Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1863 — Page 1

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decatTr’eagleJ IMVXO EVERT SATCRDaT MORSIXO, BY. Spencer & Schirmeyer. tin PBormrroM. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Fitterion', tn .Wing, over the I>rug Store. Terms ®f Snbscriptionl One copy, nne year, in advance, $1 00' If paid within the year, x> nrvh Bl Ma if not paid until the year has expired, 2Ou tF?ro paper will be discontinued until all atrerafewnre paid except at the option f the Publisher. Terms of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 | liaeh subsequent nraerriea, 25 ITMo advertisement will beeonsidercd less than one square; over ne square will be conn-1 ted end charged as tw. over two, as three, etc. I ITA liberal discount, from the above rates, made oh ill olvurrisetnentsinserted foraperiod longer three mrfhtnst' * ' * * J ' IJ’The ah-jve rates will be strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB P RINTING: We are prepared to doall kinds of jos-wosk ns rest tad workmanlike n-atee-.on themest ; reasonable terms. Onr mater 1 for the cornp leljon of Job-Work, being new *_J of the latest styles, we feel confident that satisfaction t an be given. DECATI R HS HR IIS! qftUUT HOUSE. I) ecat ur, In(ii an a. 65® WL J Proprietor. Wilf 2ive good attention, and makes reasonable charges. n37—v6-ly. d7w. champek p/fysrcj</jv <v svrgeox I) E C A T U R , INDIANA. JjTOFFICE—On the eggt sijfof Second St . Tn the room formerly occupied by J. D. Nuttman as m banking ntlice. v|—n42. hr. ill STI hbYk'bb ;i ATTOMNKY AT|EAW MNP CLAIM.A G E N T DECATUR. INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and Htlj willing ConntioF i ill secure bounties, pensions; and all kinds . of claims a j-sinst the Government. o*o F FICK.—On Main Street immediately : ■South of the Auditor’s Office.—v G-n 42 JAMES R. 8080. Attorney and Counselor at Law. DRC A TUR. DVD Ta -V.l. TTUFFICE, in Recorder’s Office..rp Will practice in th? Courts of the Tenth Ju diciul Circuit; Attend t. the Redemption of Lands, the pav.*ient of Talreu Especial nttcuj tion will be given to the collection f Bounties , Pension .and nil claims against the Government I X'ov. 28. 1862. v6-p42. yr 11 R E GALL ER YI P. V. SMITH, Ambrotype & Photograph A. H Having permanently located in Decatur and supplied hiinselfwith everything that may be j found in a Eirat Class Picture Gallery. Wonld call the attention of all who deai re god Picture at low prices, to call at his rooms in Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug Store. n37-ly r -J JEFFERSON QUICK, j DEALER IN ‘CLOCKS. WATCHES, MUSICAL nSTRIDIENTS, JEWELRY, &C., DECATUR, INDIANA. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instru I sments, <fcc., repaired on short notice. SHOP—On Second Street, one door south of NuUman <fc Crawford’s Store. v-5-n 41 V I CK S B URG! I. J. MIESSE, In bis line of business. Defies the World! All otlmr LIKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in I 'the shade! AU efforts at COMPETITION gone •by the BOARD. It h acknowledged by all that he can Pell a BETTER article of Harness, Saddles, Bridies, Whips, and all such like for LESS money than any other establishment in Northeastern Indiana, without ixccption. Hi* work is all warranted to be made of the very best material, awd made by old and expe rienced workmen. b iggies and carriages trimmed in the latest and most approved style. Repairing done on ( ♦■hort notice and at reasonable rates. TTGive us a call, and we will convince son of the truth of what we say. PAT CASH L»r our stock, and conaeMiewtiw BU Y CHEAP-1 KR th»n if on TIME; and of course HMfrreporfmn ~e3V‘-vC

