by its universal diffuM sioo among ail classes of society it might quietly and peacefully modify and subdue the evil passions of men. In this manner alone could its object a universal moral revolution nave been accomplished . For if it had for bidden the evil, instead of subverting the principle: if it had proclaime i the) unlawful ness of slavery and taught slaves to resist the oppression of their masters, it would instantly have arrayed tbe two parties in deadly Hostility tnrougnout tbe civilized world; Us announcement would bave been tbe signal of servile war and the very name of the Christian religion would have been forgotten amidst the agitation of universal bloodshed." We pause uot now to comment upon the admitted (act that Jesus Christ and hisApos-ties pursued a course entirely different from that adopted by the abolitionists, including the learned author himself, nor to inquire whether the teaching of abolitionism is not as likely to produce strife and bloodshed in these days as in the first ages of the church. What we now call attention to and protest against is tbe imputation here cast upon Christ and his Apostles. Do you believe the Saviour fought to insinuate his re I'gion into the earth by concealing its real design, and preserving a profound silence in regard to one of the worst sins it came to destroy? Do you beleive that when he healed the centurion's servant (whom every honest commentator admits to have been a8lave,)and pronounced that precious eulo gjr upon tbe master, "I have not seen so great laith in israel' do you bel ev that Jesus suffered that man to live on in sin because he deprecated the consequences of preaehing abolitionism? When Paul stood npen Mais' bill, surrounded by ten thousand times as many slaveholders as there was idols in the city, do you believe he kept back any part of the requirements of the gospel because he was ali aid of a tumult among tbe people? We ask these abolition philosophers whether as a matter of fact, idolatry, and vkms connected with it, were not even more intimately interwoven with the social and civil life of the Roman empire than slavery was? Did the Apostles abstain from preaching against idolatry? Nay, who does not know that by denouncing this sin thry brought down upon themselves the whole power of the Roman empire? Nero covered the bodies of the chris tian martyrs with pich and lighted up tbe 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 a pro-lane trifling for Dr. Wayland or any other man to tell us that Jesus or Paul held back their honest opinions of slavery for fear of "a servile war, in which the very name ot the Christian religion would bave been forgotten.'' The name of the Christian religion is not so easily forgotten; nor are God's great purposes of redemption capable of being detailed by an honest declaration of His truth everywhere and at all timet. And yet this philosophy, so dishonoring to Christ and bis Apostles, is moulding the character of our yoang men and women. It comes into our schools, and mingles with the vary lifeblood of luture generations the sentiment that Christ and bis Apostles held the truth, and suffered sin to g unrobuked for bar of tbe wrath of man. And all tbis to maintain, at all batards, and in the lace of the Saviour's example to the contrary, the unscriptnral dog ma that slaveboldin: Is sin. But It must be) observed in this ooonection that the Apostles went much further than to abstain from preaching against slaveholding. They admitted slaveholders to tbe communion of the church. In our text, masters are ackoowls edged as "brethren, faithful tad beloved, par takers of the benefit." if the Aew Testa ment is to bt rewired as a faithful history, no man was ever rejected by the apostolic church upon the ground that be owned slaves. II he abused bis power as a master, if he availed himself of the authority conferred by the lit man law to commit adultery, or murder, or cruelly, he was rejected for these orimes, just as he would be rejected new for similar crimes from sny Christian church in our Southern Slates. If parents abused or neg looted their children they were censured, not for having children but for not treating tbem properly. And so with the slaveholder It was not the owning of slaves, but tbe man ner in which he fulfilled the duties of his station that made him a subject for church discipline The mere fact that be was a slaveholder, no ore subjected him to censure than the mere fact that he was a father or a husband. It is upon tbe recognised law fulness of the relation that all the precepts regulating the reciprocal duties of that relation are based. These precepts are scattered all through the inspired cpis lies. There is not one command or exortation to emancipate the slave. The Apostle well knew that the present emancipation would be no re al blessing to him. But the master is ex- orted to be kind and considerate, and the slave to be obedient, that so they miirht preserve th- unity of the 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 hud but followed Paul as he followed Christ, and instead of hurling anathemas and exciting wrath against slaveholders, had