oh TWlatchman,
P. GRAY MEEK,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, March 27, 1863.
Puritanism.
The frst indications of a punttanical feel-
ing existing upon the part of the people of
England, occurred, we belicve, during the
reign of Edward VI: but, as a sect, the Pu-
ritans vid net acquire any corsiderable im.
portance until about the year 1508, when
looper refused to be conscerated in the
Fpiscopal Labit, and determined rather to
refuse the bishopric. The energy of Eliza-
beth however, in compelling the observance
of the lawns regarding worship, forced the
Puritans to remain within the pale of the
“chuich of England, bat they uevecthelers
cherished theie religious principles more than
ever, aud the severity of the Queen, which
was tended to restrain them, seemed to
conduce to their growth, for they increased
© very rapidly during the remainder of her
re'gn and that of her immediate successors.
1t would be d ficult in a newspaper arti-
cle to trace the cuuse of ihe rise, progress
and peculiarities of this sect. It cannot Le
denied, that to them, in port, we are indebt-
ed, for the liberty of which we have all tast-
ed, but there ure a thousand other influen-
cus, of which we have not now time or space
to speak, which has had more agency in the
spread of civil and religious liberty, than
Puritanism.
The principle characteristics of this pee-
ple were the aflec ation of a rare and pure
holiness which beionged to them aloe by
Gods special dispensation, a belief that al
who did not agree with them were sors or
daughters of the devil, and unfit to live, a
violent spirit of egotism, fanaticism, bigotry
aud the persecution of all who differed with
thew in opinion. It was said of them by
Sir John Lamb that, * they were a people
who would not swear or be diuck, but they
would lie, cozen and deceive, and hear two
surawons a day and repeat them too.” An
eminent historian says of them that ¢ this
sect was wore averse to such irregularities
a% proceeds from the excess of gaiety and
pleasure, than to those enormities which are
the most destructive to society ; a disposition
to intermeddle with the aflairs of others, to
inculcate their doctrines and to enforce the
intrusion of them upon persons unwilling to
believe them ever. belonged, and does still,
to these same bigots and fanatcs. They
also Lold that their ** doctrines and opinions
ought to be established by law and none
others telerated.” Strange as it may §:cm
these sentunents, of a people, aimost, if not
altogether vicious, have been preserved and
transmitted from generation to generation
through centuries and we find to-day their
embodiment in the veritable New England
¢ Yankee,” which is but another term for a
person who will “ lie, cozen and deceive.”
The whole force of all these characteris-
tios of the Puritan or Yankee have been at
last concentrated upon one idea, one wish,
oae desire, one object,—t/e abolition of Ne-
Rro servitude or ** slavery” in the southern
States. Every intelligent man knows and
feels that abolitionism is but a name for the
distillation, the quintessence of New Eng-
land fanaticism, bigotry and intolerance,
and the acme of anti-slavery its Lopes
and long cherished desires. Had it not
been for the al ominable fanaticism and im-
prudent intermeddling of the abolitionists of
Eastern, and their proselytes of the Middle
and Western States, the present wicked
civil war would never have been dreamed
of. Many of our oldest readers ean doubt-
less remember when these northern philan-
thropists, owned and sold ** slaves” to south-
ern plaaters for money, (the “price of hu-
man blood” as they say now) and how soon
after ridding them: elves uf th {blacks, hega
to advocate the abolition of “slavery” in
the South—the d-straction of the identical
proporty which they sold and got the mon-
ey for—the over turning of the social condi
tion existing between the white and black
races, and which we hold to be normal and
therefore just, and with which the idiotic
aboliiicnists of the North have no earthly
concern or right to interfere in any way.