From'the Chicago | rf3"The most nauseating hypocrisy is abolition hypocrisy. We have an exami pie. The New York Tribune of Monday of-iftst week says: ■ n ’’llie absence of the national flag in all parts of the city during the past week of the riot was a noteworthy circumstance, i but now the citizens have taken breath j and a new start, let the dear old flag be flung to the breeze from every flagstaffin the city, that all ipay thus anew give sign of patriotism and loyality.’ The same New York Tribune, three years ago, contained the following tribute to the “dear old flag:” THE AMERICAN FLAG. All hail the flaunting Lie! The stars grow pale and dim; The stripes are bloody scars—A Lie the vaiinting hymn, It shield's the pirate’s deck, It binds a man in chains, It yokes the captive's neck, And wipes the bloody stains Tear down the flaunting LieHalf mast the starry flag! Insult no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag! Destroy it ye. who can! Deep sink it in the waves! It bears a fellow-man To groan with fellow-slaves. Furl, furl the boasted Lie! Till freedom lives again, To rule once in truth Among untrammeled men. Roll up the starry sheen. Conceal its bloody stains; For in its folds are seen The stamp of rustling chains He who is just as old as his dog is of leur-qge/j |y| /. ( ) ; Two may agree together, but three are : always at odds. — —>li MM ill Every man has a wild beast in his bosom. He should keep the thing chained. i We have got by heart the grammar of life, but made life itself a dead language. ; —- •Madam will yon please to give me your name? ‘No, sir. I want, it myself’ I It may be a fair question whether a i man can be said to be wedded to ee ibacr. 1 — i 55 hen you want a private earthquake, of your own, dance on a quagmire. A good man. in the night of adversity has a full moon and plenty of stars. There are many of the greatest deeds i done in the small struggles of life. i Many men and women have sad occasion to know that two do not make a pair. The cat is a drawing room tiger, the lizard a pocket crocodile. Be droll, and you may generally venture with safety to be a scamp. It is a great thing for out strength to I i know that there are those who need that we be strong. Every lady wishes to have what is cal- , led a speaking eye. She would make a : mouth of her eye. ■ The merchant does more than the sea captain: the latter makes sail, the former ! makes sales. —! .... — ,v. The vapors of the atmosphere are produced by water, those of the mind by I whiskey. —«—•> I A couple of editors, engaged in windy i war of words, will cotne to blows a thousand miles apart. The soul helps the body and seme times, upliftsit. It is the only bird which sustains its cage. There is gold plate and silver plate: but the best ptate for a hungry man is that I with the most and beat food upon it. i There are lovers of dhputation, who 1 will change sides in all argument* the, moment any one agrees with them.

I b« rU*o*q«-> boa .LsxiUibie yi|N\’O •Cur Country s Good shall ever be civpf Alm—Willing to Praise and not afrala to Blame.”

DECATUR, .WLMS COUNTV, INDIANA, AUG. 15, 1863,

Ma LikCulx's Story.—The Washing ton v>iirooicle edited by John W. Forney advise* the people to hav«* faith in the Admmisira-.ion, and all will be well.” Mr. Lincoln, before big election, used to I tell with inimitable manner the w.ory of Bolah,’ touening this very stoiy of •faith.** Tha story, of course, j owed much of its fun to Mr. Lincoln's peculiar style nl relating it, and its tubstance was to the following effect; One night ata negro meeting house, a i stove which had been heated til) it was - red, fed over, threatening the destruction of the meeting bouse. Consternation fell upon the congregation; men shrieked, women fainted and men were cautions in approaching the smoking furnace. The old African who was officiating however, like Col. Forney, thought ol faith ns the certain remedy for the threatened evil, so he exclaimed to the leader of the con gregation who waa standing neartbe stove but was deterred from any effort to right it: Hab faith tab faith brudder Bolah! only hab faith, and the Lord won't let that stove burn you!* Brother Bolab believed hia faith evercome all his fears he grasped the stove, but suddenly withdrawiou his blistered l hands be turned to the venerable preacher and responsively exclaimed: ‘D h—ll he won’t! de h-—ll he won’ll” Col Forney can make the application which Mr Lincoln was wont to do when he tild this story on the ‘circuit.’