Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-07-02

suberfuge is scarcely euliled to consider
alton. Bot its gross absur,iity may b
exposed IN few words. ! do nol kno,
what crimes you particularly allude To a
arising from slavery. But you viii per
tIaps admit-not because they are de
nounced III tue decaIosue, when. the Abo
j litlonlsls respect on SO far as they choose
r but because II Is the immediaie inferest o
, mosl men 10 ddmit-that dls0bedleuce t.
I parents, aduiry, and stealing, are crimes
! Yet these crimes unnecessarily arise frum'
) the relations ol paren, aud child, narri
age, and the profession of private proper
, j.; al least they "can arise from NJ olhel
sources" Tnen, according 10 your argu
menl, II IS VIRTUALLY lurDdden" to marry
to beget children, anI To hold private pro
perry! Nay II is forbidden 10 live, siucr
murder can ouly be perpeIraed on lIvln-
subjects. You add that "in Ike same way
The gladlalorIal shows oil old, aud plher
Oarbarous customs. we're moi specifically
forbidden in the New res ameal, and YET
christianity was The sole mraus of their
suppression :" This is very true. Bul
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suppressed, were not authorized 6y God.
They were not ordained and Commanded
by God for the benefit ol His chosen pco
pie and mankind, as The purchase and
holding of BoDdmeu and Bontltnaids were.
Had they been they would never have
been suppressed by Christianity" any
more than slavery can be by your party.
although Christ came mo, to destroy but
fulfil the Law lie nevertheless did for
maIly abrogate some of The ordinances
promulgated by Moses, anu all such as
were al war with his mission of peace
and guod will on earlh." He "speclf
cally' aunuls, Tor instance, one barbsr.
Gus custom" sanctioned by those ordnan
ces, where he says: "ye have heard that
1t halh been said, an eye for an eye and
tooth tor tooth; but say unto you that
ye resist moi evil, but whosoever shall
smile Thee on The right check turn 10 him
:he other, ALSO" Now, in The time of
Christ il was usual for masters 10 pu, their
slaves 10 death ~ lnrea lea sAtHH AtHd ethr pia
10 feed their fishes. He was undoubtedly
aware Of these things, as we'll as OF Tue
Law aud Commandment l have quoted.
He could only have been restrained from
denouncing them, as he did the "leI tatio.
MIS-" because he knew that i'm despite oil
these barbarlies the institution of slavery
was al The bu,lon sound and wholesome
as well as lawful one. Certain it is, that
in His wisdom and purity he did not see
proper 10 interfere with il. In your wis
dom. however, you make the sacrllegious
attempt 10 ovcrthrowiI.
You quole the denuncintion of Tyre
and Siduu and say that "lhe chief reason
given by the Prophet Joel for their de-
sIruclon, was, that they were notorious
beyond all Others for carrying on the
Slave Trade" am afraid you think we
have no Bibles iu the slave States, Or that
we are unable 10 read them. cannol
otherwise account for your making This
reference, unless indeed your own readiug
is confined 10 an expurgaIed edition, pre-
pared for the use Vt AbOlIlOniss, in which
everything relating TO slavery that mill
lates against their view OF il is left out
| The Prophet joel denuunces The Tyrlaus
and 5duuialls because The children also
u! Judah and the chldfeh of Jerusalem
have ye sold unto the Greciaus.". Aud
whal is the divine vengeance Tor Ibis mo
torious slave tradlue?" Hear it. "And |
Will sell your sons and daughters into the
hand. of the children of Judah, aud they
shall sell them to the Sabeans, TO a people
| far off; for the Lurd hath spoken it," do
you call this a condemnation Of slave
trading! The Prophet makes Gnd HIM
self Il parliclpalor in the crime, il that be
one. "The Lord mas spoken it," he says,
that the Tyraus and Sid"nians shall br
sold into siavery To strangers. Their real
offence, was IN ensIaving the Chosen
,Peuple; and their seneuce was a repel-
of the old Command. 10 make slaves OF
tho Heahen round about" -
Ihave dwet upon your scriptural arsu
ment because you profess To believe. the
Bible; because large proporii I'll of The
Aholilioni>ls profess to do the same. d I"
acl under its sanction; because your CIR
cular is addressed in part TO "proIessina
Christians - and because it is from thai
class mainly thul. you expect To seduce
converts by your anti christian, | may say
iufdel doctrines. II would be wholly un'
necessary to answer you 10 any one who
reads the scriptures for himself. and con
f slrues them according rany other fnrnn.
, la than that which the AboIilionisls are
, wickedly endeavorng 10 impose upon the
world. The scriplural sanction Of slavery
is in fac, 80 palpable, aud so strong, lha
both wings Of your parry are beginning u
acknowledge ii. The more sensible ant
moderate admit, as The organ of The Free
Church of Scotland. the North BrllIsf
Review, has lately done, that they "ar
precluded BY the statements and conduct o
, The Apostles from regarding mere slaue
! holding as essentially SINFUL" while tn
$ desperate and reckless, who are bent Of
$ keeping up lhe agitation at every hazard
, declare, as has been done in the Anti
Slavery Record, "If our inquiry turn
oul u favor of slavery, 1T IS THE BIBL
I THAT MUST FALL. AND NOT THE RIGHT
OF HUMAN. NiTrRE You cannot,