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of *'ur parents or parent, anti in no other way. This
birthright 4o‘•embark in <high ’treason then, rmfst
have descended ■from the fathers of oUr breilftvfc,
and according to this abolition doctitne, it exists i
■full force and virliiettpon all who bold'slaVes, Their
fathers have deft their bone's dr their trlood upon
• very battle-field of their country. ‘‘Certainly these
men do not mean to say that they attainted the
blood df their ‘■children. ‘Could liberty to embark
•in high treason descend from him who sleeps in
the tomb at Mount Vernon, and his hightuinded,
and more than ‘■m-nrtia! band of southern compa
triots, who's well the -blight galaxy of revolutionary
glory, as a bi'ight and sacred halo, encompassing
tne>e States with light and love and liberty?’ Do
tt ev intend tossy that ft ore these men anything
like high treason has descended ?—men whose
names will occupy the most exalted page in all
future history, and be udmired as way maiks and
beacons to the nations, so many luminous points,
‘beckoning the nations to file off their chains and
come a wav from their darkness, while other names
: may have sunken deeper than the lead ever sounded.
‘But wherein has the south been wanting to their
■country ? Need we speak of Yorktown, Saratoga,
of Biidgwater, and of New Orleans, or of those
deadly grapples with the foe, where the clouds-arise
from the waste of the waves ? But now it is a part
of their birthright to embark in high treason. Let
abolitionists go and preach doctrine to southern
legislators and planters, and you would not hear
them complain that hut little attention was paid
them after the sermon ; they might then judge
quite as accurately of southern chivalry as they
now do. #
The foregoing quotations are brought forward as
specimens of the doctrine of abolitionists and of
their unceremonious denunciation of every other
class of men. They do not allow of any other pa
triotism, but such as they- monopolize, nor of any
true Christianity out of their immediate ranks. It
is a common declaration of some of their preachers,
that no one can be a discinle of Cbiist without
being an abolitionist. Their religious and political
pretensions are more exclusive and higher than
any others claim. Is it not astonishing that these
men, in whom it would seetn all human excellence
is cherished and cultivated, and in whom piety has
found an exclusive abode, should so long have been
neglected by their ungrateful country, while men
who have declared, yea, pledged themselves to
maintain the greatest lie in the universe, have been
slevated to its highest honors ? Has this arisen
from judicial blindness! One of these things must
be true, either
*
Ist. Abolitionists must be under some dreadful
delusion, or
2d. Tuey must be laboring most amibiously for
religious and political supremacy, or else,
3d. The entire population of these States, excep 1
themselves, are grossly ignorant and criminally ir
religious.
If the spirit of abolitioists harmonize with the
npiril of delusion in former ages, then there is so
much evidence in favor of our first proposition. — j
Such as have occupied the highest places to which
s'o UTHE R N BAPTIST MESSENGER.
fanatacrsrn, eut'jusiasin, or exalt the
deluded, have always claimed that their mission to
puufy and reform extended to both the church and
the state* The prophet of’ Mecca published bin
one cieed for the church and his country. The
bishop of Rome became the supieme head of the
church and state by reforming and purifying both,
if we may believe him. Oliver Cromwell reached
the piotectorate in. the same wav,and all the church
and state establishments under which Europe
groans, were originated, and have been maintained
by the same inspiration. To say that abolitionists
are laboring,most ambitiously for the religious and
political supremacy, perhaps might be affirming
too much at present, as it is supposed that the arch
spirit of delusion is too cunning to reveal to any
novitiate the entire end which he intends to en
compass. That there is too much ignorance and
irreligion in these States, is our grief and our con
fession;. 3 et that there are some who have been
truly horn again, who are r.ot abolitionists, and
some, even who hold slaves, is h subject for our
gratitude and thanksgiving. Which of the above
propositions will have been proven when tbe spirit
of abolitionism shall have developed itself fully, re
mains to be tested. Whether piety and patriotism
are as exclusive as is pretended, we leave to the
decision of God and our country.
