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When do T mean to marry idle to dispute with fate; But if you choose to hear me te11,•:7i.7: Pray listen, while I tix the dete When daughters haste, with diger feet, A mother's daily toil to share ; Can make the puddings which they cat, And mend the stocking which they wear When maidens look u pon a Man As in himself what they would marry, And not as army soldiers scan A sutler or a commissary ; When gentle ladies who have got The offer of a lover's hand, Consent to share his "earthly lot," And do not mean his lot of land; When young mechanics are allowed To find and wed the farmers' girls Who don't expect to be endowed With rubbles, dianionds, and pearls ; When wives, in short, will freely give Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses, ,And live as they were wont to live, Within their sires' one-story houses; Then, madam—if I'm not too old— Rejoiced to quit this lonely life, I'll brush my beaver, cease to scold, A - nd look about me for a wife ! SPECIAL. TRAIN FOR P RESLDENT LINCOLN. —We learn that the tender of a special I train to the President elect, by the Pres ident of the Pittsburg, Fort \\ ayne and Chicago Railroad, has not yet been ac icepted, owing to the impossibility of de termining definitely what route will be taken. The above named company pro pose that the "iron locomotive car," which will bold fifty persons comfort ably, shall be used if desired, or a full train for the President and as many friends as shall desire to. accompany him, will be made up for the purpose. The officers of the Pennsylvania Central have joined the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago in their invitation, and pro pose to furnish the magnificent Prince of Wales car to Mr. Lincoln's party, and make arrangements to run the same through to Baltimore, if desired. It is evident that the President elect may travel in royal style, if he wishes to do so, all the way to Washington.—Harris bur Telegraph. • EXECUTIVE WARRANT.—Gov. Banks and the Executive Council of 1860 clos ed up their labors on Saturday, and among their last .doings was the issue of a warrant for the execution of Alexander Desmarteau, at Springfield, Friday, March. 29. Des uarLeau, is a young Frenchman, and tried and sentenced last May, for the pe and'inurder of tho child Augustine units, si Mopes, iu Thoughts on a Sermon. Entitled "The Character and Influence of Abolitionism: Sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New-York, on Sunday evening, Dec. 9, 1860, by REV. HENRY J. VAN DYKE. As reported for the '.l\rew-York Herald.' Washington: Henry Polkington, Prin ter, 375 D. Street, 1860." [CONTINUED.] Mr. Van Dyke's text is Ist Timothy vi : 1-5. It is the only passage from the New Testament (as Levit. xxv is the only one from the Old) quoted by him in proof that slavery is a sacred institu tion, sanctioned by God, his. Son and the Apostles. He does not, as in the Old Testament, claim it to' be a divine institution ; for it is Grecian and Roman slavery he now deals with ; but he claims a semi-approval of it, from the si lence of Christ and his Apostles in re gard to it. He gives a briefand correct picture of Grecian and Roman slavery— its prevalence and extent, its powers of life and death over the slave, and its in- timate interfusion with social and civil institutions—but he withholds the fact that all this slavery was not that of color or of race, but a slavery of all colors, nations and races—of the white to the colored, as well as the colored to the white. And he alleges, as proof that this slavery was approved of God,—" it is a remarkable fact that th 4 New Testa ment is utterly silent in regard to the al leged sinfulness of slaveholding"— " there is not one distinct and explicit denunciation of slaveholding, nor one precept requiring the master to emanci pate his slaves "—it " is never spoken of, except in respectful terms." Silence in regard to any special act, is no proof of commendation thereof, or even its mere innocency. Take piracy, for instance, a conglomeration of cruel robbery and murder by wholesale. It was so common at the Christian era, and earlier, that villages and cities were us ually built at a distance from the sea coast to be secure from its ravages : and most slave markets were furnished by its successes. Yet, amid the many crimes denounced and forbidden by the Saviour and his Apostles, piracy is never dis tinctly and explicitly"forbidden ! Even manstealing, so strongly forbidden by the Law, is not named in the Gospel, and " men-stealers," only once—in 1 Tim. i : 10. Yet who doubts that these, and other unnamed crimes were actually for bidden in the numerous. precepts which strike at their very source, root and ori gin ! Mr. Van Dyke repels with seeming horror Dr. Wayland's explanation of this silence and seemingly tacit indiffer ence to slavery and other political evils. The Dr. says—" Moral Science," p. 