sought only to bring both master and slave to the fountain of Emanuel's blood; if the agencies of the blessed Uospel bad only been sullered to wcrk their way quietly, as the light and dew of the morning, into the structure of society, both iNorth aad south, how diff erent would have been the position of our country this day before Godl How diff erent would have been the privilecres en joyed by the poor black man's soul, which n ibis bitter contest, has been loo much neglected and despised. Then there would bave been no need to have conver ted our churches into military barracks for collecting firearms -to carry on war upon a distant frontier. No need for a sovereign State to execute the fearful penalty of the law upon the invadir for doing no more than honestly to carry out the teach ing 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 : 1- f I .1 t J I weep in anguish of heart over those cold graves, tor whose dishonor and desolation God will hold the real authors responsible No occasion or pretext for slaveholding States lo pass such stringent laws for the punishment of the secret incendiary ani the prevention of servile war. 1 shall not attempt to show what will be he condition of the Vfrican race in th's coun try when the gospol shall bave brought all classes under its complete dominion. What civil and social relations men will sustain in the times of millenial glory I do not know. cordially embrace the current opinion of our church that slavery is permitted anu regulated by the divine law uuder both the Jewish and Christian dispensations, not as tbe final destiny of the enslaved, but as an mportant and necessary process in their transition from heathenism to Christianity a wheel iu the great machinery ol Provi dence, by which tbe final redemption is to be accomplished. However this m y be, one thing I know, and every abulit'o.iist might know it it be would, that there are Cbrist:an families at the South in which a patriarchal fidelity and afieetion subsist be tween tne bond and free and where slaves are better fed and clotbdd and instructed, and have a better opportunity for salvation than tbe majority of laboring people in the city of New York. If the tongue of abolitionism bad only kept silence these twenty- five yars past, the numbor of such families would be ten told as great fanaticism at tbe North is ono chief stumbling block in the way of the Gospel at the South. This is one great gn irance that presses to-lay upon the hearts of our Christian brethren at the South. This, in a measure, explains why such men as Dr. Thornwell ol South Carolina, Dr. Palmer, of Now Orleans men whose genus and learning and piety would adorn any s ate or station are willing to secede from the Union. They feel that .hi itiflt-ence of the Christian ministry is hindered, and their power to do good to both master and slave cripp'el, by the constant agitations ol the abolitionism in our national councils, and the incessant turmoil exoitcd by the un-scriptural dogma that sliveholding is sin. II. THS PRINCIPLES OF AB IL1TIONI3U HAVI BEEN PROPAGATED CHIEFLY Bf MISKEPRS-SENTATIOK AND ABUSE. Having no foundation in Scripture it does not carry on its warfare by scripture weapons, Its prevailing spirit is tierce and proud, and its language is full of wrath end bitterness. Let me prove this by testimony from its own lips. I quote Dr. Chinning of Boston, whose name is a tower of strength to the abolition cause and whose memory is their conti. ued boast. In a work published in 1837, 1 find the following words: "The abolitionists have done wrong, I believe; nor is their wrong to bo w nkjd a. because done fanatically or with good intentions; for how much mischief may be wrought with good designs! They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts, that of exaggerating their object, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opfoied, and ai if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing and upholding it. The tone of their newspapers, so far as I have seen them, has often been fierce, bitter and abusive. They have sent forth their orators, some of them transported with firery zeal, to sound the alarm agiinst s'avery through the lant gather together young and old, pupil from solviols, females hardly arrived at years of discretion, the ignorant, the excitable, the impetuous, and lo organise these in'.o associations for tbe battle against oppression. Very unhappily they preached their doctrine to the eoloreJ people and collected them into societies. To this mixed and exoiteable multitude, minute heart rending descriptions of si a very wsrs given in piercing tones of passion; and slaveholders were beld up as monsters of cruelty and crime. Tie a1)- oluionist, indeed, proposed to convert slaveholders; and for this end he approached with vituperation and exhausted on them the vocabulary of abuse, And he has reaped as he sowed." Such is the testimony of Dr. Chinning, given in tbe war 1836. What would he have thought and said if he bad lived nn- til the year I860, and seen this little stream, over whose infunt violence be nraented, swelling into a torrent and flooding the