Who is My Neighbor?Columbus, Ohio, State Journal [Republican](31 March 1857)
The official organ of Mr. Buchanan at
Washington, The Union, is trying its hand at expositions
of Scripture. Not content with abusing
the clergy for preaching political sermons, it
seeks to make the teachings of the Bible
conform to its debasing political creed. The Union
says:
"Who are those neighbors we are commanded
to love as ourselves? Is it those who partake
in our blood and lineage, in whose welfare and
prosperity we are joint partners, who equally
contribute their treasure to the support and
their blood to the defense of the State, and who
are in the daily exchange of benefits with us?
Or is it the African slave, who is not our
neighbor is any one sense of the word, as
applied to the great commandment?"
Who made Mr. Buchanan or his mouth-piece,
a judge or divider of races, and a perverter of
Scripture truth? Its inspiration comes not
from above, for St. Paul distinctly declares that
"God hath made of one blood all nations of
men to dwell on the face of the whole earth,"
and the Saviour of men plainly intimates that an
injury done to the least of his brethren will be
considered as an injury done to Him. Does the
Union mean to exclude the "African slave"
from the great salvation which Christ came to
reveal, to give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death? We advise
the Union to ascend above the Satanic
influence in which it is at present immersed, to the
light and liberty to which true patriotism and
impartial Christianity point the way. If the
Union would be enlightened in regard to the
question, Who is my Neighbor? let it read the
25th chapter of Matthew, from the 31st verse,
and the 10th chapter of St. Luke from the 25th
verse.
There is another thing of which the Union
and all perverters of Scriptures should beware,
for which see 18th and 19th verses of the twenty-second
chapter of Revelations.
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