The measures employed (o succeed in car-
rying on their unholy crusade against the
Conciitutional rights of the South, were as
vast in conception as there cfficts have
proved terrible. The pecple of the whole
country were to be taught that “to hold
*' slaves” was a sn in the sight of God and
an abomination of the I'evil,” that a mau
who held ¢ slaves’ was a ¢ barbarian” and
could never enter the Kingdom of Heaven
and that * slavery” was the * sum of alt
villainies.”” School books from the prim-
wer up, containg stories about the *¢ poor,
poor lave” were scattered broadcast by
Yankee ingenuity, all over the land —news-
papers, with thousands of dollars to sup
port them, were published to insidaously
wstill into the minds of the people that «‘sla-
very” was a sin’'—monthly pericdicals hav-
ing for editors their best writers, were estab-
lished so as 10 give a higher tone to the re-
spectability to there doctrines, ministeres
uot of the Gospel, but of the devil were gm-
ployed to belch forth their wicked fanati-
cism in desecration of places dedicated to
Gods holy worship—Lectarers traveled over
the country delivering, frequently eloquent
harangues “pon the enormity of * slavery”
and school teachers were employed to in-
sill into the tender and impressible minds
ol their pupils the idea that 1t was wrong to
kl a negro a8 a servant or * slave.” Find-
ing at length that the hetter postion of uy
northern people conld not be led to believe
their horrid and blasphemous doctrines, by
these means and that the South rejected
them with scorn and contempt, they: con-
cjuded to employ a mightier engine of pow-
er, which was party spirit, wild fanaticism
amd sectional strife: In furtherance of this
object a purely sectional party, having abo-
litionism for the sum total of its principles
was organized in Pittsburg a few years apo,
and the wheel of sectional strife put in mo-
tion, which the anti-slaveryites, or what is
the same thing, the abolitionists, hoped
would never stop until ‘< slavery” should be
+ wiped out of existence,” or the country
involved in total ruin. The catch word by
which they were so successful in deceiving
the people was ** no more slave territory,”
well knowing that it would be very easy for
them to shde off into denunciations of *: sla-
very in the states; This they did, and the
whole substace of hepublican stump speech-
es and newspaper articles, was abolitionism.
Resistance to the fugitive slave law, author-
z:d by Abolition State Legislatures, whe
cared nether for the Bill ner the Constitu-
tion, was resorted to. Thousands of ‘slaves’
were stolen, and when one happened to be
captured, mobs were raised and the slave
forcibly taken from the Federal Authorities.
The South bore this for years, never once
asking. to our knewledge, the Federal Gov-
ernment to send an army North to *“ put
down resistence and enforce the laws.”
They bore taunts and insults of such crazed
fr0ls as Sumner, Wade, Wilson, Burlingame
and others, in the halls of the Federal Leg~
islature. When the statesman of the Sputh
told them in solemn, earnest, warnings that
they could not remain ina Union where their
Constitutional rights were not observed and
regarded, they were told thu if they went
out, they would be ¢ whipped back again
like dogs to their kenncis.” The abolition-
ists, feeling strong in their imaginary su
riority of prowess, concluded, in the fac®of
the warnings of all good mer to elect an ab-
olition President, pledged to carry out the
principles of their platform,. and they suc-
ceeded in the criminal design. They well
krew tl at under the circumstaces, the South
would secede, and they believed that act
would give them the powers of the Federal
Government, to overrun the South and free
the Negroes:
¢ Down with slavery’’ and “no union
with slave-holders’” was their cry during
the campaign of 1860, A frenzied fanati-
cal hate of the South and soathern institu-
tiuns was the main spring —the great lever
of abolition success in that fight. After they
succeeded in inaugurating civil war, their
howl was again changed, to deceive the peo-
ple into the support of a war which was
never intended to ‘restore the Union” as
it was, but to destroy the Constitution,
abolish slavery, and to hold the southern
states as conquered provinces by means of
a strong centralized despotic Government,
such as we have now in Washington.
Abolitionism, the legitimate offspring of
Puritanism was the sole cause of secession
and the present inhuman civil war, waged
| to tnrn loose upon the country 3,000,000
negro servants which are the property of
the South, their title to which is as good,
and Constitutional, as ours to our horses gc.
The results of the war we not only know,
but fee', instead of being the happy prosper-
ous people we once were we sre loaded
down an enormous debt, and impoverished
ty high taxes upon every thing but the pure
air of heaven. We must pay five times the
former cost of all we eat, wea: or use, in
any way. We have to mourn the untimely
death of fathers, brothers and sons whose
lives have been sacrificed upon the altar of
war to the black God of Abolition brutes,
and will doubtless be compelled to. mourn
for our friends about to be forced from us
at the point of the bayonet and driven like
cattle to the butcher shops prepared for
them by Lincoln and his cowardly minions.
What a spectacle for the American people
to gaze upon !
To CORRESPONDENTS.
W. S. P.—Your name has heen added
to our subscrition list as desired. We are
noder many obligations for your kind wish-
es and hope the democricy everywhere will
prove as staunch as you are.
X.—Go and tell her yourself, we have
other business to attend to.