Abolitionists sometimes inform us that the col
ored people, when liberated, are to remain at the
South. This point of abolition doctrine seems in
tended as a mask to disguise the head and front of
a naked deformity. Who shall restrain this igno
laut, infatuated class ? who shall bind them down
under the light and heat of a southern sun ? Giddy
and elastic, they will bieak from all restraint, reck
less of conscience ; every depraved propensity will
seek an appropriate field for its jubilee. They will
roll northward in dark and dense volumes, and
their bivouac and their trail will both testify that
rapine and minder had hem there. Or perhaps
Unbodied and led on by some master spirit, some
“ Alaric ” of their own, like the northern Goths,
they may destroy another Italy, and sack another
Rome.
Was the address quoted in these pages only that
of a county or town society, it could only claim a
passing salutation, as in that case, it might be a
very bad specimen of its parent society : streams
which have wandered such a distance from their
fountains frequently become contaminated, and
have mingled with them much that is extraneous.
But this address is itstlf the fountain of abolition
doctrine, not in its crude state, containing a high
per cent of alloy, but fresh from the mint, with its
cyp of liberty, its pillars, its image and superscrip
tion unsoiled. * * * *
Its claims are imperative, and bind us to so much
courtly etiquette as has falleu to our share, in all
that we do and say, under such responsible circum
stances. It is a prominent sentiment in this ad
dress that the church and state are both going
wrong, and have both waudered so far from their
orhrts already that one simultaneous effort seems
necessaray to redeem them from being engulfed 1
forever. •* Come brothers, let us baste to the glo
rious rescue of the declaration of independence,
and of our holy religion. ir This resciring.tbe state
and our holy religion, will be the subject of our
next.
WALDO, A NORTHERN BAPTIST.
NO. IV.
The following invitation to the brotherhood is no
very partial disclosure of someone attribute of its
spirit. “Come, brothers, let us baste to the glo
rious rescue of the declaration of independence,
and our holy religion,” <fcc. Does ibis national
committee intend to have abolitionists take the en
tire slate and church into their own hands for safe
keeping ? This would be something more than
Just controlling the slate ; the guide and govern
ment of the church would devolve upon them, and
would seem that the direction ot the divine Spirit
might be embraced in that responsibility. When
men are found rescuing the state and our holy re
ligion, it is certain that some spirit has strong
claims upon their energies; men aie not capable
of such a task of themselves, they must first be
come the subjects of seme strong infatuation which
blinds them ; no man who discovers the nature
and laws of the kingdom of God could attempt to
control it. The catb which they asciibe to our
chief executive officers, with their declaratiou that
“Congress has broken down the Constitution of
our land,” is not in agreement with the divine di
rection in Romans xiii. 1 : “ Let every soul be
subject to the higher powers ; for there is no power
but of God ; the powers that be are ordained of
God.” Theie appears to be something revolution
ary in the abolition doctrine; yet it seems the in
tention is oidy to rescue the declaration of inde
pendence and our holy religion. On any plan
with which they have favored us, we cannot per
ceive any sufficient provision fjr the future well
being of the down trodden colored people, yet it is
easily perceive! that their circurrstances may,
and in all probability, would be, comparatively in
tolerable.
To attempt the saving an entire nation at the
expense and ruin of a world, would not be sound
economy or Christian benevolence ; and certainly,
since every effort which abolitionists have made
has riveted the chain, and made it more gallingio
the slave, it would become them to pause, and ask
wisdom of Him who givers? liberally—He is able
to teach our Senators wisdmu. What power that
spirit must exert which urges ministers quite away
from their duties required by the Savior, and em
ploys them in reforming the state, and leading the
church into contrast with itself, the state and the
gospel ! It was a wise restriction in the constitu
tion of some of the States, that ministers of the
gospel should not he elected to civil offices; it seems
to 1 ave been iw view of the evil which now ap
pears so portentous. The collision of church and
state is always to be dreaded, but when both
church and state are seen yielding to the grasp ot
pretended reformers, it may not be in vain that we
anticipate an ecclesiastical establishment. When
a reforming and purifying party become so ex-
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