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 age alone, but for its universal abolition. Hence the important object of its author was to gain for it a lodgement in every part of the known world, so that by its univer sal diffusion among all classes of society it might quietly and peacefully modify and subdue the evil passions of men. In this manner alone could its object—a un iversal moral revolution—have been ac- complished. For if it had forbidden the evil instead of subverting the principle; ' if it bad proclaimed the unlawfulness of slatery and taught slaves to resist the oppression of their masters, it would instantly have arrayed the two parties in deadly hostility throughout the civilized world ; its announcement would have been the, signal of servile war, and the very name of the Christian religion would have been forgotten amidst the agitation of universal bloodshed." Mr. Van Dyke protests against the "im putation here cast upon Christ and his Apostles. Do you believe " (he 'asks) "the Saviour sought to insinuate his re ligion into the earth by concealing its real design, and preserving a profound silence in regard of one of the very worst sins it came to destroy ?" But Dr. Way land does not even imply any such " im- putation " of concealment as is intimated in this artfully framed question. A brief view of the mission and position of the Saviour and his followers will make apparent the propriety as well as pru dence ascribed to them by Dr. Way land. 1. They came as founders of religion, not of civil government. Hence, though every principle and precept they' taught sapped and undermined despotism of ev ery kind, yet they never breathed a word directly against the despotisms which everywhere prevailed among men. They treated the usurping and tyrannical rul_ 1 ers with the same " respectful ter ms " in which 11r, Van Pyke says they spoke Of MAItIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1861. slavery and slaveholding. Were they, therefore, in favor of despotisms, and op posed to constitutional monarchies and republics ? Their precepts and practice were opposed to the union of church and state, or any subjection of faith and con science to civil and military rulers.—Yet they never uttered any denunciations against even the Heathen' despotisms which did thus lord it over the faith and conscience, nor ineulcated the duty of the oppressed to ride in rebellion a gainst them. On 'the contrary, they urg ed the paying of tribute, honoring the king, and submitting patiently to perse cution therefrom. Were they, therefore, in favor of church and state in govern ment, and the consequent persecutions thereof? Did they, therefore, acknowl edge the rightfulness of Heathen govrrn ment'persecutions ? By no means ! Were they even cowardly or hypocriti cal in such forbearance, and in quietly subvertin . g the principles on which these wrongs and evils rested, rather than in directly and vainly attacking the evils themselves ? Ceztainly not. Their mis sion, and hence their main and only di rect conflict, was with false religions and religious errors. All evils and errors connected with idolatry were promptly and boldly opposed : but still cautiously and prudently. Bat those connected mainly with governmental institutions were often passed ny without mention, to be sapped and gradually overthrown by the religious doctrines they inculcated. Such was slaverrand the frequency and I other abominations of divorce under the Roman law—for slavery then, as now, was a governmental institution. And they were to conduct, in regard to political evils as directed by tne Saviour, in Matt. x : 16-20. Bat even in regard to idolatry, the yneat evil they were to oppose, they were care ful to avoid any direct conflict with laws. Mr. Van Dyke commenting on Dr. Way land's remarks, asks—" When Paul stood upon Mars' Hill, surrounded by ten thou sand times as many slaveholders 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 ?" No, not on account of the mob ; brit with great prudence, and yet with honest tact, he carefully avoided incurring any legal penalty in that very address. It was against law to introduce the.worsliip of a new or foreign god/without legal li cense. Turn, then, to that discourse in Acts xvii : 18—n, and see how Paul evaded the law, by taking the inscription on a Heathen altar for his text, and by appealing to a Heathen writer for proof of his position, that all men are God's offspring. These Heathen, fearing that among the "gods many," they might have omitted one, erebted an altar "to the un known god." As the true God was un known to them, Paul preached• Him unto them ! Hb thus united prudence with wisdom and fidelity to duty ; and, al though he did net directly denounce idol worship, be preached what, if received, would undermine, (and, if carried out, would overthrow) not only idolatry, but despotism, and slavery, and every form of oppression among men I Hence, in being honestly crafty and catching men with guile—in lawfully becoming all