THEOPHILUS.--If you are a Democrat
ou principle, you will not heed the sayings
of a few cowardly wuoltroons. There are
rogues in politics as well as hypocrites in
1e igion. ;
777 We have very little news from the
army, East or West. A few raids, of mi-
nor importance have taken place during the
past couple of weeks, but no particular
movements of the *‘ grand Army,” have
been made, and we suppose will not until
the roads dry up in the Spring. What will
be accomplished then we know not, but if
the %Yistory of the past is to be taken as a
preeursor for the future, we can well imag-
ine.
Coming Dowx.—A oumber of Aboli-
Gonists who a short time ago were bigh up
for mobbing, hanging, &ec., vow declare
they were always opposed to such things.—
They have discovered that the Democracy
are 10 efirnest, that they are determined to
protect themselves against outrages and
that they will stand by each other in doing
$0 to the bitter end.
77 We notice that the disunionists are to
hold a meeting in the Arbitration Room to-
night. Persons having the good of the
country at heart will stay at home, it is
tut a new method of bolstering up the ab
olitionists in their atiempt to tax and en-
slave the working classes of the commuai-
w- en——— MDA i er dr oe
I" The petition, published in last week's
Watchman requesting the 1esignation of
Jas. T. Hale Esq., is being signed we sre
informed, by almost every one ‘thai®voted,
for hima in the localities where they have
been circulated. ; |
ee ee ———
JWirse—some of the Boys ghoul this
town. i
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A Wi'h but few and short interruptions
What We Want.
Within the last two months we have told
the Abolitionists deliberately, distictly and
plainly, —roughly, some may think,—what
the inevitable consequences woul] be if they
did not desist from their threatencd course
of mob-law ahd violence, We did not speak
rashly nor unadvisedly ; and in looking over
the files of the Waichman, we see nothing’
to retract or moaify, Our object has not
been to stir up bitter feelings nor incite any
one to acts of violence ; but, en the contra-.
sy, to warn those who were apparently de-
termined to inaugurate such a condition of
things in our midst, what the results would
be to themselves, if they persevered in that
line «of policy. From innumerable letters
we have received from all parts of the Coun-
ty, and the constant and rapid increase of
our subscription lit, we feel wall assurea
that our course has been fully spproved by
the great mass of the Democracy in old
Centre and the adjoining countics. The
commendations we have received from our
most influential exchanges in the State is
conclusive to our mind that we have only
been speaking the sentiments of our party
throughout the commonwealth. There may
be occasionally one, who heretofore has pre-
tended to be a Democrat, that affects oppo:
sition to our principles. They are, however,
of that class, who, from fear of conseqien-
ces or hope of gain, would, - at any time,
adopt policy at the expense of principle,
and such we cannot hope to please.
We have been frequently asked of late:
What do you want? What dues the Demo.
cratic Party propose? We will answer; and
we believe every Democrat in the County
will endorse the answer. We simply want
a fair opportunity of contesting the proprie-
ty of the course pursued by this Admivis-
tration, before the American people. We
believe that this Administration is not the
Government. We believe that every citizen
who disapproves of the policy of the party
in power, has the constitulsonal right to op
pose the Administration by arguments, by
remonstrances, by petitions and at the bal-
lot-box, without justly incurring the penalty
of being denounced as traitors, disloyal to
the Government. We believe that no Pres-
ident, no Cabinet, no Congress, and no offi-
cer of any grade or rank, civil or military,
is sovercign or supreme in this country;
but that the people are tke source and foun-
tain of all power and of all government;
and that every officer is but their servant,
bound to do their bidding. Therefore, we
claim for the people the right to discuss
freely every measure of any admirfistration
and if upon a full discussion of the merits
of these measures, ‘they are disapproved of,
then the people at the ballot-box, have the
right to depose such administration and sub-
stitute another which will execute the pop-
ular will. We do not believe that anything
done or proposed by President Lincoln or
the last Congress is so sacred as to be above
the animnadversion of the people. We know
of no arcana imperu, to inquire concerning
which, is a crime.
