The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-29
TO THE ABoLIT'IIso91NIBsa l1'Is91 IBsannsr
NUMBER IL

f evisteJ hu o",5 ,Go 'las .,, slavery existed of God himself. The last of sI'1S1 tsa.a the d' even pointed out the particula, aOse st reIeI slaves were to be procured from rr plases a Q of persons who should be e Ill'1 haid and l Il So perfect and entire was ,b delu la s master to his slaves, as proDa,,.. srs flghi "Fhey shall be your bondmsss Os ] P'fp and ''as an inheritance for sa yons 4 l91e' sI yon.o Can any thing be pIaiinaa Hir ealldre4 tain' or more emphatic, than i', ,bis, nofT
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 slavery or unyoluntary servit1da ,aalA i. only in the Old Tentamenai i'uGr Tls ssPo Our Saviour speaks of selling man. uSs \. ter of course, in St. Matthew laI' at as yer. verse ,: 29E"But ,3 forasnuch as he inaR had ! pay his is lord commanded him to bs 5as s.I his wife, and children, and all " ,b', Os sol { and payment to be made.n And s, f. r.n know what the Apostle St. Panl 5.;1 5s1 involuntary seryilude, look at bis 5sa to the Galatians, chap. Il, verses 9 and at his epistle to the Ephesaps = d verses , and 9. See, also, hs frsl s.i Timothy, chap. vi, verses l, 9 3. and $, where you read: 'Let as many xs as are under. the yoke count their o%a worthy of all honour, that the name and his doctrine be not blasphems, they that have believing masters. let6J despise them, because they are breib,s rather do them service, because tbey .,5 iul and beloved, parlakers of t6e
 These Mings iedch and erhon f. tedch otheracise, and consent not torb 'eords, eren the acords of Ae LoJ Chrisf, and He doctrine irhich is meI 10 godfiness;; lie as proud, kaorins Y 6at doing about questions and slfif, ing2, evI snrmisings, perrerss dissi mea 9 corrupt minds, aud dssliius truth, snppoSing thot gain is godlira sneh aeithdraae AySelf. But godi1es1 contentment is great gain For We h nothing into this world, and il is ceal can carry nothing out. And havingf0 raiment let Us be therewith contppis you will read these quotations oveta again, with open eyes and candid Find there the instructions of lbe Apostle, and study the vivid picture oI oWH unchristiaa conduct, whichhe bs( Again; read what the same Apostle wi Titus, chap. Ii, verses 9 and lO-.H servants to be obedient to their own m and to please them well inall things swering again, not purloining, bals all good fidelity, that they may alo doctrine of God our Saviour in all d Have you done these things, thus oar enjoined upon Timothy and Titus, Apostle of Christi No! Far from u very contrary, indeed, And yet yo yourselves Chrisiidas-and your d Christiaa conduct
 But notwithstanding all you thni all you do, ask you to look 10 the tell you, and l have the highest author telling you, that you can never sufo abolishing slavery in this world To succeed in raising instructions, and bIoodshed and murder, and all sorsd in some sections of country, by yOu cipled and unchristian conduct, but
 will continue to exist in the vof1 may do wrong, and inAict injury an upon a great many people, black ant but } ou will never do any good oa' or yourselves. According to the IsT of St. John, chap. vi, verse b, and xii, verse l6-'.The Kings, and ha men, and the rich men, and the Hlissbl and bondmea, and freemen," &c, VII until the end of the world. The God does not lie. And all that VII the Revelation of St. John will be
 And now, Abolitiouists of Amenc wise you-do not meddle with yoaI bor's domestic concerns; but take your own business. Do not listen 10 perannuated, foolish old man, who have forgotten the high station he on "a station, by the way, he neyeral4 his own merits, or by the sufliase people. Finding himself east out high office, his unlawful ambition
 since been prompting him to rendeih immortal, by means of an mPudeh'a philanthrophy. Should he go on as begun, he will, probably, succeed m tug a place in history, along slqe e,', o
 tratus, and Sir Hudson Lowe. lis and hopeful son, and the ballled L's l of Massachusetts, have, perhaps lOa by their imperlinent and incoasldei' sions to South Carolina and Lousal they are playing wrong and iooIS; May the Lord open their eyes, anu hearts with true philanthropy
 And you British Aboliiionists' wnyNI attempt to pluck the mote from a {oan Eo.n , bor's eye, and yet disregard the oean sa | l in your own eye? Ay! first fsn beam from your own eye; and then l ,s rightfully perhaps, seek to pl Plusa s'bv from your neighbours eye oI IR9 ahI, not extend your sell-named piIa over the whole world2 Why will abolish involuntary servitude m Ls en sia sD,' and yD" Poland, S, and ask if the bonaI d'e Austria, ti lianlHs and see how many are a'il ,,g' voluntary servitudel Why do you
 these slaves, your close nelgnO0,' '.aych } very very, door, and come so far in 5 isarso aan jeois of philanthrophy' ysn o' arc n a well why you do this You ..S a'f for getting bloody-noses, and no n ,5';ea, Ps'
 send vessels to the coast oi ,.. a' yeni ; if possible, every slave-tradeefh, l.. s ,a1I But how do you dispose of the me, 1al ss, liberate by this meansf DO n no, no, back to their counlry2 Q, n no, ,our shrewd enough to send them .s 'oy ysInI ands, as Apprentices! ,,'. ho' bnt as sill l