things unto all men, that by any right eous means they might save them (Ist Corin. ix : 19-23 and 2 Corin. xii : 16) —the Apostles were neither cowardly nor hypocritical, but prudent and faith ful to the highest duty. It is worse than folly to sacrifice a mission for a side issue —the main point for a minor detail—or to throw away life for what can be better gained by preserving it. Dr. Wayland, therefore, is correct; Mr. Van Dyke, wrong 2. But another consideration governed their conduct in relation to evils connect ed with governments. They had no vote, no voice, hardly any influence in choosing rulers, making laws, or chang ing institutions. They were generally, esteemed the scum and offscourings of the earth—the base followers of a cruci fied malefactor, and, impostor. Hence to have openly arrayed themselves against those despotisms, or political in stitutions as strongly established and defended as slavery, would have been like beating out their brains against a rock—would have sacrificed their duty to establish Cliristianity,qthe great re former of all evils, finally,) in a vain ef , fort to abolish political wrongs. But suppose the . Roman, Empire had been a republic, and each man a voter . with freedom of speech—would Jesus * Doubtful ! • They had some 360,000 gods and, goddesses in their pantheon, and their houses and streets as well as temples abounded iu shrines and images. A. B. Cr, and his Apostles have advocated and voted t'or holding inen,-wonten and dill dreb in slavery—taking from them . the ownership of their own persons—com pelling them to life-long toil without right's and withottt wages--subjecting them to the brutality and Inst and cru elty of irresponsible Masters ? Does any Christian—any man of common sense and feeling, believe they would , ? . Think! They were humble men, and had sympa thy for the lowly born. They were poor, and inured to manual labor;—would they so disgrace poverty and toil.? They taught that God was the Father of all— had "made of one blood all nations of men"—that all men were brothers ; would they so degrade God's offspring and their own brothers into mere prop erty, chattels tersonal ? They taught that we should "do unto 'others as we would they should do unto Us" in an ~ ex change of circumstances—love others as we love our own selves. L-in honor prefer one another;-would.they so doom any to bondage from which they themselves shrunk as from death ? No—no—never! They proved their love for even the sin ful and the vile to be that of brother for brother—Jesus and his apostles toiled, suffered, died for the slave as well as the master—the former was full as precious to' their souls as the-latter;—would they, then, have advocated and voted for mak ing so great a difference for life between those whom they declared to be equal before God, equally "of one blood," and equally dear to their own hearts?-Be- lieve it who can—its bare statement seems to me blasphemy ! But Mr. Van Dyke says—" The Apostle well knew, that for tbe present, emancipation would be no real blessing to the slave!" This is, indeed, presuming on the forgetful ness or ignorance of his tearers and read ers—presuming that they will suppose that then all slaves were utterly deba'sed and ignorant negroes, and slavery a mor alizing educating and elevating institu tion—neither of which is near the truth 1 For slaves then embraced not only col ored persons and ignorant, but Jews, Gi'eeks, Romans--men learned, polished, skilful—women refined, accomplished, lovely and amiable ;—and slavery, yet unameliorated by Christianity, was worse in practice (though the same in essence) than in our Slave Stptes. And he has the brazen assurance to say that, to such persons, and from such a system, "the Apostle well knew, that emancipation would be no blessing!" 3. But Mr. Van Dyke persistentlyur ges—"They admitted slaveholders to the communion of the church"—"it was not the owning of slaves, but the manner in which he falfilled the duties of his sta tion, that made him a subject for church discipline. The, mere fact thatle was a slaveholder, no, more, subjected .him to censure, than the mere fact that he was a father or a husband." "There is not one command or exhortation to emancipate the slave." While much of this might be admitted as literally so, it can be clearly shown that the precepts, doc trines and entire spirit and tendency of Christianity are opposed to slavery and every other oppression and wrong, wheth er specifically named or not, But we go farther. So far as the power and influ ence of the Apostles could go, without direct opposition to government, they opposed and virtually abolished'slavery. To show this, let us first settle, What is slavery? It is not mere deprivation of political rights—nor subjecting men to restraints, as minors, pupils, apprentices, La.