We furthermore believe that the principles
of the old republican party were all wrong;
their continued agitation of, and intermed-
dling with the subject of negro slavery in the
Southern States being calculated to alienate
the affections of the Southern people ; their
purpose to deny the people of the South any
rights in the common territory being selfish,
unjust and uncons itutional ; the contempt
they exhibit for, anc their opposition to, the
decisions of the Federal judiciary, being
revolutionary in their “tendencies. We be-
lieve that the result of the elections m 1860
was not the calm, deliberate and final judg-
ment of the Northern people upon these va-
rious issues ; that this result was obtained
by a combination of circumstances, which
never again could be made to co-operate in
favor of these fanatical ideas ; and that the
people of these States would gladly reverse
the decision then made, and on the first op-
portunity restore the Den.ocratic party to
power. We believe, moreover, that the pol-
icy of Lincoln’s administration has been ex-
tremely bad from the beginning, tending di-
rectly (whether so intended or not), to pre-
vent a settlement of pur existing difficulties
with the South, and rendering a restoration
of the Union upon the old basis, impossible,
"We believe all this can be demonstrated
before the people, and that they will reverse
their own act of putting the republicans in-
to power, and demand that the admwistra-
tion of both Federal and State governments
be restored to the old channels marked out
for them by the Democracy in the palmy
days of the Republic. We believe the pres-
ent course of the Administration at Wash-
ington is utterly destroying all prospects of
a re-union of the States under one replbli-
can form of government, is breaking the con.
stitution into fragments and putting in jeop-
ardy our public liberties.
We ask, not as a favor, but asa right in-
herent in a free people, and carefully guar-
anteed to us by our fundamental law, the
Constitution, that we are not interfered with
in our discussion of these questions before
the people. We invite republicans, eman-
cipationists or abolitiouists, whatever they
are called, to the arena of debate and dis-
cussion. We appeal to the tribunal of the
people, As long as the supporters of this
Administration content themselves with
facts, arguments or persuasions, we will use
nothing else. But when they attempt to
suppress discussion by brute force, when
they attempt to substitute violenze for reas-
on, wheu they denounce all Democrats who
do not support their policy, as * Butter-
nuts ” “Copperheads,’” “sympathizers with
rebellion,” *Traitor,”* and every other op-
probrious epithet, when they threaten to
hang aud shoot peaceable and quiet men for
disbelieving in abolition proclamations as’
the universal panacea for rebellion and all
other political troubles, we think it time to
remind these men that they are only our
:servants and not our masters, and unless
they desist the consequences will be upon
their own heads. :
Liucolnites, we have now told you what
we wan!, is there anything unreasonable in
Mons
the democracy controlled this government
for the sixty years prior to March 4th, 1861.
Did we ever deny to you or any of our po-,
litical opponents any of these rights. You
were always unreasonable and ever malig:
nant in your abuse of every President or
Governor we have elected. You assaulted
with unmitigated - severity every party
measure we evet proposed. You vilified
and slandered every~prominent man we
ever had in . You at afi ticies at-
tempted 0 0 an contro! of the government
-by every species of demagogueism you could
invent., You filled the public ear with
your denunciations of our measures, you
blinded thé public mind with your specious
arguments and . fallacious reasoning, you
‘warped the public judgement and gained
the public confidence ty delusive hopes and
nollow promises of great things in the fu-
ture. Yet the democracy never complained
never attempted to stifle public investiga-
tion, never altempted by means of actual
violence to preveat open and fall discussion,
never desired to apply any gag-laws to you,
but relying upon the “sober second thought”
of the masses, confiding in the real intelli-
gence of the people, successfully rencwed
their appeal to the popular will, after the
temporary frenzy and hallucinations ‘which
you had excited had passed away.
Ta an appeal to the people for a justifica-
tion of your peliey and an approval of your
cause, you had every adavntage, that could
be used in a political canvass, excepting the
principles. You started with a large major-
ity of the people of the Northern States ap-
proving your pretended principles, You
had the entire patronage of the Federal gov-
ernment increased more than ten fold over
what it had ever been before, and that pat-
ronage {o be distributed to the people of but
one half the old union.—In the public offi-
ces, the army and navy, you gave direct em-
ployment fo over ounce million of men, and
made it the'r interest to support your policy
You had more and larger contracts to
award to your friends and supporters than
any ten previous administrations possessed
You had the sympathies of the whole peo-
ple av the commencement of the war, and
all the advantagesiof the sectional feelings
you had engendered during the past _ cight
years, You made use of the universal pat-
riotism of the people, by pretending to fight
for the restoration of the Union, and the
preservation of the government. You made
capital out of the cry of “liberty.” “the
star spangled banner,” “the good old flag
and every oer rallying cry the American
people ever had. In opposition to all these
advantages and influences, the democracy
had nothing to urge save the correctness of
their principles and the evils of your admin-
istration. We contrasted the condition of the
country under demecratic and abolition
rule. We exhibited to the people the evil
tendencies of your principles and the dangers
to pubic liberty from your practices, Sure-
ly your cause must be weak when you are
anable successfully to defend your party
under such circumstances, without resort-
ing to menaces and actual violence, Your
very course demonstrates to the people the
rottenness of your cause. And for thatrea-
son they are determined no longer to sub-
mit to any innovation upon their rights.—
You will do well to heed this disposition of
the masses, for the public mind 1s fully
aroused. }
The Right to Speak.