land? Abolitionism is abusiv in its persistent misrepresentation of ihe legal principeis involved in tbe re lation between master and slave. Tber reiterate in a thousand exciting forms the assertion that tbe idea of property in man blots out his manhood end degrades him to the level of a brute or a stone. "Domestic 8:avery," says Dr: Wayland, in bis woikon Moral Scienoe, "supposes at best that tbe 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 'Juan and tbe brutes." Does not these abolitionist philosophers 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 ber husband? Tbe statutes of the State of New York and of every other Northern State reoog niie and protect tbis property, and olir courts of justice have repeatedly assessed it value. If a man is killed on a railroad his wife may bring suit and recover damages for tbe pecuniary loss she has suffered. If one man entice awav the dauo-he ter of another, and marry her while she is Btill under age, tbe father may bring a civil suit for damages for the loss of that child's services, and the pecuniary compensation is the only redress the law provides. Thus the common law of Christendom and the statutes of our own State recognise 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. Tbis is all that the Levitical law, or any other law, means when it says, "Your bondmen shall be your possession or properly, an inheritance for your children." The property consists not in the right to treat the slave like a brute, but simply in a legal claim for such servises as a man in that position m y properly be required to render. And yet Abolitionists, in the face of the Divine lai aw, persist ii denouncing the ve7 relation between masttr and sTave, "no a mnrtiftiattn l 1 1 f , 1. - . V T. as a modification at leas', of that which exist between man and the brutes." This, however, is not the worst or most prevalent form which their abusive spirit assumes. Their mode of arguing the question of slaveholding, by a pn tended appeal to facts, is a tissue of misrepresentation from begining to end. Let me illustrate my meaning oy a parallel case. Suppose I undertake to" prove the wickedness of marriage as it exists in the city of New York. In this discussion, suppose the Bible is excluded, or at least that it is not recognized as having exclusii e jurisdiction in tbe dec;sion of the question. My first appeal is to tbe statute law of the State. I show their enactments which nullify thejlaw of God end make divorce a marketable and cheap commodity, I collect the advertisements 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 advertisements which decency forbids me to quote. Then I turn to tbe records of our criminal courts, and find that every day soma cruel husband beats his wife, or some un' natural parent murders his child, or some discontented wifo or husband seeks the dissolution of the marriage bond. In the next place I turn to the orphan asylums ani hospitals, and show there tbe miserable wrecks of domestio tyranny, in wives deserted and children maimed by drunken parents. In the last place I go through 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. Summing all these facts tog ther, I put them forth as the fruits of marriage in the city of New York, and a proof that the relation itself is sinful. If 1 were a novelist, and had written a book to illustrate tbis same doctrint, I would call this array of facts a "Key." In tbis 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 thai characterize the daily lifo of honest people, about tbe instruction and discipline that are tiaining ch.ldren at ten thousand firesides for usefulness here and glory hereafter; all tbis I ignore, and only quote the statute book, the newspapers, the reo-ordsof criminal courts and tbe miseries of the abodes of poverty. Now, what bave I done? I have not misstated or exaggerated a single fact, And yet am I cot a falsifier and slanderer of the deepest die? Is there a virtuous woman or an honest man in this city whose cheeks would not burn with indignation at my one sided and injurious statements? ' Now, this is just what abolitionism has done in regard to slaveholding. It has undertaken to illustrate its cardinal doctrine in works of fiction, and then , to lust tin the creation of its fancy, has attempted to underpin it with accumulation of facts. These facts are collected m pretlioly tla way I have derenbed. Thesis uti books of slaveholding States are searched, and eveiy wrong enactment collected, newspaper reports of cruelty and crime on the part of wicked masters are treasured and classified, all Ihe outrages that bave been perpetrated "by lewd fellows of the baser sort," of . whom there are plenty, both North and South, are eagerly seised and recorded, and this msss of rileness and filth collected from tie kennels and sewers of society is put forth as faithful exhibition of slaveholding. Senstors it the ' forum, and mil latera in the pulpit, d'stil this raw material into the mora ; refined slander "that Southern society is essentially btrbarious, and that slaveholding had Its coMutiD t'S r.DBii rios. j r 1 ? ;. v, ; fa:. w ' it-.'. ir; ,.s,-: ' ;;. i ( o v n