Hill's New Hampshire Patriot

Slavery as the turning pivot on which Christianity rests.

In this matter the denomination, which embraces the leading politicians of New England who have long labored to bring about a dissolution of the Union and a disruption of this government, is about "taking their rightful lead of the public sentiment"! This will not be submitted to by the zealots of other denominations: they (Baptist and Presbyterian ministers) will not be outdone by the one hundred and seventy—not they!

What an insult for Unitarians (always pronounced Infidels when coming in direct collision with any views of the Orthodox)—what an insult that their organ talks about "taking their rightful lead of the public sentiment!" Why these Baptists and Presbyterians can yet show a much greater zeal on the Abolition question than their Unitarian brethren, especially if Abolition can aid them in the work of sectarian proselytism.

We dare be bound that neither the editors of the Baptist Reflector or Presbyterian Puritan will lag a whit behind the Unitarian organ in ardor for the Anti-slavery cause. What can, for example, go beyond the beautiful Christian Reflector, addressing Southern "Christians" and charging upon their Humanity and their Religion the awful "responsibility for ALL THE EVILS" that have ever resulted from Slavery? See the extract from the Reflector in the last Patriot.

Whoever has marked the history of the sectaries for the last half century, cannot fail in coming to the glad some inference that jealousy of the over-reaching of each by the other has protected the people and secured them in the right of "sitting under their own vine and fig-tree," with no weapon wielded by the civil government to "molest or make them afraid." Thanks to the efforts of the Democracy of 1819, that the Toleration Law of New Hampshire was passed which left every man to contribute to religious teaching only as seemed him good!