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Show OLEll:lOAL Ol'l'll!ISSOllS. lo the Report of the celebrated Pro·Sla\'ery :Meeting ia Charlea .. ton, S. C., oo the 4th of the 9th mo., 1835, published in the Cou· rier of that city, it is stated,' The CLERGY of all dll!nomination• attended in a body, Ll:l'IDING TiU:llt SANCTiON TO THE PRO• c:EEDIN as; and adding by their presence to the impressi,·e charac-ter of the scene ! ' Just God !-and these are they Who minister at Thine altar, God of Right! Men who theil hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light! What! preach and kidnap men 1 Give thanks-and rob Thy own afflicted poor 1 'l'alk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door 1 What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast-,fettering down The tasked and plundered slave! 49 Pilate and Herod friends 1 Cll"i e f pr·t csts and ruler' s, as of o. ld, combine! Just God and holy! is that cliUrch which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine 1 Paid hypocrites, who turn Judgment aside, and rob the Holy Book Of those high words of truth which search and burn In \varning and rebuke. Feed fat, ye locusts feed I ~nd, in your tastielled p~lpits,· thank the Lord 'I hat, from the toiling bondman's utter need, Ye pile your own full board. How long, oh Lord! how long Shall such a Priesthood barter Truth away And, in Thy name, for robbery and wrong, At thy own altars pray 7 Is not Thy hand stretched forth Visibly in the heavens to awe aud smite 1 Shall not the living God of all the earth And heaven above, do right 1 ' 'Voc, then, to all who grind Their brethren of a Common Father down ! To all who plunder from th' immortal mind Its bright and glorious c;own! 'Voe to the Priesthood! woe To those wl~ose hire is with the price of blood- |