So it goes; All Right! All Honey!
A SLAVEHOLDING D. D. appointed chairman—opened the meeting by reading, singing, prayer and exhortation! This inviting slaveholders and slaveholding apologists to our pulpits, communion tables—to preside at public anniversaries and christian union meetings, with hands reeking with the blood of souls, is what brings the blessed religion of Jesus into disrepute, makes it a by-word, a hissing, a stench! Satan rejoices, and infidels blaspheme. Slaveholding, or man stealing, like rumselling, becomes popular and the most hardened, daring, cruel, blood-guilty wretches at the south, are emboldened to hold on to their crushed victims with an iron grasp! No wonder the blessed missionary of Nestoria, Dr. Perkins, was constrained to exclaim: "I hold that American slavery is the crowning abomination of the present age—the greatest human obstacle to the spread and triumph of christianity that exists at the present period;—that Northern influence, and primarily the influence of Northern Christians, is the strongest and most responsible support of American slavery at this time. I hold also, that our beloved native country is in most imminent peril from the fearful system of American slavery, of falling into deep national disgrace, of calling down upon itself the signal judgment of heaven and thus of blighting for a long period, the fairest and the highest hopes of a suffering world." "Let Mammon hold while Mammon can,
The bones and blood of living man;
Let despots scorn while despots dare,
The shrieks and writhings of despair. "The end will come, it will not wait.
Bonds, yokes and scourges have their date.
Slavery itself must pass away,
And be a tale of yesterday."—Golden Rule.