“It is the ancient and undoubted pre-
rogative of his people to canvass public
measures and the merit of public men.—It
is a ‘home’ bread right, a fireside privilige.
1t hath ever been enjoyed in in every house
cottage and cabin in the nation Itis not
to be drawn nto controvercy. It is as un-
doubted as the right of breathing the air, or
walking on thé earth, Belonging to the pri-
vate lifeas a fight, {t belongs to public life
asa duty, and it is the last duty which
these whose representatives I am shall find
me to abandon* Aiming at all times to be
courteous and temperate in its use, except-
ing when the fight itself is questioned, I
shall Iplace myselfon the extreme boune
dary of my right, and bid defiance to an
army that would move me from my
ground.
“This high constitutional privilege I shall
defend and exercise, within this house, and
in all places, in time of peace, and at all
times. | Living I shall assert it ; and should
I leave no other inheratance to my children
by the blessing of God I wilt leave them
the inheritance 'of tree principles, and
the example of a manly, independant and
constitutional defense of them.— Daniel
Webster. . f
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05 A nigger recruiting officer was in
town last week. . He was dressed mn regi-
meatals, and put onall the airs of a «free
born American citizen of African descent,”
He didn’t get toy recruits here, we believe,
and left, we presume, disgusted with the
unappreciativeness and doubtful patriotism
of his fellow darks of Bsllefonte.
* Hear, 0! Abram.”
t properly represented
in oftieers, both y op repr We
generally have to do the work," and others
reap the benefits of our labors. We caution
all concerned to look out for squalls, 7
Our country. is
their tactics are not soon ged. e
cannot afford to be filendly and be laughed
at for our pains. Weask nothing that is
wrong, bat the sooner our rights are respec-
ted, the better will it be {or interested par-
ties.—Central Press
A warning t) the powers that be, heed it
Of Abram the first, heed it U © Andy, the
conqueror or ye may rue it, for ‘if your
tactics are not soon changed look out for
'8qualls”” The Press has at last become
indignant and complains bitterly at the]
wrongs you are inflicting, not so much
upon the people, as upon the Proprietors,
Editors and devils of that establishment.—
Take warning in time all ye * interested
parties,” for the Editors and devils of the
Press ** cannot afford to be frienaly aud be
laughed at for their pains.” The honors and
profits of a Majorship and a Quartermaster-
ship already granted to the Junior and Sen-
ior edito:s is not sullicient consideration for
the dirty political services rendered.
Abram, Abram, Andy, Andy, you must
do something more, the big devil and the
little devil of that icfluential(?) sheet have
aided to the extent of their ability in screen-
ing you from the righteous indignation of
an outraged people. Your many usur-
pations and unconstitutional acts they have
endeavored to convice their readers, were
“ military necessities.” Your despotism
and tyranies they have told the people were
the standard of patriotism and every person
who in the exercise of freedom of speech or
of thought, differed with you, they have de-
nounced ag “ traitors ”’ and whenever your
oppressions became too heavy for the peop-
le to bear and the people would murmer and
complain at your course they would prompt-
ly come to your rescue, and silence all op-
position by instigating their and your par-
tizans to congregate into mobs, destroy your
oppcser’s property, or beat and abuse them
into submission. Truly Abram, these men
have been of service to you. They have
eat and drank in thy name, and cast out
devils 1n thy name and they have lied for
you and swore for you, and done their best
to invest you with the powers of a Monarch,
and we fear have destroyed forever their
peace of conscience by the many unholy
things they have done for your sake. Sure.
ly Abe, you owe them something more, —
Can't you make a **(igadier Brindle” out
Major, and a Coionel out of the Quarter-
master, and promote the devils of the office
to clerkships under your deg Furney. They
deserve 1t, because they say so themselves,
they notify you that their *‘ claims must be
respected.” Heed their warning O, Abra-
ham for if you don’t “ look out for squalls.”
What the Letters are written for.
