The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-24
BRANDON, Thursday, July "a, 1915,

0 paling circumstances mentioned by A. c
T.
r |. ION the death Of m aged relative, nj
, MaglI unexpectedly found himself, BY
her will, The legal owner Of negro man
We Ia Ike it that the impression is iatendet
to be made, that the possession of this ne
gro man was necessarily devolved upor
Mr. NJ. Now 10 tho sircness of truth
we do not believe that any beng ever own
ed man, save God. since the dawa 0
Creation. The thing we count an impos
sibiity, without Bill of sale from the
Almighty" since all souls are hiss" and
he will not give his glory to another. Nj
Magi!l has precisely the same title thai
his relative had, and the same as the orig
lnal abducto-. And it is impossible that
the title 10 human beings should strength
en- in vo!idity, unless it could be shown
that one can be born a slave. The ground.
essness of the pretended title 10 human be-
iogs is (orcibly set forth by Two of the
most eminent Congregational dvines OF
New England. Edwards and Hopkins.
"To HOLD man in state of slavery,
Is 10 be every day guilty Of robbing him
OF his liberty, or of man. ealing' JON
ATTAIN EDWARDS.
slavery is, in every instance, wrong,
unrighteous, and oppressive-A VERY
GREAT AND CRYING sIN-,here being
nothing Of the kind equal 10 il on the face
OF the earlh.' DR.. SAM'L HopKINs.
American Slavery is robbery and theft
in its origin, perpetuity and aggregate
and what is true of the whole, must be
equally true Of al! individual cases. II
MIR MagilI, or his friend A. C. L. will
iisprove this view Of slavery, we shall re-
joice 10 see them engage in The undertak
ing.
That Mr. MagiIl was unavoidably con,
stiIuted Shareholder by the will OF ano,h,
err, is quite 100 much TO be credited. Had
he refused 10 accept this beques, and in
this respect "kept himself pure" the pow
er of such an example, might have had a
mos, benlfcen! influence upon all the OPP
preSsors Of Georgia, who should become
acquainted with tae facts. The American
Board of Missions had a similar bequest
made TO them some years since, but they
never had the property forced upon them,
as obviously they could not, or any one
else. II the laws regulating btquests are
so imperious as 10 compel 10 the assump-
ton Of what is b,quealhed. it can easily be
shcwn, aid is important, especially SO in
The present case.
2. But it is maintained that Mr. Ma pill
assumed the responsibility, aud slill cons
,inues il for purposes of kindness 10 the
slave; or rather, as A. G. Il. would have
/, since he could not release himself from
The obligations of the relation, has exer-
csed it in manner most 10 beuefit the
slave under the circumstances. We shall
not call in question, for a moment, the
motives and intentions of MIR Magill; the
gentleman shall have all The benefit of his
OVID professions as far as they are known,
and of his friends as they have been placed
before The public. Honest intentions how
ever are one thing, and correct action an~
other. IntentsOa is not rule by which
to Judge of meas character, but their out>
ward department, which constitute 9" their
fruit" II the relation Of master to slave
be wrong, as has already been shown,
then MIR. MagilI is chargeabIe with wrong
doing, whatever his intentions were; aud
he has no authority 10 sci up n claim for
justification In his personal transaction,
which is criminal in others And this will
lead us to consider, whether il would be
right 10 ho.d the three millions Of oul COL
ored brethren 10 the same relation as Mr.
Magil does his save2 If it would be
wrong in the multitude, it would, Of ne
cessity in the one or te1o.
But here suspec. lies the secret in the
matter after all; Mr. Masll does moi be-
lieve that slavery is necessariIy sinful
that it is a moral wrong under all crcum,
stances. This indeed he asserted in so
many words at the time Of his installation
nt Com vail. When the subject OF his