to distinguish them but a difference in dress, manners, and modes of living; and when these become assimilated, they naturally mingle together on terms of perfect equality, with the exception of distinctions created by accidental circumstances-such as a difference in wealth, position, talent, and virtue. If separated at all, it is by artificial distinctions, whereas the white man and the negro are divided by natural, palpable, and irreconcileable differences, which address themselves not merely to the imagination but the senses. Hence, were one to be elevated, or the other depressed to a common standard, they would never thoroughly amalgamate until they ceased to be distinguished by their physical peculiarities. They would never rest until one had obtained the ascendancy over the other, ór driven them away, or exterminated them, according to the custom of our North American Indians. The proceedings of the abolitionists tend, therefore, directly and inevitably, not to an amalgamation of the two races, but to a still wider separation, leading to perpetual struggles, which can only end in the absolute subjection, banishment or extermination of one or the other.

If we are right in these premises-and they are exemplified in every stage in the history of mankind-a war between the two races in the Southern States is gradually maturing in that quarter, under the auspices of the abolitionists and their allies, which must necessarily extend to their neighbors of the North, who will irresistibly be drawn into it as auxiliaries of one or other party. They cannot remain neutral, and must necessarily choose the alternative either to aid their white brethren, or aid in their extermination. What a terrific state of things would then be presented! We shall not dwell on it, in its consequences. It is sufficient to say, that there is nothing in the history of the past that will afford a parallel to its horrors. It will not be merely a dissolution of the Union, but a dissolution of the ties of humanity.

But it is not a mere dissolution of the Union and a war between two great races of mankind that is contemplated by the abolitionists, who are gradually approaching to, if they are not already arrived at, a union with socialism and infidelity. It is evident from the late indiscreet disclosures of their principles, produced by the anticipation of a speedy triumph by the aid of their political auxiliaries, that they aim not only at Christianity itself, by fomenting divisions in the various denominations of the Christian church, and thus impairing its influence, but by undermining the basis on which it is erected; and that, strange to say, they have found allies even among the preachers of the Gospel, who, while calling on their congregations to obey the precepts of the Saviour, are associated with those who trample the Bible and Christianity under foot. Having, in the presumption of their ignorance, at their first outset, quoted the sacred Scriptures as their authority for denouncing slavery as a gross violation of the law of God and the rights of nature; and having since discovered, or been told, that so far from denouncing, it recognizes that institution through the mouth of the Deity himself,* they have turned round and denounced the Bible for tolerating it. At the late meetings of the National Abolition Society in New-York and Boston, a Mr. Wright affirmed, that when the Bible gave its sanction to slavery, it lied; but on being questioned by a spectator on the subject, after some hesitation, he qualified his assertion by saying, that "if it did so, it lied." Other speakers, distinguished

* See 25th chapter of Leviticus.

leaders in the society, took equal, nay still greater liberties with the sacred volume, and uttered blasphemies with which we will not stain our paper. Thus the foundation on which Christianity rests, is torn up by the roots, by the hands of a set of ferocious blockheads, ten times more ignorant than the Apostles, and without their inspiration.

Having demolished the Bible, they next proceeded to attack the New Testament; and this being the strongest entrenchment, the onset was committed to William Lloyd Garrison, the ostensible and redoubtable leader of the crusade against the people of the South, the Bible and Christianity; and who, in the eyes of his followers, is the Mahomet whom disunionists denominated" the sword of God." We say ostensible leader, because we are convinced that this hybrid, half-breed, is a mere puppet, whose wires are pulled in England, and who probably knows no more what he is really about than Punch and Judy at a fair. He will do very well for a leader among the females enamored of amalgamation; and who, it seems, are about forming a union of the gown and the petticoat, to usurp the breeches; but it is sufficiently evident, that he is nothing more than a wooden sword in the hands of an expert harlequin, and that his intrepidity is not derived from a clear conviction of right, but is merely the insolent presumption of ignorance. He is a blind idiot in leading strings; he merely flourishes the fire-brand placed in his hand by others of deeper views, and more malignant purposes; and it seems strange that he should have become an instrument in designs of such magnitude in which the great interests of two worlds are concerned. But the vast continents of the deep, which at times peer above its surface, are formed by the agency of the most insignificant insects; and the destinies of the world have been frequently directed apparently by men who knew no more where they were going to strike than the weapon with which they gave the blow. The worm that feeds on the timbers of the ship is merely following his instinct, and little dreams of the wreck he is preparing.