— [Chicago Post. A True Lady—'l cannot forbear pointing out to you toy dearest child,” said Lord Collingwood to his daughter, “the great advantages that will result from a temperate conduct and sweetness of manner to all people on all occasions. Never forget that you are a gentlewoman, and all your words and actions should make you gentlo. I never heard your mother : —your dear good mother —«ay a harsh I hasty thing to any person in my liie. Endeavor to imitate her. I am quick and j hasty in my temper but my darling, it is a misfortune which not having been suffi cnntly reotrained in my youth, has ! caused me inexpressible pain. It has given me more trouble to subdue this impetuosity than anything I ever underi look.’ biMPLE Usages of the Colonists — I How simple were the manners ot the ; early colonists! The first ripening of any European fi uit was distinguished by a I faintly (estival. Garcilasso de !u Vega I relates howhis dear father the valorous: I Andren, collected together in his cliam- ; , her seven or eight gentlemen to share with him three asparaguses the first that ; ever grew on the table-land of Cusco, i When the operation of dressing them ! was over (and-it is minutely described) he distributed the two largest among his i friends, begging that the companv would I I not take it ill if be reserved the third for i himself as it was raised from seed brought from Spain. 1 Mr. Webster and his Bills.—Our readers are aware that Mr. Webster was not so careful in his pecuniary matters as some ‘ men his fault was at times taken advan I tage of. At one time a poor man sawed a pile of wood for him, and having pre- 1 I sented his bill, it was promptly paid. The - man took sick during the winter, and neighbors advise him to call on Mr. Webster for the payment of his bill. , ‘But he has paid me,’ said the man. ‘No matter,’ replied his dishonest adviser. ‘call again with it. He don’t know, and don't mind what he pays. It is a | very common thing for him to pay such ■ small bills over twice.’ The man got well and carried his bill a • second time. Mr. Webster looked at it, 1 looked at the man, remembered him; but i paid the bill without demurring. I The fellow got ‘short’ some three or four months afterwards, and bethought him of the generosity and loose maimer ' I of Mr. Webster in his money matters: and a third time he called and presented the : bill for sawing the wood. Mr.’ Webster I took the account which he immediately ; recognized, and scanning the wood-saw- ’ era moment, he said; ‘How do you keep your books, sir?’ ‘I keep no books,’ said the man, agashj ‘I think yon do. sir,’ continued Mr. Webster, with marked emphasis, and you excel those who are satisfied with the. double entry system. You keep yonr I books upon a triple entry plan. I observe i Tearing up the account, Mr. Webster added: ‘Go. sir. an Ibe honest hereafter. 11 i have no objections to paying these little I bills twice, but I cannot pay them three times. Yon may retire.' The man left the room, feeling as I though he was suffocating for want of air He had learned a lesson that lasted through life. i Troops are being sent from Washing-! ton to the North

a bible View of slavery. BV a-'N. AM »S RENDALL Wrtske the following from the Nstlonsl Intelligencer in which paper it np- , • ptared as oni of n series of Leiters to the - PrmideDt.’ iTo Abrnli* tn Lincoln President of the ' Uniter! States: Rb-pected Sir:-—Mv object in these letters, be ii distinctly understood is not to commend slavery hh a desirable institution, nor miltigate in the lead the crime or the penalty of the Southern re- ' bellion; but it is by the light of truth to disarm in some degree, a set of Norih- ’ ern fanatic*, whose insane hatred of sla , very make them equally hostile to our glorious Constitution. It is to show the i ’ honest people of the free States that, as a political question, they are not responsi ble for it, and have no rightful coniroi , over it and that, ns a moral question, there is nothing in it which justilies their: interference by virtue of any higher law’ i than the Constitution of their country ' Rebel masters may be divested of their rioht to the labor ol their slaves as a punishment for their treason, just as* far as they may be divested of other analogous i rights, and no farther; but for the U., States to abolish the institution because i individual slaveb Iders head the rebel) , ion, would be as gross an usurpation as a sweeping act to divorce all wives from J husbands and free all children from their parents in all the slaveltolding States for j the same reason. Not from any other motive than to; / bring