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Sins of the Fathers by Will Cunningham5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Men of over heated zeal, and who are righteous over much, are generally vain men. They could wear cotton shirts, and sleep between cotton sheets, and eat rice pudding, and cane sugar, but they could not stand it, to live in a Union, in which some of the States were tolerated as slaveholding. It became their mission to engender the elements of sectional strife. There was negro slavery however at the South, which weighed with a more grevious burden, upon the tender consciences of these men, than the breaches of Divine law in their midst. There was indeed, no negro slavery in their congregations, though there was plenty of other kinds of slavery-slavery to avarice, lying, cheating, and so on to the end of the interesting catalogue. ![]() The discovery was first made by a club of Boston infidels but a portion of the pulpit followed in the wake of these wise sceptics, and became agitators on the subject. It has been discovered, that it is one of those obvious and glaring sins, which admit of no doubt of their character, and that it is only necessary to open the Bible to find it condemned in almost every page. It has been discovered that slavery, as existing in this country, is a sin per se-a sin in the same sense, that murder, larceny and piracy are sins. Within the last forty years a great discovery has been made in theology. Ithaca American Citizen, January 23, 1861 ![]()
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