—nor bondage for crime—nor compulsory ser vice, military or civil—nor hiring labor for wages, in any form or for any period. It is reducing'men to be mere property' depriving them of their right to them selves, theirlabor, their property, their offspring, as human beings. In . the words of the law of South Carolina— "slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, re puted and adjudged in law to be chattels personal to all intents, constructions and purposes whatever." Or, "a slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs; the master may sell hire, dis pose of his ierson, his industry and his labor; he can do nothing, possess noth ing, nor acquire anything (Civil what, must belong to his master." (Civil Code of Louisiana, Art 35.) Or, in the words of the eminent Tliornas Ruffin, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina—comparing slavery with the system of parentage, apprenticeship, &c., he very empitaticallydecided—"There is no likeness between theicases.- - They are in opposition to each other, and there is. an impassible gulf between them. In 1 the one,the end in vieto is the hapPiness of the youth born to equal rights with that governor on whom the duty devolves..of Dollar a 'Year training the young to usefulness in a station which he is afterwards to assume among freemen. With slavery it is far otherwise. The end is the profit of the master, his security and the publicsafety; the subject, one doomed, in his own per son and in his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without: the, capacity to make anything of his own, and to toil that another may rear the fruits. The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave per fect." , According. to these definitions, (and they, are authoritative , and correct,) there was no slavery under the Mosaic Law ; for the end of that system was the welfare, the education and the conversion of the servant. And Christianity never recog nized, such slavery—Greek and Roman— under the Gospel. For the slave was always addressed as a human being hav ing a conscience to will, to feel respon sibilities and duties, and rights to exer cise his soul in the worship of. God and the service of man, even though his mas ter might forbid. And the master no sooner entered the church, than he was taught to treat his slave as a brother Christ, (or, if not a Christian, as a man,) and to give hiin remuneration tor his services which should be ''just and equal." And as to all slaves, whetherhis own or others, he was commanded to "remember those in bonds as bound with thent"—as if the master's flesh, and blood, and spirit wore the 'chain of the slave also ! For proof of these facts and teachings Ave, refer to Eph. s—ro ; Col. iv : 1 ; Philem. 9-20 ; and James v : 4. In the civil government; the Apostles had no part, and it would perhaps have been inipradent to express even their wish to dissolve a relation established by law ; but in the church, where they had authority, they acknowledged no slavery' —no superiority of master over slave = "neither bond nor free," as existing in the State ; "for ye are all one (all equals) "in Christ Jesus," or the Christian church. Such being, their practice, as well as their precepts, who can doubt that if they had had freedom of speech anrof suffrage in the State, they would have urged and voted for the emancipa tion of slaves there also? Who_ can doubt that if we have the Spirit of Christ, and obey hiS • precepts, and folio* the practice of his Apostles in our duties as voters—as the sovereigns of thisrepubli can government—we should speak and :et in all lawful - Ways for the ultimate removal of slavery ? ' If you' still doubt the opposition of Christianity to slavery, examine its his tory; and you will find that wherever it 'came in its purity and power, feudaliim, serfdoin and slavery have gradually dis appeared, as darkness before the sun until 210 w, in the whole Christian world, chattel slavery is fcund only in our South ern States. Even Russia has 'freed her millions of serfs ;—and yet our Slave States, (aided by a feWat themorth, who profess to be disciples of Washington, and Jefferson !) are striving to extend' and perpetuate our worse chattel slavery! To these northern apologists and advo cates for slavery, I lave a few words to offer in another article, next week. Marietta, Jan. 26, 1861. A. B. G. P. S.—lt is but justice to Mr. Van Dyke to say, that though his admirers in this place deem the sermon conclusive against Republicans especially, he, him self, direets it •only against distinctive Abolitionists. He says, p.l79—"it is no more than simple justice for me to say plainly, that I do not consider Republi can and Abolitionist as necessarily syn onymous terms." But as his Sermon, in my estimation, falsifies and perverts the teachings of the Bible, and makes Christianity the abetter of oppression, tyranny, and other gross evils and wrongs, I have written solely out of regard for Divine-Revela tion and humanity, without special ref erence to parties or to names. I have deemed the latter portion of his sermon (an ingenious rather than ingenuous com plaint of the .actions of Abolitionists) not specially worthy of reply. If the „Bible does not warrant slavery—if Christ and his Apostles were opposed to it, and it is our duty to vote and act against it —the time, mode and manner matter but little, provided they are Constitu.