Slavery Not Yet Abolished
By Editor
We call attention to the article in another column from a writer in the Independent, headed The President and Congress. The fearful condition of affairs at the South, and in the nation, is set forth in a strong light, but probably none too strong. Slavery, says the writer, is not yet abolished. If it is not yet abolished, as matters are at present tending, there is not much prospect that it will soon be. In Testimony No. 7, p. 19, we read, "It looked to me like an impossibility now for slavery to be done away. God alone can wrench the slave from the hand of his desperate, relentless oppressor." Here was a view into the depth of the hellish spirit that reigns supreme in the slave holder's heart, which the most enlightened abolitionist, would have then been scarcely willing to acknowledge, but the truth of which people are now beginning to see. While the Testimony does not say that slavery never will be abolished, it signifies that there are more difficulties in the way of accomplishing that event, than were then anticipated, or than have yet been overcome. We would that the bondman (it seems we cannot yet say freedman) might be released from the hand of the oppressor, even if the whole Egyptian host of slaveholders had to be led forth into the midst of some Red Sea, and disposed of as summarily as was Pharaoh and his minions of old. But these are events which we can leave with Heaven. God has the nation in his hand. And they who are true to his service through these eventful and perilous times, need not fear.