Excerpt from Slavery Abolitionism: Being the Substance of a Sermon, Preached in the Church of St. Augustine, Florida, on the 4th Day of January, 1861, Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer

This is a great, umest important truth involving the most fmomentous interests, 'which I deem expedient and necessary on this melancholy occa sion, to present to your earnest consideration. Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable. We learn this important lesson from the Wise Man who has written the Book of Proverbs but it is not the result of his individual and personal wisdom which I present to you: it is the unerring dictate of the Holy Ghost, who inspired and directed the sa cred pemnan to record, in that portion of Scripture. A maxim which is an imperishable truth, because it is the word of Him whois truth itself - who can neither deceive nor be deceived and indeed, heaven and earth shall pass away, but His words shall not pass away. But. Independently of the unexceptionable authority of Him who has promulgated this sublime maxim of true and genuine statesmanship. And of sacred and divine politics, we have history to bear witness to the truth of the sentence of the Widan Justice exalteth a nation but sin maketh nations misc: able. The rise and fall of nations consigned in the pages of history. Is but a continual application and confirmation of this principle of unerring truth. The great Doctor of the Church - the patron of this city and congregation St. Augustine, in his admirable work. Of the City/at God. Undertook to show the true reason of the unexampled prosperity of the Roman Empire. That Empire was the most extensive and the most prosperous that ever existed it extended itself to the remotest corners of the known universe. Even the wild nations that could not be reached by its authority. Respected and.dreaded the very name of the Romans. That illustrious Doctor does not hesitate to say, that this temporal prosperity of the Empire was the reward of the moral virtues which illustrated the Roman nation in the first centuries of her existence, and which were never more conspicuous than in the men whom she placed at the head of her armies, and to whom she gave the direction of her civil and political affairs. They have left us admirable examples of justice, integrity, and fortitude, on most trying occasions. Such was their love of justice, that one of their enemies, who had, even fought against them with success dearly bought, knowing that gold, which is so powerful on men. Could have no effect on the chief officer of Rome to bribe him and corrupt him remarked that it would be easier to turn the sun fromhis course, than the Roman Consul from the path of justice love of justice lasted the Supreme Ruler of events gave arms, and extended their conquests far and wide, until the under their sway.

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