A long letter madeits appearance in last
week's Press, signed by A. B. Hutchison,
and purporting to be signed by quite a num-
ber of his company, in which he labors
strenuously to convince the people of this
county that the soldiers are still in favor of
a further paosecution of this war.
He presumes a great deal upon the igno-
rance of the people if he thinks they by
such epistles, can be persuaded that such
is the case. .
There are many brave boys in the army
fran this county who are not in Captain
Hutchison’s company, that write home to
their friends here avery different tale;
to letters unsolicited as ther are
people are more disposed to give credence,
than to this one coming as it does from the
strap and button gentleman that heads the
list of signers and whose ONE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY DOLLARS PER MONTH
DEPENDS ON A CONTINUANCE OF THE
‘WAR. The public fully understand too,
how such letters as the one referred to are
gotten up and for what purpose. Several
cases of the same kind haye recently occur-
red in the West, in which afterwards a ma-
jority of those whose names were among
the signers, in letters to their friends deny
that they ever signed any such papefs or
ever uttered any such sentiments. The
shoulder strap aud gilt button portion of
the Army get up these letters for particular
effect, and holding the poor priyates in mili-
tary obedience to their will take the liberty
of signing their names to such egistles as
the one to which we refer. These Patri-
ots(?) who belong to the anti-slavery school
of politicians when at home seek by this
means to aid their partizans that they
thereby securc to themselves a continuance
of tLeir high salaries, of course they desire
that the war shall continue, no matter at
what cost to the hard working tax-paying
people, only so that they feed and fatten at
the public crib. But ask the privates the
men who do the fighting for thirteen dollars
per month, who live on poor rations, and
then only get their small pittance of pay
about once a year, and they will tell you
they are tired of the war—that they want
Paace and that they do not endorse the abo-
ition policy of the Lincoln Administration,
Capt. A. Boyd Hutchison
notwithstanding. =
“Copperheads. % »
The Abolitionests are SEosedingly wrathy
because every name which they derisively
give the Democrats. the latter adopt, and
make party capitalof it. Thisis true of
every name the Democracy ever bore. On-
ly a few months ago, they dubbed us ‘But-
ternuts,’ and we immediately proceeded to
the name. The present term employ
ed by these gentlemen is * ds.”
We must admit that we like this name
better thanany of the rest—it is so signifi-
cant. The copperhead is a small snake,
seldom e ing two feet in length, 1nhab-
iting mountanous regions, A peculiarity
of this snake is the fact that it never bites
until has received injury —every person who
has lived in the « rhead regions”
knows this to be true ; —but when it does
bite, the victim's time has come. The
Copperhead party, therejore has for manv
years allowed the abolition party to have .¢;
own way--at a respectful distance,—but
when the latter pasty seeks to tread upon
the Constitution, which the Copperheads
have slways sacredly guarded, it is the
own faalt if they are bitten.—Akron Dein-
ocrdt.
tp the contrary,
0 Man, Who Art Thou?
OR .
REFLECTIONS ON PRACE A™D WAR. =
BY JUSTICE
( Contsnued from last Number.)
Shall the Sword devcur forever ? Shalija
custom so opposed to reason and philoso-
phy, so muchat variance with the benizn
spirit of the gospel, continue. to be upheld
by rational beings ? Shall mankind con-
tinue to act as though they believed that
God created the present race cf Intelligent
creatures for the purpose of butchering and
destroying each other ? lias the enact-
ments of the late Congress, or the proclama-
tion of othe President repealed: the great
command ** Thou shalt noc kill !”’ certainly
not, nor can they be. Show me where or
when this command was changed by any
act of Deity. This you cannot do. Nor is
there and provision m the application of
this command it applies equally the same
to man of high degree as well as the man of
low degree, and man clothed in power of
man changes not the mandate of high Heav-
en. «Thou shalt not kill,” is a plain in-
junction and means simply that we bavs no
right under any pretext or circumstance
whatever to take the life of any fellow man.