home more vividly to the mind of 11 the reader the Bible truths develop-d in ! I mv last letter, I address myself to a Rev- , j erend repres< ntative of a class. • I say to him do you, in common with • all or most Christian teachers, recognize ,! Noah as a prophet of God who spoke by ; inspiration? If so, it was God himself' j who doomed the desendanis of Ham to [ p> rpetua! servi'ude. If therefore, slavery be a sin, God iu this case is respon sible for it; and when you attempt on that ground to rescue the African from slavery you assume to be more wise and i just than G id! Is it not so? Abraham hooght servants with his | • money, and had hundreds born in I.is ! j house.’ He was a special favorite with God, who not only heaped blessings open I him, but chose him to be the father of hie ! peculiar people and the progenitor of the I ’ Saviour of mankind. You denounce the buying of men and women with money vs sinful, and its to]- ! eration in our country as a great national j sin,' which has brought down upon u< > ' the judgment of Heaven. Abraham did' I the same thing, and Heaven showered) : blessings upon him. Our fathers and! brothers did the same thing, and were blessed as Abraham was until the reformers of God’s moral law. by their impi- j ous assumptions, disturbed the peace of | thp country, and aided in bringing down | upon it the calamities under which it now mourns You denounce slavery as a sin. God ' says, (Exodus, 21. 2) —If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve. (That is slavery, or involuntary, ser-j ! vitude, by the command of God Who; knows, best what is sin, you or Goi. 1 He may become free at the end of six 1 year*, but if he choose he may be made ; a slave ‘forever,’ by means of a cere- 1 , mony prescribed in Exodus 21, 6, and Deuteronomy 15,17. He had no further option on the sucject; but says) God, he shall, be thv, servant, for ever. But you may say this is voluntary I iservitude Not certainly for the fir.t six I years; and according to your principles, I a man connot alienate bis liberty. If so,; i this voluntary slave, after he has be-i come voluntairly may change his mind ' and resume his freedom; but God says !he shall be a servant ‘forever.’ Is God a ) i sinner? i But if he accepts his freedom at the end of six rears his and dawghters, if I born of a wife given him by his master,. i (doubtless herself a slave.) ‘shall he her i master’s;’ and he shall go out by himself. • In other words, they shall not be free on j , the seventh year, but shall remain slaves forever. This is God's order. Is it a sin i ; Reverend Sir? You say there cannot be ownership in 1 man God says the women and sons and : ; daughters in Ibis case shall be her masters!’ i In the 21st chapter of Exodus, after ! Cirect'ng that if a master beat his slave to death he shall be punished God savs. i verse 21: Notwithstanding, if he continj ues a day or two he (the master,) shall : not be punished for he (rhe slave) is his i money.’ Is not a man’s money his property? You, Reverend Sir' savs the' a man’s slave is not his property. God says ho is; which shall a Christian be- ; lieve?—l would like to heal von preach a , sermon from these w >rds of scripture,; ; For he (s his money!' "Thns shall <be lord, in Leviticus 15, ' <<, Both thy bondmen and the bondmaids

1 which thoti shalt hsve shall be of the: heatheh that are round about you; of them slißil ye buy bondmen and bond-mwirlei-.s;’ Give us a sermon on this text, also, and show us how acts which God expressly, authorize*, can be sinful ■Thua sailh the Lord.’ in the next verse Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you of them shall ye buy an 1 of their lamiltes that are with you which they begot in your land, and shall be your possession Another good text Reverend air, from which I should like to hear you deduce the conclusion that not only buying these I children was a sin but that possession’ here does not mean property.’ •Thus saith the Lord,’ tn the next verse And ye shall take them as an inheritance for vour children after you to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondsmen forever. Your Bible tells you, R-verend sir. that these are the direct words of God., God hirrself authorize* the buying of slaves; God himself authorizes them to 1 he held as a possession; God himself declares that they shall remain tn this relation forever.’ Yet you teach that slavery is itself a sin; that the buying men and women for money is a sin; that holding them as a possession is a sin; that their transmission as ‘an inheritance’ from father to son is a i sin; and that holding them in bondage, | forever’ is ‘the sum ol all villainies.’ What is the ieference? Either that you do not believe the Bible, and to assume to believe it only as a mask to enable you to lead astray ignorant men and , silly woman,’ or you believe that God himself legalized sin among his chosen people. Take which born of the dilemma you i please; you cannot oscape both. | Let as now review- ihe subject in tlidt Slight of the New Testament. If Slavery be the sum ol all villainies.’ Reverend sir, is it not strange that Jesus 'Christ did not denounce it as a sin. j though it existed all around him? Is it ) not stranger still that his Apostles instead •of denouncing it as a sin, recognized it as a lawful relation invo’ving certain i Christian duties? Let us examine the difference between the Gosple which they , preach. The Gospel taught by Paul and Peter, enjoins upon evert iman to be content in' the position where Providence has placdd I him. Art thou being called a servant? I Care not lor it, says Pau!. Corinthians 1. i 7—12 Your Gospel teacher the servant' discontent and rebellion. ' The Gospel taught by Paul and Peter; I enjoins servants to he obedient to their . masters whether kind or cruel. Servants be obedient, tn those who are your mas- 1 l (era according to the fl-sh,’ says Paul. Eph. 6—5 Let as many servants as are j under the yoke count their own masters I as worthy of ail honor,’says Paul, 1 ' ! Tim. 6-1. Exhort servants to be obe-' dient t« their own masters and to please' (them well in all things,’ says Paul to ' Titus. 29. Servants be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good i and gentle, hut also to the forward, says i 'Peter, 1 Peter, 1-18. Your Gosplet teaches that Servants owe an obedience to 'their masters, whether they be forward: : or good or gentle. The Gospel fought by Paul and Peter enjoined upon servants to serve their’ masters with good will,’ Eph. 6 7. 'Not with eye service,' Col. 322 To please, i them well in all things, nor answering again, not purloining bat showing all 'good fidelity,’ Titus 20. 10. ‘To en , dur« grief suffering wrongfully,' 1 Peter! g 19. 1 Your Gospel teatfies servants that it is I not theii duty to serve their masters nt ( ail, nor to please them in anything: to be ( mere eye servants and faithful in nothing 'so purloin their master,* property and ' run away when they can. and to cut their master’s throat if necessary to gain their own liberty. , What mo'ive or end does the Gosple : tavght by Paul and Peter hold out to ser , vants as inducements to be obedient and ( taithfnl to their masters? That it is ‘do-; I ing the will of God,’ Eph. 6- 6, ‘Tnat • the nemo of God and hie doctrine he not blasphemed,’ I Tim. 6 -1; That they may adorn the doctrines of God onr Sa viours,’Titus, 2 -10: That it t: acceptable to God I Peter, 2 -20. And what motive does the gosple you teach hold, out to the poor black man for seeking to eacape from the position assigned him by God through Noah, and violate all the duties specially enjoined upon him by the Gosple of Christ? You promise him liberty, not the liberty ol the Lord’s freeman, which looks to eternity as in Christ's Gospel, but the groveling liberty which looks only to time as in vour gospel: a liberty which knows no ! evuality not even with yourself liberty to exist a degraded bring among another race of men who -exclude him frpm all -civil, social and domestic relatioos; lib-

