The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-08-22
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sole means OF their Suppression This
Is very true. But these shows and bar
barons customs thus suppressed, were not
datued aud commanded by God for the ben
eft OF HIS chosen people aud mankind, as
the purchase and holding OF Bandmcn and
! Bonkmaids we're Had they been they
would never have been suppressed by
Christianity any more than slavery car
be by your party. Although Christ came
" not To destroy, but ln'hl the Law he
nevertheless did formally ahrogate some Of
the ordinances promulgated BY Moses, aud
all such as were al wHr with his mission Of
peace and good VIII on earth" He " spe-
officially auuDis, for instance, ono " barba.
rous custom sanctioned by those ordnan.
ccs, whero he says "J g have heard that
i hath been said, an eye for an eyo and n
tooth for n tooth but / soy unto YOU that
Sc resist not evil, but whosoeYer shal! smlte
thee on the night check turn to him the 9th
er also" Now, IN the time Of Christ !.
was usual for masters 10 PIT their slaves to
death on the slightest pro,ocaton They
even killed aud cut them up to feed their
fishes. He was undoubtedly aware Of these
things, as well as Of the Law and Com.
maGdmonI have quoted. He could only
have been restrained from denomcing them
az he dad tho 4" icr taitoaja,' because he
know that IN despite Of these barbaflties tho
institution OF slavery vas at the bottom q
sound and wholesome ~ we'll a. lawful one
Certain 1t is, that IN Ills wisdom and purity
Ip Il 4 IN -
10 your wisdom, however, you make the
sacrlegIous attempt 10 overthrow II,
You quote the denunctalion Of Tyre AMI
> don, and say that the chief reason g,v.
en- by The Prophet joel Tor their destruction
was that They were notorious beyond all
others for carrying on the Slave Trade. !
am afraid you think We have no Bibles 10
the Slave States, or that we are unable to
read them. | cannot otherwise account
for your making this reference, unless in
deed your own reading is confined TO anez
pufgatcd edition. prepared for the uso Of
Abohtionists, in which everything relating
to slavery that initiates against their view
Of it ia left out. The Prophet loci deuoun-
ces the Tytans and Sldonlaus because "the
children also Of Judah and the children 81
Jerusalem have We sodAalo the Greciaus'
And what ls NE dtvut@ ssnrranea for the
" notorious slave trading Hear it,
And will sell your sons aud daughters
INTO the hands Of tho children ol Jndah, aud
they shall sell them to The Sabnans, 10 a poo
pie far of for the Lord has spoken it," Do
you call this n condemnation Of slave trade
The Prophet makes tod Himself partict.
pator in tho crime, II that be one "The
Lord has spoken it, he says that the Ty.
mans and Sidoulans shall be sold into Stare
ry to strangers. Their real offence, vas IN
enslaynR the Chosen People aud their sen
tence was q repetition Of the old Command
to mako slaves OF the II athcn round
about"
have dwoltup your scriptnraI argu-
ments because you profess TO believe the
Bible because large proportion Of the
Abohtlonisls profess TO DO the same, and to
act under It's sanction because your Clrcu-
lar Is addressed m part 10 "proiessng
Christians and because il ls from that
class manly that you expect 10 seduce cen
yetts by your anti christian may say, in
idcl doctrines II would be wholly unne-
Cossary 10 answer you 10 any one who reads
tho scriptures Cor himself and constructs
them according to auy other formula than
that "1lCh the Abohuonsts are wlckedy
endeayorng to impose upon the world --,
The scriptural sanction Of slavery is IN face
70 palpahlc, and 90 strong, thai both wings
Of your party are bccnalug to acknowledge
It. The moro sensible aud moderate al
nit as the organ of the Free Church OF
Scotland the North British Review, has
lately done, that they "Gre prCcIudcd by
tie statements anil conduct Of the Apostles
from rccarIH0 mers stare holding as Is
iStHtdNy sinfLi, while the desperate and
reckless, who are bent 90 keeping up the
agrtaton at every hazard, declare, as has
been doue IN the Ant-Sayery Record, II
our inquiry turns oui in favor OF slavery, IL
IS the Bible tina, must fall and not the rights
Of human nature Iou cannot, am salts,
fed, much longer maintain before the world
the Christian platform, from which TO wage
war upon our Institutions. Driven from It
you must abandon the contest, or repudiat-
ing Revelation, rush into the horrors Of Ma,
tural Religion.
KEEP! in bondage by the Law of Force"
In what country or condition Of mankind
do you see human nfjairs regulated merely
by the law Of love Unless am greatly
mistaken you will if you look over tho
world, fiod nearly all certain aud permanent
rights, civil, social, and may even add re-
lgrous. resting on and ultimately secured
by the " law Of force" The power of ma
lorillos-of aristocraeies klngs-nay
of priests, for the most part, and Of proper
ty, resolves itself a, last into force and
could not otherwise be long msinIained.-
'lhus, in every turn of your ergumene
against our system ofslayery, you advance,
whether conscious of i, or not, radical and
. revolutionary doctrines calculated to change
/, the whole face of the world, to overthrow
d all government disorganizc society, and re-
4. duco man TO state OF nature-red with
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