. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . rested by National and Virginia troops, and was hanged, in Decemberfollowing, by the authorities of Virginia. , 2 This false teaching was not new. It was begun by John 0. Calhoun, and had been kept up ever was so in Madisons later days. In a letter to Henry Clay, cited by Dr. Sargeant, in his admirable pamphlet,entitled, England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy, that statesman and patriot said:— It ispainful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South, by imputations against the North of un
. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America . rested by National and Virginia troops, and was hanged, in Decemberfollowing, by the authorities of Virginia. , 2 This false teaching was not new. It was begun by John 0. Calhoun, and had been kept up ever was so in Madisons later days. In a letter to Henry Clay, cited by Dr. Sargeant, in his admirable pamphlet,entitled, England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy, that statesman and patriot said:— It ispainful to see the unceasing efforts made to alarm the South, by imputations against the North of unconstitu-tional designs on the subject of Slavery. Madison and Clay were both slaveholders. Again, the former wrote: The inculcated impression of a permanent incompatibility of interests between the North and the South mayput it in the power of popular leaders, aspiring to the highest stations, to unite the South on some criticaloccasion. In pursuing this course, the first and most obvious step is nullification, the next secession, and thslast, a final 38 TEACHINGS Otf THE PRESS AND PULPIT. aries. The former was widely controlled by politicians of the small ruling classin the Slave-labor States, and was almost everywhere subservient to their willin the promulgation of false teachings. There were exceptions, however— noble exceptions; and there were thoseamong influential newspaper conductors,like the heroic Parson Brownlow, ofKnoxville, East Tennessee, now (1865)Governor of that State, who couldnever be brought to bend the knee asingle line to Baal nor to Moloch; butstood bravely erect until consumed, as itwere, at the stake of So with the pulpit. It was exten-sively occupied by men identified so-cially and pecuniarily with the slavesystem. These men, with the awful dig-nity of ambassadors of Christ—vice-w. g. brownlow. gerents of the Almighty — declared Slavery to be a divine institution, andthat the fanatics of the Free-labor States who denoun
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