'icrty to live and die a miserable otiufeaat on earth, without that cheering hope of i eternal liberty and equality in H> aven • which Paul and Peter promise to the ; obed ieiit and (aitblul servant. St. Paul was a good painter as character and somewhat prophetic. He ' | seems to have foreseen the antislavery crusade of this day and decribed >ta leaders. After having emphatically directed Timothy to teach servants to honor and serve their masters I Timothy, 6 12. he adds, in verses 3. 4, 5. the following picture of nncislavery teacher*, viz: If any man teach otherwise and consent not to whole some words even to the words of our Lord Jesu* Christ, and to i the doctrine which is accordingly to godliness, he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh cuig tnfe railings, 1 evi 1 surmising*, disputing* of men of Iconupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is Godliness from , such withdraw thyself.’ | This passage, be it remembered, ft 11'ows directly after Pauls injunction to ; Timothy to servant* to honor and serve ; their masters, ‘that the name of God and ! his doctrine be not blasphemed;’ ‘these things teach ard t xbort,’ say* he, and' I then paoceeds to say, ‘if any man teach lOtherwiee,’ die., he is proud knowing nothing, ic. Hence it appears that thia description of charnctr wat designed for' just such anti slavery teacher* ns your- . self and your associatss of the present day And how true the picture! What ‘strife.’ what ‘envy,’ what ‘railings,’ what evil surmising*,' what disputing*' have your teaching of either doctrine* produced! Nay innre; what hatred among Christians, what divisions of ch urchins, what sectional antipathies; what exi citements and commotions; and, finally, • what desolation, bloodshed and mournling have your unchris’ian teachings aid--led in bringing upon our lately powerful, ! prosperous and happy land! And. not content with the aid ynu i nave given traitors tn involving your country in devastating civit war, you are row moving earth and hell to prolong it, to render it more bloody, and perhaps in- | sure the success of the traitors—certain!? |to afford them the only chance of success—bv converting the war for the Constitution into a war against slavery. You are as hostile to the ConsWtution as the rebels themselves, and you prefere their success to the preservation of the Government transmitted to u* by our fathI ers. si.-nnly because that Government re- ' cognize* an institution which God has • sanctioned, and the rights of tna*ter* and the duties of servant*, a* prescribed by the appoe le* of Christ. In short, you are not willing to live under a Government whicll protects slaveholders though it doe*, not know them, in that character, and has no power over the inatttu- ' tion. I wonder that you do not openly rebel against the government of God because i he sendeth bis rain on the just and of ths unjust. ’ 1 To be consistent you ought to object to > living on the same earth and under the •same sky with slaveholders, to being warmed by the same sun and breathing the same air. And surely you will pray • for a heaven by vourselves; (or those who think that a slaveholder cannot be a fit associate (or them in a Christian 1 church cannot be happy in a heaven peopled with sneh slavholders a* Isaac and Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon, and such associates of slavery as Paul and Peter. How can you be happy in that Heaven where that God is who expressly authorized his people of old to I buv slave* and hold them in bondage forever; or that Christ, an essential part of whose religion is the cheerful obedience ' of the slave to his master. Yes, in your ‘goting about question* and strifes of word*,' von not only promote revelation and bloodshed in your countrv, but you are sapping the foundation of your country’s religion. When ' you prove that slavery is in itself[a'sfnful relation, you prove that the Bible i* salsa • that the God of the Bibles the God of sin and that Christianity, as taught by the deciples of Christ, is but a cloak for the sura ol all villainies.' Truly ha* it been «aid on another occasion. ‘lt is hard to believe such men sincere. If not infidel* already, they are on the highway to that 1 bourn*. Now many weak mind*, having been first imbued with the dogma that sini very is in itself a sin and a crime, when they come to find that from Genests to Revelation* it is recognized a* a lawful and not unchristian institution will be in- | duced to reject the whole Bible as a table and the God of the Bible a* *n imaginary being. AMOS KENDALL. A Dutchman was summoned in eonrt toin<Kutify a stolen nog. On being asked if ihe hog had any ear mark*, lie replied:' 'Te only e»r marks dm I saw va* his tail vas cut off '

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