But those by whom he is stimulated and directed, to wit, the politicians, cannot plead the ignorance of Garrison, when leaguing themselves with him and his followers in their excesses. They stand justly charged with hostility to the Constitution and the Union. The Christian churches which have enlisted under his banner cannot avoid the imputation of hostility to the hitherto universally recognized doctrines of Christianity; nor can the abolition leaders who pull the wires behind the scenes, free their skirts from the infamy of co-operating with the socialists, and all the varieties of fanaticism which are forming a combination against all social obligations, the constitution, the laws, the sanctity of the marriage tie, and the divinity of religion itself. That these are among the principal objects of their hostility, will distinctly appear by reference to the proceedings at their late meetings in New-York and Boston, to which we call the special attention of the reader. We have already stated what they say of the Bible, and will now proceed to give their exposition of the New Testament.

Heretofore, Christianity has been considered by its professors, of every sect, as a complete system of piety and morality, embodying all our duties to God and our fellow-creatures-all harmoniously co-operating with each other, and all carrying with them the sanction of divine

* See proceedings of the meetings of the devotees of the Rights of Woman, in Ohio and Boston.

authority. But Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, the inspired oracle of the abolitionists, has discovered and announced to the world, at the meetings aforesaid, that Christianity, its duties, obligation and essence, all are condensed in one single comprehensive tenet, not to be found in the New Testament; that the entire creed of Christianity resolves itself into one point, and concentrates on one single object. According to his notion, it has nothing to do with the Ten Commandments, as a great comprehensive code for the direction of human conduct; nor with the two great precepts of the Saviour, embodying their essence; nor with the expositions of the inspired apostles. It enjoins one single duty to the exclusion of every other, and is entirely independent of all moral, social, or religious obligations. It has no connection whatever with the love of God, or of our neighbor-with our duties as citizens-with domestic ties, or the rights of property, as guaranteed by the principles of Christianity as well as law. All these are mere humbugs. William Lloyd Garrison, the New Messiah, affirms that "there is no other test of Christianity in these latter days but abolitionism, and that all others are nugatory." Thus Christianity and abolition are inseparable; they are one and indivisible; they constitute an identity, and the Christian creed at once resolves itself into a fanatical dogma.

It follows that all who do not act upon the belief, that "all those laws recognizing slavery are before God null and void;" that all the negroes throughout the world, and especially in the United States, should be instantly set free and admitted at once to social and political equality; that "the Constitution of the United States is a gross violation of the law of God and the rights of nature;" and that "the condition of slavery absolves us from all the obligations of mankind"-all these reprobates are no Christians, for the inspired Garrison has decided that these are the only true doctrines of Christianity, and that there is no other test of orthodoxy. These miserable backsliders, whose ancestors and themselves had remained almost two thousand years in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity, are at once expelled that Church into which they have so long intruded, and cast into outer darkness, there to gnash their teeth in despair. They are proper subjects for the application of the beneficent precept that "the condition of slavery absolves us from all the obligations of mankind." They are fair game for the happy rogues thus at once freed from all the restraints of law and gospel; and every slave-nay every free gentleman of color-may, by virtue of the superior rights of his race, make use of the abolition curte blanche, to exterminate them either by open war or midnight conspiracy.

Under the new dispensation, the Bible is discarded, and Christianity is abolitionism, and abolitionism is Christianity. All Christian tenets, duties and obligations, are merged in the immediate emancipation of the negroes. We may believe in the Saviour of mankind, and practice all his precepts to the extent permitted to human capacity, but we are no Christians unless we believe in Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, the great modern expositor of the law and the prophets. Of course, then, all those who do not make war on the laws and constitution of the United States, denounce the Union, stigmatize one-third of their fellow-citizens as men-stealers,

* See speech of Garrison at the meeting in New-York, in May last.

become men-stealers themselves, and incite the slaves of the South as well as the free blacks of the North, to a war with the race of the white men, are beyond the pale of the Christian church. Here we have an entire new creed to which all must give in their adhesion, under penalty of excommunication and expulsion. The entire system of moral, social and religious obligations, all our duties to our Maker and our fellow-men, are swallowed up in the great maw of fanaticism. The Saviour of mankind and his inspired apostles are no longer our safe, unerring guides; and henceforth and forever, William Lloyd Garrison supersedes the divine mission of the Son of the living God. The Christian creed is abolished at a single blow, and there is now no salvation except for those who believe in the emancipation of the negroes-and nothing else. All those who do not hold that Christianity consists exclusively in believing that the slaves of the South should "be instantly set free without compensation to the planters," must be forthwith expelled from the pale of the Christian church and the ranks of humanity.

