The North and the South!

There's a copy of J. C. Lovejoy, Esq., to his brother, Hon. Owen Lovejoy, M.C. written March 16, 1859 in Boston with remarks by the editor of the Washington Union in pamphlet form at the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Campus, Lovejoy Library Archives. Some background: On Feb. 17, 1859 The Hon. Rev. Owen Lovejoy as a member of Congress presented a speech on the Fanaticisim of the Democratic Party. In part he mocked the southern Democrats abuse of the Bible. “But the strangest and most impious phase of this fanaticism is that it claims the sanction of the Bible for American Slavery. . . . If the Bible sanctions slavery at all, it is of white men.” Then he told them what the bible says. “Thou shalt not steal.” He chastised them for breaking up families by selling children and spouses to another owner by reminding them that the Bible requires one to “Honor thy father and thy mother,” and to remember the biblical injunction that “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” He used the ridiculous to expose the truth and amused them with this satirical judgment on their reducing persons to property, “Would it not be an interesting spectacle to see one of these cler