We are shocked when a single murder 1s
committed among us ; we pursue the mur-.
derer to the ends of the Earth, and by the
laws of the ladd he is made to expiate his
guilty deed at the cost of his life, he is
found guilty by a court and jury, he was
truly a murderer, no one doubts this, he 1s
condemned, and by the officer of the law
led out and executed, hung by the neck un-
til he is dead? 1 do not wish to convey the
idea that the murderer should go unpunish-
ed, no certainly not, but have we a right to
take his life ¢ and if so, from whence was
this authority derived. No we have no
such authority from the mandates of Deity,
for if such was the case how stands the
above command with all the other mandates
precepts and éxamples of Christ? would it
not be rendering them a novelty, go to show
that deity was the violater of the great
command ** Thou shalt not kill.”” If the
midnight robber enters a dwelling and des,
troys the lives of its innocent and unsus-
pecting inmates, it is considered one of the
highest crimes that can be committed
against God or man, But when thousands
upon thousands of human beings are to be
indiscrimina‘cly butchered by war, what
becomes of this seeming insensibility to the
destruction of human life? When men
tiained to the work of destruction enter a
city, put men ‘women avd children to the
sword, set fire to their dwellings and con-
sume their half dead bodies in the smoking
ruins, is it not murder and robbery in their
most terrific forms. The guilt of it eannot
be removed by a declaration or war, which
is falsely considered a kind of indulgence to
commit their crimes with impunity.
Men make wrong distinctions between
the deeds of the midnight assassin, and the
conduct of the man who enters the battle
field with the intention of killing, but
the sight of the just Judge of all the Earth
how can there be a difference, The only
difference that exists is that ome is whole-
sale murder, the other retail, deny this if
you can. *‘God is not mocked, such as
wen sow such shall they reap.’ War is a
system of legalized brutality, robbery and
murder, and if robbery and murder are
decds that are offensive in the divine sight
when committed on a small scale as in the
case of a single murder, how much more
offensive mast they be when tens of thous-
ands become their victims ?
Truth is more powerful than error, and
it will finally triumph, man may oppose its
progress and retard the period when the
principles of peace will alone be cultivated,
when wars shall cease—but as «christianity
comes to be understood and practised, the
clouds which obscure his moral vision will
be dispelled, he will discover that the
olject of his creation is every way worthy
of his Divine Author, who called him into
existence and endowed him with intellectu-
al and spiritual powers of enjoyment capa-
ble of inconceivable improvement. When
the holy Jesus stated the sublime reality of
the Divine character, he appealed to a fact
in creation which has always been as con-
spicuous as it is now, and always the same.
Ye have heard that it hath been said “Thou
shalt love thy friend and hate thy enemy,
but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, and pray for them
that despitefully use yoa, and persecute you,
that you may be the children of your Father
who 1s in Heaven; for he maketh his sun’ io
rise on the evil and on the good, and send-
eth vain on the just and unjust.” Such. is
the inimitable nature of the Sovereign of
the Umverse, bat it is not so with man,
(nor any man.) He is changeable, he
cometh forth as the flower, and is cut down
he fleeth as the shadow, and continueth not
The beginning of his career is in ignorance
and weakness, and the estimates which he
forms of all things, are modified by his own
state or condition. When therefore we no-
tice the great discrepancies in human char-
acter, and sentiment, and conduct, in the
different stages of existence, and knowledge
and virtue, (especially as it regards his ap-
prehensions of Divine requisttions) would it
be reasonable or just to ascribe these muta.
tions to changes or fluctuations in the Deity
rather than to the changeable nature of the
creature ? No, I think right reason will
compell us to say with the apostle ‘Let
God be true, and every man a har.” That
men under the influence of ignorance, preju-
dice, or vitiated affections, may and do
come to believe that they ought to do things
totally repugnant to the the Divine will is
abunaantly declared in history, and mani-
fested to daily observation. The eminent
Paul declared before Agrippa, that he veri.
ly thought he ought to do many things
Christ.
And Jesus himself testified to his disci-
pies, ** The time cometh that whosoever
illeth you will think that he doeth God
Service. And these things they will do uu-
to you, because they have not known the
Father nor me.”
EE aaa i
* God has made ampla provision for the
against or contrary to the will of Jesus }
te ee ee eae
happiness of man ; the great characterisii®
of his anchangable wisdom and wisdom and
geodness are everywhere exhibited in the
beautiful order and laws that govern the
material world, Eternal nature proclaims
the unbounded benevolence of its author.
The contemplation of this benevolence
prompts to the ¢entiment of devotion.—
The study of his works opens to man a wide
field of intellectual enjoyment ; it spreads a
bountiful hai vest before him and promises
to reward is labors with the treasures of
knowledge. The peaceful sciences disclose
the order and harmony of the universe, the
laws which govern it, and the materials of
which it is composed. In such a world,
adapted to the wan's ot intelligent beings,
man may ever find employment wisely suit-
ed to his progress, where the turbulence of
passion and the din of war is' not heard —
Let us therefore follow after the things
wherewith one may cdify another.— Ro-
MAN'S, xiv. 19th. verse,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
mec of dpe
Abolition Civilization in Washington.