- tional and lawful. A. B. G. Or Snow in Paris is seldom deep enough.to make sleighing„knt this year has, been an exception, and . sleighs or "sledges," as they call them, have keen in universal use. Even snowballing has been permitted, and the boys had such fun at it'in the`Tuileries erd,rden,that the police had to go in a body . arid 'diiperse •them, NO. 29. REMARKABLE CASE:--A LADY IN A. TRANCE.—The Pittsburg- Gazette gives an account -of a remarkable case of sus pension of vitality in Wheeling. A lady residing in this city, who had been lying ill for some time, died to all appearances on Saturday night of week before last. and the necessary preparations were made for interment. It was discovered, however, when the body was about to be placed in the coffin, that it still retained its natural warmth. This, of course, oc casioned a great surprise, and efforts were made to restore animation, but without success. The unfortunate wom an still remains in the same condition, and as yet no signs of decomposition have appeared, although some six or eight days have elapse since death was supposed to take place. The case has excited no little interest among the lead ing physicians and others of the city and vicinity. THE ESCORT OF .THE PRESIDENT ELECT. —The President elect will be escorted to Washington by the Springfield (Ill.) Zouaves, in spite of threats corning from any source. This company is composed young men 'who have "for some months past been under the' instruction of Col. Ellsworth, and in drill they are said to be fully equal to the genuine original Zouaves. A correspondent; writing to the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette, says : "This company, intends to do escort duty to the President elect on the 4th of' March next, accompanying him to Wash ington, and returning by Philadelphia, New York, Albany, &c. They number over sixty, and are - in a perfect state of drill, having already taken. several Prizes, and surprised the famotia i Chicago boys in their,efficiency.' They are command ed by Captain Cook, a gentleman who understands the Zourtire practice, nod I doubt not will' create a Om:Listhin while in Washingta." lir Hon. John A. Gilmer writes to a friend in North Carolina, that "if the honest masses North - and South can be induced, without passion, and with their cool heads to understand the abstract points of difference involved in the pres ent disputes, they will at once arm them selves with the fraternal spirit of their revolutiOnary father's; infuse the same into their political agents, and force a settlement of all sectional difficulties,and again return to their fields, shopi,'stores, ships, and fiehools.' The free States ought to know that all the chances are on theirside ; that/hair have a surplus population to settle the Territories, while the South has none, snot they should feel satisfied that the laws of cli mate, soil and production will settle the question of slavery extension at last, in spite of ' the theories' about which the politicians of the two sections have each other so much by the , ears." Mr. Gil mer says, " I would have the people at once pull up their stakes, and come and pitch their tents, around Washington, and command their representatives to adjust the difficulties which now divide the two great and powerful sections." The Hon. Lyman Trumbull was re-elected last week U. S. Senator, by the Legislature,of Illinois, by eight ma jonity,notwithstanding the " Democraic" gerrymander of that State, which gives the minority, such unfair advantages.— Judge Trumbull has been an able and distinguished Senator for the last six' years, and is a warm personal, as well as political, friend of the President elect, enjoying his fullest confidence. His re election is therefore a cause of sincere congratulation. Mr. Trumbull was also formerely a "Democrat. The New Orle * ans Bulletin announ ces that MessrS. G. H. Rozet and Paul Queyrouse have establiShed a brogan manufactory in that city, vvhich already turns out six hundred pair per . day, and is expected, when in 'full blast, to make , sixteen hundred. (f-Z - Oil wells, in the western part of Pennsylvania, were known to the Seneca Indians more than a liun'died years ago,' and by settlers in the Legion' seventy' years ago. , , ear Charles E. „and P. Evanv.of" Boston were arrested on \ the charge of= defrauding the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, by not accounting for tickets sold by them. Hops. Rokianger, or. Job, a South Sett:lsland prince; died aquouth or two hgo at the age of about:HO:, •;l3teiremem bored dept. Cook - very well. ita#-The N ets York apdErio,Railroad was sold at auction for $220,000, and was bought in by the trustees. =I