It will thus be perceived that this new system of Christianity is brought into direct collision with the laws of the land, the constitution of the government and the authority of the State. All these, instead of harmonizing with its practice and principles, are placed in irreconcilable opposition. The Church and the State in this new attitude are incompatible; they cannot exist together, and one of them must fall. Hitherto the doctrines of Christianity, if not the basis, have been the most powerful auxiliaries of human laws; and the system of civil polity in every Christian State, has accommodated itself, as far as possible, to the duties prescribed by the divine preceptor. Not so with the great dogmas of the abolitionist church, which if adopted by a majority of Christians in the United States, will carry with it a total subversion of the principles established by the constitution; and thus religion, instead of being one of the great supports of the laws and civil institutions of our country, becomes the most powerful instrument in their subversion and destruction. If abolitionism becomes the only test of Christianity, either Christianity or the Union must fall. Either abolitionism must be put down, and the ancient, timehonored, venerable old Christian church sustained against these marauders and moss-troopers, or an entire new system of government corresponding with the new code of piety and morality propounded by the new expositor of the Gospel, must be adopted.

That great and virtuous statesman who has lately departed this world, whose oft-repeated warnings and predictions are now arrayed against us like the accusing spirits of the dead, and who with his dying breath bequeathed to his country a rich legacy of wisdom and patriotism, which should be placed side by side with the last farewell of Washington--that distinguished Southerner, who we greatly fear will one day be placed among the inspired prophets who foretold the destruction of Jerusalemthat far-seeing and sagacious statesman, whose capacious mind and comprehensive experience, gave to his opinions almost the authority of inspiration that great and good man-for such he was, and as such will be forever recognized by posterity-referred to the future consequences of the abolition excitement, which dawned in the widely extended schisms already produced by its intrigues and efforts, as one of the most alarming symptoms of the approaching dissolution of the Union. The harmony of the Church is the harbinger of peace; and whoever will trace the great

revolutions of past ages to their real sources, will always find religious dissensions at the bottom. Extensive changes in religion are always for a time fatal to the repose of society; and whenever any sect can enlist a sufficient combination of force and opinion to overpower all opposition, a revolution of the State must inevitably follow. If, instead of cooperating in a war against the vices and crimes of mankind—not one, but all of them-and instilling into their minds a holy reverence for Christianity, as presented in its great fundamental doctrines by the Saviour himself, the preachers of the Gospel direct all their efforts and employ all their influence in aggravating sectarian distinctions, and administering perpetual fuel to sectarian fires-so long as they pursue this course, they may increase the number of bigots and persecutors, but they will add few, very few, to the peaceful fold of the Lamb of God. They ought to know that by questioning the doctrines of other Christian sects, they only weaken their own; for all have one common origin, one common basis; and if one is false, who shall decide whether any of the others are true? The basis of the Christian creed, in its application to human obligations, is peace and good will to all our neighbors—that is, all those with whom, from proximity of situation or social relations, we can exchange the offices of good neighborhood. The precept does not apply exclusively to those who believe or disbelieve in Transubstantiation, or any other abstraction which has no connection with the great fundamental principles of the Christian faith; nor is it confined in its operation to the natives of Africa, to the exclusion of our own color and race; it does not sacrifice the whole flock to the black sheep alone.

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But be this as it may, there is now a sectional church, incorporated with our other sectional interests. A northern and a southern church, separated not by conflicting tenets, but by Mason and Dixon's line. anity no longer rests on its old established doctrines, but depends altogether on the degrees of latitude and longitude. It cannot exist south of Mason and Dixon's line, unless the slaves are instantly emancipated, or William Lloyd Garrison is no prophet. Those who rally round that profane instrument, the Constitution, instead of coming under the wing of the wildgoose of fanaticism; those who decline divesting themselves of their property, and exposing their own lives, and those of their families, to imminent danger, at the bidding of William Lloyd Garrison, are not, and cannot be admitted into communion with our modern saints. They don't come up to the great "Test," and must be content to be called Christians south of Mason and Dixon's line. This, we presume, is what is meant by the unity of the Christian church, so confidently predicted, which is to become universal; a union which, it seems, is to be brought about by mutual dissensions and reciprocal anathemas.

By this new and arbitrary test of orthodoxy, hitherto unknown in the Christian church, which has existed almost two thousand years, some of the most numerous denominations of Christians in the United States have been severed into opposite conflicting elements. They no longer form a bond of union, but a spectacle of dissension; and thus, instead of strengthening, mutually weaken each other by reproaches and ill offices. Is this the way to bring about the unity of the church, and secure the peace of the world, by beckoning the entire flock of the shepherd into one and the same fold? Is anarchy in the churches, and dissensions among the members, a proper cement to the brotherhood of mankind? Is the spectacle of one seot