One of the mos* prominent of the results
of the “new civilization" introduced under
the Abolition dynasty in Washngton is that
hideous ulcer of our northern cities, pros-
titution and street walking. Pennsylvania
Avenue is full of these unhappy cr/atures,
day and night ; and at all hours of the lac-
ter, drunken :0'dicrs and the lowest of th se
street-walkers may be heard wrangling and
fighting on the Avenue. ‘The * Christian ”
delegations that visit the President to hold
up his hands quicken his zeal in the ¢ cause
of humanity ” are not, it is presumed;~gtar-
tled at this spectacle, for it is to familiar to
their habiis to excite surprise. Indeed, it
is quite likely that they are encouraged by
it, for what better proof could thers be of
northern progress southward than this evi-
dence of northern * civilizaton,® But a ve-
ry large majority of these wretched beings
are mulattoes and mongrels, or colored wo-
men, as they would call them, and there
fore the Beechers and Tyngs, etc., who
have no feeling or sympathy for their own
desecrated white sisters should feel some-
thing, one would think, for their ** colored
friends.”
Butitis not so They pass them by
with utter indiflere ce. They can imagine
a “slave woman ”' living without egal mar-
riage in South Carolina as an awful sin.
though this ‘slave’, woman is married, and
live a pertectly pure life according o the
instincts and lights with which God has en-
dowed her. But if she were made *‘frec’’
and came to Washington she might walk
its streets and sell her filthy and diseased
person until death rescued her from miser—
ies, and these ‘‘Christain’’friends of hu-
manity would pass on their way, undisturb-
ed in their “heavenly mission” of blood,
murder, and -‘crushiog out rebels.”
Of all the four millions of ‘-slaves” in the
South there is not a single prostitute. No-
where on this earth, or in all time, have
there been four millions of human creatures
who have lived so natural, moral or pure
life as these imaginary slaves, and one lu
single lost and desecrated woman who walk
the streets of New York, embodies more
sin, and wrong, and (e ecrated won a hood,
than all the ‘ “slave” negro women of the
South together. But God having made a
mistake, having. in His Infinite wisdom en-
dowed these negroes wi ha difipent nature
and different wants from those of Tyne
Bellows and cte., Co. they have sot to work
to rectify the error of Omnipotence and to
re-create them in their OWN LIKENESS. — —
Well, they are quite successfu in Washing
ton* They aebauch and desecra‘e ‘heir
own white sisters into this hideons prosii-
tution, and sending out their mission eq
to Washington, Port Roya' and viii con
quered localities, they ‘convert the natives’
transform and deform the simple. innocent
“slave” women into the horrid likeness of
their own wronged and desecrated sis ers—
the white prostitutes of the North. Indeed
if the war be successful, Beecher, Cheever
&Co. may congratulate themselves an their
work, and vast multitudes of pure, simple
and happy “slave women” may becom: as
free,” hideous, and develish us the hun-
dred thousand lost women now traversing
the paves of nor bern cities. Several scores
of these “free” mulatto girls, now on the
sreets of Washington. "wereonly a few
months ago, purr and happy beengs, pro-
tected and cared for by their mistresses, —
God made them so, and the local law and
social regulations c-nfuormed to the will of
the Eternal, but tie hideous *philantrophy’
of the North half trans ormed them into dev-
is and walking pestilences. - Alas! alas!
where will all this lucacy. impiety und blo -
dy all-devouring madnessend ? "Has God
abandoned us to our sins, aad given us ov-
er, bound hand and foot, to the wvilest,
most besotted, impious, bloody, and
devilish, yet meanest madness that
has ever disgraced the race since time
began '— Caucasian.
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Which Shall We Follow.
The Republican press says it is treason
to Advocate tho cause of peace. Even prea-
chers continue to preach war, and yet Christ
in His Sermon on the Mount, tells us that
“Blessed are the peaco makers: for they
shall be called the children of God,” and
in Romans ‘we are further told: “How
beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the Gospel of peace.’, Which is safer. ther-
fore, to follow —the war preacher, and the
Devil, or the teachings of the Bible and the
Son ot God. has given to us in his word.—
Chilscothe Advertiser.
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