dom, not that we love freedom less, but the Union more;" when the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, to shew his love to the Union, "protests," in his Harper Ferry sermon, "against any counsels that lead to insurrection, servile war, and bloodshed;" and, then incites the Northerns to an invasion of the South, and advocates servile "insurrection," and war redder than blood and fiercer than fire," shouting until he is hoarse, "fight or die." When President Lincoln, the Congress, and the Northern States, perform the part of "Low Comedians" in a new comedy, called the "Constitutional Amendment Act;" in order to cast out imaginary clauses, called the "Compromises of the Constitution," which Ward Beecher in his Fort Sumter sermon avowed did not exist, declaring "There is no fact susceptible of proof in history, if it be not true that this Federal government was created for the purpose of justice and liberty. The instruments which accompanied it, and preceded it, and the known opinions of the men who framed it, prove this beyond the peradventure of a doubt," demonstrating to the world that they were co-partners with the Southerns in the guilt and shame of slavery, thus publishing their own shame; and when the hope is expressed by leading abolitionists that "the war may be continued long enough to make the Northern people men;" such a change cannot be regarded with complacency, or viewed with delight, but with detestation and horror.

"But," say Northern advocates, "wherever

Christianity lives and flourishes there must grow up from it necessarily a conscience which is hostile to any oppression and wrong." This is quite true, so far as real Christianity is concerned; but not so in regard to the spurious system, so named, which has been so widely diffused in America, as taught by a Vandyke in New York, a Nehemiah Adams of Boston, a Stuart of Andover, a Lord of Dartmouth, a Professor Hoge of Princeton College, a Right Rev. Dr. Hopkins, or Bishop Hedding; or as practised by Ward Beecher, Drs. Cheever, Nathan Brown, Eddy, Tyng and Mrs Stowe, who have stood in slaveholding relationships, or fellowships, apparently unconscious that Christian duty demanded that they should come out from the ranks of what Mrs. Stowe complacently calls "Lady pious slaveholders," "Christian slave-traders," and might have added revival negro-haters. It is still urged that "a great and powerful anti-slavery party resolved at last upon the restraining and control of slavery in the North." If so, the above party were very unfortunate in the selection of their candidate to represent them, since Lincoln, in a speech made at Freeport, Illinois, August 7, 1858, and published in his Campaign Book, avowed, "If any territory uninfluenced by the actual presence of slavery came to adopt a slave Constitution, I see no alternative, if we own the country, but to admit them into the Union." To call such a party anti-slavery is a misnomer, a figment of the brain, a myth.

Be

sides, Wendell Philips, Esq., the highest authority in the North in such matters, in a speech made at the New England Antislavery Convention, May 30, 1860, said, "there is no political antislavery existing at this moment. There is no movement in the political arena that calls itself anti-slavery. Of course you know there is none in the church. You know very well that unfortunately the ballot box is a great deal ahead of the communion table in its knowledge of ethics; and as we find no antislavery at the ballot box we cannot expect to find any at the communion table."

In the above sketch of the relations and conditions of North and South, we see that both have violated the fundamental law of the Constitution, and subverted the great charters of freedom; but bad as the South is, and black as it is with guilt, it has had some redeeming qualities in connexion with it, which the North has never possessed, or cherished as free-traders; and in regard to slavery, no men bowed their knees with profounder homage or burned sweeter incense to this national idol than Webster, Everet, Hallet, Cushing, Choate, or Wm. E. Dodge, the great revivalist, so-called, all leading and influential Northern men, whilst the overwhelming mass of biblical interpreters and divines who made the word doulos to support what they called "the humanity and divinity of slavery filled Northern chairs in the Universites and pulpits, producing such deep rooted pro-slavery proclivity

amongst the people that Mr. Beecher in his Harper Ferry Sermon, professes to lift up his hands in horror, exclaiming, "When the love of liberty is at so low an ebb that churches dread the sound; ministers shrink from the topic; book publishers dare not publish or republish a word on the subject of slavery, cut out every living word from school books, expurgate life passages from Humboldt, Spurgeon, and all foreign authors and teachers, and when great religious publication societies, endowed for the very purpose of speaking fearlessly the truths which interest would let perish, pervert their trust, and are dumb, first and chiefly, and articulate only in things that thousands of others could publish as well as they ; what chance is there that public sentiment in such a community will have any power with the South?" And when contrasting the North with the South he gives, in the same sermon, deeper and blacker shades of guilt and shame to the North where he says, "We heap on the coloured people obloquy more atrocious than that which the master heaps on the slave. They love their property. We do not own them so we do not love them at all." How black the picture of misery! How dangerous the elements contained within the Union! How both parties have dug and charged mines, which by any current of events, or freak in the chapter of accidents might explode in disastrous ruin! To maintain that such a Union has "health in it," or is "dear to the

lovers of freedom throughout the world," is one of the most insulting mockeries and blasting burlesques that can be conceived. It outrages beyond possible endurance the common sense of creation. In 1861,

the New England abolition chieftains said, "the only relief they could find in contemplating a thing so devilish and disgraceful, was to cherish the hope that God or some other power would ere long dash it in pieces like a potter's vessel."

GOD'S AVENGING HAND.

Could the old puritans rise from the dead, they would not be able to recognise those who claim to be their descendants in America, so opposed have they become to themselves in principle and practice, and if required to give their opinions concerning them, they would put the deepest and broadest emphasis on the passage of Holy writ, which reads, "children that are corrupters, a seed of evil doers." In America the reaping time comes very quickly after the sowing time. This is being vividly realised in our unfortunate country at the present time. What seeds of calamity and ruin have been broadcast in our land, and now what a harvest of misery and shame. How stupidly ignorant, and obstinately and wilfully blind those must be who shut their eyes to the fact, "that there is a God who judgeth in the earth." Some there are however who acknowledge God's retributive providences